Python People

This is a really fun talk with Shauna.  

We talk about: 

• Going from academia to tech
• Django
• Open source project governance and Governing Open
• Womens Soccer and the NWSL

Shauna's technical consulting business is Galaxy Rise Consulting

PyCon US is just around the corner.  I've asked Rob Ludwick to come on the show to discuss how to get the most out of your PyCon experience. There's a lot to do. A lot of activities to juggle, including actual juggling, which is where we start the conversation.

Even if you never get a chance to go to PyCon, I hope this interview helps you get a feel for the welcoming aspect of the Python community.

We talk about: 
- Juggling at PyCon
- How to get the most out of PyCon
    - Watching talks
    - Hallway track
    - Open spaces
    - Lightening talks
    - Expo hall / vendor space
    - Poster sessions
    - Job fair
    - A welcoming community
    - Tutorials 
    - Sprints
    - But mostly about the people of Python and PyCon.

"Python enables smart people to work faster" - Rob Ludwick

Nikita Karamov is a Python developer and maintainer on various open source Python projects.

Some topics covered:

• Notes on university education in programming and engineering vs theory
• Jazzband for maintaining Django projects
• Contributing to open source makes you a better programmer
• Moving from Russia to Germany during college
• Cultural differences between Russia, Germany, and Oregon
• The nice lack of drama in the Python community
• A lack of universities teaching Python for web development

Links from the show

• Jazzband
• django-simple-menu

Pamela Fox is a Python Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft. 

Topics include:

• Girl Develop It
• Django Girls
• Girls Who Code
• Teaching a language vs teaching a tool
• What a dev advocate does
• Accessibility (A11y) testing
• Playwright
• axe-core
• Snapshot testing
• pytest plugin authoring
• Flask SQLAlchemy
• Relearning Go

Links from the show:

• Python Bytes 323 with Pamela: AI search wars have begun
• Python Test 199 with Pamela: Is Azure Right for a Side Project?
• gdi: Girl Develop It
• Django Girls
• Girls Who Code
• "Automated accessibility audits" - Pamela Fox (North Bay Python 2023)
• Playwright
• axe-core
• pytest-axe-playwright-snapshot, plugin from Pamela
• pytest-crayons plugin is from a PyCascades talk about building plugins
• pytest-check, yet another plugin
• FlaskSQLAlchemy
• Concurrency is not Parallelism by Rob Pike

Julian Sequeira is a cofounder of Pybites. 
He's a Python coach, a podcaster, a career mindset advocate, and is learning guitar.

Topics include:

• Learning guitar
• Vacationing in Canada
• Pybites
• Splitting finances with Bob
• Building a community and a team
• Coaching
• Conscious positivity
• Australia is full of animals that want to kill you. Except kangaroos.
• Teaching Python to non-technical people

Will Vincent is a former board member of the Django Software Foundation. He's written 3 books on Django, writes a django newsletter, is a podcast co-host for Django Chat.

Carlton recently stepped down as a Django Fellow, maintains many Django related projects, is starting two SaaS companies, and is a podcast host on "Django Chat".

Some of what we talk about:

• Being a Django fellow for 5 years
• Maintaining several Django related open source projects
• Client work 
• Time with family
• Building a couple Software as a Service projects
• Kids and travel
• Kids and food
• Living in Spain as a British citizen
• How Brexit has affected his options
• Being an open source maintainer and that it's ok to pause it when life takes precedence.
• Being kind to other maintainers and acknowledging them as human
• Django 5 form template imporovements
• Good places to be a tourist in Spain
• Spains wonderful train system

Mariatta has been a contributor to Python for many years and is a very inspiring public speaker.

Some of what we talk about:

• Python Documentation Working Group
• GitHub bots, There's an API for that
• PyLadies
• PyLadiesCon
• Typo of the Day (maintainerd, verbossity, work-lie balance, etc.)
• A fish aquarium
• Cooking, Baking
• History of Tempura
• Working with APIs with Python
• Public Speaking / Giving Talks
• The power of seeing other women give talks

Naomi is an elected fellow of the PSF, and has served as chair of its board of directors. 

Topics:
- Building replacement leadership for every endeavor you start
- What the PSF board does
- Keeping Python's growth in increasing diversity
- Learning foreign languages
- PyCon Charlas
- London
- Guitar and music
- The Quick Python Book
- Community building
- Retiring

Bob Belderbos built Pybites with Julian Sequeira. Pybites started with code challenges to help people learn Python, and has grown into a learning platform and community, and now includes coaching.

We talk about:

• The history of Pybites
• Code challenges
• Coaching and now even growing the team of coaches
• Spain
• Books

Links:

• PyBites
• Code Challenges platform

and you can hear your name on the show. How cool is that?