My wife and I drove up from Florida this year. It was a 5-hour drive and was actually pretty pleasant, considering she drove and I slept for initial and the return trip. I’m pretty much a horrible person to spend more than 2-hours in a car with anyway so it is much better if I sleep the whole time.

The location in Downtown Atlanta was great. Lots of bars, restaurants, and nightlife to choose from when the con events started to die down. Though the fact there was a liquor store across the street from the Hyatt pretty much meant that the con never died down. Though I had friends in Chicago who took us for nights on the town and out and about in the city, this location was much better overall for the rest of the attendees if you ask me.

The best place if you ask me was this 24/7 diner called the Landmark Diner. Great American style diner food along side some greek classics. It was tops on my list for breakfast in the morning and for that after hours drunken feast. In my 5-days in Atlanta we went here 4 times. I highly recommend it if you are ever in the city. It is on the corner of Forsyth and Luckie in Downtown.

The talks I went to were good. The open spaces I attended were good. The sprints I attended were good. Not much more to say really. You can find plenty of people who are more picky about the specifics than me so I’ll leave it at that. I had a great time all around with con. Everything was well organized and the efforts of the committee, and all the volunteers was impressive. I volunteered this year as Session Chair for some talks so if you go watch some videos you’ll see me introducing some people.

I met a ton of people and had a lot of hallway talks and late night talks about everything ranging from Python to politics. It is always great fun and I will repeat what many others have said before. Don’t be shy and don’t be afraid to skip and an official talk and join a hallway talk instead, they can be great. Oh also, I am stealing Jack Diederich’s (first heard from) idea for the Lunch Session next PyCon. Find a table with no one you know and sit at it. I love that idea.

I had some very late nights and some excellent times and I met a ton of great people. I’d like to thank some people in no particular order. CCP guys, Chicago Python guys, Jack Diederich, Jakub Vysoky, Travis Cline, Michael Trier

Looking forward to next year!

They key notes I am looking forward

• Building tests for large, untested codebases by C. Titus Brown
• Metaprogramming with Decorators and Metaclasses by Bruce Eckel
• Topics of Interest by Ian Bicking

So if you are a Python hacker get over to http://us.pycon.org sign up and get yourself there! It is gonna be a great conference this year.