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Career Paths Lab: meet Dea Maria Léon

We had the privilege of speaking with Dea Maria, a contributor to pandas. Originally from Mexico, she studied Electrical Engineering and held several engineering positions.…

Career Paths Lab: meet Natalia Mokeeva

Natalia Mokeeva graciously spared some time and gave insights on her open-source journey. Natalia is a Mathematician by profession and has been regularly committing each day…

Documenting paths to leadership in open-source projects

Transparent processes for becoming a decision-maker in open source help foster trust. Today, just 37% of all respondents surveyed agree that there are clear processes to…

Melissa Weber Mendonça

Fostering an Inclusive Culture: Call for Participation

Have you often wondered how decisions get made across scientific open source projects? Communications sometimes a little ‘off’? Think we can do better? Then now’s the time…

Marco Gorelli, May Ireland, Melissa Mendonça, Inessa Pawson, Noa Tamir, Pamphile Roy

What is the difference between Contributor Experience and Community Management?

While the role of community manager is established in the open source ecosystem, the role of a Contributor Experience lead is not yet well defined. Even though there is…

Melissa Mendonça, Inessa Pawson, Noa Tamir

Advancing an inclusive culture in the scientific Python ecosystem

One year of work

In August 2021, NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, and pandas were awarded a 2-year joint grant by the CZI EOSS program. The goal of this work, citing the grant proposal, is

Melissa Mendonça, Inessa Pawson, Noa Tamir

Hello World

Welcome to our community blog

Welcome to our blog! We welcome community contributions about your work and thoughts regarding Contributor Experience. Or maybe you have a call to the community, or would…