These are the developers contributing real code. The engineers in Davao proving it's possible. The organizers in Manila creating communities from scratch. People across the Philippines who were already here, just without the access and visibility that comes with being in San Francisco. We're part of this community too.
We started in the Philippines. Here's who we've collaborated with and what we've done so far.
October 25, 2025
Arnel Jan Sarmiento organized PyCon Davao, including the sprint day. Audrey and Daniel led an Air sprint as co-creators, with Dr. Sony Valdez, Micaela Reyes, and Matt Lebrun as sprint leaders mentoring contributors of all levels. The contributors stayed until the end. They contributed code. They made sure we didn't leave hungry. The problem was never talent.
September 27, 2025
Audrey led PyLadies Manila's first-ever open source sprint. Together they built the start of Voices of PyLadies Manila, a website prototyped in Air. Contributors: Rosiel Villareal, Micaela Reyes, Ellaine Dela Cruz, Wesly Kate Talan, Novelle Estrella, and Maria Abigail Oñate. A historic moment, and hopefully the first of many.
August 23, 2025
Wesly Kate Talan organized this PyLadies Manila event, her first major event after accepting the torch from Micaela Reyes. Audrey and Micaela volunteered as two of several roundtable mentors, working with groups of women developers and people building the courage to break into tech. Part of the work is making space for Filipino women who aren't sure they belong in tech yet. You do.
August 2, 2025
Dr. Sony Valdez hosted this Python Philippines meetup. Audrey and Daniel gave the first public demo of Air, live-coding a website from scratch by hand without AI. Afterward, Sony ran the game show portion: Python developers had to code verbally, one letter at a time, facing the audience with no screen. The room was electric.