Finding your groove: Contributing to CPython and beyond

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Finding your Groove Contributing to CPython Carol Willing @willingcarol

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Groove An infectious feeling of rightness in the rhythm, of being perfectly centered.

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Commit

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Jump into it

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Find your rhythm

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Improvise

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Finding your groove Commit Jump into it Find your rhythm Improvise

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Commit

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Step into your greatness. Don't be afraid... No one else could do what you do. — Keb Mo'

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Commit to others I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet. — George Benson

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Commit to yourself

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Jump into it

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Method Python Developer's Guide

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Gather your gear Editor - your choice Operating system - Linux, OS X, Windows Command line - basics Version control - basics of Mercurial (hg) and git

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Check out sheet music hg clone https://hg.python.org/cpython git clone https://github.com/python/cpython CPython official repo CPython semi official, read-only GitHub mirror Transpose Mercurial and Git

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A little theory... source code directory Docs Tests Operating system Standard library

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Listen My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener. — Pat Metheny

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Create a playlist pyvideo.org

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Join a band... Core Mentorship

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...or several combos #python-dev Mailing lists python-ideas, python-docs, python-new-bugs-announce Welcoming spaces OpenHatch, PyLadies, user groups Sprints and pairing #positive-python

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Find your rhythm

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Wrong and strong Loud and proud Along the way, mistakes WILL be made. Not all things tried will work out. But that impulse, the impulse to TRY THINGS, is perhaps the most attractive -- and sometimes the most underutilized. — Pat Metheny

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Selecting a solo

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Docs Sphinx $cd Docs $make html reStructured Text (rst) basics Find an issue Read a doc; offer a helpful change Localize a doc

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Testing Run tests on your system Find a testing issue Improve testing fu Keep Buildbots green

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Issues Follow along new issues and python-dev Look at infrastructure projects Ask on core mentorship Consider reviewing a patch

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Onboarding and beyond Inspire Equip Listen Encourage

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The most amazing new feature... Research issue tracker, mail archives, PEPs Review other people's patches Be cordial PEP 478 Release schedule for Python 3.5

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Improvise

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people

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people

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people

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I have won several prizes as the world's slowest alto player as well as a special award in 1961 for quietness. — Paul Desmond

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Find your Python groove? Try a sprint Learn, build, and share Embrace some Gypsy Jazz Thank you Django lover, Adrian Holovaty, for PyCon 2014 Poster Session encouragement

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PyLadies' playing it forward The Jazzy Groove Guide to CPython Contribution

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The Jazzy Groove Guide to CPython Contribution

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PyLadies' playing it forward Sunday's poster session Sprint Contribute to the playlist Python Contributor Groove

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Gratitude San Diego Python, PyLadies San Diego, and PyCon 2015 virtual cool cat, Paul Collins CPython contributors and core devs OpenHatch friends Requests friends PyLadies Pythonistas: past and present, near and far

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THANK YOU Enjoy the journey Slides Source code & documentation 4:41

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Credits Youtube - song "Horska" performed and recorded by the Halifax, Nova Scotia band Gypsophilia (Horska, Forward Music 2013). video was produced by Halifax production company Shut Up & Colour and was made possible by the support of Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage. Photos: Fabrizio Sciami, For a democratic [Jazz It] Festival; Carol Willing Quotes: http://www.apassion4jazz.net