Nina Zakharenko, a former PSF board member (2020-2023), shares her candidacy interview for the 2026 PSF Board election. She discusses her background at Microsoft and Google in open source and supply chain security, her prior board work on grants and membership tiers, and her priorities if re-elected: financial sustainability for the PSF, expanding global outreach, and addressing how AI tools are changing how people learn and contribute to open source Python projects.
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Who are you?What would you bring to the PSF Board of Directors?What motivated you to run for the PSF Board of Directors?What problem or challenge do you want to address if you are on the board?Note from the election administrators:117 Impressions