[Keynote #1] Building Legendary Communities through experiences beyond the walls
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Memoir-style cases of building community: a grassroots Discord that becomes Black Python Devs and then a nonprofit with leadership that doubles yearly, a tactic of asking "Are you hungry?" that turns a lightning talk into a later accepted full talk, and the uncomfortable metric that there were 12 people looked like me at PyCon US. Advice is concrete: prioritize communication over code, use the Pac-Man rule, do a lightning talk, practice self-care, and expect measurable outcomes (eight new council members, event survival or collapse).
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