March 1

Steering Council synced up on the rejection draft for PEP 651 (Robust Stack Overflow Handling). Group discussed the importance of conveying that all aspects of the proposal were reviewed and the decision is a holistic one. Group will continue working on the draft and will sync up via Slack during the week so it can be sent out.
The Steering Council discussed PEP 648 (Extensible customizations of the interpreter at startup). Barry created a doc and the group will consolidate feedback+questions into this document. Then the Steering Council will post this on Discourse as well as to python-dev@.
The Steering Council extensively discussed PEP 637 (Support for indexing with keyword arguments). The group decided that it would reject the PEP based on the PEPs costs not being worth the benefits.
The Steering Council also discussed typing in general and who should own it.
Next week the SC will vote on the Documentation Work Group's charter.

March 8

The Steering Council discussed Mark's response to the rejection of PEP 651 (Robust Stack Overflow Handling).
The group also discussed the notification for PEP 637 (Support for indexing with keyword arguments).
The group approved PEP 624 (Remove Py_UNICODE encoder APIs) & PEP 597 (Add optional EncodingWarning).
The Steering Council discussed PEP 644 (Require OpenSSL 1.1.1 or newer) and decided further communication was needed with Christian.
The Steering Council voted on and approved the Documentation Work Group.
The group discussed moving master to main and decided it needed to be done. The SC discussed communication around this change.

Thomas updated the notifications for PEP 597 (Add optional EncodingWarning), PEP 624 (Remove Py_UNICODE encoder APIs) and PEP 637 (Support for indexing with keyword arguments), and sent out the notifications March 15th.
Group checked in on the draft for PEP 648 (Extensible customizations of the interpreter at startup). Thomas has more text to add to it.
The Steering Council discussed what kind of presentation they will give at PyCon US. The group decided on a combination of presentation and Q&A. Team is working on an outline. SC members were also reminded to register for PyCon US, and encourage others to do so.
Barry proposed to the SC that they create a Work Group with a subset of the Python Security Response Team members and that group can help scope the future of the PSRT group. Everyone is fine with this.
Steering Council discussed code of conduct situations around changing master to main. The group decided on a warning to S.D. that will be sent as a warning to all. Thomas is working on the initial draft.

Barry and Thomas checked-in on PEP 648 (Extensible customizations of the interpreter at startup)'s draft response, they will be sending it out soon.
The SC reviewed PEP 644 (Require OpenSSL 1.1.1 or newer) more. Pablo raised a concern around users that can be in an env without OpenSSL 1.1.1 or newer and then not being able to use wheels. Pablo will email Christian to get clarification and will keep the SC informed.
Steering Council discussed their keynote at PyCon US 2021. They would like to gather questions from the community. Ewa will create a Slido, which will be live from April 5 to 11th. SC will review questions on the 12th. The current plan is to record on April 19th.
Steering Council discussed the response to Debian regarding Christian's gist. Carol's done with her draft. Pablo is going to take a look at it to see if anything else needs to be added.
SC discussed the behavior on python-dev@ pertaining to switching git from master to main.

The Steering Council accepted PEP 644 (Require OpenSSL 1.1.1 or newer)
SC accepted PEP 652 (Maintaining the Stable ABI)
SC checked in on the draft response for PEP 648 (Extensible customizations of the interpreter at startup), and the draft response to the Debian discussion.
SC met with Ezio, PM for the GitHub Issues migration, to talk about status, progress and next steps, including keeping python-dev up to date.