If you have written a Python program, then you have almost certainly used Python packages. A large number of packages are distributed via PyPI, the Python Package Index. The easiest way to download, install, and use packages from PyPI is “pip,” which is standard in all of the most recent versions of Python. It turns out that behind PyPI and pip is a group of developers known as the “Python Packaging Authority.” In this talk, PPA member and Python core developer Nick Coghlan describes what the PPA does, and how it tries to solve problems that Python developers face now and in the future.