Also, from the article: "Over the years many different people and services have participated in the maintenance and running of PyPI. I’m not going to attempt to create an exhaustive list of every person or service who has ever helped, but instead focus on those who are currently involved."
I work for OpenCorporates, the team behind this, and we were planning to do a "Show HN" in the next couple of days, once we'd got a few wrinkles sorted out.
In the meantime, I'll be around for a bit and try to answer any questions.
You can see a feed of results here: https://gist.github.com/inglesp/0b0ba9efcefe54f965be9b042afd...
Caveat: I'm drinking increasingly heavily.