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PyCon US 2024 Recap

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Post by cr125rider »

These seem like great posts to reflect on a conference experience. It has me thinking I should do something like this…

Also incredible how many people you know in the Python (and larger!) community.

Thanks for posting.

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Post by emddudley »

I'm amazed at how many people she met. It was my first PyCon and I was happy with trying to chat with like 5 people. The conference was huge and very physically and socially exhausting.

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Post by smitty1e »

emddudley wrote: post #4

I'm amazed at how many people she met. It was my first PyCon and I was happy with trying to chat with like 5 people. The conference was huge and very physically and socially exhausting.

My first, too. I went ahead and joined the PSF on the strength of the experience.

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Post by _ugfj »

This does not mention PyCon US 2024 was one of the extremely, extremely few conferences which did the right thing and had a mask mandate.

> We are nice people and many of us and our fellow community members can’t attend without health and safety guidelines in place. We want PyCon US to be an event that everyone feels safe attending. PyCon US is exceptional in that we have people attending from all over the world—last year we had people attending from 75 different countries! We love that people bring their unique perspectives… but they also bring their local germs and Covid strains. We’re masking to keep our immuno-compromised friends safe at PyCon US and to ensure that those of us who share their homes with immuno-compromised people can also consider joining us without quarantining when they return home.

I salute you. I wish more conferences did this. I am quite bitter about how after all the inclusion and diversity talk over the years most open source conferences do not do this. Even Fosdem didn't have one despite

1. volunteer driven so free from financial pressure from anti vaxxer owned companies (not all communities were so lucky)

2. famous for being crowded

3. is not in the US -- where this is most politicized

Edit: please read https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/unmitigated-covid-is-overwhel... if you think we are past the pandemic.

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Post by KatiMichel »

emddudley wrote: post #4

I'm amazed at how many people she met. It was my first PyCon and I was happy with trying to chat with like 5 people. The conference was huge and very physically and socially exhausting.

It was a huge number of people, but I already know a lot of people from being a conference regular for quite a few years.
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