Slides for the talk "Scaling Open Source in the AI Era" by Laís Carvalho, Developer Advocate at Pydantic, hosted by Didas Mbarushimana for Open Source Kigali.

📄 Download the slides as PDF

• Bun (for bun / bunx). npm / pnpm work as drop-in replacements if you prefer.
• Chrome or Chromium on PATH (PDF export only).

bun install

Live dev server with hot reload:

bunx deckx dev

Then open http://localhost:5173/. Use the arrow keys to step through slides.

bunx deckx html

bunx deckx pdf

Builds the HTML and converts it to ./dist/deck.pdf via Chrome headless. If Chrome isn't auto-detected, the command prints what it tried to run - copy and edit the binary path manually.

To spot-check the PDF without opening it (requires pdftoppm from poppler):

mkdir -p tmp && pdftoppm -r 100 dist/deck.pdf tmp/page -png

• deckx by Samuel Colvin - https://github.com/samuelcolvin/deckx
• Slide content draws on the PyAI panel (Guido van Rossum, Sebastián Ramírez, Jeremiah Lowin, Samuel Colvin), the 2026 State of Open Source Report, and Mario Zechner's Thoughts on slowing the fuck down.