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I, along with a whole heck of a lot of other peo­ple will be attend­ing PyCon in march. You should know about this by now, unless you’re liv­ing under a rock, or in a shoe­box (I like shoeboxes).

PyCon 09 is turn­ing out to be one of the ones I am most excited about in some time — bar­ring the fact they let me actu­ally stand up and speak about some­thing, there’s a ton of other excel­lent and excit­ing things going on.

I will be doing two talks — “Intro­duc­tion to Mul­ti­pro­cess­ing in Python” on Fri­day, at 3:20 PM, and “Con­cur­rency and Dis­trib­uted Com­put­ing with Python Today” at 3:20 PM Saturday.

The for­mer talk is easy, given it will be focused on intro­duc­ing the mul­ti­pro­cess­ing mod­ule to the masses, and tak­ing ques­tions about it (be gen­tle, I just work here). The lat­ter is a much big­ger beast. I’ve been blog­ging about my research in my pycon 2009 cat­e­gory, and I still have a pile of things to keep adding to that. The talk will attempt to dif­fer­en­ti­ate con­cur­rency from dis­trib­uted sys­tems, and show the var­i­ous toolkits/frameworks/etc in the ecosys­tem today, to help you build both types of systems.

Given both talks are 45 min­utes in length, I will be pub­lish­ing my talk notes (my slides are not going to be heavy weight) and other infor­ma­tion here.

In addi­tion to me speak­ing, which may or may not be excit­ing, there’s one hel­luva ton of other talks which sim­ply look awesome.

My sched­ule looks like this:

• Thurs­day: Python Lan­guage Sum­mit, where I will endeavor to be smart.
• Fri­day: How to give a python talk
• Fri­day: Using Windmill
• Fri­day: Intro­duc­tion to Python Pro­fil­ing or How Python is Devel­oped, to harass Brett.
• Fri­day: Panel — Python VMs
• Fri­day: Build­ing an Auto­mated QA infra­struc­ture using Open Source Tools
• Fri­day: Twisted, AMQP and Thrift: Bridg­ing mes­sag­ing and RPC for build­ing scal­able dis­trib­uted applications
• Fri­day: My Talk (I fig­ure I should go to it)
• Fri­day: A Whirl­wind Excur­sion through Writ­ing a C Exten­sion or Chal­lenges and Oppor­tu­ni­ties for Python
• Thurs­day: Plu­g­ins and mon­key­patch­ing: increas­ing flex­i­bil­ity, deal­ing with inflexibility
• Sat­ur­day: The (lack of) design pat­terns in Python or the Pinax talk
• Sat­ur­day: Class Dec­o­ra­tors: Rad­i­cally Simple
• Sat­ur­day: Panel: Object Rela­tional Map­pers: Philoso­phies and Design Decisions.
• Sat­ur­day: Drop ACID and think about data (I won­der if we can take this lit­er­ally, if he has scary slides though, we all might trip balls)
• Sat­ur­day: My Talk, which is up against Bruce Eckel and Ray­mond H — I expect no one to show up.
• Sun­day: Panel: Func­tional Test­ing Tools in Python
• Sun­day: Design­ing a web frame­work: Django’s design decisions

This doesn’t even cover the open space dis­cus­sions which I might attend — includ­ing the “Writ­ing About Python” one Doug Hell­mann is putting together as well as the “Teach Me Web Test­ing” one by Steve Holden.

After the main con­fer­ence, I’ll be stick­ing around until Thurs­day morn­ing for the sprints, at which point I should be suf­fi­ciently burned out on python stuff, I will fully con­vert over to being a full time burger flipper.

Right now there are 620 reg­is­tered peo­ple who made their atten­dance pub­lic I don’t know how many there are in total.

Hope to see you there!

I, along with a whole heck of a lot of other people will be attending PyCon in march. You should know about this by now, unless you're living under a rock, or in a shoebox (I like shoeboxes). PyCon 09 is turning out to be one of the ones I am most excited ...