Thread by @willmcgugan

As promised, a thread of amazing folks working in Open Source. Like most people in FOSS they probably don't get the recognition they deserve.

If you like #Python and programming, I suggest you following everyone in this tread.

Doubles as #FF

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Follow João S. O. Bueno @gwidion

João is building terminedia and rows

github.com/jsbueno/termin…
github.com/turicas/rows

Patrick Loeber @python_engineer produces amazing Youtube content. Essential viewing for #Python engineers!

Rhet Turnbull @RhetTurnbull maintains several open source projects, including osxphotos, a CLI app to export pictures and metadata from Apple Photos

github.com/RhetTbull/osxp…

Henry Schreiner III @HenrySchreiner3 works on many Python projects, especially Packaging related. You've probably used his code without knowing about it.

scikit-hep.org/developer

Sundeep 🌞 @learn_byexample writes books on Regular Expressions, CLI one-liners, Scripting Languages and Vim.

github.com/learnbyexample

Florian Bruhin @the_compiler maintains #qutebrowser, a keyboard-focused web browser written in Python! qutebrowser.org

He's also one of the Pytest mainainers!

bruhin.software

Yetunde Dada @yetudada is working on Kendro, an open-source #Python framework that helps create a maintainable and modular data science code base.

kedro.org

Vincent Claes @VincentClaes1 recently created Stepview to follow up on AWS Stepfunctions over difference accounts, over difference regions, in the terminal!

github.com/vincentclaes/s…

Waylon Walker 🐍 @_WaylonWalker is building a plugins all the way down static site generator in Python!

He also has a great Youtube Channel

markata.dev
youtube.com/waylonwalker

Bas codes @bascodes tweets about Python and helps people get their first tech job!

bas.codes

Mahdi Yusuf @myusuf3 is working on @architectureno weekly newsletter on system designs and architecture from software you use everyday by the engineers who built them.

Robert @probablyrobert is working on bringing type safety to the world of ORMs.

github.com/RobertCraigie/…

Jonathan Samir Matthis
@JonMatthis
is a professor of neuroscience is building a #foss #motioncapture system
@freemocap

freemocap.org

Erik Kalkoken 🇺🇦 @ErikKalkoken is developing Django apps to support players of the MMORPG
@EveOnline, mostly for the Alliance Auth ecosystem.

apps.allianceauth.org

Bruno Rocha ❁ @rochacbruno teaches Python and Rust on his YT channel!

youtube.com/CodeShowBR

Ketan Umare
@ketanumare
Started a project called Flyte - flyte.org at Lyft a few years ago, with a mission to unify disparate computing technologies, potentially make infrastructure management a non issue and make life of a data scientist easy.

Robin Cole
@robmarkcole

Is creating an ‘awesome’ repo of resources to enable people from beginner to researcher to process satellite imagery with deep learning and make progress on important challenges such as climate change and food supply.

github.com/robmarkcole/sa…

Ed Harmoush
@ed_pracnet
Created a free training series that teaches anyone the core of Networking: How Data moves through a Network.

youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Carina C. Zona 🇺🇦
@cczona
Is lead developer relations for @pantsbuild open source project, a build system for Python, Go, Java, Scala, Shell, and others.

Francesco Pochetti
@Fra_Pochetti blogs about ML and DL (mostly computer vision) on AWS (SageMaker): francescopochetti.com
Currently focusing on deployment mainly.

Predrag Gruevski
@PredragGruevski is building an open-source query engine that can plug into any data source(s): databases, APIs, file systems, anything else you can think of + any combination of them.

github.com/obi1kenobi/tru…

Joe Kaufeld
@joekaufeld
Have you ever seen "I'm a human volunteer transcriber for Reddit and you can be too" on a comment?

That's Joe's org, and all of the bots that run r/TranscribersOfReddit are open source!

github.com/grafeasgroup/

Teddy Petrou
@TedPetrou created several open source python libraries - dexplo.org

He's written multiple books and provide training - dunderdata.com

Jürgen Gmach
@jugmac00 is one of the maintainers of #tox, the task automation tool.
github.com/tox-dev/tox

I also blog about #python and #linux:
jugmac00.github.io/blog/

Brett Kromkamp @brettkromkamp is building educational tools with semantic technologies and web-based 3D:

github.com/brettkromkamp/…

Stephen Gruppetta
@s_gruppetta_ct writes about Python and teach beginners and intermediate learners.

thepythoncodingbook.com

Mateo Torres
@torresmateo runs a ML study group in (Latin American) Spanish that covers “Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning” by C. Bishop

twitch.tv/maluchi

Kennedy Richard (launching node editor)
@KennedyRichard will be releasing Nodezator on pypi/github to the public domain. A node editor for Python which automatically turns callables into nodes and allows exporting node layouts as Python code.

nodezator.com

Martin Thoma
@_martinthoma maintains PyPDF2
pypdf2.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Samuel
@_onlyphantom creates long form programming tutorials w/ Python 🐍 and ES6 (data science, computer vision, API, automation, react)… since about 2 months ago! :)

youtube.com/c/samuelchan

Tobias Raabe
@tobraab works on pytask, a Python package for reproducible data analyses. You define workflows similar to pytest's way of writing tests, making adoption and following best practices easier for data scientists and researchers.

github.com/pytask-dev/pyt…

bruh
@Peepoopeepoo__ created AsynceBay which allows developers to make asynchronous requests to the eBay API

github.com/Ywacch/AsynceB…

Thijs Miedema
@thijsmie is working on Cyclone DDS github.com/eclipse-cyclon… to make it easier to build distributed system. I've just merged the first Rich/Rich-click based tooling to master!

Quentin Pradet 🇪🇺
@quentinpradet
is working on urllib3, an HTTP library and one of the most downloaded Python projects.

Roadmap: urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/stable/v2-r…

Andrew Lee
@c_andrew_lee
is building a cross-platform package manager called webman. It makes it easy to download software and manage versions on Mac, Linux, and Windows. Give it a star!

vic
@vickumar1981 runs a website that helps you prep for technical interviews like #leetcode. Also, has tutorials along with #jupyter notebooks integration in 15 languages. If you ever want to try #dart or #Rust, in jupyter, check out gotocode.io.

jd4rider
@jd4rider is learning
@rustlang and Yew over on
twitch.tv/jd4rider

All done. Thanks for everyone that participated.