The Future of Python

Keynote presentation at PyCon India 2018

Transcript

1. 
 Carol Willing @WillingCarol The Future of Python 1 October 7, 2018 PyCon India 2018 Python Core Developer Fellow, Former Director Python Software Foundation Jupyter Core Developer Steering Council Project Jupyter
2. @WillingCarol now 2
4. 1989 http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/01/brief-timeline-of-python.html @WillingCarol 349 | 360 http://py3readiness.org 154,293 projects | 1,094,879 releases 1,503,765 files | 268,049 users https://pypi.org 4
5. 41 @WillingCarol basic, fortran, pascal, c, c++, java, python, rust, go, javascript, processing, julia 2 million https://jupyter.org 5
6. @WillingCarol past 6
7. Change is a constant @WillingCarol 7
8. People have opinions @WillingCarol 8
9. Great code requires communication @WillingCarol 9
10. @twitter_handle
12. Optimism 12
13. Language Design In reality, programming languages are how programmers express and communicate ideas — and the audience for those ideas is other programmers, not computers. http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2016/04/kings-day-speech.html – Guido van Rossum !13
14. Python for everyone the most important lesson I learned... sharing – Guido van Rossum http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2016/04/kings-day-speech.html !14
15. 15 future
16. Python core Pythonistas Possibilities @WillingCarol 16
17. Python core language @WillingCarol 17
18. What happens to CPython? @WillingCarol 18
19. CPython governance @WillingCarol 19
20. 20 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/
25. @WillingCarol pythonclock.org python3statement.org 25
26. @WillingCarol 26 py3readiness.org
27. Rich ecosystem of libraries @WillingCarol 27
29. Pythonistas @WillingCarol 29
30. The future of Python must include diversity of ideas. @WillingCarol 30
31. How do I learn? @WillingCarol 31
32. To which project should I contribute? @WillingCarol 32
33. How can I become a speaker? @WillingCarol 33
34. @WillingCarol How do we get more people at my meetup? 34
35. How do I become a core Python developer? @WillingCarol 35
36. Why do I want to become a core Python developer? @WillingCarol 36
37. inclusive = impact @WillingCarol 37
38. Pythonistas - the sequel @WillingCarol 38
39. Sensible Defaults @WillingCarol 39
40. Respect @WillingCarol time graceful disagreement your approach may not be best 40
41. Listen @WillingCarol understanding consideration value ideas of others 41
42. Share @WillingCarol experiences knowledge risk and reward 42
43. Trust @WillingCarol Negativity shuts down creativity. Silencing productive discourse and gatekeeping result in toxic workflows. 43
44. Humility @WillingCarol Long term success Learning from failures Innovation 44
45. Possibilities @WillingCarol 45
46. WebAssembly @WillingCarol Mobile Gaming Distribution 46
47. Interactivity @WillingCarol Education Research Exploration 47
48. Productivity @WillingCarol Web Data Science Science Education Systems Open Hardware Mobile Gaming 48
49. Empowerment @WillingCarol 49
50. Python core Pythonistas Possibilities 50
51. ...a programming language created by a community fosters happiness in its users around the world. – Guido van Rossum http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2016/04/kings-day-speech.html
52. the future of Python is @WillingCarol 52
53. YOU @WillingCarol 53
54. Thank you @WillingCarol What will you do now for Python and Pythonistas? 54