Re: [NF] PyCon 2010 - largest PyCon ever!

Author: Jeff Johnson

Posted: 2010-02-21 at 09:10:40

Pete: Did you go to Atlanta? That's not *too* far from Tampa. I live

in Arizona. San Francisco would be great for me. I went to a

conference in Tampa a few years ago. It was very nice.

Jeff

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Pete Theisen wrote:

> kamcginnis@gmail.com wrote:

>> Or Las Vegas.

>

> Hi Kam,

>

> Close to *who's* home? How about Tampa? I could ride my bike.

>

> Now that I am 65 I get the senior rate (as in "free", often as not) at

> vocational schools and community colleges so maybe . . .

>

>> Ed: Thanks for the report! I really want to go to Pycon. I hope it is

>> a little closer to home next year. San Fran would be great!

>

>> Ed Leafe wrote:

>>> They announced this morning that there are 1,025 paid attendees at PyCon Atlanta, making it the largest PyCon ever.

>> What's more, nearly 11% were women: while this sounds very small, if you've ever been to a tech conference, you;ll

>> understand how remarkable that is.

>>> Just goes to show that the whole notion that "in-person conferences are dead" simply isn't true.

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