PyCon part 3
Blogging live from PyCon. I'm still at PyCon learning new tricks and meeting pythonistas from around the world. The first conference day went smoothly; the wifi was a bit shaky so I was forced to listen to all the good talks.
With four tracks, there is a lot to variety, no matter what you are looking for. Testing, quality assurance, research, design, games, tales from the trenches: they are all here. There are two one-hour sessions of lightning talks per day; that gives us a really good overview on who's working on what and that makes sure that we know when to go to the open space sessions. Open space is great: we have a bunch of smaller rooms where people can meet to work or talk about whatever they want. There's a pin-board where we can put the subject of a meeting and book a room. Rooms a are booked in one hour slots; the formula is similar to Bar Camp but more oriented toward working groups rather than on presentations.
We went for a tasty snack and few beers at People and Slice in Chicago (they sure love generic names in here). Fortunately, downtown Chicago is not at depressing as the area around the hotel. It's pedestrian friendly with lots of pubs and cafés.
Looking forward for another day of dynamic talks. More to come.