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Thomas Wouters

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<p>Cat owner, Release Manager for Python 3.12 and 3.13, Meta employee, Python Steering Council member. (He/him or they/them.) (searchable)</p>

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    Well, today was my last day working at Meta. (I&#39;ll be on garden leave for the next few months.) Meta consolidating outside the Netherlands and me being unwilling to move means we&#39;re parting ways. I&#39;m sad to go because the Python folks at Meta are stellar, and the work on Free-threaded Python, lazy imports and CinderX has been fantastic. Say what you will about Meta as a company, but the open-source support continues to be excellent. Garden leave notwithstanding, I am now in the mark...

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    The #Python Steering Council is collecting questions for the PyCon US 2026 Keynote this Sunday. If you have things you&amp;#39;d like the Steering Council to answer in public -- interesting or enganging or fun or ridiculous questions all welcome -- please fill out this form. https://bit.ly/pysc-2026

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    @EWDurbin ❤️

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    @robin @freakboy3742 not trying to defend callous inattentive people here, but I will say there are forms of &amp;quot;name blindness&amp;quot; that make these mistakes easy to make, specifically with &amp;quot;ambiguous&amp;quot; names. For me it seems my brain stores and looks up names as a whole, which makes it much harder to split off the first name. I literally have had that problem with Russell 😅 I apparently have him stored as &amp;quot;RussellKeithMagee&amp;quot;, but not as &amp;quot;R...

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    Just to be clear, I’m deeply involved with the PSF. I’ve been on the Board of Directors for the last five years. I’ve been the Vice-Chair, and I’m currently the Chair. I was the interim General Manager for about six months while we were between Executive Directors. I’m also on the Python Steering Council, which is separate from the PSF but with a close relationship, and volunteer a lot at @pycon, which the PSF organises. I&#39;ve seen the great work the amazing staff does up close.

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    Use #Python at all? I would like to do a silly thing, which I hope will bring amusement to others as well as me (if it works out). If you wouldn&amp;#39;t mind, please fill out this form, and boost for reach: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfRgC-YWEriHW_rbcBY9jWJf35w3bPxP01Mg5EAu25lOyPAeg/viewform