Season 3, Episode 2 – David Glick
11/04/23 • 58 min
David Glick has been a Plone core contributor for 15 years and is one of the originators of the Dexterity content type framework. In this episode we talk about the cycle of contribution to our long-lived project and community and how Plone's future is excitingly open.
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David Glick has been a Plone core contributor for 15 years and is one of the originators of the Dexterity content type framework. In this episode we talk about the cycle of contribution to our long-lived project and community and how Plone's future is excitingly open.
See this episode on YouTube
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Season 3, Episode 1 – Jean Jordaan
Jean Jordaan switched from a humanities career to working as a developer with Python, Zope, and Plone with Upfront Systems in South Africa, then moving to Nairobi, Kenya, and, eventually, to Bangkok, Thailand. Join us to hear some of his keen insights into community, process, and life!
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Season 3, Episode 3 – Godefroid Chapelle
Godefroid Chapelle is a longtime Zope and Plone developer who first encountered Zope in its hectic heyday and was a participant at the first in-person Plone sprint.
We cover a lot of ground in this episode as Godefroid reflects on:
- his origins as a programmer
- being present at the first EuroPython
- the difference between hackathons and sprints
- the culture of organizations and communities
- monkey patching as conflict avoidance
- how Zope's component architecture enabled Plone's diverse community
- reading code as poetry
- the importance of mentoring in coding
- tools that teach best practices
- repeatability with buildout and Nix
- Hashicorp
- the main selling point of Zope
- Rust and other typed languages
- Python tracebacks and the topology of code.
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