I've always enjoyed the literary form of the interview, and hoped that once I would be able to dabble in it. Here's how I finally got motivated.
A fantastic documentary about Python was recently released on YouTube, and in the aftermath of the viewing party, some old-timers started reminiscing about all the Python developers and contributors who weren't mentioned in the film.
I realized that there have been some oral histories of Python told through my own lens (notably Hansen Hsu at the Computer History Museum did a very thorough interview with me in 2018), but few others in the community have been able to tell their story.
With this series I am trying to fill that vacuum by letting all core developers (and other contributors) speak. Of course this is still seen through my lens, but I try to mostly let the interviewees talk.
You may ask, why not a podcast? While I respect the medium, I myself much prefer the written word, both as a producer and as a consumer.
I've set an arbitrary cutoff year of 2015. If you weren't involved in the Python community by that year, I deem your participation too recent to be considered "history". Someone after me can interview the younger generation, but I'd like to limit myself to Python's first 25 years.