So, yesterday the actual PyCon DE 2012 ended and today the barcamp and sprints start. 2012 marked my first PyCon and I submitted a talk too, which got accepted and went about okay though I’m not a great speaker by any means. But generally, I’ve been quite happy with how the conference turned out.

I didn’t learn that much from the talks and there’s only a couple of talks I would recommend, but meeting the people and putting faces to nicknames is interesting anyway. I had the luck of sharing a hotel room with three fellow pythoneers. Also, travelling to Leipzig was quite enjoyable, by means of Mitfahrgelegenheim because I despise travelling by train in Germany. The organisation of the conference was top-notch, the venue was aptly chosen and everything just worked.

At this point I should point out that we had a meetup of the Python Forum to which we got snacks, beer and even a cake with candles for our tenth anniversary which was a really nice touch. Many thanks to Christian Kreutzer for organizing this, I was impressed.

Am I going for next year’s PyCon DE? Well, we’ll see. The main problem is that I hardly use Python anymore, I just happen to like the community.