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This is the start of the Feedback template we will present at PyCon 2008. **Notice** its not complete. Numbers in parentheses are the counts of how many times an item was mentioned. See ["/Comments"] for the essay-type comments from the feedback forms. = Overall ratings = == Is this your first PyCon? == Yes 0.0 % ( 0) No 0.0 % ( 0) == What days did you attend PyCon? == Friday 0.0 % ( 0) Saturday 0.0 % ( 0) Sunday 0.0 % ( 0) Tutorials 0.0 % ( 0) Sprints 0.0 % ( 0) == How did you hear about PyCon? == {{{ ( 0) python.org ( 0) Mailing list ( 0) comp.lang.python ( 0) www.Python.org ( 0) blogs ( 0) Website ( 0) Planet Python ( 0) Internet ( 0) list ( 0) friend ( 0) Work ( 0) Web Site ( 0) Web ( 0) Python411 Podcast ( 0) Friends ( 0) Employer ( 0) Colleague ( 0) websites ( 0) web page ( 0) web announcement ( 0) was at the last 3 ( 0) various people on planet python; trac mailing list ( 0) users group ( 0) python-dev ( 0) python-announce mailing list ( 0) python blogs ( 0) other python users, the python.org website ( 0) online search for python conferences ( 0) memory: I've been the last two years ( 0) member of the python community ( 0) mailing list of open-source project ( 0) jhuj ( 0) hakan ( 0) googled it figuring something like this must surely exist ( 0) google ( 0) from a friend ( 0) don't remember. c.l.py probably ( 0) don't remember ( 0) community ( 0) co-worker ( 0) boss and coworkers ( 0) blogs, website, word of mouth ( 0) Zope mailing list ( 0) Went to PyCon 2003 ( 0) Went to 2004 ( 0) Web friends ( 0) Various mailing lists and blogs ( 0) Unofficial Planet Python ( 0) Titus Brown ( 0) Through friends ( 0) The list ( 0) The Pycon Weblog ( 0) The Internet ( 0) Steve Alexander ( 0) Python411 ( 0) Python community ( 0) Python announcements list ( 0) Previous attendance ( 0) Planet Python RSS ( 0) Organizer ( 0) N/A ( 0) Mail lists and blog discussion ( 0) Local Python User Group ( 0) Last year's PyCon ( 0) Known from python community ( 0) Known about it forever ( 0) Known about PyCon's for a long time. python.org, friends. ( 0) Internship ( 0) I've been involved with Python for years - can't remember exctly. ( 0) I've been involved in Python for a long time. ( 0) I've been attending since 2003 ( 0). The company I worked for was a sponsor in 2003. ( 0) I'm an organizer. First heard on c.l.py probably ( 0) I don't remember ( 0) From the Python community -- it's been long enough I don't remember how. ( 0) From the Django project ( 0) From python.org link ( 0) Everywhere! ( 0) Event aggregator website ( 0) Eurpython and various sources on the web ( 0) Email announcement to local user groups ( 0) Don't recall ( 0) Daily Python URL IIRC ( 0) DFW Python user group ( 0) Co-workers had attended in previous years. ( 0) Co-workers ( 0) Chicago User's Group ( 0) CLPA ( 0) Been there the last 3 years now ( 0) Ages ago... forget. ( 0) 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% ( 0) 0% ( 0) 36% ( 0) 63% ( 0) 1% ( 0) 3.62 your overall satisfaction with the keynotes 2% ( 0) 6% ( 0) 53% ( 0) 37% ( 0) 2% ( 0) 3.28 your overall satisfaction with the talks 0% ( 0) 11% ( 0) 66% ( 0) 23% ( 0) 1% ( 0) 3.12 your overall satisfaction with the network 1% ( 0) 20% ( 0) 48% ( 0) 22% ( 0) 9% ( 0) 3.01 your overall satisfaction with the food 3% ( 0) 17% ( 0) 57% ( 0) 22% ( 0) 1% ( 0) 3.00 your likelihood of attending next year 1% ( 0) 8% ( 0) 40% ( 0) 51% ( 0) 0% ( 0) 3.40 }}} == Would you prefer a conference that took place == Only on weekdays 0.0 % ( 0) Includes one weekend day ( 0) 0.0 % ( 0) Includes two weekend days 0.0 % ( 0) = Talks = == What were your favorite talks? == {{{ ( 0) Keynote: Ivan Krstic ( 0) Keynote: Robert M. Lefkowitz ( 0) Lightning Talks ( 0) Keynote: Guido van Rossum ( 0) ( 0) twill, scotch, and figleaf -- tools for testing ( 0) ( 0) SQLAlchemy -- the Front-to-Back