When I went to PyCon this year, I didn’t even think about the sponsors. However, I saw their names on everything and it still didn’t bother me until the first day of the conference itself. While I think the MC, Mr. Goodger, is a great guy, I thought the sponsorship announcements were sometimes misplaced. When …
My last day at PyCon was Sunday, March 16th 2008. I was one of the unlucky who had work the following morning. This day just seemed rushed to me, which is probably why I learned the least. The first Plenary was Making Client-Side Python Suck Less with Aza Raskin. It was about Mozilla to some …
Saturday, March 15th I was finally getting the hang of PyCon. I wandered around a little and got into the conference room as soon as the doors opened. This was one of the largest rooms I’ve ever been in. It reminded me of a Colosseum except without the high ceilings. The opening talk was about …
The first talk I went to was entitled “Developing with Repoze2.Zope” by Chris P McDonough. It was a pretty interesting presentation on middleware that can re-implement ZPublisher in such a way that it allows Zope2 to run within Apache + mod_wsgi. Repoze depends on Python Paste and setuptools. If I recall correctly, he gave a …
The first day of PyCon (not including the Tutorial Day) took place on March 14, 2008. I finally got to see the BDFL (Benevolent Dictator For Life), Guido van Rossum. While I knew he was from the Netherlands, I hadn’t really thought of him with a Swiss-like accent. It was cool! He was mostly interesting …
Tutorial Day, as the name implies, is a day where PyCon attendees get to attend tutorials on all kinds of Python topics including Django, Plone, wxPython, Python 101, SQLAlchemy , Python Eggs, Python and the OLPC and much more. According to the keynote the following day, more people attended the Tutorial Day than have attended …