Python People

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

Show notes and resources can be found at pythontest.com/pythonpeople
This podcast produced in conjunction with pythontest.com

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

Show notes and resources can be found at pythontest.com/pythonpeople
This podcast produced in conjunction with pythontest.com

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
Jazzband
django-simple-menu

Show notes and resources can be found at pythontest.com/pythonpeople
This podcast produced in conjunction with pythontest.com

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
Links from the show:
Python Bytes 323 with Pamela: AI search wars have begun
Python Test 199 with Pamela: Is Azure Right for a Side Project?
gdi: Girl Develop It
Django Girls
Girls Who Code
"Automated accessibility audits" - Pamela Fox (North Bay Python 2023)
Playwright
axe-core
pytest-axe-playwright-snapshot, plugin from Pamela
pytest-crayons plugin is from a PyCascades talk about building plugins
pytest-check, yet another plugin
FlaskSQLAlchemy
Concurrency is not Parallelism by Rob Pike

Show notes and resources can be found at pythontest.com/pythonpeople
This podcast produced in conjunction with pythontest.com

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

Show notes and resources can be found at pythontest.com/pythonpeople
This podcast produced in conjunction with pythontest.com