Maintainers Summit

Python is much more than a programming language. It is a vibrant community made up of individuals with diverse skills and backgrounds. The Maintainers Summit at PyCon US is where the Python community comes together to discuss and foster best practices on how to maintain and develop sustainable projects and thriving communities. Join us to share your thoughts and ideas and learn from your peers!

Event Schedule

Sunday, April 24th, 2022

Pre-recorded talks are released

Friday, April 29th, 2022

10:45 am - 12:15 pm MDT / 4:45 - 6:15 pm UTC – Q&A session with the Summit speakers

Location: Room 253AB, Salt Palace Convention Center, 100 S W Temple St, Salt Lake City, UT 84101

Moderators:

Alexandre de Siqueira (Berkeley Institute for Data Science, scikit-image)

Inessa Pawson (NumPy, Albus Code, PyLadies SWFL)

1:45 - 3:15 pm MDT – Roundtable discussions

Location: Room 253AB, Salt Palace Convention Center, 100 S W Temple St, Salt Lake City, UT 84101

Speakers 

WATCH THE TALKS NOW on our YouTube channel.

Amy Zhang (University of Washington) PolicyKit: building governance in online communities

Avi Press (Scarf) Going beyond PyPI's download statistics: getting visibility into downloads and project usage

Brian Douglas (GitHub) Open source maintainer tips with GitHub Actions

Bruno Capuano (Microsoft) How GitHub CoPilot is helping me to code in Python

Chase Warrington (Doist) Making remote work

Jarrod Millman (UC Berkeley) The Scientific Python Project

Jen Wike Huger (Red Hat) Modern community management

Jussi Pakkanen (Meson) The Meson build system – an overview

Kathryn Hurchla (Dadeda Design), Adam Schroeder (Plotly) Nurturing a community around data visualization

Malvika Sharan (The Alan Turing Institute) The Turing Way: creating visible roles and recognitions for maintainers in our community

May Ireland (Beta100) Are you listening to me?

Nigel Brown (VMware) LGTM

Nithya Ruff (Amazon) Creating a community where everyone belongs

Phil Dexter (Torchbox) Wagtail: community meets product development

Philippe Ombredanne (NexB) The many curious ways of FOSS package dependencies and licensing

Sophia Vargas (Google) Working with unreliable data: tales from an open source analyst

Organizers

Inessa Pawson (NumPy, Albus Code, PyLadies SWFL)

Alexandre de Siqueira (Berkeley Institute for Data Science, scikit-image)

Code of Conduct

The PyCon US Code of Conduct applies and will be enforced.

Inquiries

For further details, contact Inessa Pawson (inessa at albuscode.org).