# Episode 1 of Another open source podcast Date: May 10th 2024 - 11:00AM PT Guests: Paul Ivanov and Madicken Munk Topic: SciPy Conf through the years ## Agenda Introductions - Every week we will say a short frase about ourselves plus our name. Housekeeping announcements: 1. You can write your questions in the chat if you want them to be part of the conversation 2. You can request to join the live streaming and get 60 seconds for comments/questions to the guests. 3. Audio will be recorded but the live stream with video will be only available on discord call Fridays 11AM PT. Ice breaker: Quiz - What day of the week was the first SciPy? [Paul] - Which python project sounds like it would have the cutest mascot name. [Madicken] - How many lines of code does NumPy have? [Both] --> Introdutions - Every week we will say a short frase about ourselves plus our name. Conversation: - What is the SciPy conference? - Conversation will start with showing the pictures and asking about SciPy History. - Change in audience + location over the years - Topics (when were lightning talks introduced?) - Already present in [2010](https://www.flickr.com/photos/dwf/4754100004/in/photolist-8f1AXs-8foed5-8eXk2R-8dX7nB-8emE7M-8eWSJA-8emEb4-8gnuAA-8frUhM-8e1odd-8f3HVx-8e1n7m-8fuAbW-8f71is-8dXbKK-8ebbGH-8eerQj-8emE5K-8epWiw-8emEj6-8ebbAV-8eXjD2-8ebbuR-8eerWu-8foeqf-8frjf4-8fuA4Y-8gmAxc-8gmAtR-8dX6Pp-8f71kQ-8fjXWH-8gpRLG-8fjXUK-8gpRyq-8e1qho-8e1mCL-8e1pUs-8eAzww-8e1qab-8fjY3H-8gpRGA-8f3J7H-8es8wF-8e1qR5-8f3HZ8-8f3J4T-8foea7-8dXbNc-8dXavR) for sure - what did scipy look like pre-github? - how has your role changed through the years? - Organizing conferences in Open Source - Why are these conferences important -> Talk about Community building. - What are you looking forward to most in the next SciPy 2024? - Call to action to register for SciPy. ### Back up questions list: What are your favorite events besides SciPy in this space? What is SciPy missing? Is there a list of topics from SciPy that resulted in tangible things? How can we leverage these conferences to produce more from the conversations? ## Things to do before - Do a dry run - Set up places to upload everything - Advertise - List of communities to reach out to - Numfocus slack - SciPyConf - Scientific Python discord - Twitter posts