Accepted Talks:

How I Became A Cookie Monster

(User to Complainer to Helper to Core: the evolution of open source software development communities)

Abstract

My journey from a user of the awesome cookiecutter, to a core member of an awesome += 1 community.

I've learned a lot from the modest and multi-talented @audreyr about leading a community, writing clean cross-platform Python code and putting the B in BFDL.

My talk aims to introduce cookiecutter to a wider audience (if you're at a PyCon and you create new projects, you need to use it) and to chart my progress from the outside to the inside of an open source project.

Description

We start with a brief introduction to cookiecutter, why it's awesome and why you should use it.

Listen as I digress and ramble about:

Follow step-by-step as I synthesize and refactor and test and document a cookiecutter feature: Extra Context!

Endure as I posit that the ideal open source software development workflow is a battle tested, resilient, improbable and inherently evolutionary process.

Applaud as I summarise.

https://github.com/michaeljoseph/cookiemonster/blob/master/README.md



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