Yeah Python grants are small potatoes. Things like https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/5/28/dei-rise-and-fa... , which involves threatening federal funding to Harvard in a way that induced them to make at least some DEI-related policy changes, is a much bigger priority.
Still, just because grants to open-source programming language foundations aren't the most important federal government spending priority, doesn't mean I want the federal government to remove the no-DEI condition on federal grant money.
Still, just because grants to open-source programming language foundations aren't the most important federal government spending priority, doesn't mean I want the federal government to remove the no-DEI condition on federal grant money.