Fwd: EPS: Announcing the Guido van Rossum Core Developer Grant
FYI... perhaps you now understand why I was keen to get the committers listed somewhere :-)
-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: EPS: Announcing the Guido van Rossum Core Developer Grant Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 10:25:52 +0100 From: M.-A. Lemburg mal@europython.eu Organization: EuroPython Society (EPS) To: EuroPython Announcement List europython-announce@python.org
At the last General Assembly of the EuroPython Society (EPS) at EuroPython 2018 in Edinburgh, we voted on a new grant program we want to put in place for future EuroPython conferences.
We all love Python and this is one of the main reasons we are putting on EuroPython year after year, serving the "cast of thousands" which support Python. But we also believe it is important to give something back to the main team of developers who have contributed lots of their time and energy to make Python happen: the Python Core Developers.
This group is small, works countless hours, often in their free time and often close to burnout due to not enough new core developers joining the team.
Free Tickets for Python Core Developers
To help with growing the team, putting it more into the spotlight and give them a place to meet, demonstrate their work and a stage to invite new developers, we decided to give Python Core Developers free entry to future EuroPython conferences, starting with EuroPython 2019 in Basel, Switzerland
In recognition of Guido’s almost 20 years of leading this team, and with his permission, we have named the grant “Guido van Rossum Core Developer Grant”.
Details of the grant program are available on our core grant page:
https://www.europython-society.org/core-grant
PS: If you are a core developer and want to organize a workshop, language summit or similar event at EuroPython 2019, please get in touch with our program workgroup (program@europython.eu) soon, so that we can arrange rooms, slots, etc.
PPS: If you want to become a core developer, please have a look at the Python Dev Guide:
https://devguide.python.org/coredev/Help spread the word
Please help us spread this message by sharing it on your social networks as widely as possible. Thank you !
Link to the blog post:
https://www.europython-society.org/post/182445627020/announcing-the-guido-va...
Tweet:
https://twitter.com/europythons/status/1090901995635073024
Enjoy,
EuroPython Society https://ep2019.europython.eu/ https://www.europython-society.org/
Le 31/01/2019 à 11:15, M.-A. Lemburg a écrit :
FYI... perhaps you now understand why I was keen to get the committers listed somewhere :-)
Indeed!
That's an interesting turn of events. Traditionally PyCon US *refused* to offer special prices for core developers, right? (I'm not sure what the motivation is).
Regards
Antoine.
-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: EPS: Announcing the Guido van Rossum Core Developer Grant Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 10:25:52 +0100 From: M.-A. Lemburg mal@europython.eu Organization: EuroPython Society (EPS) To: EuroPython Announcement List europython-announce@python.org
At the last General Assembly of the EuroPython Society (EPS) at EuroPython 2018 in Edinburgh, we voted on a new grant program we want to put in place for future EuroPython conferences.
We all love Python and this is one of the main reasons we are putting on EuroPython year after year, serving the "cast of thousands" which support Python. But we also believe it is important to give something back to the main team of developers who have contributed lots of their time and energy to make Python happen: the Python Core Developers.
This group is small, works countless hours, often in their free time and often close to burnout due to not enough new core developers joining the team.
Free Tickets for Python Core Developers
To help with growing the team, putting it more into the spotlight and give them a place to meet, demonstrate their work and a stage to invite new developers, we decided to give Python Core Developers free entry to future EuroPython conferences, starting with EuroPython 2019 in Basel, Switzerland
In recognition of Guido’s almost 20 years of leading this team, and with his permission, we have named the grant “Guido van Rossum Core Developer Grant”.
Details of the grant program are available on our core grant page:
https://www.europython-society.org/core-grant
PS: If you are a core developer and want to organize a workshop, language summit or similar event at EuroPython 2019, please get in touch with our program workgroup (program@europython.eu) soon, so that we can arrange rooms, slots, etc.
PPS: If you want to become a core developer, please have a look at the Python Dev Guide:
https://devguide.python.org/coredev/Help spread the word
Please help us spread this message by sharing it on your social networks as widely as possible. Thank you !
Link to the blog post:
https://www.europython-society.org/post/182445627020/announcing-the-guido-va...
Tweet:
https://twitter.com/europythons/status/1090901995635073024
Enjoy,
EuroPython Society https://ep2019.europython.eu/ https://www.europython-society.org/
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 at 20:29, Antoine Pitrou antoine@python.org wrote:
Le 31/01/2019 à 11:15, M.-A. Lemburg a écrit :
FYI... perhaps you now understand why I was keen to get the committers listed somewhere :-)
Very cool! (and thank you!)
That's an interesting turn of events. Traditionally PyCon US *refused* to offer special prices for core developers, right? (I'm not sure what the motivation is).
I think it was more a matter of choosing not to offer special pricing to anyone, not even folks speaking *at* the conference, or helping to organise it: http://jessenoller.com/blog/2011/05/25/pycon-everybody-pays
Instead, everyone was offered the same access to the Financial Aid program.
I believe that policy has been moderated somewhat in recent years, due to concerns that it was making the CFP process less approachable for folks that weren't in a position to handle the uncertainty associated with being accepted as a speaker, but then having to wait to see if their financial aid was approved before they could accept the speaking slot.
Cheers, Nick.
-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
On Jan 31, 2019, at 2:15 AM, M.-A. Lemburg mal@egenix.com wrote:
To help with growing the team, putting it more into the spotlight and give them a place to meet, demonstrate their work and a stage to invite new developers, we decided to give Python Core Developers free entry to future EuroPython conferences, starting with EuroPython 2019 in Basel, Switzerland
Thank for this.
The cumulative cost of attending conferences has been high.
Raymond
Happy to see that you like the idea. Our hope is that more conferences will pick it up as well.
On 31.01.2019 18:41, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
On Jan 31, 2019, at 2:15 AM, M.-A. Lemburg mal@egenix.com wrote:
To help with growing the team, putting it more into the spotlight and give them a place to meet, demonstrate their work and a stage to invite new developers, we decided to give Python Core Developers free entry to future EuroPython conferences, starting with EuroPython 2019 in Basel, Switzerland
Thank for this.
The cumulative cost of attending conferences has been high.
-- Marc-Andre Lemburg EuroPython Society Chair http://www.europython-society.org/ http://www.malemburg.com/
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