Tim Monko

Foundational Python libraries provide critical functionality that diverse communities of downstream developers and users depend on. Often, gaps in awareness between a core project and its broader community silently erode trust, collaboration, and sustainability.

With everything from microscopes to telescopes to satellites, scientists produce image data in countless formats, shapes, sizes, and dimensions. Python provides a rich ecosystem of libraries to make sense of them.

With cameras in everything from microscopes to telescopes to satellites, scientists produce image data in countless formats, shapes, sizes, and dimensions. Python provides a rich ecosystem of libraries to make sense of them.

Napari, an open-source viewer for scientific data, has an inviting and well-established community that encourages contribution to its own project and the broader bioimage analysis community. This talk will explore how napari supports **non-traditional contributors**—especially those without formal software development experience—through its welcoming community, human-centered documentation,...