This repo contains activity updates, process, and planning information for the Python Steering Council.
The canonical location for who is on the current steering council, how we are selected, and our role lives within the
PEP-13 Python Language Governance
document.
Office Hours For 2026
The Steering Council has office hours for anyone in the community that wants to discuss something with the Steering Council. Office hours are bookable half-hour video calls at the start of our regular weekly meeting every other week. Currently it’s 30 minutes on Thursdays, PST 1:00 PM (check your timezone
).
These meetings can be used by Core Devs, PEP authors and anyone else contributing to Python to discuss things they want to discuss with the Steering Council, when email or a GitHub ticket is for whatever reason not as desirable.
Scheduling is done through
which creates an invitation via Google Calendar with a Meet link.
When booking, please make sure to do so at least 3 days in advance, and if possible include the topic in the calendar invitation so we can be prepared. You may also manage additional attendees if needed. For longer chats, different schedules (we realise the current time isn’t always good for everyone), or pressing matters, contact us directly. We can always arrange something else.
Updates
These updates provide high level information about the Steering Council's activities.
Subscribe to updates in your feedreader via the Atom feed for repository commits
.
Process
These informational documents are collected here to aid the present and future Steering Council members.
Best practices for effective governance
Reference
PEP 1 PEP Purpose and Guidelines
PEP 13 Python Language Governance
(including
list of current Steering Council members
)
PEP 8001 Python Governance Voting Process
PEP 8016 The Steering Council Model
PEP 8100 January 2019 steering council election
PEP 8101 December 2019 steering council election
PEP 8102 2021 Term steering council election
PEP 8103 2022 Term steering council election
PEP 8104 2023 Term steering council election
PEP 8105 2024 Term steering council election