Brett Cannon presents his talk "What Comes After the BDFL?"

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After Guido van Rossum, the creator of the Python programming language, announced his retirement as the "Benevolent Dictator for Life" (or BDFL), one question gripped the Python community. What comes next?

Come and hear Brett Cannon--core developer, Python Software Foundation Fellow, and Principal Software Engineer for Microsoft's VS Code project--speak about the plans that have been brewing as part of PEP8000 (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-8000/).

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