This is a really fun talk with Shauna.
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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.
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Pamela Fox is a Python Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft.
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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.
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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 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".
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Mariatta has been a contributor to Python for many years and is a very inspiring public speaker.
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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 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.
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and you can hear your name on the show. How cool is that?
Barry Warsaw has been with Python almost from the beginning, and is still at it.
Stick around until the very end of the show for a special treat, Barry Warsaw and The Zen of Python.
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Paul Everitt is a developer advocate for JetBrains and PyCharm.
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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.