Carlton Gibson - Django, Spain, Parenting, and Open Source
10/25/23 • 47 min
Carlton recently stepped down as a Django Fellow, maintains many Django related projects, is starting two SaaS companies, and is a podcast host on "Django Chat".
Some of what we talk about:
- Being a Django fellow for 5 years
- Maintaining several Django related open source projects
- Client work
- Time with family
- Building a couple Software as a Service projects
- Kids and travel
- Kids and food
- Living in Spain as a British citizen
- How Brexit has affected his options
- Being an open source maintainer and that it's ok to pause it when life takes precedence.
- Being kind to other maintainers and acknowledging them as human
- Django 5 form template imporovements
- Good places to be a tourist in Spain
- Spains wonderful train system
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Carlton recently stepped down as a Django Fellow, maintains many Django related projects, is starting two SaaS companies, and is a podcast host on "Django Chat".
Some of what we talk about:
- Being a Django fellow for 5 years
- Maintaining several Django related open source projects
- Client work
- Time with family
- Building a couple Software as a Service projects
- Kids and travel
- Kids and food
- Living in Spain as a British citizen
- How Brexit has affected his options
- Being an open source maintainer and that it's ok to pause it when life takes precedence.
- Being kind to other maintainers and acknowledging them as human
- Django 5 form template imporovements
- Good places to be a tourist in Spain
- Spains wonderful train system
The Complete pytest Course
- Level up your testing skills and save time during coding and maintenance.
- Check out courses.pythontest.com
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Python People - Carlton Gibson - Django, Spain, Parenting, and Open Source
Transcript
We have Carlton Gibson. Carlton, you are on Django chat, and you were just recently you just stepped down as being one of the Django fellows. Is that correct?
CarltonYes. Yeah. I did, Brian. Yes. So I was 5 years in the role there. That's I was described that as being the janitor. You know, we keep the floor clean, on Django. So I did 5 years of triaging the tickets and responding to every fire hose commen
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