Running for the Python Packaging Council

TL;DR: I’m announcing my candidacy for the inaugural Python Packaging Council. I hope you’ll honor me with your vote, if you’re a voting member of the PSF, but regardless I have high hopes (and expectations) for the council. My nomination statement, as submitted to the PSF: My name is William Woodruff (@woodruffw on GitHub and DPO). I’m employed by OpenAI as a member of the Astral team; I currently focus on uv’s security features. I’ve been involved in Python (and Python packaging specifically) for about a decade; I’m currently a member of the PyPA, one of PyPI’s maintainers, and an active contributor to Python packaging standards and modernization efforts. I’ve been privileged to be a core part of several large security and modernization efforts over the years, including building pip-audit, PyPI’s implementations of MFA, API tokens, and Trusted Publishing, alongside PEP 740 (attestations), PEP 792 (project status markers), PEP 753 (project URL handling), and a handful of other…