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There’s a lot of excitement on the ClePy mailing list about trying to bring PyCon to Cleveland in 2010. David Stanek is leading the charge, getting folks talking, and planning, and motivated.
Clevelanders who want to help out bringing Python’s premier conference to our fair city should head on over to the bid page on […]

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The security line at O’Hare was almost non-existent, so now I’ve got a bit of time to kill and (since “free wireless network” doesn’t seem to want to give me any DNS) have the laptop open, it’s probably time to digest and process my PyCon […]

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Many, many photos from PyCon are now online. I shot a bunch as did fellow ClePy member Dave Noyes. And thanks to the photo contest (which still doesn’t have a winner, grr…), there are a whole bunch of other photos too. […]

Since I was unable to attend the sprints, my PyCon experience wrapped up on Sunday. Here are my highlights and thoughts on the third day…
Robert M. Lefkowitz (r0ml), the fourth and final keynote speaker for PyCon 2007, completely and utterly amazed me. As the talk began, I thought we were in for 90 […]

Some quick thoughts and notes on Saturday at PyCon that turned into not-so-quick notes as I started writing them…
I was initially excited that Adele Goldberg was giving the day’s first keynote (I’m a bit of a PARC fanboy, really enjoyed Dealers of Lightning), but sorely disappointed that an hour of hearing a lot about the […]

After escaping from the madness of the office, we had a pleasantly uneventful flight to Dallas, notable only in that it was coworker Dave Noyes’ first time on an airplane. I enjoyed watching his reactions to things that had become completely natural and unremarkable to me, and I smiled a little inside remembering what […]

At tonight’s ClePy meeting, I gave a test run of my PyCon 2007 presentation, Dateutil to the Rescue! I got some good feedback (among other things, it’s way too long for a 30-minute slot, definitely the better form of the length-of-presentation problem), and look forward to tuning it up before delivering it in front […]

Just received the official notice that my PyCon presentation proposal was accepted! I plan on basking in the warm glow of non-rejection for a couple of days, and then commencing forthwith with the stressing out about getting it pulled together in time given all the other insanity of my life.
In other news, Liz and […]

I started poking around the PyCon site today to see if they’d changed the acceptance/rejection date, and after a few moments my eyes strayed up to the site-wide masthead image. “Oh, good,” I thought to myself, “they found a PyCon photo with a woman in it. Oh, and there’s Ian Bicking; hi, Ian!” […]

Well, it’s number 88 in the queue, but at least my proposal for a PyCon presentation is in before the deadline, if only by a few hours. I’d love to be able to present there again, especially since this time my bosses will let me talk about some technically interesting things instead of being […]