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Hey there.

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My name is Sumana Harihareswara

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and I am the project manager
for the Python Package Index.

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From the time that I was a child,
I've been very interested in

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community organizing,
empowering other people,

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making sure that there's
nothing about us without us.

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So when I found out about
free and open source software,

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I thought, 'yeah!
This is the way forward.'

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Essentially, the Python Package Index is
core infrastructure

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for a huge chunk of
the computing industry.

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Most of the time,
when people write software,

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we don't write everything from scratch.

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We basically borrow and duplicate
stuff that other people have done.

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This is part of the magic of
free and open-source software,

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and it's part of how
the internet,

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and most of the technology
you use,

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has been built.

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It's really useful to have
a single website,

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the Python Package Index,
that's a one-stop shop

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for all of the open-source Python code
that you might want to reuse.

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The Python Package Index got popular
before the code got good.

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Starting a few years ago, 
some people thought,

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'all right, we need a rewrite.'

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Volunteers started it.
But volunteers, working on

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unpredictable schedules -- it wasn't
working. We knew that we needed help.

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We needed MONEY! [laugh] Okay.

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We needed funding
in order to get

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this piece of core
infrastructure deployed.

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Nobody was just giving us
money for that.

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We heard about MOSS and realized
that we were potentially a good candidate

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to apply for a MOSS award.
It's interesting how MOSS is

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kind of a hidden gem,
that not nearly enough people have

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heard of who would benefit from it.

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The Mozilla Open Source Support program
is a fantastic way to get funding

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from an organization that understands
why what you do is important.

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Without the MOSS award, Python would be
immeasurably worse off right now.

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The MOSS Award is what enabled
the Python Package Index

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to launch and move into production.

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(soft music)