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Trailer: Episode 4 with Jessica Tegner

Cheuk Ting Ho, Georgi Ker · Jun 7, 2024

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00:00 Yay.

00:00 So let's do the sequence

00:07 The PyPodcats

00:09 it's to highlight

00:17 How did you first get in contact with a computer?

00:20 I was five or six when I started playing.

00:24 What age appropriate.

00:26 I want to say age appropriate video games.

00:30 It was age appropriate.

00:32 I tried writing my first program in

00:34 Python that just did something simple.

00:36 I myself is totally blind, so I wanted to make

00:40 a text editor where I could control the visual formatting.

00:43 I read approximately twice as fast

00:46 as an average human reader.

00:48 I read around six to 700 words a minute.

00:50 I've never seen a conference where they have

00:53 this accessibility info readily available for what they

00:56 do with people that has physical disabilities.

00:59 I just wish that information

01:01 was more readily available.

01:03 Hi everyone, my name is Jessica Tegner.

01:06 I am an open source maintainer.

01:08 I maintain the popular Python project PyPandoc.

01:13 I'm also a Computer Science student and I

01:15 am a conference speaker and I've traveled around

01:18 the world doing conferences on everything from open

01:21 source to diversity and inclusivity.

01:23 Hope to catch you all in the next

01:25 episode of Hidden Figures of Python at PyPodcats.

Sneak Peek of our chat with Jessica Tegner, hosted by Cheuk Ting Ho and Georgi Ker.

Hear about Jessica’s journey in technology, from modding Minecraft games into becoming an open source maintainer. Being fully blind does not stop her from using and creating tech tools. We can’t wait to share her inspiring story with you.

Full episode is coming on June 12, 2024! Subscribe to our podcast now!

Get to know Jessica Tegner

Jessica Tegner

Jessica Tegner is an open source software developer and computer science student from Denmark who has been a part of the open source world for over 13 years. She is a maintainer of PyPandoc, a thin wrapper for the universal document converter pandoc. Being fully blind has not stopped her from working as a software engineer intern at Uber, being a member of the first GitHub Accelerator program or having the opportunity of being a world-conference public speaker.

Your hosts

Cheuk Ting Ho

Host

After having a career as a Data Scientist and Developer Advocate, Cheuk dedicated her work to the open-source community and working as a community manager at OpenSSF. She has co-founded Humble Data, a beginner Python workshop that has been happening around the world. She has served the EuroPython Society board for two years and is now a fellow and director of the Python Software Foundation.

Georgi Ker

Host

Entrepreuneur, community leader and designer. Fellow member and Director of PSF. Also serve in the D&I Workgroup and honored with the PSF Community Service Award in December 2020.

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