Python People

This is a really fun talk with Shauna.  

We talk about: 

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

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 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