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Match my $300 to get a Black Python Devs & DjangoCon Organizer to the event! - May 19, 2025
Help us get a critical member of Black Python Devs to DjangoCon US 2025!
DjangoCon US is a stronghold in the Python community, widely known for being a welcoming pipeline into the world of contributing to open source. Maybe the impressive success of Django Girls, that celebrated its 10 years giving one-day workshops in hundreds of cities across the world bring tens of thousands of marginalized genders into the …
Congratulations to the PyPI Team on Organizations
This milestone represents much more than just a new feature. It establishes a crucial new revenue stream for the Foundation at a time where the entire open source ecosystem has seen a shudder of corporate support. In the past year alone, PyPI served over 235 billion downloads for nearly 450,000 projects.
- March 22, 2025
The Year of The Snake and a review of 2024
- Chair of the Python Software Foundation
- Currently writing "Domain Driven Django" applying Domain-Driven Design architecture philosophy to Django projects
- Leading go-to-market strategy and community engagements for Python developer tools
(2024) Python Software Foundation: Working Groups / Work Groups
PSF Work Groups Working Groups update: a few new, a few inactive. A call to action to get involved.
- Aug. 9, 2024
Build a Notification System: Part 1 System Design and Features
I've been having a blast piecing ~30 enterprise-cloud services together to support a Python notification system. Expand the diagram to full screen to see the services interacting together including event publishers, blob storage, DNS, common notification service and outbound handler and vendor adapter.