Compound Thinking

Pycon hits 500

According to the pycon website:

At Fri Feb 9 23:00:02 2007, there were 500 PyCon registrants.

I’m really looking forward to PyCon this year. It sounds like it will be a big year.

There are lots of interesting and helpful tracks, but I’m most excited about the stuff that will happen in the periferies, and the “open” spaces. There’s a lot of smart people who do interesting stuff everywhere. So it’s almost impossible to avoid having incredibly useful conversations.

• I’d like to revisit last year’s Web Framework Developers dinner.
• I’d like to talk to other people working with web services in Python.
• And on a smaller level, I’d like to sit down with guys from the Pylons team and talk about how TurboGears and Pylons can work together more.

Speaking of last year’s web framework developers dinner, I think some good work has gone into shared components, and I’ll be very happy if that direction continues. The diversity in the Python web framework arena can be a strength for Python, but only if we work together where that makes sense, and created differences thoughtfully and intentionally.