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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We talk about:

• The history of Pybites
• Code challenges
• Coaching and now even growing the team of coaches
• Spain
• Books

Links:

• PyBites
• Code Challenges platform

and you can hear your name on the show. How cool is that?

• The early days of Python
• The tone and feel of the Python community came from Guido
• Tai Chi
• Meditation
• Bass Guitar

Stick around until the very end of the show for a special treat, Barry Warsaw and The Zen of Python.

Links from the show:

• Cheng Man-ch'ing
• Barry's soundcloud
• Barry on YouTube
• Barry is the official Python FLUFL
• The Zen of Python, put to music

• “I don't know about the rest of you... I came for the language, but I stayed for the community." Brett Cannon, Python Core Dev, Pycon US 2014 Opening remarks
• Public speaking
• Being encouraging to others
• Why Canada
• Meanings of Back Bacon, Toque, and Pop
• Walking in Vancouver
• Snowshoeing
• Philosophy and thinking logically
• Proving the existence of God
• Rewriting code. “You’re probably going to have to write this 3 times before you’re happy with it.”
• 1 week per month on technical debt.
• Fountain pens
• Writing a gratitude journal
• Books
• “What goes on in your brain is not the same as everyone else’s.”
• "Steeped in the world of tea." - nice pun

Links from the show:

• Podcast interviews
  • Django Chat - 20 Years of Python - Brett Cannon
  • The Changelog - There’s a whole PEP about that - Brett Cannon
• Tim Urban’s TED talk which is about procrastination and not public speaking, so I have no idea what Brett is talking about. Good talk though. 
• Brett’s PyCascades talk: Python's Syntactic Sugar
• Brian’s PyCascades talk: Sharing is Caring: Sharing pytest Fixtures

• The transition of Python from BDFL to steering committee
• Brainstorming topics for this podcast
• Django, function based vs class based views, and Nancy Pelosi
• Coaching Lacrosse, "we're not in the lacrosse business, we're in the leadership business"
• Sports, if done the right way, can be a positive influence
• We don't need heroes, we need the next generation of heroes
• Volunteering work is a lot like open source
• Skateboarding and collaboration over competition