Jessica McKellar
Python, and Who Gets to Join
CPython contributions and PSF leadership
Rating
79Impact score
Domains
PythonOpen source communityDeveloper education
Scouting report
CPython contributor, Python Software Foundation director and Twisted maintainer who did a large amount of the outreach work that widened who shows up to Python: Boston Python’s beginner workshops moved the local user group to roughly a third women, which nobody had managed before. Co-wrote a book on Twisted and taught a great deal for free.
Curator’s note
Ran the workshops that changed who was in the room.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Jessica McKellar by Jessica McKellar, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sources
- 01Jessica McKellar en.wikipedia.org
- 02Python Software Foundation python.org