Happy 2024! As the year starts, let’s take some time to share our goals for CircuitPython in 2024 and beyond. Just like past years (full summary 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023), we’d like everyone in the CircuitPython community to contribute by posting their thoughts to some public place on the internet by Wednesday January 31st, 2024.
Here are a few ways to post:
We want to hear from you. When you post, please add #CircuitPython2024 and email [email protected] to let us know about your post so we can blog it up here.
The post can cover any topic related to CircuitPython. Here are some specific topics you could address:
- Projects you’d like to build
- Things you think could be easier
- Core CircuitPython features
- Core CPython libraries to add
- Additional platforms
- New boards to support
- Library improvements
- Blinka
- Additional libraries
- Package management
- Documentation improvements
- Ecosystem needs
- Tooling enhancements
- Mobile apps
These, of course, are just ideas to start from. Please us know about all ideas you have for CircuitPython.
We, as a community, can use these ideas to coordinate and collaborate to make CircuitPython even better in 2024. Let’s use these ideas to spark further discussion and brainstorming. Keep an eye on the blog here and join the discussion on the Adafruit Discord.
Thanks to the Rust folks for the inspiration.
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