Hello! My name is Lucas and I care deeply about the user experience of Python packaging. I am running for the Packaging Council as I would like to be able to work more effectively on some of the most pressing challenges in this space, and serve as a positive force enabling the hard work of others to come to fruition.
I love the shiny new tools we have available to us like uv and Pixi, and I strongly believe that pushing for the adoption of new tools and standards has the potential for massive improvements in contributor accessibility and inclusivity. I have witnessed these improvements intimately while introducing Pixi into SciPy.
I also believe that some of the hardest problems in the world of Python packaging are social problems, often related to disconnect between Python user-land and the work done by distributions to overcome difficult challenges. As a core maintainer of both SciPy and Pixi, I have focused on bridging the gap between these worlds and the communities which inhabit them.
I have substantial experience in the conda-forge ecosystem and believe that there is much to gain from bringing the worlds of PyPI and conda closer together, while learning new lessons from other distributions as well.
If elected, I plan to continue to act as a bridge between communities and focus on enabling problems to be solved via cross-ecosystem expertise. I would plan to treat meetings as a place to get things done and make meaningful progress on unblocking others, while remembering that clear communication and respect are perhaps the most important qualities to maintain while seeking consensus.
For some technical credentials: I am the driving force behind the CPython Pixi packages, which have been created with the goal of making downstream testing with instrumented builds of CPython accessible and reproducible. On the human side, I met many in the packaging community while speaking at the EuroPython Packaging Summit this year, and I know many others from the scientific / data science world from EuroSciPy.