Hi All, I saw this touching email on PSF mailing list and I want to share with you all (thanks to Henrique for his permission for me to pass this on to you all).
Thank you for all your work. Really! Thank you! I won't mention names, because it would be a shame to miss anyone and because I know that being part of a community is to understand that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. So I'm thanking you all. This weekend I had the honor of opening the RuPy Brazil. Getting ready for yet another talk about community, open source and autonomy, an old man approached me saying: - "You are my friend. You just don't know me yet." I replied: - "Cool. Let's chat right after my talk." He told me his story and I was very surprised and happy. We can never imagine the outcome of simply doing our part. I've learned a lot from this experience and it's clear to me that you're an important part of it. We've published a quick video on youtube with english subtitles so it could be shared with everyone. (You might have to explicitly activate the captions): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrHHsPaE_WA I just wanted to share this moment with you, and make a clear statement: Have no doubt! You are making the difference! If you don't know who the *PSF* are, they are the *Python Software Foundation*[1]. A not-for-profit organisation. Here's their mission statement: The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers. [1] https://www.python.org/psf/ They have been very supportive of PyCon Ireland right from the very beginning as well, and they are working on supporting Python community globally. Cheers, /// Vicky Twomey-Lee (PyLadies Dublin <https://twitter.com/pyladiesdub> Founder) Python Ireland <http://python.ie/> Treasurer PSF member <http://pyfound.blogspot.ie/2012/08/welcome-new-psf-members.html> | EuroPython Society <https://ep2012.europython.eu/blog/2012/07/08/change-board-europython-society> Board Member Coding Grace <http://codinggrace.com/> co-Founder | GameCraft It <http://gamecraft.it/> co-Founder | WITS <http://witsireland.com/governance/> Board Member -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
