Mariatta
Mariatta is a Python Core Developer, open source maintainer, and community leader with over 15 years of experience in software development. She is passionate about workflow improvements and automation, as well as building inclusive developer communities.
As a serial conference organizer, Mariatta has helped kickstarted the PyCascades and PyLadiesCon conference.
For her contributions to the Python open source community, she has received the Python Software Foundation Community Service award and Google Open Source Peer Bonus award. She also appears in the official Python Documentary.
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In 2025, PyLadiesCon team said no to spreadsheets and instead started building our conference infrastructure: an open source web app for managing various aspects of our conference. Learn more our challenges in managing the online PyLadiesCon conference, and how we're solving our problems with Python and Django.
There are various websites and services that lets you generate QR codes. However, these services sometimes aren't free, or they might serve ads on the website. What's even worse, sometimes these services would mask your url with a their own url shortener or domain.
Do we really need to use these services in order to accomplish simple thing like generating an image?
Let's reverse engineer these services and see how we can build our own using Python and Django.