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**Python People**

Python People is about getting to know the people who help make the Python community great.

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Shauna Gordon-McKeon - Open Source Governance, Women's Soccer, and Django May 09, 2024

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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

Rob Ludwick - Getting the most out of PyCon, including juggling May 04, 2024

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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 - Russia, Germany, Django, and Jazzband Feb 08, 2024

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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

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Pamela Fox - Teaching Python, Accessibility, and Tools Jan 16, 2024

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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

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Julian Sequeira - Pybites, Australia, Mindset, and Teaching New Programmers Jan 13, 2024

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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 - Django, Writing Technical Books Jan 07, 2024

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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 Gibson - Django, Spain, Parenting, and Open Source Oct 25, 2023

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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 Wijaya - Python Documentation, PyLadies, Keeping Fish, Public Speaking Sep 14, 2023

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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 Ceder - Quick Python, Leadership Transitions, Diversity Aug 29, 2023

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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 - Python Challengs, Coaching, Spain Aug 09, 2023

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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

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