Sarina's Cat Palace

Python and Open Source from a crazy cat lady

Open edX 2023 Conference Tutorial: What the RST?? Introduction to Writing Open Source Project Documentation

Sarina Canelake and Feanil Patel present an introduction to RST documentation managed in GitHub, for both coders and non coders. The Open edX project requires both code and feature documentation, and we look for help from the whole community!

What the RST?? slides (PDF)

Watch the presentation from Open edX Con 2023!


Open edX 2022 Conference Talk: So You Want to Become A Core Contributor?

Learn more about the Open edX project's Core Contributor program, including how to join, from the architects of the program - Sarina Canelake and Xavier Antoviaque.

So You Want To Become A Core Contributor? slides (PDF)

Watch the video presentation from Open edX Con 2022!


Open edX 2021 Conference Talk: State of Open edX Community & Architecture Engineering

A discussion of the direction of the Open edX community and what edX is doing to support community efforts moving forward. A peek into the future of the Open edX architectual direction, including the "BEEs": Boundaries, Extensions, Events.

Watch the video presentation from Open edX Con 2021!


Open edX 2015 Conference Talk: Contributing to Open edX

A detailed blog post about this presentation can be found on the Open edX blog.

Watch the video presentation from Open edX Con 2015!


PyCon Talk: World Domination!

(The Easy Way: i18n!)

A detailed blog post about this presentation, contextualizing and explaining the slides in more detail, will be forthcoming. In the meantime, here are the slides for my presentation:

World Domination: The Easy Way! slides (PDF) -- design entirely credited to Brian Talbot, UX designer extraordinaire and all around good guy.

Watch the video presentation from PyCon 2015!