On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:51 AM, David Glick <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/3/12 11:41 AM, Mike Orr wrote: >> >> 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. >> > Actually only about 270 at this year's Plone conference. Still a great > event. :)
I was trying to visualize the number of people in the plenary. It was held in a movie theater, by the way, which was an interesting idea and worked out pretty well. The location was an urban university campus (think: a floor of an office building) next to a mall (like Westlake) whose fast-food places were the lunch and snacks, and a movie theater in the mall (almost like Pacific Place). > So when's the next Northwest Python Day? We asked a couple months ago who would like to form a team to organize it, and nobody has volunteered yet. -- Mike Orr <[email protected]>
