Mailman 3 December 2020 - PyPA-Committers

Fwd: PyPA UX Training Dates! (Dec 30, Jan 6, Jan 7)
by Sumana Harihareswara Jan. 4, 2021

Jan. 4, 2021

I glitched the formatting on the previous forward, so here it is again. -- Sumana Harihareswara ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: *Georgia Bullen* <georgia(a)simplysecure.org> Date: Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 11:35 AM Subject: pip/pypa UX Training Dates! Hi Everyone! Based on the Doodle Poll <https://doodle.com/poll/f5evzq9xiiuvs3bk>, we've chosen 3 times to offer the training so that there should be a good option for most of you. You only need to come to one of the times — not all three! The options for training times are: * Option 1: Wednesday, Dec 30th, 9 – 11 AM ET (2-4pm UK) (in your own timezone <https://www.inyourowntime.zone/2020-12-30_09.00_America.New_York>) - Pilot Training * Option 2: Wednesday, Jan 6, 2 - 4 PM ET (7-9pm UK) (in your own timezone <https://www.inyourowntime.zone/2021-01-06_14.00_America.New_York>) * Option 3: Thursday, Jan 7th, 5 – 7 AM ET (10am -12 pm UK) (in your own timezone <https://www.inyourowntime.zone/2021-01-07_05.00_America.New_York>) Please send an email to pip-ux(a)pypa.io to confirm which time you'll be joining for so we can have a sense of who to expect. If you are interested in the training, and not able to attend one of the offered times, please reach out to us at pip-ux(a)pypa.io and we will talk with you to work something out (e.g. finding a time to chat about specific questions you have, etc). *Logistics* We will host the training on BigBlueButton:* https://ca.meet.coop/b/sim-zqh-cl9-ier*. If you aren't familiar with BigBlueButton, just let us know. It is an open source, browser based, video conferencing tool, and therefore should not require you to download any software. You can read more about BigBlueButton here: https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/. The instance we are using is provided by Meet.Coop (https://www.meet.coop/). *Training Agenda* * Intro to User Centered Design * What challenges do you have understanding users * How to understand users and what to do with it * How to evaluate what we’re making * (Optional post-training) Extended Discussion/Q+A We are looking forward to meeting many of you and talking about how to apply User Centered Design to your work! -Georgia, Bernard, Nicole + Team ------ Georgia Bullen* (**she/her/they <https://pronoun.is/she>)*, @georgiamoon <http://twitter.com/georgiamoon> Executive Director, Simply Secure ** <https://simplysecure.org/> *Join our community on slack <https://simsec.cc/joinslack>. Follow us on Twitter <http://twitter.com/simplysecureorg>, Instagram <http://instagram.com/simplysecure>, Facebook <http://facebook.com/simplysecureorg/>, LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/simplysecureorg/>, Medium <https://medium.com/simply-secure/>* *Simply Secure is a 501c3 nonprofit, please consider supporting our work. <https://simplysecure.org/support-us/>*

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PyPA UX Training Dates: Dec 30, Jan 6, Jan 7
by Sumana Harihareswara Dec. 28, 2020

Dec. 28, 2020

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: pip/pypa UX Training Dates! Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 11:34:45 -0500 From: Georgia Bullen <georgia(a)simplysecure.org> --- Hi Everyone! Based on the Doodle Poll <https://doodle.com/poll/f5evzq9xiiuvs3bk>, we've chosen 3 times to offer the training so that there should be a good option for most of you. You only need to come to one of the times — not all three! The options for training times are: * Option 1: Wednesday, Dec 30th, 9 – 11 AM ET (2-4pm UK) (in your own timezone <https://www.inyourowntime.zone/2020-12-30_09.00_America.New_York>) - Pilot Training * Option 2: Wednesday, Jan 6, 2 - 4 PM ET (7-9pm UK) (in your own timezone <https://www.inyourowntime.zone/2021-01-06_14.00_America.New_York>) * Option 3: Thursday, Jan 7th, 5 – 7 AM ET (10am -12 pm UK) (in your own timezone <https://www.inyourowntime.zone/2021-01-07_05.00_America.New_York>) Please send an email to pip-ux(a)pypa.io <mailto:pip-ux@pypa.io> to confirm which time you'll be joining for so we can have a sense of who to expect. If you are interested in the training, and not able to attend one of the offered times, please reach out to us at pip-ux(a)pypa.io <mailto:pip-ux@pypa.io> and we will talk with you to work something out (e.g. finding a time to chat about specific questions you have, etc). *Logistics* We will host the training on BigBlueButton:*https://ca.meet.coop/b/sim-zqh-cl9-ier <https://ca.meet.coop/b/sim-zqh-cl9-ier>*. If you aren't familiar with BigBlueButton, just let us know. It is an open source, browser based, video conferencing tool, and therefore should not require you to download any software. You can read more about BigBlueButton here: https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/ <https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/>. The instance we are using is provided by Meet.Coop (https://www.meet.coop/ <https://www.meet.coop/>). *Training Agenda* * Intro to User Centered Design * What challenges do you have understanding users * How to understand users and what to do with it * How to evaluate what we’re making * (Optional post-training) Extended Discussion/Q+A We are looking forward to meeting many of you and talking about how to apply User Centered Design to your work! -Georgia, Bernard, Nicole + Team ------ Georgia Bullen/(//she/her/they <https://pronoun.is/she>)/, @georgiamoon <http://twitter.com/georgiamoon> Executive Director, Simply Secure / / <https://simplysecure.org> /Join our community on slack <https://simsec.cc/joinslack>. Follow us on Twitter <http://twitter.com/simplysecureorg>, Instagram <http://instagram.com/simplysecure>, Facebook <http://facebook.com/simplysecureorg/>, LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/simplysecureorg/>, Medium <https://medium.com/simply-secure/>/ /Simply Secure is a 501c3 nonprofit, please consider supporting our work. <https://simplysecure.org/support-us/>/

