Godefroid Chapelle is a longtime Zope and Plone developer who first encountered Zope in its hectic heyday and was a participant at the first in-person Plone sprint.
 
We cover a lot of ground in this episode as Godefroid reflects on: 

• his origins as a programmer
• being present at the first EuroPython
• the difference between hackathons and sprints
• the culture of organizations and communities
• monkey patching as conflict avoidance
• how Zope's component architecture enabled Plone's diverse community
• reading code as poetry
• the importance of mentoring in coding
• tools that teach best practices
• repeatability with buildout and Nix
• Hashicorp
• the main selling point of Zope
• Rust and other typed languages
• Python tracebacks and the topology of code.