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I think this post will be great for PyCon newcomers. Getting the chance to experience a play-by-play of a past PyCon before attending your first PyCon might be even more useful than reading the various "how to have a great first PyCon" posts that many of us have written.
It was great seeing you at PyCon! :)
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…
Sounds like a recommendation, not a mask mandate. Plenty of people in those photos without masks.
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…
With vaccines and other ways of dealing with Covid infections it does not seem reasonable to have to do this anymore. And I doubt it’s very effective anyway, people are notorious terrible at wearing masks.
There is zero mask wearing in my country now and it’s mandated until nearly everyone was vaccinated. Now it’s no longer used as a Covid prevention measure here.
This is such a thorough post. Thanks Kati! I think this post will be great for PyCon newcomers. Getting the chance to experience a play-by-play of a past PyCon before attending your first PyCon might be even more useful than reading the various "how to have a great first PyCon" posts that many of us have written. It was great seeing you at PyCon! :)
I’m impressed with how thorough this is! It’s cool insight into the dev conference experience.
Python really sets the bar high for excellent conventions.
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Same. I love the idea of being involved in the software community, but find it intimidatingly difficult to know how to "break in". Plenty of the names dropped here are people I admire and follow on social media, but I would think myself terribly rude to introduce myself to them as I'm just an irrelevant developer.
Al Sweigart, Eric Matthes, Reuven Lerner (also in this comment section), and so many folks who've made blog posts, books, code, or something else that's inspired you really do love it when you tell them. I know I'm always please when someone who likes something I've done introduces themselves and says so. We're all just people. Meeting someone in-person who enjoys something you've done is enjoyable for nearly everyon…
Really nice to see no-GIL Python become closer and closer to reality.
Their fate shows that GIL is not as important as it might appear at the first glance.
Python is becoming more complicated everyday e.g., with things like PEP-695 Python is starting to resemble C++ (not a good thing). https://discuss.python.org/t/please-consider-delaying-or-eve...
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To each their own but I'm pretty glad masks are on their way out. I wore one when I had to during the pandemic and I'm quite happy that I didn't have to wear one to any of the conferences I've been to since the pandemic ended.
Thanks for excluding me from the conferences you attend. I am astounded that four years in we still need to explain that a) masks are effective in stopping community transmission b) masks worn by the source are more effective or, in other words, your mask protects me while my mask protects you. How is this new? No, your stance is absolutely selfish -- not uncommon of course, but it is selfish.