2025-09-21 –, Main stage
With great growth comes great responsibility. But you aren’t expected to navigate that growth without making significant changes. Let’s talk about all the options so you can come out the other side with the best possible outcome for your project and yourself.
If you’re lucky, then your project’s growth is slow and steady and you have plenty of time to gracefully accommodate more users. If you’re really lucky then your project could experience a lot of growth in a short amount of time, but this can create its own, er, challenges. In this talk, we’ll discuss strategies for handling rapid growth – including big changes, letting more people help you and letting some things go altogether.
With great growth comes great responsibility. But you aren’t expected to navigate that growth without making significant changes. Let’s talk about all the options so you can come out the other side with the best possible outcome for your project and yourself.
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Deb Nicholson is the Executive Director at the Python Software Foundation, the non-profit steward of the Python programming language. She has previously served the open source ecosystem through her work at the Open Source Initiative, Software Freedom Conservancy, and the Open Invention Network. She lives with her husband and her lucky black cat in Cambridge, Massachusetts.