PyCon 2005
Last week was PyCon 2005 at Washington DC. I was fortunate enough to have my workplace foot the bill for my trip. This was the first conference of this type that I’ve been to, so I probably didn’t get as much out of it as I would have liked to. I did however meet Guido van Rossum, Python’s creator. He seems like a decent enough guy.
I would have to say that my favorite parts of the conference were the lightning talks and volunteering at the registration desk. The lightning talks were like “open mike night.” People went did a five minute presentation on little projects that they were working on. For the most part, these things were fairly useless, but very cool. Like a multiple concurrent user Python editor/interpreter. Volunteering at the registration desk was nice because you got to meet more people than you would just going to the talks. I really think that giving a talk would probably be the best way to enjoy PyCon. Hopefully, next year, if my manager is feeling generous again, I’ll get my chance.
