08-31, 11:05–11:35 (Europe/Zurich), HS 120
In my current work as a contributor experience lead, I am supporting and growing Matplotlib’s and Pandas’ communities by organizing events, meetings, and proactive engagement with a focus on equity and inclusion of historically marginalized groups. In my talk I’ll give an introduction to this new role, the grant that supports it, and some of the work done so far…
I will share takeaways for maintainers, and contributors; from simple changes that can be implemented relatively easily, to bigger topics, which one might want to learn more about, and slowly yet proactively, facilitate changes to tweak the contributor experience for a project.
In my current work as a contributor experience lead, I am supporting and growing Matplotlib’s and Pandas’ communities by organizing events, meetings, and proactive engagement with a focus on equity and inclusion of historically marginalized groups. In my talk I’ll give an introduction to this new role, the grant that supports it, and some of the work done so far…
I will share takeaways for maintainers, and contributors; from simple changes that can be implemented relatively easily, to bigger topics, which one might want to learn more about, and slowly yet proactively, facilitate changes to tweak the contributor experience for a project.
What is Contributor Experience? Noa Tamir will introduce this new role and the work done so far to promote contributor community growth by proactive engagement with a focus on equity and inclusion of historically marginalized groups.
Domains –Open Source Library
Expected audience expertise: Domain –some
Expected audience expertise: Python –none
Noa has been active in OSS for some years now: she co-founded R-Ladies Berlin 2016, volunteered in PyData Berlin 2017, Founded satRday Berlin in 2018, WiMLDS Berlin in 2019, volunteered in useR! Toulouse 2019, was a speaker at PyConDE & PyData Berlin 2019, co-maintains the useR! knowledgebase and co-chaired PyConDE & PyData Berlin 2022.
Along side this she went from being a data scientist to a director of data science at respectable companies, and later became a freelance consultant. Since March 2022 she is employed at Quansight as a Contributor Experience Lead working with Matplotlib and Pandas. Noa has a Bsc in Physics, a Msc in Economics and Business Science and a MRes in Economics.