The Hyperpessimist

The grandest failure.

Notes on the PyCon DE 2012

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.