Deb Nicholson
Deb Nicholson is an open source software policy expert and a passionate community advocate. She is the Executive Director at the Python Software Foundation which serves as the non-profit steward of the Python programming language. She’s won the O’Reilly Open Source Award and the Award for the Advancement of Free Software for her efforts to broaden the free and open source software movement. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Spritely Institute and on the Advisory Board for Open@RIT. She lives with her husband and her lucky black cat in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Session
If you're lucky, you're part of a big important project (like Python) that is very likely to outlive you. That might make it feel like you have all the time in the world to do everything you want to do, but you never know how much time you have. That might sound a little grim, but it's important to accept that if we're going to plan for the future. Even though it feels very, very personal while you're doing it, community work is not entirely about you. It's about what we leave for the next generation of Pythonistas. I want us to start planning for the far future of the Python ecosystem today.