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32 changes: 15 additions & 17 deletions _layouts/about.html
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Expand Up @@ -18,23 +18,21 @@ <h1 id="about-black-python-devs">About Black Python Devs</h1>
<p>At PyCon US 2023 after an open space a Discord server called Black Python Devs was created where the community could continue to encourage this momentum and support one another.</p>
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<h2 id="mission-statement">Mission Statement</h2>
<p>Extending the ecosystem of Python Communities to Black and Colo(u)red Communities around the world.</p>
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<h2 id="goal">The Goal of Black Python Devs</h2>

<p>Our goal is to become the largest community of Black Python Developers in the world and establish our community as a source for diverse leaders in the greater Python community. We aim to:</p>

<ul>
<li>Establish guidance, mentorship, and career support for Black Pythonistas around the world.</li>
<li>Create opportunities for the Python community to invest in local communities of Black Python Devs members.</li>
<li>Increase participation of Black Python Devs members in existing Python community programs, events, and initiatives.</li>
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<h2 id="our-principles">Our Principles</h2>
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<li><strong>Diverse Leadership:</strong> We build and support diverse leadership in Python globally.</li>
<li><strong>Financial Support:</strong> We provide financial support for Python and tech communities in Black communities, whether predominantly Black spaces or Black spaces within predominantly non-Black spaces.</li>
<li><strong>Collective Voice:</strong> We speak as a collection of Black leaders on how decisions impact Black developers at multiple career levels.</li>
<li><strong>Community &amp; Belonging:</strong> We provide a community where people of color can see developers with similar backgrounds and build strong bonds in the tech space.</li>
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<h2 id="community-support">Community Support</h2>
<p>We're hoping to continue growing the diverse communities we support. Python is everywhere and we've primarily been focusing on groups under the PSF umbrella of influence, but we hope that expands to the diaspora communities as well as communities completely unaware of Python's official community efforts.</p>
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<h3 id="leadership-team">Leadership Team</h3>

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list_title: Recently on the blog
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<h2>Our Mission</h2>
<h2>Our Principles</h2>
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<h3 class="pico-color-pumpkin-50">Diversity By Inclusion</h3>
<p class="pico-color-pumpkin-50">We encourage members to get involved beyond participation. Members can become maintainers, maintainers become leaders.</p>
<p><a class="contrast" href="/about.html">Learn More</a></p>
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<h3>Diverse Leadership</h3>
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<p>We build and support diverse leadership in Python globally.</p>
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<h3 class="pico-color-pumpkin-50">Extend their reach</h3>
<p class="pico-color-pumpkin-50">Great programs exist. Our goal is to help those programs make it our local communities.</p>
<p><a class="contrast" href="/about.html">Learn More</a></p>
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<h3>Community Support</h3>
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<p>We provide financial support for Python communities in Black communities, in predominantly Black spaces or spaces where there is a desire to improve accessibility to Black audiences.</p>
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<h3 class="pico-color-pumpkin-50">Say it loud!</h3>
<p class="pico-color-pumpkin-50">Our stack and our decisions are open source by default and we share what we're doing as loudly and often as possible.</p>
<p><a class="contrast" href="/about.html">Learn More</a></p>
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<h3>A Louder Collective Voice</h3>
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<p>We speak as a collective of Black leaders in the Python Community and how decisions impact developers across all career levels.</p>
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<h3>Community &amp; Belonging</h3>
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<p>We provide a global community where developers can build strong bonds in the tech space.</p>
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<p><a href="/about.html">Learn More</a></p>
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