Richard Littauer (6)
"Django is a web framework. What to know the hardest part? Building the website." ~ @freakboy3742
"Sometimes you should pay people do to things. Like, filing taxes should not be done by people under social duress."
"What is the best thing you didn't know you needed until a volunteer came and asked to do it?"
Crickets from the foundation panel.
Yo, go ask if you can do stuff, people!
"It shouldn't feel like we have to find someone dumb enough to do this." ~ Danny Adair on open source leadership.
I feel this.
I mentioned someone helped me with some code during my talk today at @kiwipycon! I was talking about @chimosky, who made it possible for me to get an email every day telling me what hotspots to go birding in.
The man who helped identify hundreds of my iNaturalist observations - including my very latest one, made of the bark of a Chinese Elm on the way to #kiwipycon - was sadly killed on Saturday, two hours after he helped me out. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/237526754#activity_comment_701b85c3-f7a0-4d6d-984b-0e721150afdc
Life is unbearably short. I am going to miss him on the platform immensely.
I never got to meet Stephen Thorpe. What an absolute loss.
