Overall ratings

Is this your first PyCon?

Yes 56% (84) No 44% (66)

What days did you attend PyCon?

Friday 96.6% (143) Saturday 96.6% (143) Sunday 91.9% (136) Tutorials 31.1% (46) Sprints 20.9% (31)

How did you hear about PyCon?

(11) python.org
( 9) Mailing list
( 8) comp.lang.python
( 5) www.Python.org
( 4) blogs
( 3) Website
( 3) Planet Python
( 3) Internet
( 2) list
( 2) friend
( 2) Work
( 2) Web Site
( 2) Web
( 2) Python411 Podcast
( 2) Friends
( 2) Employer
( 2) Colleague
( 1) websites
( 1) web page
( 1) web announcement
( 1) was at the last 3
( 1) various people on planet python; trac mailing list
( 1) users group
( 1) the voices in my head
( 1) ssssssssssssssss
( 1) python-dev
( 1) python-announce mailing list
( 1) python blogs
( 1) other python users, the python.org website
( 1) online search for python conferences
( 1) memory: I've been the last two years
( 1) member of the python community
( 1) mailing list of open-source project
( 1) jhuj
( 1) hakan
( 1) googled it figuring something like this must surely exist
( 1) google
( 1) from a friend
( 1) don't remember.  c.l.py probably
( 1) don't remember
( 1) community
( 1) co-worker
( 1) boss and coworkers
( 1) blogs, website, word of mouth
( 1) Zope mailing list
( 1) Went to PyCon 2003
( 1) Went to 2004
( 1) Web friends
( 1) Various mailing lists and blogs
( 1) Unofficial Planet Python
( 1) Titus Brown
( 1) Through friends
( 1) The list
( 1) The Pycon Weblog
( 1) The Internet
( 1) Steve Alexander
( 1) Python411
( 1) Python community
( 1) Python announcements list
( 1) Previous attendance
( 1) Planet Python RSS 
( 1) Organizer
( 1) N/A
( 1) Mail lists and blog discussion
( 1) Local Python User Group
( 1) Last year's PyCon
( 1) Known from python community
( 1) Known about it forever
( 1) Known about PyCon's for a long time. python.org, friends.
( 1) Internship
( 1) I've been involved with Python for years - can't remember exctly.
( 1) I've been involved in Python for a long time.
( 1) I've been attending since 2003 (?). The company I worked for was a sponsor in 2003.
( 1) I'm an organizer. First heard on c.l.py probably
( 1) I dont' remember
( 1) From the Python community -- it's been long enough I don't remember how.
( 1) From the Django project
( 1) From python.org link
( 1) Everywhere!
( 1) Event aggregator website
( 1) Eurpython and various sources on the web
( 1) Email announcement to local user groups
( 1) Don't recall
( 1) Daily Python URL IIRC
( 1) DFW Python user group
( 1) Co-workers had attended in previous years.
( 1) Co-workers
( 1) Chicago User's Group
( 1) CLPA
( 1) Been there the last 3 years now
( 1) Ages ago... forget.
( 1) A few weeks before PyCon 2006

Please rate ...

        very low        low     high    very high       N/A     Response Average
your overall satisfaction with PyCon 2007 in general    
        1% (1)  0% (0)  36% (53)        63% (94)        1% (1)  3.62
your overall satisfaction with the keynotes     
        2% (3)  6% (9)  53% (78)        37% (55)        2% (3)  3.28
your overall satisfaction with the talks        
        0% (0)  11% (16)        66% (96)        23% (33)        1% (1)  3.12
your overall satisfaction with the network      
        1% (1)  20% (30)        48% (70)        22% (33)        9% (13) 3.01
your overall satisfaction with the food 
        3% (4)  17% (25)        57% (85)        22% (33)        1% (1)  3.00
your likelihood of attending next year  
        1% (2)  8% (12) 40% (59)        51% (76)        0% (0)  3.40

Would you prefer a conference that took place

Only on weekdays 19.4% (27)

Includes one weekend day (starts on Sunday or ends on Saturday) 20.9% (29)

Includes two weekend days 59.7% (83)

Talks

What 5 topics should have been covered at PyCon?

