PSF Board nomination AMA - Petr Andreev

Hi everyone — I’m Petr Andreev, and I’m running for the 2026 PSF Board. I’m a Python educator, CPython-internals specialist, community organizer, and international Python speaker. A problem I keep seeing is that Python is very good at attracting people, but the path from newcomer → contributor → long-term contributor → community leader is often unclear. People may want to contribute, but they do not always know where to start, how to grow, what responsibility comes next, or why they should ke...