February 28, 2010 by
Mike This year, I decided to volunteer at PyCon. At both my previous PyCons, I had planned to help, but wasn't sure how to join in. The evening before the tutorials started in 2009, I wandered all over the hotel looking for PyCon staff and found no one. Once the tutorials started, I felt pretty drained […]
February 22, 2010 by
Mike The last plenary session for PyCon 2010 was on Sunday. In it, Van Lindberg told us that if we included all the vendors, our conference had hit over 1100 people. What that meant is that for PyCon 2011, they would probably have to put an attendance cap of 1500 so that we wouldn't run out […]
February 22, 2010 by
Mike The last morning Lightning talks were on Sunday. I wasn't able to stay for the Lightning talks that were given in the afternoon. Here's a quick run-down (note that I wasn't able to get the presenter's name on a lot of these because they would show their first slide for just a few scant seconds): […]
February 21, 2010 by
Mike PyCon 2010 continued the practice of Open Spaces (if you don't know what those are, click here). I really enjoyed the Open Space track last year and greatly looked forward to it this year. Unfortunately, I only managed to get to one and that was the wxPython BoF that I had posted on the board. […]
February 20, 2010 by
Mike I only attended one of the two talks in the last session of the day. It was presented by Ms. Leigh Honeywell and called Think Globally, Hack Locally - Teaching Python in Your Community. She started "Python Newbie Night" in Toronto, Canada. It was an informal, peer-taught class which often put code up on the […]
February 20, 2010 by
Mike I managed to make it to three talks in the middle session. Here's the list: "508 and You: Taking the Pain out of Accessibility" with Katie Cunningham, "Actors: What, Why, and How" with Donovan Preston and "Python Metaprogramming" with Nicolas Lara. I'll see you after the jump!
