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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10/25/23 • 47 min

Python People - Carlton Gibson - Django, Spain, Parenting, and Open Source

Transcript

Brian00:00:00.080

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?

Carlton00:00:08.320

Yes. 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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