Paolo Melchiorre @ PyCon US (50)
This afternoon, before the Expo Hall closed, we took a big group photo together at the Django and Djangonaut Space booth 📸✨
Django Fellows, Steering Council representatives, DSF members, volunteers, contributors, and community participants all joined together.
Guido van Rossum also stopped by and shared kind words about Djangonaut Space and the constant work the Django community brings into the wider Python ecosystem 🙂
Currently following Pablo Galindo’s keynote at PyCon US 2026 🎤
It’s the first keynote in Spanish at PyCon US, and even as an Italian speaker I’m able to follow most of it surprisingly well 🙂
Pablo is giving a keynote that is both very interesting and genuinely funny, while talking about the life of open source maintainers and the changing world around them.
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Come visit the Django Software Foundation and Djangonaut Space booth in the PyCon US 2026 expo hall ✨
If you have questions about Django, want to meet people from the community, or just say hello, you may find Django Fellows, DSF Board and Steering Council members, Djangonauts, and other community volunteers around the booth 🙂
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Currently following the D&I panel at PyCon US 2026: “Python is for Everyone — Growing the Community Without Limits” ✨
Really interesting discussion around community building, inclusion, education, and local Python communities from different parts of the world.
Panel with Débora Azevedo, Alla Barbalat, Georgi Ker, Theresa Seyram Agbenyegah, and Abhijeet Mote.
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I just joined the PyLadies Auction together with many other people here at PyCon US ✨
People donated all kinds of objects to help raise money for the PyLadies community, and the auction became both a fundraising moment and a very fun social event during dinner 😄
After lunch I joined the “Community Organizers Unite!” open space at PyCon US 2026 ✨
It was really interesting to connect with organizers from conferences, meetups, and other technical communities, and exchange stories, ideas, and experiences around community building.
One of those sessions where you leave with many new thoughts and contacts 🙂
Thank you @samdoran 🙂 hearing that means a lot to me.
I had the feeling during the conference that this topic has been weighing on many people in open source for quite some time, so I’m really happy the way I approached it resonated with you. 😊
I hope to continue discussing it with more people across the community, and in the meantime I’ve shared the slides from the talk on my website ✨
https://www.paulox.net/2026/05/15/pycon-us-2026/#1
Another thing I really appreciated in Pablo Galindo’s keynote was the conclusion.
After talking about maintainer pressure and the growing flow of contributions, his final message was that the antidote is still connecting more as humans.
He showed photos from Python core sprints at Arm in Cambridge and moments shared with contributors over the years.
It felt very close to the conclusion of my own talk yesterday about bringing more real human collaboration back into open source
I met old friends again, exchanged a few words with many people, and captured a few more moments together with photos 🙂
These small moments with the community are honestly one of the most meaningful parts of conferences like this.
This morning I joined an interview at the @jetbrains booth during PyCon US 2026 🎤
It was a really interesting experience being interviewed by @wsvincent
Thanks also to Alex for the audio/video support, @pauleveritt for the “security service” during the interview 😄, and Kristel for the assistance around the booth ✨
