Godefroid Chapelle is a longtime Zope and Plone developer who first encountered Zope in its hectic heyday and was a participant at the first in-person Plone sprint.
We cover a lot of ground in this episode as Godefroid reflects on:
- his origins as a programmer
- being present at the first EuroPython
- the difference between hackathons and sprints
- the culture of organizations and communities
- monkey patching as conflict avoidance
- how Zope's component architecture enabled Plone's diverse community
- reading code as poetry
- the importance of mentoring in coding
- tools that teach best practices
- repeatability with buildout and Nix
- Hashicorp
- the main selling point of Zope
- Rust and other typed languages
- Python tracebacks and the topology of code.