May 23 2011
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D+A
I met the amazing Danny Greenfeld last year and fell madly in love.
Here we were tangoing at PyCon 2010.
Here we are in front of the Lawrence Journal-World headquarters in Lawrence, KS, birthplace of the Django web framework. We love Lawrence!
Here he was doing djymnastics around me at Djangocon 2010. (Thanks, Shawn Rider, for making this awesome video.)
Here we were at PyCon 2011 leading the Packaginator sprint together. Danny’s on the left, cut off a bit by the camera, but you can see the smile on our faces. If you zoom in and look closely, you can see that Danny’s arm is around me.
We wouldn’t have found each other if not for the following things and people:
- The PyCon 2010 diversity grant. If not for this, I would have been shy to attend PyCon. I applied for the grant on a whim. When I got it, I was terrified of going and not knowing anyone, but I knew I had to go.
- Gloria W. Jacobs, whom I shared a room with at PyCon and who encouraged me to go out and meet some of the amazing people at PyCon.
- James Bennett and his Django tutorial at PyCon 2010, where Danny and I met for the first time.
- Barbara Shaurette, whom I recognized from following her blog/Twitter and recognizing her bright red hair from her avatar. She introduced me to Danny and is the real main reason we met, actually! She was super nice when I asked to see her Django pony tattoo.
- Jennifer Leech and her impromptu PyCon 2010 tango BOF hallway track that Saturday night. Before then, I had shaken Danny’s hand but had never embraced him. Chris Adams and Tom Brander taking photos of us at this, which turned out to be our very first date.
- Steve Holden and his PyCon 2010 party.
- Katie Cunningham and Chris Adams encouraging us to be together at the party.
- Zed Shaw for teaching us Argentine tango after he heard that we liked tango, and teaching me how to do a Judo hip throw simultaneously so that I could throw him happily.
- Honza Kral for teaching Danny how to dip me properly.
- James Tauber, Brian Rosner, the Pinax framework and the PyCon 2010 Pinax sprint.
