Today I met with lots of interesting people again. Personalities from the Chandler project, O'Reilly, Linux Journal, Ximian, the Perl community, the Parrot project and various other industries and companies. I hope to spend some more time with them tomorrow.
I attended two sessions today: the Python lightning talks, and Dan Sugalski's "parrot in the real world" talk. He's really doing some interesting legacy-system support with it: something that open source folks frequently don't address very well.
I find myself in the enviable position of people I respect knowing of my personal achievements, my company, and my father. While less useful technically than PyCon, this conference has been a lot of fun so far.
I'm looking forward to the last day. I have some pictures, which I hope to post tomorrow.
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and do you want to tell us about what didn't happen? Like Guido not throwing the pie(s)? Despite there being pies to throw and Dan to throw them at and the venue in full readiness for pies to be thrown?
In general, I support avoiding violent confrontations whenever possible; and I think food is for eating and am sad when it is destroyed in other ways, but... If our BDFL won't throw the pie when the day comes, how can we trust him?
Larry Wall would have thrown a pie. I've heard folks attest that Matz would have thrown a pie. My faith is shaken.
I kinda missed being at PyCon, but I'm finding I'm _really_ missing being at OSCon.
*sigh*
Guido was clearly using his time machine. By not throwing the pie at the lightning talks, he kicked off a chain of events that lead to the pie being thrown in front of almost the entire roster of attendees at the conference.
After pulling off a stunt like that, I would not impugn Guido's pie-throwing skills without fearing for my clothes.
In many ways, PyCon was a better conference. I think the technical content of the talks was more varied and higher quality. There was a lot more actual work getting done. I don't know of any sprinting occurring around this conference, and I certainly don't know of any Twisted sprinting.
Of course, you get the really big names to come out of the woodwork at OSCon, but fewer of them are interested in Python and some of them don't even care for dynamic languages. (Though that crowd is shrinking into oblivion now, I think...)
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