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willingc/README.md

Hi there, I'm Carol Willing 👋 (she/her)

"I was interested in doing it, there was an opportunity, so I just did it." — Barbara Liskov

I'm a Python Core Developer, three-time Python Steering Council member, PSF Fellow, and Project Jupyter core contributor. I'm passionate about making open science accessible through open tools and great learning materials.


🐍 About Me

  • 🔬 Leader in open science and open-source governance
  • 🏆 2017 ACM Software System Award — Project Jupyter
  • 🏆 2019 Frank Willison Award — technical & community contributions to Python
  • 💼 Principal at Willing Consulting
  • 🎙️ Speaker on Python, Jupyter, reproducible research, open source governance, cognitive science & the intersection of technology and society
  • 🙏 Grateful mentor and supporter of PyLadies
  • 🌊 Explorer of tide pools — always on the lookout for 🐙 🐚 🦦

🛠️ What I Work On

Area Projects
🐍 Python CPython, 3-term Python Steering Council member
📓 Scientific Computing Project Jupyter, JupyterHub, IPython, nteract
🔬 Open Science pyOpenSci, inclusive open science resources
📚 Docs & Learning Sphinx, documentation tooling, learning materials

🚀 Key Projects

The projects below represent the open source work I contribute to most actively. Stats update automatically via live badges.

🐍 CPython — The Python Language Itself

GitHub Stars PyPI Downloads

Core contributor and three-time Python Steering Council member. Focused on language governance, documentation, and community health.


📓 Jupyter Notebook

GitHub Stars PyPI Downloads

The classic interactive computing environment that has become a de facto standard for data analysis, research, and education — and part of the work recognized by the 2017 ACM Software System Award.


🌐 JupyterHub

GitHub Stars PyPI Downloads

Multi-user Jupyter server powering research institutions, universities, and cloud platforms worldwide.


⚡ IPython

GitHub Stars PyPI Downloads

The powerful interactive Python shell and kernel that underpins the entire Jupyter ecosystem.


📄 nteract Papermill

GitHub Stars PyPI Downloads

A tool for parameterizing, executing, and analyzing Jupyter Notebooks at scale — widely used for reproducible research pipelines and automated reporting workflows.


🔬 napari

GitHub Stars PyPI Downloads

A fast, interactive, n-dimensional image viewer for Python — built for bioimage analysis and scientific visualization, with a growing plugin ecosystem.


🌱 pyOpenSci

GitHub Stars

Community-driven peer review and standards for scientific Python software. Committed to making open science more inclusive and reproducible.


🎯 Guiding Principle

🍎 Learn    🏗️ Build    🎁 Share


📬 Find Me

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Based in San Diego, CA 🌴

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    The Python programming language

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    Multi-user server for Jupyter notebooks

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  3. nteract/papermill nteract/papermill Public

    📚 Parameterize, execute, and analyze notebooks

    Python 6.4k 447

  4. jupyter4edu/jupyter-edu-book jupyter4edu/jupyter-edu-book Public

    Teaching and Learning with Jupyter

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