S2 Episode 3 - Courtney Webster on being a PM for Python in VS Code

Sad Python Girls Club

This is the 3rd episode of season 2 of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast, and we couldn't be more excited about it! 🥳 We had an awesome chat with Courtney Webster, Product Manager II at Microsoft working on the Python development support in Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio 🐍. She’s also the esteemed author behind our monthly release blog posts for the Python extension in VS Code 📰. Dive in with us as we learn about Courtney’s contributions to the Python community, her work to streamline the "getting started" experience for Python in VS Code, her efforts in package management support and educational initiatives, as well her approach to experimentation 🧪 and data-driven development 📈.

Links and Resources

• Courtney Webster @ GitHub
• Python extension for VS Code blog posts & release notes
• Python in Visual Studio
• Microsoft's Privacy Statement
• How to disable telemetry in VS Code & extensions
• Microsoft's Experimentation Platform
• VS Code experimentation client
• How to opt in, opt out or disable Python extension experiments
• A look into workflow tools - package management in the Python extension for VS Code, by Courtney Webster @ discuss.python.org
• PEP 722 - Dependency specification for single-file scripts [rejected]
• PEP 723 - Inline Script Metadata [accepted]
• PEP 722 and PEP 723 User Study Discussion by Courtney Webster @ discuss.python.org
• Python extension's Create Environment command
• Quick Start Guide for Python in VS Code
• Microsoft Learn
• Python Trainings @ Microsoft Learn
• PyCon US 2024
• DjancoCon US
• DjangoCon Europe 2024
• EuroPython 2024
• SciPy 2024
• CFP: EuroScipy 2024 (Poland), open until May 26th, 2024
• CFP: PyCon India 2024, open until May 31st, 2024
• CFP: PyCon France 2024, open until July 21st, 2024
• CFP: PyCon APAC 2024 (Indonesia), open until August 1st, 2024
• What a Time by Julia Michaels ft. Niall Horan

Intro Song: Pastel

Producer: Blue.P

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