Deb Nicholson
Deb Nicholson is a free software policy expert and a passionate community advocate. She is the Executive Director at the Python Software Foundation which serves as 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.
Session
Python is controlled by the community and that its vast library of packages remain free for anyone to use and open for anyone to add to -- and that's no accident. Open communities that share and learn together are how we will build the kind of future we want to live in. If you've ever wondered who is in charge of Python, how it exists as a perennially free resource and why anyone would do that, this talk is for you!