EuroPython - final day
Well, today was the final day of Europython - and it’s been a great conference, unfortunately I can’t stay for the sprints over the next few days, but I have met some really interesting people and learnt a lot of advanced Python tips.
Conference Swag:
There seems to be a habit in the blogosphere of posting a picture of all the “Schwag” given out free at conferences, so here’s mine. As you can see, I’m heading to the plane tomorrow morning with significantly more tshirts than I came here with - Thanks to Google, Canonical (Bazaar) and Opera for adding their clothing to the official conference tshirt.
I also found an OpenSolaris Live cd, and a copy of NetBeans and the latest JDK from Sun in my welcome pack - to be honest I was a bit confused about having a Java Development Kit given to me at a Python conference, until I heard the news that Sun has decided to support Jython (the Python VM written in Java) in a big way - and now has several developers working full time on it - great news for anyone that wants to integrate Java with Python (e.g. for Hadoop)
Well, that’s it for now - I’m off to finish reading “Wikinomics” and try to avoid falling asleep before my early morning plane.
