Comments on: Best PyCon Evar http://www.sauria.com/blog/2009/04/03/best-pycon-evar/ Open Source, Modern Programming Languages, OS X, Photography, and ... Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:08:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kaliya Hamlin http://www.sauria.com/blog/2009/04/03/best-pycon-evar/comment-page-1/#comment-16461 Kaliya Hamlin Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:43:56 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2009/04/03/best-pycon-evar/#comment-16461 It is interesting that you run unconference sessions in parallel with pre-programmed talks. It almost never works and in your case you seem to have a fairly full agenda. Peter Cobert based in DC has a way he gets sessions up online via Wordpress relatively quickly for giant open spaces. Unless your numbers go above 400 and are widely distributed throughout a building a physical agenda wall should be enough. It is interesting that you run unconference sessions in parallel with pre-programmed talks. It almost never works and in your case you seem to have a fairly full agenda. Peter Cobert based in DC has a way he gets sessions up online via WordPress relatively quickly for giant open spaces. Unless your numbers go above 400 and are widely distributed throughout a building a physical agenda wall should be enough.

]]> By: Vijay Tatkar http://www.sauria.com/blog/2009/04/03/best-pycon-evar/comment-page-1/#comment-16077 Vijay Tatkar Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2009/04/03/best-pycon-evar/#comment-16077 Nice post, Ted. Thanx for the detailed account. To a non-Python guy like me, this gives a very good overview of PyCon and what gets the community excited. Nice post, Ted. Thanx for the detailed account. To a non-Python guy like me, this gives a very good overview of PyCon and what gets the community excited.

]]> By: Patrick Stinson http://www.sauria.com/blog/2009/04/03/best-pycon-evar/comment-page-1/#comment-16051 Patrick Stinson Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:00:41 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2009/04/03/best-pycon-evar/#comment-16051 Your posts are terrific. Great pictures and artistic insight. Your posts are terrific. Great pictures and artistic insight.

]]> By: Sean Reifschneider http://www.sauria.com/blog/2009/04/03/best-pycon-evar/comment-page-1/#comment-16049 Sean Reifschneider Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:51:33 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2009/04/03/best-pycon-evar/#comment-16049 David Goodger and I compared head-counts he took in the sprint rooms to numbers of people who showed up for lunch to the number of associations with the wireless. The head count in the sprint rooms was around 15% down from the wireless, but the wireless and the lunch attendees were almost exactly the same. I think our attrition was a bit less than 50%, but those stats are in a hard drive in the hands of UPS right now, so I can't say the exact numbers. I expect to post on my blog in the next week the exact stats. I seem to recall thinking it was around 30% each day. As Jack said, I think that the sprint numbers weren't really down from last year, which I'm not surprised at. The people who attend the sprints are the people who are least likely to not attend because of the recession. Sean David Goodger and I compared head-counts he took in the sprint rooms to numbers of people who showed up for lunch to the number of associations with the wireless. The head count in the sprint rooms was around 15% down from the wireless, but the wireless and the lunch attendees were almost exactly the same.

I think our attrition was a bit less than 50%, but those stats are in a hard drive in the hands of UPS right now, so I can’t say the exact numbers. I expect to post on my blog in the next week the exact stats. I seem to recall thinking it was around 30% each day.

As Jack said, I think that the sprint numbers weren’t really down from last year, which I’m not surprised at. The people who attend the sprints are the people who are least likely to not attend because of the recession.

Sean

]]> By: Jack Diederich http://www.sauria.com/blog/2009/04/03/best-pycon-evar/comment-page-1/#comment-16040 Jack Diederich Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:40:35 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2009/04/03/best-pycon-evar/#comment-16040 Sean Reifschneider had some sprint numbers for the first day. There were 270 unique MACs connected to the network on sprint day one, and the falloff was typical of past years at about 50% attrition per day. The sprint numbers are the same as past years which you can read in more than one way. The hardcore people showed up in the same numbers (and sprinted) which means the conf numbers were only down amongst the price sensitive curious during the recession. Or, python is dying and only the hardcore are likely to show up. I'm voting for the former. Sean Reifschneider had some sprint numbers for the first day. There were 270 unique MACs connected to the network on sprint day one, and the falloff was typical of past years at about 50% attrition per day.

The sprint numbers are the same as past years which you can read in more than one way. The hardcore people showed up in the same numbers (and sprinted) which means the conf numbers were only down amongst the price sensitive curious during the recession. Or, python is dying and only the hardcore are likely to show up. I’m voting for the former.

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