Simon Willison shares his experience serving on the board of the Python Software Foundation over the last two years and some of the responsibilities that entails.

The Python Software Foundation supports the development of Python and the community by allocating their donations towards running infrastructure other activities. However, they are not directly related to developing Python which is handled by the core team ran by the Python Steering Council. Infrastructure includes running PyPi and Python.org and activities most notably include organising PyCon. Simon also mentions an activity I hadn't considered before and that's acting as a fiscal sponsor to other python-related communities.

Simon's write-up is dense with information and definitely worth the read if this is interesting to you. This has also prompted a write-up by Makoto Nozaki on serving on the board of The Perl Foundation.