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Cake day: August 6th, 2023

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  • During that time, we felt quite stuck - unable to make decisions. Our daily conversations became centred around anxious what-if calculations. At one point we had reduced our budget for catering to a total of 5 USD per person per day, for breakfast, lunch and refreshments - even in Zanzibar, this is an unfeasibly low figure. We jettisoned one item after another from our budget

    We started a fundraising campaign on GoFundMe to help cover the cost of financial assistance. It was a comfort to know that members of the international Python/Django community would stand up to support us, but the pleasure and gratitude we felt about that was overlaid with a feeling of humiliation that once again, a major African open-source software event had been obliged to publicly extend a begging-bowl.

    Eventually, we received the grant funding we had applied for, though even this seemed to come with a humiliation: it happened after a white European spoke up publicly on behalf of the African Python community.



  • So they have around 9,500 employees, for a global corporation it doesn’t seem that many.

    You have to account for various positions like legal staff to handle contracts with artists and enterprise customers, across literally every jurisdiction in the world. Then, other supporting roles like marketing, sales, cleaning and management.

    What really surprised me was that among those 9,500 employees around 6,000 of them are software engineers. 500 would have been my first guess accounting for the infrastructure size, the number of platforms they support, the complexity of the features, and the need for 24/7 support around the globe.

    As a personal anecdote, the ratio of software engineers in the companies I have worked for was around 20%, ie 1 engineer for every 5 staff.

    I would really like to see an organisation tree, how many teams are there and what are they working on???


  • I was wondering the same thing. What would that entail for the less influential countries within the EU?

    Here in Greece we could use some help. Our legal system is broken, the freedom of press is non-existent, police brutality is at an all time high, we don’t have a train network (in general bad transport infrastructure), to name a few issues.

    On the other hand, gentrification is as bad as it is right now, having to move out of the city I was born in and have loved all of my life because I cannot afford rent won’t be fun.