PyCon registration closed this morning, so if you haven't registered yet, it's too late. :( Don't worry if you've made a financial aid request or other special registration and haven't heard back yet, because they'll have space for those. Sorry for the lack of notice but I only heard about it yesterday.
This is the first time PyCon hasn't had registrations available at the door. (Or at least, I don't know about last year because I wasn't there, but it never happened before that.) Attendance has been steadily growing year after year, and was just around 1100 a few years ago. This year they capped it at 1500 because they felt that was the maximum their volunteer resources can handle without cutting into quality. Nobody expected it to fill up this soon. This gives all the more impetus for more regional conferences to start happening (e.g., west coast and east coast), and topic-specific conferences. I was stunned that the Plone/Pyramid conference last November was able to round up four days of talks when PyCon has only three: you'd think a more specialized topic would have a harder time finding talks.There were, um, maybe 400 or 500 people at the Plone conference. Just to give you an idea of what other Python-related events are happening nowadays. -- Mike Orr <[email protected]>
