Wednesday, September 10 @ 11:40 AM to 12:05 PM View on time.is
Room A
It is a melancholy object to those who walk through these great tech landscapes, or travel in the Interwebs, when they see the apps, the websites, and repositories crowded with open source developers, followed by three, four, or six contributors, all with no jobs, and importuning every passenger for a job reference. These developers, instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time stroling to beg for sponsors for their helpless projects, who, as they grow more complex, turn into some rugpull SaaS app, or leave their dear open licenses, to work for the Pretender in Seattle, or sell themselves to the Bay.
I think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of contributors in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of open source maintainers, is in the present state of the tech industry, a very great grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap, and easy method of making these developers sound and useful members of the technosphere, would deserve so well of the public, as to have their NFT set up as a preserver of the Internet.
In my past lives, I've enjoyed playing guitar and bass, kicking a soccer ball, or playing an occasional video game. In my career, I've been an editor at a non-profit, taught as a pre-school teacher, managed payroll for a professional baseball team, and worked as an analyst/project manager for HR systems. More recently, I've been working as a software engineer for a little over a year at a company called BCM One.
I also code Python by night, which is what happens when there's not enough time during the day to poke around and break things. In the past couple of years, I've presented several talks/tutorials at PyCon US, DjangoCon US, Python Web Conference, North Bay Python, PyGotham, PyOhio, and others. Sometimes I neglect/blog on my website Python By Night, and start (or abandon) too many side projects.