I’m an open source maintainer and contributor. As a Python core developer, my main focus is to improve the core workflow and documentation. I’m active in the Python community as an advisor and administrator for the Global PyLadies, co-founder of PyCascades. I’m chairing the PyCon US conference for the years 2023-2024. For my contributions to the Python and community, I’ve received the PSF Community Service Award in 2018 and Google Open Source Peer Bonus Award in 2017 and 2020.
Nov 2021 - May 2023
Remote
Nov 2021 - May 2023
November 2020 - November 2021
Remote
November 2020 - November 2021
January 2018 - November 2020
Remote
January 2018 - November 2020
May 2014 - November 2017
Vancouver
May 2014 - November 2017
October 2008 - May 2014
Saskatoon
October 2008 - May 2014
September 2007 - September 2008
Trois Rivieres
September 2007 - September 2008
May 2003 - April 2007
Saskatoon
July 2005 - April 2007
May 2003 - August 2004
2000-2005 B.Sc. Honours in Computer Science |
PyCon US is the largest Python conference in the world. In 2023, we celebrated 20 years of PyCon US.
PyCon US is the largest Python conference in the world. In 2023, we celebrated 20 years of PyCon US.
The first PyLadies Conference, taking place online in December 2023.
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A bot to help identify missing information for CPython pull requests
An async GitHub API library for Python
Community management for documentation contributors and the Docs Workgroup
The Python programming language
PyLadies Vancouver is a Python programming group for women in the Vancouver area. We welcome people who have never programmed before, experienced programmers, and everyone in between.
PyCascades is a regional PyCon in the Pacific Northwest, celebrating the west coast Python developer and user community. Our organizing team includes members of the Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland Python user groups.
I reviewed some issues that came to the CPython repo. There were a few interesting tickets related to the datetime
module. These issues were discovered by Hypothesis, a property-based testing tool for Python.
I’ve been hearing a lot about Hypothesis, but never really used it in production or at work. I watched a talk about it
at PyCon US many years ago, and I even had ice cream selfie with Zac who
maintains Hypothesis. Anyway, I’ve just been interested in learning more about Hypothesis and how it could solve issues
not caught by other testing methods, and I think this is one of the perks of contributing to open source: getting exposed
to things you don’t normally use at work, and I think it’s a great way to learn new things.
If you use Python, chances are you’ve heard of PEP 8, the Python style guide. But do you know what PEPs really are? PEPs are more than just a style guide. A PEP stands for Python Enhancement Proposal. It’s a proposal documentation for when you want to change the Python programming language in a big way, for example when you want to change the syntax of Python. Think of the addition of f-strings, the walrus operator, or the ExceptionGroup, those changes all started with a PEP. Let’s have a PEP talk, where you can learn about the PEP process, what needs a PEP and what doesn’t, and how you as community members can take part.
You might have seen bots like GitHub bots, Discord bots, Slack bots. How do these bots work? There’s an API for that! You can use third-party APIs to build web apps and automations, including bots. Come learn the best practices on how to work with APIs using Python.
The Google Open Source Peer Bonus program rewards external open source contributors nominated by Googlers for their exceptional contributions to open source. Historically, the program was primarily focused on rewarding developers. Over the years the program has evolvedârewarding not just software engineers contributors from every part of open sourceâincluding technical writers, user experience and graphic designers, community managers and marketers, mentors and educators, ops and security experts.
The above members help support the Python ecosystem by contributing to CPython, contributing to the PyLadies community, maintaining Python libraries, creating educational material, translating courses, organizing Python events and conferences, starting Python communities in local regions, and overall being great mentors in our community. Each of them continues to help make Python more accessible around the world. To learn more about the new Fellow members, check out their links above.
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation award the Q3 2018 Community Service Award to Mariatta Wijaya for her contributions to CPython, diversity efforts for the Python Core Contributor team, and her work on PyCascades.
Weâre excited to announce 2017âs second round of Open Source Peer Bonus winners. Google Open Source established this program six years ago to encourage Googlers to recognize and celebrate external contributors to the open source ecosystem Google depends on.