database toolkit ( 0) ( 0) Interactive Parallel and Distributed Computing with IPython ( 0) ( 0) IPython: getting the most out of working interactively in Python ( 0) ( 0) Web Frameworks Panel ( 0) ( 0) IronPython: Present and futures ( 0) ( 0) Using Stackless ( 0) ( 0) Towards and Beyond PyPy 1.0 ( 0) ( 0) WSGI: An Introduction ( 0) ( 0) Weaving Together Women and IT ( 0) ( 0) Understanding and Using NumPy ( 0) Keynote: Dr. Adele Goldberg ( 0) ( 0) Python inside Imageworks ( 0) ( 0) Testing Tools Panel ( 0) ( 0) Good-bye Hello World: Rethinking Teaching with Python ( 0) ( 0) Scaling Python for High-Load Web Sites ( 0) ( 0) Dateutil to the Rescue! ( 0) ( 0) Developing Desktop Applications with Dabo ( 0) ( 0) The Wonderful World of Widgets for the Web ( 0) ( 0) Why and when to use ctypes? ( 0) ( 0) The State of Python Advocacy ( 0) ( 0) Becoming an Open Source Developer: Lessons from the Django Project ( 0) ( 0) Iterators in Action ( 0) ( 0) How I Wrote a Python App and Got $5 Million ( 0) ( 0) Python for Students of the Modern World ( 0) ( 0) The Absolute Minimum an Open Source Developer Must Know About Intellectual Property ( 0) ( 0) Studying Internet Censorship: a Python case study ( 0) ( 0) Securing Python: 'Protecting the interpreter from code wielding fresh fruit' ( 0) ( 0) Visual Python in a Computational Physics Course ( 0) ( 0) PyDX: mathematics is code ( 0) ( 0) Test Automation for a Complex System: Technology and Social Aspects ( 0) ( 0) Pybots: Testing Python Projects in Real Time ( 0) ( 0) Python-Dev Panel: 'We make the things that make Python work.' ( 0) ( 0) Using Python Eggs ( 0) ( 0) Python on Parrot -- under the hood ( 0) ( 0) Embedding Jython applications in a Firefox Extension ( 0) ( 0) Writing Parsers and Compilers with PLY ( 0) ( 0) Introduction to Zope 3 - The Component Architecture ( 0) ( 0) Packaging Python apps for Linux Distributions ( 0) ( 0) Developing with IronPython and Windows Forms ( 0) ( 0) Creating the WhatWhat Project with TurboGears ( 0) ( 0) Accessing and serving scientific datasets with Python ( 0) ( 0) Python and vim: Two great tastes that go great together. ( 0) ( 0) Galaxy: A Python based web framework for comparative genomics ( 0) ( 0) Software Development with Trac ( 0) ( 0) The Star Schema in Python - Analysis and Reporting without Overheads ( 0) ( 0) Python, Unicode, and Internationalization ( 0) ( 0) State of Zope Panel ( 0) ( 0) Easy Creation of Interactive Tutorials ( 0) ( 0) The Essentials of Stackless Python ( 0) ( 0) Jython for Python Developers ( 0) ( 0) pyweek: making games in 7 days ( 0) ( 0) Python and wxPython for Experimental Economics ( 0) ( 0) Embedding Little Languages in Python ( 0) ( 0) SQLSoup ( 0) ( 0) soaplib: an easy-to-use python soap library ( 0) Tutorial: code like a pythonista ( 0) ( 0) Python In Open Pit Mining Operations ( 0) ( 0) Topographica: Python used for Computational Neuroscience ( 0) ( 0) Distributing your project with Python Eggs ( 0) ( 0) Writing a Python Extension module in C++ using Swig ( 0) ( 0) Developing Python applications in Komodo 4.0 ( 0) ( 0) Unit testing with mock objects using PyMock ( 0) ( 0) Write Less Code with XRC for wxPython ( 0) ( 0) Parsing revisited: a grammar transformation approach to parsing ( 0) pvm ( 0) lunch! ( 0) Twisted BoF ( 0) Tutorial: Testing Tools ( 0) Tutorial: Database API ( 0) The program was excellent. I wanted to 'waste' this vote to make that point. I had a hard time limiting my selections as I gained in so many areas! Treating lightning talks as a premium event was a WONDERFUL change. IMO, it is a KEEPER! ( 0) Openspace sessions ( 0) Might want to distinguish between favourite ( 0), useful. ( 0) Lefkowitz was really in a league of his own! ( 0) It was extremely difficult to narrow down to 5. ( 0) Ian Bicking's lightning in particular ( 0) Django BoF ( 0) BOFs ( 0) - The two open space presentations