<h3>Josh Simmons</h3>

<p><img src="{% static "images/team/josh.jpg" %}" alt="Josh Simmons" class="team-headshot">Josh is a community organizer and web developer with a penchant for armchair philosophy who was born and raised in the North Bay. He spent 4.5 years building Web &amp; Interactive Media Professionals (WIMP), a local community with over 600 members, before moving on to do community management for O'Reilly Media. These days Josh works on the Google Open Source outreach team and serves as a board member and volunteer CFO for Open Source Initiative. (<a href="https://twitter.com/joshsimmons">@joshsimmons on Twitter</a>)</p>

<h2>Advisors<a name="advisors"></a></h2>

<p>We acknowledge that our small team has limited perspective, and that to build a truly inclusive event, we need to seek the perspectives of a diverse range of people. We thank the following people and organizations for providing us with advice along the way.</p>

<ul>

  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/vavroom">Nicolas Steenhout</a> is helping us with accessibility and inclusion of people with disabilities.</li>

  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/vmbrasseur">VM (Vicky) Brasseur</a> is helping us run an excellent call for proposals, design our office hours program, and support new speakers with speaker training.</li>

</ul>

<h2>Supporting Organizations</h2>

<h3>Software Freedom Conservancy</h3>

<p><a href="https://twitter.com/conservancy">Conservancy</a> is a public charity dedicated to the promotion and development of free and open source software, and is the fiscal sponsor of North Bay Python. Without Conservancy and the people behind it&mdash;namely <a href="https://twitter.com/o0karen0o">Karen Sandler</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/bkuhn_ebb_org">Bradley Kuhn</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/keynote2k">Tony Sebro</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/Brett20XX">Brett Smith</a>&mdash;none of this would be possible!</p>

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