2023-10-22, 11:25–11:55 (Europe/Athens), Α115-117
The Python community is an incredibly welcome and diverse community, open to people from all backgrounds and of any experience level. With a vast variety of projects to get involved with, it can serve as your point of entry into the world of open-source software, whatever your interests might be. From PyGame for gamers interested in game engines and Pillow for photographers that want to do image processing, to NumPy for data scientists and mathematicians and Python-core for programming language designers, it's got something for everyone.
In this talk, we'll set out on a journey through the different parts of the Python community and we'll use that to discuss ways to get started with open-source software, get a better idea of what makes a good contributor and hopefully give everyone a better picture of what to expect when getting into this very exciting world.
Lysandros works as a Senior Software Engineer at Quansight Labs out of Berlin. He is a CPython core developer, specializing in the parser, the tokenizer and the REPL. He recently worked on supercharging f-strings in Python 3.12. Lately, he's also become involved with NumPy, working on features that will be part of the upcoming NumPy 2.0 release.