Welcome to PyCon 2006!!!

Attendance Numbers

PyCon is now over. We had about 410 attendees. 130 people were here for the Tutorial Day on Thursday, and about 50 people stayed for the sprints.

Reviews and Stories About PyCon 2006

Many people are blogging and commenting on how PyCon went this year. Here are links to some of the sites:

• TurboGears sprinter Mike Orr's Blog
• Kevin Dangoor's Blog
• Ted Leung's Blog
• Steve Holden's Blog

Please Provide Feedback on the Convention

This year our feedback forms are online! Take a moment to fill out the Convention Feedback Form. It's a way for us to make next years convention even better!

Place Your Pin on the PyCon Google Map

I'd like to remind everyone to place their push pin on our PyCon Google Map. It's a way for us to see where people are coming from, and the mapping software supports custom keywords or topics, for finding like-minded souls.

Took a Tutorial? Let us know how we did!

This year our feedback forms are online and broken into sections. Take a moment to fill out a page about each tutorial you took, so we can communicate your opinions to the tutors and improve them for next year.

Let us know your thoughts about the talks!

And we have separate feedback forms with a page about each talk.

 PyCon 06
 February 24-26, 2006
 Addison, Texas (near Dallas)

Held at the Dallas/Addison Marriott Quorum hotel.

PyCon is a community-oriented conference targeting developers of Python applications and the Python interpreter itself.

PyCon gives you opportunities to:

• see a variety of presentations, panels, and impromptu discussions.
• learn about significant advances in the Python development community.
• meet fellow developers from around the world.
• participate in programming sprints with fellow developers.

The organizers aim to make the conference affordable and accessible to all.

A day of tutorials will be held the day before the conference, on Thursday February 23, and a four-day sprint will be held after the conference, from Monday February 27 to Thursday March 2.

Activities

• Accepted Talks
• Keynote Speakers
• Sprinting: Some sprints are already being planned. There's still room for more! To lead a sprint, or to join an existing sprint, please edit the Sprints wiki page.
• Tutorials: The tutorial program has been posted. Tutorial space is limited, so register today!

Registration is now open. Conference registration is US$250 (US$150 student).

Sponsors

We are still seeking sponsors for PyCon 2006. Please help to make PyCon 2006 possible.

If you're interested, please fill in our sponsorship request form.

Previous conferences

• PyCon DC2003 was held March 26-28, 2003 in Washington DC.
• PyCon DC2004 was held March 24-26, 2004 in Washington DC.
• PyCon DC2005 was held March 23-25, 2005 in Washington DC.