Python People

Barry Warsaw has been with Python almost from the beginning, and is still at it.

• The early days of Python
• The tone and feel of the Python community came from Guido
• Tai Chi
• Meditation
• Bass Guitar

Stick around until the very end of the show for a special treat, Barry Warsaw and The Zen of Python.

Links from the show:

• Cheng Man-ch'ing
• Barry's soundcloud
• Barry on YouTube
• Barry is the official Python FLUFL
• The Zen of Python, put to music

Topics:

• “I don't know about the rest of you... I came for the language, but I stayed for the community." Brett Cannon, Python Core Dev, Pycon US 2014 Opening remarks
• Public speaking
• Being encouraging to others
• Why Canada
• Meanings of Back Bacon, Toque, and Pop
• Walking in Vancouver
• Snowshoeing
• Philosophy and thinking logically
• Proving the existence of God
• Rewriting code. “You’re probably going to have to write this 3 times before you’re happy with it.”
• 1 week per month on technical debt.
• Fountain pens
• Writing a gratitude journal
• Books
• “What goes on in your brain is not the same as everyone else’s.”
• "Steeped in the world of tea." - nice pun

Links from the show:

• Podcast interviews
  • Django Chat - 20 Years of Python - Brett Cannon
  • The Changelog - There’s a whole PEP about that - Brett Cannon
• Tim Urban’s TED talk which is about procrastination and not public speaking, so I have no idea what Brett is talking about. Good talk though. 
• Brett’s PyCascades talk: Python's Syntactic Sugar
• Brian’s PyCascades talk: Sharing is Caring: Sharing pytest Fixtures

Paul Everitt is a developer advocate for JetBrains and PyCharm. 
Covered topics include:

• The transition of Python from BDFL to steering committee
• Brainstorming topics for this podcast
• Django, function based vs class based views, and Nancy Pelosi
• Coaching Lacrosse, "we're not in the lacrosse business, we're in the leadership business"
• Sports, if done the right way, can be a positive influence
• We don't need heroes, we need the next generation of heroes
• Volunteering work is a lot like open source
• Skateboarding and collaboration over competition

Michael is the host of the podcasts Talk Python to Me and Python Bytes and runs the Python online course site Talk Python Training.
He is also pretty serious about motorcycling, spends some time with simulated racing, and used to play billiards for cash.