The Python Community

Given at Memphis Python User group, Sept 15, 2014, this talk introducing novice developers and students to some of the things they can expect from being involved in the python community.

1. Community Brad Montgomery Twitter: @bkmontgomery Email: brad@bradmontgomery.net
2. the language and the standard library
3. import antigravity http://xkcd.com/353/
4. The Zen of Python >>> import this
5. The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters ! Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. Flat is better than nested. Sparse is better than dense. Readability counts. Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules. Although practicality beats purity. Errors should never pass silently. Unless explicitly silenced. In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess. There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch. Now is better than never. Although never is often better than *right* now. If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea. If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea. Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!
6. 3rd-party apps/libs makes python even more amazing
7. pypi.python.org used to be called the “cheese shop” at one point was pronounced “pie pie” python package index
8. pep8 work with style
9. Open Source
10. Open Source MIT/BSD are most common
11. Online irc, mailing lists, twitter, google plus, stackoverflow
12. Conferences PyCon, SciPy, Regional Conferences, Meetups
13. Meetups happening all over the world
14. The PSF owns the Python Intellectual Property, promotes the community.
15. Python Community Code of Conduct explicit > implicit
16. Python Community Code of Conduct Open. Considerate. Respectful. https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/