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Stepping down as virtualenv maintainer (& bus factor?)
by Pradyun Gedam Dec. 20, 2020

Dec. 20, 2020

Hi folks! Just flagging here that I'm gonna be stepping away from maintaining virtualenv going forward and I'll be removing myself from the corresponding GitHub team later today. There's a bunch of reasons for this, but the dominant ones are that (1) I don't want to be maintaining any Python 2 compatible code in 2021, (2) I don't think I know enough about the re-written codebase to contribute on that front, and (3) I don't want to put in the energy necessary to deal with consistent pushback to _all_ non-code changes related to the project. None the less, I do want to flag that there's probably a conversation to be had about virtualenv's bus factor at some point (I think it's 1 at the moment) and shoutout to my fellow maintainers for collaborating with me so far! ^>^ Best, Pradyun PS: I'm sending this here, because... I couldn't find any other good place to do so publicly, while still reaching the _only_ relevant people. :)

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Please participate: pip & PyPA UX Training
by Nicole Harris Dec. 16, 2020

Dec. 16, 2020

Hello! *tl:dr;* Interested in UX training with the pip UX team in December or January? Respond to the Doodle poll <https://doodle.com/poll/f5evzq9xiiuvs3bk> by Monday, December 14th, 2020. *More Information* As part of the user experience (UX) work happening on pip in 2020, we are offering specialized training on UX to the pip & PyPA maintainer community. This UX training will be focused around specific UX experience honed this year while supporting the pip maintainers, and tailored to meet your needs as maintainers in the pip and PyPA ecosystem. Our goals for the training sessions are: - Learning how to use tools and methods for getting the feedback you need to make decisions and prioritize features better - Building an understanding of people who are using your software - Learning how to work with and translate from people who specialize in UX, e.g. - How to make better error and info messages that help users debug problems, and help them understand what your tool is doing, and how to improve documentation structure and content (what UX folks call “content design”) - How to create readable & understandable command syntax for CLIs (UX folks call this “CLI interface design”) - Methods to find out what users need and don’t need, or have trouble with, and how to make feature deprecation decisions (what UX folks call “user research”) - Learning techniques for improving interactions with community members around feedback *Logistics* We will offer the training virtually at multiple times to enable more of you to participate. We are planning for the session to run for 2 hours. If you are interested to participate in the training, please fill out the Doodle poll <https://doodle.com/poll/f5evzq9xiiuvs3bk> for scheduling by Monday, December 14th, 2020, and (optionally) send us a quick email at pip-ux(a)pypa.io with short responses to the following questions: - Do you have any needs around scheduling the training that you’d like us to consider? Or preferred learning structure that you’d like to share with us? - When someone says “UX Design” what do you think? - Have you ever worked with a UX designer before? If yes, how did that go? - What are you hoping to get out of the training? What questions do you have about UX that you are hoping we address or share resources about? - Is there anything specific, you’d like to get support on or dig into at the training, e.g. a problem you’ve run into in the past? There will be additional resources and an introductory video if you are interested in the material, but unable to participate in the training. Thank you and looking forward to working with you to help super charge your UX skills! Georgia, Bernard, Nicole & the broader pip Team

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