PyCon 2007 ran from February 23-25, 2007 in Addison, Texas. My career doesn’t lend itself to attending Python conferences, and although it didn’t seem like it was worth taking vacation time and paying for plane tickets… much like last year, I think it would have been a really interesting conference to attend.

I couldn’t be there in person, but quite a few of the 593 attendees were quick to post their thoughts, comments, reviews, and recaps of the event on the web. Also, there are a ton of PyCon 2007 photos posted at Flickr.

Some of items that seem to stand out:

• The overall structure of the conference (i.e. the balance of talks) seemed to be just about right this year. You can’t please all the people all of the time, but it sounds like this was as close as you can get.
• The OLPC keynote was a huge success. Everyone seemed to love it.
• The explosion of Python web frameworks is really producing some great results, and it sounds like the related panel discussion was good. I would expect to see some shake-out related the frameworks in the coming year, with some of the more popular ones pushing the smaller projects to the sidelines.
• PyCon 2008 will be in Chicago.

So for those of you who (like me) couldn’t be there in person, here’s a roundup of the various PyCon reports from across the web…

James at The B-List has an extensive summary of the Web Frameworks Panel discussion.

Bruce Eckel at Artima has good write-ups of the One Laptop Per Child and What Can Python Learn from Other Languages? talks.

Gary Bernhardt gives us the scoop on some “untold stories” from PyCon.

Ian gave the WSGI talk (slides) and links to the most disturbing Python page on the planet. Heh!

Andrew Kuchling talks about the number of attendees in his Pycon 2007 wrapup post and says the conference was well-balanced.

Erik Smartt has a nice bulleted list of some of the highlights from PyCon.

Jeremy Jones has blog posts for Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3 of PyCon.

Chris McAvoy reports that that PyCon 2008 will be held in Chicago.

Richard Jones of Mechanicalcat has daily summaries for PyCon Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3.

Jafo has some photos from the event.

Mark Rees has PyCon envy.

The Hand of FuManChu has some notes on how PyCon 2007 affected CherryPy.

Chuck Their has summaries (with photos) of Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3 and mentions the Bitten plug-in for Trac.

Fuzzyman of the Voidspace Techie Blog was really impressed (as were many people) by the OLPC keynote.

Terry P at Can You Defeat My Swordstyle has a short recap of Tutorial Day, including Django and Testing Tools.

William McVey took extensive notes and was able to organize them into a mind-map. Wow.

Ed Leafe of Dabo posted video of his presentation called Developing Desktop Applications with Dabo.

Shannon Behrens of JJinuxLand has random comments regarding many of the presentations.

Grig Gheorghiu would like to thank the participants of the Testing Tools Panel.

Matt Harrison has a write-up of Grig’s Testing Tools Panel discussion.

Jonathan at CleverDevil had a wonderful time, but found the talks to be less useful this year.

André Roberge reports that, although it didn’t go as smoothly as planned, his Crunchy talk seemed to generate some interest.

Ned Batchelder talks about his impressions from PyCon 2007, including the people, talks, and culture of the conference.

Congrats to all the people who helped to make PyCon 2007 a success. Sounds like everyone had a good time.

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