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PyCon 2009, day 3

This is day 3 of the conference (see also my notes on day 1 and day 2). They've also announced that PyCon 2010 will in Atlanta, GA, on February 19th to 21st, though the precise dates might change a little. I am unfortunately unable to attend the sprints that will be happening this coming week, and i'm going back to Montréal today. Thanks to Akoha for paying for the trip, and for the entire PyCon team for putting the conference together. It was a great conference, and if anybody reading this is wondering whether they should go, by all means you should try to make it to Atlanta next year. In the meantime, read below for my account of the talks i attended today.
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by wiswaud on 29 March 2009 | 1 comment

PyCon 2009, day 2

This is day 2 of the conference (see also my notes on day 1). Another interesting day full of interesting talks, with a keynote by Guido, a few django talks and some more random things. You can definitely feel how django is just taking off, it's amazing. Last year there were roughly the same number of talks on each of a few different web frameworks. This year it seems that django has the same number of talks as all other frameworks together... Well not quite: i just counted 4 full django talks, 5 web framework non-django talks - but still.
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by wiswaud on 28 March 2009 | 0 comments

PyCon 2009, day 1

I am very happy to have come to PyCon for the third year in a row. This gathering of python geeks is a very good conference to go to. The mix of people, from basement hobbyist kids to corporate types, is great. I got to PyCon by getting up at 3:40am this morning and taking the 5:44 flight from Montréal. The hotel is much nicer than last year; i got an awesome room on the 10th floor, with a balcony! So far the conference itself is pretty much like last year, with the talk and speaker quality varying wildly. Lunch was pleasantly improved, and served, not a buffet. The wifi pretty much just worked for me, and still works quite well, but there's again many... less technically-inclined people who keep creating adhoc networks with the same name as the conf network. Still, working a lot better than last year, so far. In general, many kudos to the organizers: the amount of things that need to go right for such a conference is incredible, and the registration fees are ridiculously low and yet the result is an extremely well organized conference. Overall, i'd say that if you want to watch a few presentations, from what i saw today i'd recommend you watch the python namespaces, automated qa, coverage and the everyblock talks. The videos are surely not up yet, but i'm assured they will be at some point. Another nice addition is that the schedule has diamond ratings which give a rough idea of the technical level. Here's a dump of point-form notes with some commentary from the talks i attended.
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by wiswaud on 27 March 2009 | 2 comments

in chicago this weekend for pycon

A quick note to say that i'll be in Chicago this weekend for PyCon - the annual python conference. I'm actually arriving right on time for the keynote friday morning, and leaving sunday night. If anyone wants to chat, ping me!

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by wiswaud on 24 March 2009 | 0 comments

pycon 2008, third day

This third day at PyCon 2008 (the conference's second day) had a few n00bie talks, but it still had good talks, and it may just be that i didn't choose my sessions wisely. Plus, we went to downtown Chicago were i managed to stop a train all by myself, and i found free wifi from my room.
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by wiswaud on 16 March 2008 | 0 comments

second day at pycon 2008

The second day, which really is the first day of the actual conference, was very good, with lots of very interesting talks.
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by wiswaud on 14 March 2008 | 0 comments

first day at Pycon 2008 (updated)

So i'm at PyCon 2008 in Chicago. A few notes about the conference in general, and the django code lab tutorial we had today.
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by wiswaud on 14 March 2008 | 0 comments

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