Conversation With a Python Steering Council Member

Python Steering Council is the final authority on any major decision making for the Python programming language. In this video, I had a conversation with Pablo Galindo who is one of the 5 members of the steering council. Topics that were discussed are available in timestamps section below, Python steering council members (as of Jan 2021): https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-8102/#results Pablo's nomination: https://discuss.python.org/t/steering-council-nomination-pablo-galindo-salgado-2021-term/5720 ⭐️ Timestamps ⭐️ 00:00 Introduction 01:27 Roles and responsibilities of the Python Steering Council 04:08 Do you feel pressure being responsible for the direction of one of the most popular programming languages? 05:52 What was your first open source contribution? 09:39 How was your first interaction with Guido (the creator of Python)? 13:48 How does the Python Steering Council resolve conflicts? 16:45 The Python Steering Council election process 21:15 Difference between a Python core developer and an open source contributor 27:48 Capacity planning in open source projects 33:41 What is being done to improve Python's speed? 43:39 Python is turning 30 years old this month. Why did it become so popular in the last 10 years? 48:57 New features in Python 3.10 54:03 Any plans for making Python a first class citizen for mobile app development? 58:33 Why should one contribute to open source? Any tips for first time contributors? 🎥 Codebasics Hindi channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTmFBhuhMibVoSfYom1uXEg #️⃣ Social Media #️⃣ 🔗 Discord: https://discord.gg/r42Kbuk 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codebasicshub/ 🔊 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/codebasicshub 📱 Twitter: https://twitter.com/codebasicshub 📝 Linkedin (Personal): https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhavalsays/ 📝 Linkedin (Codebasics): https://www.linkedin.com/company/codebasics/ ❗❗ DISCLAIMER: All opinions expressed in this video are of my own and not that of my employers'.