given by Enthought - Japan usergroup lightening talk - Another lightning talk that same period on human user interface development ( 0). The funny AE web development. }}} == What 5 topics should have been covered at PyCon? == {{{ ( 0) Twisted ( 0) Testing ( 0) SciPy ( 0) Optimization ( 0) web frameworks ( 0) system administration ( 0) pygame ( 0) libraries ( 0) Python Internals ( 0) Pylons ( 0) PyPy ( 0) python idioms ( 0) more of same ( 0) games ( 0) Python in embedded systems ( 0) Plone ( 0) OOP/Design Patterns ( 0) Future of the Python language ( 0) Embedding Python in other apps ( 0) Embedded Python ( 0) Databases ( 0) web services ( 0) web developement ( 0) tracks of topics to dig deeper ( 0) text processing ( 0) sub-sonic avionics ( 0) soap programming ( 0) setuptools ( 0) real-world iterator examples ( 0) real-world ctypes examples ( 0) qt3 and qt4 ( 0) pvm ( 0) profiling & optimization ( 0) practical data structures ( 0) performance ( 0) panel on setuptools vs distutils ( 0) other language changes ( 0) ( 0) multimedia ( 0) more panels in general on advanced development alternatives ( 0) more advanced web framework panel like last year ( 0) mod_python ( 0) meta programming ( 0) longer tutorials on sqlalchemy ( 0) limits of the python interpreter ( 0) http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/Construct/2.00 ( 0) how to use distutils ( 0) freevo ( 0) extension development ( 0) extending komodo 4.0 with firefox technology ( 0) everything else was covered ( 0) evangelism primer ( 0) enterprise web ( 0) enterprise topics ( 0) docutils ( 0) distutils ( 0) development in a team environment ( 0) decorators ( 0) cheetah ( 0) boot.python ( 0) better code commenting ( 0) ajax ( 0) advocacy ( 0) XML Processing with ElementTree ( 0) Writing a Trac plugin ( 0) Wrapping your brain around PIL ( 0) Worst things a python programmer can do ( 0) ( 0) Wing IDE plugins, creating ( 0) What is Pypi? ( 0) What Python could learn from Ruby ( 0) Web architecture, performance, and scaling ( 0) Web applications ( 0) Web application deployment/management ( 0) Using Apache ( 0) Travel arrangements wiki/blog page ( 0) Threaded python ( 0) Text processing ( 0) ( 0) Test Driven Development ( 0) Systems/Network management tools ( 0) Systems Administration ( 0) State of Python Distributions ( 0) ( 0) Standardisation efforts ( 0) Speech recognition ( 0) Software engineering ( 0) Smackdown of the top 3 web frameworks ( 0) Smackdown of the top 3 Python implementations ( 0) SimPy ( 0) ShedSkin ( 0) Scientific computing ( 0) Rule dispatch ( 0) ( 0) Room sharing wiki/blog page ( 0) Refactoring ( 0) RSS feed for schedule changes ( 0) RDF ( 0) Python/Objective-C bridge ( 0) Python vs and using Python with Java, C#, Ruby, etc ( 0) Python tips and tricks ( 0) Python predictions ( 0) ( 0) Python on Nokia N800 ( 0) Python in integration efforts ( 0) Python in education ( 0) Python best practices ( 0) Python 3.0 Demo ( 0) ( 0) Python 2.5 ( 0) Python 2.3 compatibility and how it affects you ( 0) ( 0) Python - write once - run on many ( 0) Pyrex ( 0) Pyjamas ( 0) PyUSB/PySerial ( 0) PyOpenGL/PyGame ( 0) Project management with Python ( 0) Profiling ( 0) Predictive dispatch ( 0) Plugins ( 0) Parallelism, concurrency ( 0) Parallel computing ( 0) ( 0) OS X and Python ( 0) OLPC Machine Python Internals ( 0) Not much else, really well done! ( 0) Nose ( 0) New projects unknown to me ( 0) ( 0) Nevow ( 0) Networking apps ( 0) Network distributed systems in python ( 0) More technical talks on *how* to accomplish things ( 0) More social interactions ( 0) More room in Django tutorial ( 0) More advanced topics! ( 0) Mobile devices ( 0) Mercurial ( 0) Large-scale Python deployments & projects ( 0) Kamalia ( 0) IronPython and ASP ( 0) IronPython ( 0) Intro to Sugar ( 0) ( 0) Intro for people new to programming ( 0) Internationalization ( 0) Integrating Zope 3 