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SUMMARY:(Re)-connecting foundational libraries with their communities: Suc
 cesses\, failures\, and surprises in building the napari plugin sustainabi
 lity initiative - Tim Monko
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UID:pretalx-euroscipy-2026-EALXXJ@pretalx.com
DESCRIPTION:Foundational Python libraries provide critical functionality t
 hat diverse communities of downstream developers and users depend on\, yet
  the teams maintaining these libraries must make hard choices about where 
 to spend limited resources. Often\, gaps in awareness between a core proje
 ct and its broader community silently erode trust\, collaboration\, and su
 stainability. This talk shares lessons from a community-driven sustainabil
 ity initiative to (re)-connect napari—a foundational library for interac
 tive\, multi-dimensional image and data viewing built on the scientific Py
 thon stack—with its ecosystem of over 580 community-developed plugins. N
 apari plugins are built and used by scientists\, from complete Python novi
 ces to cutting-edge code experts\, from the biological to physical to soci
 al sciences\, and beyond. Through a working group that brought together th
 e napari core team\, plugin developers and end users\, the plugin sustaina
 bility initiative discovered that new avenues for communication and collab
 oration lead to shared ownership of the ecosystem's progress. This talk wi
 ll discuss what engagement approaches worked\, what has not worked\, what 
 surprised us\, and what any Python project with downstream developers can 
 take away about sustainably growing and maintaining a community and its so
 ftware ecosystem.
LOCATION:Room 1.19 (Ground Floor\, Shannon)
URL:https://pretalx.com/euroscipy-2026/talk/EALXXJ/
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