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Diversity and Inclusion Panel: The Work Still Matters: Inclusion, Access, and Community in 2025PyCon US 20252025-05-16
Panel gives concrete actions and tradeoffs: an effort that brought 50 students to PyCon Nigeria and then chose not to send 35 students to PyCon Uganda because…
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Keynote – Naomi CederPyCon US 20222022-04-27
Argues that the Python community functions as a gift economy where volunteers give unevenly and benefits circulate messily, warns that burnout and abandoned…
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Inclusion and Community in the face of crisisPyCon India 20202020-10-02
The Python community faces layered crises but leans on concrete practices: the PSF depends on PyCon US for 60–70% of income and delayed cancellation to avoid a…
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Honestly It’s Easier to Ask Forgiveness Than PermissionPyCon Latam 20192019-08-29
Naomi Ceder explains why Python favors using exceptions (the “easier to ask forgiveness than permission” approach) and argues this style is not strange or…
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It Really is Easier to Ask for Forgiveness (than Permission)GOTO Chicago 20192019-04-29
Argues that Python’s EAFP over LBYL style is intentional and often faster, walks the exception class hierarchy, shows live Jupyter examples (sys.exit →…
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Antipatterns for DiversityEuroPython 20152015-07-20
Argues diversity improves problem solving and creativity and cites concrete signals: Twitter reports 49 black engineers (<2%), women leave in mid‑career…
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