(12) Twisted
( 4) Testing
( 4) SciPy
( 4) Optimization
( 3) web frameworks
( 3) system administration
( 3) pygame
( 3) libraries
( 3) Python Internals
( 3) Pylons
( 3) PyPy
( 2) python idioms
( 2) more of same
( 2) games
( 2) Python in embedded systems
( 2) Plone
( 2) OOP/Design Patterns
( 2) Future of the Python language
( 2) Embedding Python in other apps
( 2) Embedded Python
( 2) Databases
( 1) web services
( 1) web developement
( 1) unicorns
( 1) tracks of topics to dig deeper
( 1) text processing
( 1) tapioca
( 1) sub-sonic avionics
( 1) spatulas
( 1) soap programming
( 1) setuptools
( 1) real-world iterator examples
( 1) real-world ctypes examples
( 1) qt3 and qt4
( 1) pvm
( 1) profiling & optimization
( 1) practical data structures
( 1) performance
( 1) panel on setuptools vs distutils
( 1) other language changes (pypy, stackless, py3k, etc.)
( 1) multimedia
( 1) more panels in general on advanced development alternatives
( 1) more advanced web framework panel like last year
( 1) mod_python
( 1) meta programming
( 1) longer tutorials on sqlalchemy
( 1) limits of the python interpreter
( 1) http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/Construct/2.00
( 1) how to use distutils
( 1) freevo
( 1) extension development
( 1) extending komodo 4.0 with firefox technology
( 1) everything else was covered
( 1) evangelism primer
( 1) enterprise web
( 1) enterprise topics
( 1) docutils
( 1) distutils
( 1) development in a team environment
( 1) decorators
( 1) continuously variable transmissions
( 1) cheetah
( 1) boot.python
( 1) better code commenting
( 1) ajax
( 1) advocacy
( 1) XML Processing with ElementTree
( 1) Writing a Trac plugin
( 1) Wrapping your brain around PIL
( 1) Worst things a python programmer can do (speed, style, etc.)
( 1) Wing IDE plugins, creating
( 1) What is Pypi?
( 1) What Python could learn from Ruby
( 1) Web architecture, performance, and scaling
( 1) Web applications
( 1) Web application deployment/management
( 1) Using Apache
( 1) Travel arrangements wiki/blog page
( 1) Threaded python
( 1) Text processing (NLP)
( 1) Test Driven Development
( 1) Systems/Network management tools
( 1) Systems Administration
( 1) State of Python Distributions (list - show differences)
( 1) Standardisation efforts
( 1) Speech recognition
( 1) Software engineering
( 1) Smackdown of the top 3 web frameworks
( 1) Smackdown of the top 3 Python implementations
( 1) SimPy
( 1) ShedSkin
( 1) Scientific computing
( 1) Rule dispatch (from PEAK)
( 1) Room sharing wiki/blog page
( 1) Refactoring
( 1) RSS feed for schedule changes
( 1) RDF
( 1) Python/Objective-C bridge
( 1) Python vs and using Python with  Java, C#, Ruby, etc
( 1) Python tips and tricks
( 1) Python predictions (where it has been and where is it going to be as far as in companies and in projects)
( 1) Python on Nokia N800
( 1) Python in integration efforts
( 1) Python in education
( 1) Python best practices
( 1) Python 3.0 Demo (compiled)
( 1) Python 2.5
( 1) Python 2.3 compatibility and how it affects you (most compat modules I've seen don't work right)
( 1) Python - write once - run on many
( 1) Pyrex
( 1) Pyjamas
( 1) PyUSB/PySerial
( 1) PyOpenGL/PyGame
( 1) Project management with Python
( 1) Profiling
( 1) Predictive dispatch
( 1) Plugins
( 1) Parallelism, concurrency
( 1) Parallel computing (multicore etc.)
( 1) OS X and Python
( 1) OLPC Machine Python Internals
( 1) Not much else, really well done!
( 1) Nose
( 1) New projects unknown to me (they were)
( 1) Nevow
( 1) Networking apps
( 1) Network distributed systems in python
( 1) More technical talks on *how* to accomplish things
( 1) More social interactions
( 1) More room in Django tutorial
( 1) More advanced topics!
( 1) Mobile devices
( 1) Mercurial
( 1) Large-scale Python deployments & projects
( 1) Kamalia
( 1) IronPython and ASP
( 1) IronPython
( 1) Intro to Sugar (from OLPC)
( 1) Intro for people new to programming
( 1) Internationalization
( 1) Integrating Zope 3 Components
( 1) Industry case studies
( 1) IP law
( 1) I was there only for the morning tutorial, therefore cannot suggest anything, besides the fact that I am still in the early phases of learning python....
( 1) How to add new numpy types
( 1) How YouTube runs on Python
( 1) HOW to use ctypes
( 1) Graphics
( 1) Generic Agile Testing Methods
( 1) General python programming talks, e.g. python magic (descriptors and metaclasses) python idioms, or 'gettings more out of python', or optimizing python
( 1) GIL
( 1) Fun with generators (and how to make them look like lists)
( 1) Frameworks
( 1) FormEncode
( 1) FUSE & python
( 1) Encryption technologies
( 1) Elixir
( 1) Eggs-yes there were two but they didn't work well
( 1) Django
( 1) Development strategies
( 1) Cryptography
( 1) Creating extensions with pyrex
( 1) Coverage of editors and IDEs
( 1) Conducting code reviews in Python
( 1) Concurrency in Python
( 1) Community Building
( 1) Command-line parsing
( 1) Code coverage
( 1) Building a Zope3 app
( 1) Best practice
( 1) BOF talk wiki page
( 1) Artificial Intelligence
( 1) Applications of Python
( 1) Advanced topics
( 1) Advanced eggs

Accommodations

Location

Tutorials

Would you be interested in attending half-day (3-hour) tutorials next year?

Yes 56.4% (79)

No 43.6% (61)

Other comments

How can we improve PyCon next year?

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