Tania Allard
@ixek.bsky.social
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Director Quansight Labs ✨ MLOps, OSS, Research Software Engineering 🚀 GDE - ML @ Google | PSF fellow and vice-chair of the board of directors Pyladies Global Council 🌱 Disability justice activist, feminist, neurodivergent, developer
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ixek.bsky.social
I only saw this!!! Glad we could at least catch up a bit.
Hopefully next time we can hang out more.
ixek.bsky.social
My Dr: Eat well, rest a lot, and avoid stress. Definitely no stress.

🫩🫩 Yeah... Sure
ixek.bsky.social
😬😬😬😬
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snarky.ca
We have an opening for a principal software engineer on the Python tools team. If you're interested in debuggers, language server protocol, and AI then you might find the position interesting!

jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
Search Jobs | Microsoft Careers
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yhg1s.bsky.social
I posted this last week, asking for #Python users to fill out a silly little survey.

I got quite a few responses! I can use this! It'll be hilarious! I can still use more answers, though. I hope with a few more responses I get more obvious standouts answers.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
ixek.bsky.social
This transition to a Public Benefit Corporation is a huge milestone for us ✨.
I am so excited about the future and the impact we will continue to have on the open source ecosystem.
quansight.com
"Open source should be nurtured and elevated as a public good." - Travis Oliphant

That's why Quansight just became a Public Benefit Corporation, formalizing our commitment to sustainable OSS infrastructure that powers global innovation.

We're in this for the long haul. 🙌 bwnews.pr/3HdvSQ8
A dark purple background features the Quansight logo in the top left corner, consisting of a stylized white starburst pattern and the company name. To the right, a white outline of a megaphone emits sound waves. The prominent white text reads: "Just Announced: Quansight Transitions to a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), Reinforcing Commitment to Sustainable Open-Source Software." Below this, a repeating pattern shows the word "NEWS" in alternating green and pink colors, stylized as if on documents.
ixek.bsky.social
That overview doc ✨🫰🏽
ixek.bsky.social
Can I have a shiny pypodcast sticker? They are beautiful 😍
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frank.computer
This is this Friday, here in Pittsburgh!!
frank.computer
Our summary document is the place to start, from there we organize and reference all of our evidence documents where we capture failures to pass Chartability test criteria.

And if you're attending @pycon.us in 2 weeks, we will be sharing some of our work Friday May 16th! I hope to see you there.
Inclusive Data for 1.3 Billion: Designing Accessible Visualizations - PyCon US 2025
PyCon US 2025
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frank.computer
For Global Accessibility Awareness Day #GAAD tomorrow, I hope that our publicly available work on accessibility and visualization is a helpful resource.

This isn't a short and sweet top-5 list of things to do but a richly documented evaluation of the ecosystem of a data science tool.
frank.computer
I'm officially announcing a massive collaboration that I've been able to participate in: evaluating the accessibility of the Python visualization library, @bokeh.org! 🎉

In collab with folks from @quansight.com and @anacondainc.bsky.social, we present 76 documented findings plus our summary here:
Bokeh Accessibility Audit Summary
Findings and recommendations to make Bokeh tools and plots more accessible
bokeh-a11y-audit.readthedocs.io
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bnb.im
Please hire Kara, she is one of the most effective and widely impactful people I know of in all of Open Source
feynudibranch.bsky.social
Hi!! What’s up!! I’ve been laid off from GitHub, so if I don’t respond to your emails, it’s FINALLY not my fault 😘 sorry in advance.

The past 5 years were an honor and a joy, because wow, OSS maintainers are a kind bunch. Grateful I got to run one last Maintainer Summit before leaving 💓
Reductress headline: woman done for the day at 10am
ixek.bsky.social
I'd like to say I am surprised... I am, sadly, not.
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frank.computer
I'm officially announcing a massive collaboration that I've been able to participate in: evaluating the accessibility of the Python visualization library, @bokeh.org! 🎉

In collab with folks from @quansight.com and @anacondainc.bsky.social, we present 76 documented findings plus our summary here:
Bokeh Accessibility Audit Summary
Findings and recommendations to make Bokeh tools and plots more accessible
bokeh-a11y-audit.readthedocs.io
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numfocus.bsky.social
NumFOCUS is seeking its next Executive Director. To guide this process, the Board of Directors has established an Executive Director Hiring Committee. Learn more about the hiring process & progress at bit.ly/4ij7n1g We also want to hear from you! Learn more and share your input at bit.ly/41wbAZL
Searching for the next Executive Director of NumFOCUS
From the Executive Director Hiring Committee — Julie Hollek (Chair), Sanket Verma, Wolf Vollprecht, Jim Weiss, Michael Zargham
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ixek.bsky.social
Purple everywhere 💜💜💜
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Accessible Sharks is an NSF-Funded summer internship program that supports disabled undergraduate students to participate in interdisciplinary summer research on sharks. accessiblesharks.wordpress.com
Accessible Sharks REU
Interdisciplinary Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates with Disabilities
accessiblesharks.wordpress.com
ixek.bsky.social
Why is Wednesday the most productive day for a lot of folks? 🤔
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maureira.dev
In case you are interested into following the current PSF Board of directors, check this out :) #python #psf
go.bsky.app/TCzcGqT

(two members are missing, but will be added soon :D)
ixek.bsky.social
Thanks for sharing. Added to my reading list for the week.
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sethmlarson.dev
I've noticed a concerning trend of "slop security reports" being sent to open source projects. Here are thoughts about what platforms, reporters, and maintainers can do to fight back:

#oss #opensource #security #vulnerability #vuln #cve #slop #ai #llm

sethmlarson.dev/slop-securit...
New era of slop security reports for open source
I'm on the security report triage team for CPython, pip, urllib3, Requests, and a handful of other open source projects. I'm also in a trusted position such that I get "tagged in" to other open sou...
sethmlarson.dev
ixek.bsky.social
I'd love to be added. Thanks.