Session title: Bringing Pinax Back to Life
Description: Pinax is an open-source ecosystem of reusable Django starter projects, apps, and themes for building websites. When developers began building Pinax in 2007, they had fun adding to it, but eventually Pinax had grown to become around 80 projects and apps. Without a strategy in place to make Pinax as easy as possible to maintain, the maintainers began to suffer burnout. I was hired to work on Pinax in the fall of 2017. In my talk, I'll outline the critical problems I've discovered and the solutions I'm implementing to make Pinax healthier and easier to maintain today and in the future.
Are you a maintainer on an open source project? I am a current open source maintainer
What project(s) are you a maintainer on? Please list project name as you want it listed, and link to where to code lives: Pinax (https://github.com/pinax), DjangoCon US website (https://github.com/djangocon)
Notes: I will be giving this talk soon at PyCon US Maintainer Summit. Here is a link to additional notes from that CfP submission: https://github.com/KatherineMichel/portfolio/blob/master/talk-proposals/2021-pycon-us-maintainers-summit.md
Speaker name: Katherine Michel
Speaker tagline: Maintainer and Web Developer- currently a consultant to The Wharton School
Speaker biography: Katherine "Kati" Michel is currently working for The Wharton School on a game simulation project called Simpl and is a Pinax Maintainer. She is also a Django Events Foundation (DEFNA) Board Member and DjangoCon US Website Chair and Maintainer.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KatiMichel
GitHub username: @KatherineMichel