I really enjoyed Pycon. I had never attended a Pycon, nor dealt with the Python community at large but the day I listened to Jesse Noller's keynote I knew I wa

I really enjoyed Pycon. I had never attended a Pycon, nor dealt with the Python community at large but the day I listened to Jesse Noller's keynote I knew I was in the right place. He discussed the values of teaching children, being an inclusive community, and philanthropy. I thought I was attending to get my Python on and discovered the warm fluffy side of a beautiful community. These people really mean well. At Pycon I met the developers and project maintainers of high-profile projects I use all of the time like Django and SQLAlchemy. Heck, I paid $150 to receive classroom training from Mike Bayer himself. How inexpensive is that to receive training from the developer and maintainer of SQLAlchemy himself? The tutorials were incredibly useful, the keynotes moving (Noller, Hettinger, etc.), the sessions well-produced and all of the speakers well-spoken. I feel like we stole my ticket for as inexpensive as the trip was for me and several developers our company drug along. How did they do? Awesome. I would like to say thank you to the PSF for such an incredible conference. My entire dev staff will be attending next year!