Mariatta: Waitlisted for the Core Devs Sprint: When the Bad News was Also the Good News (opens in new tab)

Last week, I learned that I was one of 17 people waitlisted for the Python Core Devs Sprint at OpenAI this year. A waitlist that long realistically means I probably won’t get in. I was sad, of course. The sprint alternates between Europe and the US. Traveling to Europe is … hard and complicated. I couldn’t go to last year’s in Europe, because of the location and work conflict. I was really hoping to go to this year’s US sprint. Next year it will be back in Europe, out of reach again. That’s p...