Python People Brian Okken

Carlton recently stepped down as a Django Fellow, maintains many Django related projects, is starting two SaaS companies, and is a podcast host on "Django Chat".
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

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Mariatta has been a contributor to Python for many years and is a very inspiring public speaker.
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

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Naomi is an elected fellow of the PSF, and has served as chair of its board of directors. 
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

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Bob Belderbos built Pybites with Julian Sequeira. Pybites started with code challenges to help people learn Python, and has grown into a learning platform and community, and now includes coaching.
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

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

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Barry Warsaw has been with Python almost from the beginning, and is still at it.

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

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Topics:

“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


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