I attended my first PyCon as the Treasurer of the Python Software Foundation and Python Community Advocate with Microsoft. It's also one of the few times I've stepped foot in the midwest. I gave a talk about Dev Containers on stage and helped host the Welcome Orientation.
I announced my engagement and started an agency with my fiancée, began a new job at Microsoft, joined the Board of Directors and became Treasurer for the Python Software Foundation, continued to volunteer for my favorite language-related conference DjangoCon and served on the Wagtail CMS Core Team. It's been a busy year.
Yesterday The PyPI – Python Packaging Index tweeted a graph with the short text "Python 3.11 delivers"
Here's what this tweet means and why it’s a big deal:
I'm writing this in preparation for an upcoming podcast episode with Sad Girls Python Podcast and in preparation for the upcoming Python CFP season. I've been thrilled to be able to wax poetic about Open Source community, safety and resiliency.
Open Source Licenses allow code to be freely used, modified and shared, but describes the limitations of its derivative works in the realm of capitalism. Ethical Source Licenses also allows for software to be freely used, modified and shared, but describes the limitation of its derivative works with Ethical Standards.