Earlier this year, the Python Software Foundation hired Python programmer Seth Larson for a new security developer-in-residence role, funded by by the Linux Foundation‘s own nonprofit, the Open Software Security Foundation. “I’m a passionate advocate for sustainability in open source maintenance,” Larson said in an email interview, so “it’s been a dream for me to live what I believe to be the ideal model for sustainable open source security.” The position’s funding came from the OSSF’s Alpha-Omega Project, which “partners with open source software project maintainers to systematically find new, as-yet-undiscovered vulnerabilities in open source code,” according to its web site, “and get them fixed to improve global software supply chain security.” Larson is just one of several full-time developers recently hired to help the Python ecosystem.

Source: The New Stack