Marcus Cavanaugh

PyCon 2008 Wrapup

PyCon was a great experience.

I was fortunate enough to walk into the conference right before lunch. (Meals on the trip were very good, both the catered ones and the various restaurants we visited in Chicago.) As luck would have it, Mario Balibrera — whom I would be working with during the then-upcoming sprints — was the first person I met. From there the week was filled with lots of cool stuff.

I spent most of the week with Michael Carter and Mario, core developers of Orbited. We talked about Orbited’s direction, architecture, and code, and made a lot of progress toward releasing a new version. I sprinted the whole time, which allowed me to understand Orbited’s internals a lot better.

Not all of PyCon was spent developing, though. Michael, Mario and I had some good times, most notably getting lost in Chicago. I blame that on whoever designed the street layout… it is a bad idea to make two streets intersect in two different places without naming each street differently.

Orbited continues to look even more promising as a comet server, and we made good progress this week. I hope to check out Eventlet as an alternative to Twisted. A lot of projects were represented at PyCon, some doing really cool things with Python (even 3D virtual reality). Python continues to look better and better, and I’m still in love with it. What guy wouldn’t fall for its charm?

I hear PyCon 2009 will be in Chicago too; I hope to be there. While I wasn’t too happy with the lightning talks (the main talks were all right), the experience was well worth the money and time.

Posted 21 March 2008 in Python, Tech

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