tags: new contributors meetings

pandas New Contributors Meeting

Welcome to the monthly call for new contributors to the pandas project 🎉

• Next meeting: October 19th, 2022 (Wednesday) @ 4PM UTC
• Join via Zoom
  • if you need a passcode for zoom pd should work
• Our next meeting will be on:
  • November 16th, 2022 (Wednesday) @ 5PM UTC

Code of Conduct

We want to take a moment to remind you that this meeting, like all project spaces is meant to be open, welcoming, and inclusive. Like all pandas spaces, and everyone participating in them, this meeting will follow our code of conduct. If you haven't read it yet, please take some time to do so later on as it already applies to you. For now, in short, please be kind and generous towards one another.

Agenda

Present: Noa Tamir (@noatamir),

please add your names (and github handle in brackets). This will makes it easier to stay in touch later on issues and pull requests (PRs)

This is optional since these notes will be recorded in our Github repository. If you'd like you can also paste your answer in the zoom chat 😉

Feel free to add items for discussion to this agenda!

• Introductions:
  • Name
  • A bit about our experience with pandas/python as users
  • Newcomer: why are we interested to start working with the project
  • Maintainer/contributor: how long have we worked with the project and what do we primarily do
• Noa Tamir Contributor Experience Lead, she/היא/sie
  • I joined pandas in April so I'm relatively new as well. At the moment I am mostly working on onboarding, tools, and contributor exprience related issues (for example organizing this meeting).

Newcomers please add items to the agenda based on your interests! What would you like us to discuss? do you want to ask something? are you already working on a specific PR? you can add a link to it ✨ Would you like to get some guidance on how to navigate some of the code? OR learn how to add a test? We will do our best to answer or help you connect you with the right people ☺️

Useful Resources

• Our contributor Guide
• This is where we keep past meeting notes from the new contributors meeting [on github](link to folder or repository)
  • You will soon find today's meeting notes there
  • You can also have a look at topics and links that were shared before 🧐
• If you are curious, here's a talk about the past, present, and future of pandas, by Jeff Reback

Communication channels

How will we communicate asynchronously while working on the project?

• Slack
  • A chat platform which is useful for shorter questions
  • #newcomers channel, our channel for new contributors
    • Ask Noa on chat now, or later on via email to join
• Developer mailing list
  • We publish information which is important for contributors on this list. People from other projects might also share useful information or questions here. That said, it is also mirrored on our discourse 😉 (unless we there's a technical issue like happened recently 🙄)