Yea, my company paid for my trip, hotel, and conference fees. Pycon, through the support of all the sponsors, is actually fairly cheap. Only $300 to attend, a

Yea, my company paid for my trip, hotel, and conference fees. Pycon, through the support of all the sponsors, is actually fairly cheap. Only $300 to attend, and they did an amazing job organizing it. Lunches and breakfast included. I know of other tech conferences that are much more expensive. I think it could be easily argued that sending employees to things like Pycon directly benefit your company. We work in a really fast moving industry so it's a necessity to keep employees on the ball. Going this year I learned a ton of new things about Python that made me more productive.