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PyCon US Maintainer Summit 2026
Saturday, May 16, 2026 · Long Beach
A full day of talks, lightning talks, and discussion among Python open source maintainers at PyCon US 2026.
PyCon US
Maintainer Summit
A gathering for open source Python maintainers at PyCon US. We come together to share what we've learned, find collaborators, and support each other in the often-invisible work of maintenance.
2019
first summit
8
summits held
80
speakers listed
Free
with PyCon US registration
What happens at the summit
A day for the people who keep Python running
Maintainers of projects big and small, new and veteran, are all welcome.
Talks & lightning talks
Maintainers share lessons learned: sustainability, governance, funding, tooling, and everything in between.
Discussions & roundtables
Open conversations about the challenges of maintenance, with people who have faced the same ones.
A community of peers
Meet the humans behind the projects you depend on, and the ones who depend on yours.
Summit archive
All events The 2026 summit
News
All news Latest news
Aug 2026 · Mariatta Wijaya
Welcome to the new Maintainer Summit website
Announcing the new PyCon US Maintainer Summit website: why we moved from a single page on the PyCon US site to a dedicated, openly-maintained home, and what that lets us do. Subscribe to our RSS feed to follow along.
The team
2026 organizers
The volunteers who make the summit happen.
NumPy, OpenTeams
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Open Source Program Manager and Community Architect at OpenTeams, leading cross-organizational initiatives on sustainable collaboration between industry, academia, and open source ecosystems.
pyOpenSci, all-contributors, stravalib
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I break down technical and social barriers to open science so scientists everywhere can spend less time struggling with tools and more time advancing discovery.
PyLadies, CPython
20252026
I'm an open source maintainer and contributor. As a Python core developer, my main focus is to improve the core workflow and documentation.
Get involved
Attend, speak, or help organize
Read the attendee guide, submit a talk proposal, or join the organizing team.