What really happened at PyCon 2013

This is a really great summary and it is too bad that so much great knowledge sharing is going unnoticed because of the lure of controversy. Solid explanation.

Thank you for posting this. I wasn't at PyCon 2013, but I really wish the discussion would get back to the fact that 99% of what happens when technical people get together is positive and cool. It's really sad that the ridiculous 1% gets so much attention.

I actually don't think technology people are that bad, not as a class. Most types of ambitious male business people are a lot more vulgar and perverse than the technologists. VC-istan execs tend to have inappropriate, power-imbalanced office affairs, traders and bankers go strip clubs more often than is healthy... programmers swear slightly more than average and some are socially awkward. Not the same category.

This was my first PyCon and I had an awesome time.

There were so many interesting talks and I have so many new ideas that I am going to hack on when I get home. It's a shame that I didn't meet as many people as I would have liked.

It's a real shame that all the good things that went on seem to have been forgotten.

PyCon's a yearly thing and has been for a while. Newer cons will make a post to a place like HN. There's a con coming up this year that I got contacted about because I went to one that is being run by organizers of a different con I went to a few years ago.

This is good, it's sad that someone doing something stupid and making a spectacle had to overshadow people getting together and doing interesting stuff.