When was the last time you used a 3rd party package in Python? Have you recently pip installed SQLAlchemy? Maybe looked up the documentation on a package you found on PyPI?

The two core pieces of infrastructure involved are both freely available and open source: pip and PyPI as well as ReadTheDocs.

How are these funded? How well are they funded? It turns out that we are not doing a good job sustaining the underlying infrastructure in the Python ecosystem.

This week you'll meet four panelists for a discussion on the problem and its solutions.

https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/84/are-we-failing-to-fund-python-s-core-infrastructure