Hi Folks,
I'm one of the people who participates in the Texas area Python community, which is a group of people who like to get together and share knowledge and enthusiasm for a great programming language called Python. When a friend and I became interested in and starting using Python professionally in 2005, we made contact with others in the DFW area through the DFW Pythoneers Meetup group.
The DFW Pythoneers turned out to be a fun group, and has stayed active continuously in the following years. We even helped organize the North American PyCon event in 2006 and 2007, and got involved in creating the PyTexas conference held each year since 2007.
I dropped out of the DFW Pythoneers from late 2012 to return back to active involvement in Aug 2013. This hiatus was due to several factors, including gender transition which took up my personal time, and long hours at work related to expanded responsibilities and rapidly increasing business growth. The job still takes up most of my time, but the most time consuming parts of gender transition are behind me, so I now have time to work on Python community stuff.
To prevent confusion between my old name (Brad Allen), and my new name (Sheila Allen), I posted in the community some links back to this site, including my Gender Transition FAQ. My old name still appears on the mailing list archives, old blog posts, documents, etc, so it's important to keep folks clear that Sheila is the same person. One person for awhile thought Sheila was my wife's name. :-)
I'm one of the people who participates in the Texas area Python community, which is a group of people who like to get together and share knowledge and enthusiasm for a great programming language called Python. When a friend and I became interested in and starting using Python professionally in 2005, we made contact with others in the DFW area through the DFW Pythoneers Meetup group.
The DFW Pythoneers turned out to be a fun group, and has stayed active continuously in the following years. We even helped organize the North American PyCon event in 2006 and 2007, and got involved in creating the PyTexas conference held each year since 2007.
I dropped out of the DFW Pythoneers from late 2012 to return back to active involvement in Aug 2013. This hiatus was due to several factors, including gender transition which took up my personal time, and long hours at work related to expanded responsibilities and rapidly increasing business growth. The job still takes up most of my time, but the most time consuming parts of gender transition are behind me, so I now have time to work on Python community stuff.
To prevent confusion between my old name (Brad Allen), and my new name (Sheila Allen), I posted in the community some links back to this site, including my Gender Transition FAQ. My old name still appears on the mailing list archives, old blog posts, documents, etc, so it's important to keep folks clear that Sheila is the same person. One person for awhile thought Sheila was my wife's name. :-)
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