Components ( 0) Industry case studies ( 0) IP law ( 0) 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.... ( 0) How to add new numpy types ( 0) How YouTube runs on Python ( 0) HOW to use ctypes ( 0) Graphics ( 0) Generic Agile Testing Methods ( 0) General python programming talks, e.g. python magic ( 0) python idioms, or 'gettings more out of python', or optimizing python ( 0) GIL ( 0) Fun with generators ( 0) ( 0) Frameworks ( 0) FormEncode ( 0) FUSE & python ( 0) Encryption technologies ( 0) Elixir ( 0) Eggs-yes there were two but they didn't work well ( 0) Django ( 0) Development strategies ( 0) Cryptography ( 0) Creating extensions with pyrex ( 0) Coverage of editors and IDEs ( 0) Conducting code reviews in Python ( 0) Concurrency in Python ( 0) Community Building ( 0) Command-line parsing ( 0) Code coverage ( 0) Building a Zope3 app ( 0) Best practice ( 0) BOF talk wiki page ( 0) Artificial Intelligence ( 0) Applications of Python ( 0) Advanced topics ( 0) Advanced eggs }}} = Accommodations = == Where did you stay? == Hotel 0.0 % ( 0) Hostel 0% ( 0) With friends 0.0 % ( 0) Am local resident 0.0 % ( 0) Other: {{{ 1. I actually drove all night to get to the conference. Then I drove back after the tutorial ( 0), but I am very happy I came there... 2. Marriott Residence 3. residence inn 4. different hotel ( 0) 5. hotel other than the host hotel 6. In-laws }}} == What is your maximum per-person nightly room budget for accommodations? == $75 or less 16% ( 0) $100 0.0 % ( 0) $125 0.0 % ( 0) $150 0.0 % ( 0) $200 0.0 % ( 0) More than $200 0.0 % ( 0) == How are you paying for your PyCon trip? == 100% self-funded 0.0 % ( 0) 100% employer-funded? 0.0 % ( 0) Shared expense 0.0 % ( 0) If shared, how? {{{ 1. Employer paid registration, I paid travel 2. $500 from employer, rest from me 3. 50-50 4. Employer paid for flight, hotel, and registration. I paid the rest. 5. some discretionary research money 6. paid travel/hotel expenses for some 7. Press admission. I don't have money for accomodations, so I commuted. 8. Employer covers hotel and travel; I cover food and entertainment. 9. I pay expenses and for the conference, company pays for airfare and hotel 10. I am my employer }}} = Location = == If PyCon were not to be in Dallas,TX or Chicago, IL, what 3 cities/regions would you prefer? == {{{ ( 0) Boston MA ( 0) Washington DC ( 0) San Francisco CA ( 0) New York NY ( 0) Denver CO ( 0) Bay area ( 0) Seattle WA ( 0) Atlanta GA ( 0) Portland OR ( 0) san diego CA ( 0) Austin TX ( 0) Montreal QC ( 0) Los Angeles CA ( 0) Las Vegas NV ( 0) Chicago IL ( 0) Miami FL ( 0) East Coast ( 0) Cleveland OH ( 0) California ( 0) Silicon Valley ( 0) Orlando FL ( 0) New Orleans LA ( 0) Baltimore MD ( 0) hawaii ( 0) Vancouver BC ( 0) St. Louis MO ( 0) SouthEast ( 0) San Jose CA ( 0) Philadelphia PA ( 0) Northeast ( 0) Nashville TN ( 0) Midwest ( 0) Florida ( 0) Dallas TX ( 0) West Coast ( 0) Washington ( 0) Toronto ON ( 0) Tampa FL ( 0) Southern CA ( 0) Santa Fe NM ( 0) Phoenix AZ ( 0) Mountain View CA ( 0) Memphis TN ( 0) London ( 0) Kansas City MO ( 0) Houston TX ( 0) Honolulu HI ( 0) Denver/Boulder CO ( 0) Colorado ( 0) Boulder CO ( 0) southern california ( 0) somewhere mountainous ( 0) milwaukee wi ( 0) huntsville AL ( 0) el paso tx ( 0) don't care - just good airline connections, and central location ( 0) detroit MI ( 0) colorado springs CO ( 0) central oklahoma ( 0) buffalo ny ( 0) anyplace with good public transportation ( 0) anyplace warm in winter ( 0) any place not extremely challenging, expensive to visit ( 0) Washington/Oregon ( 0) Warm ( 0) Southwest ( 0) South Central US ( 0) Somewhere with good transportation ( 0) Somewhere in Colorado ( 0) Somewhere I'd like to visit anyway ( 0) Savannah GA ( 0) Sao Paulo ( 0) Sandusky OH ( 0) San Antonio TX ( 0) Salt Lake City UT ( 0) SF ( 0) Rio de Janeiro ( 0) Raleigh NC ( 0) Portland/Seattle WA ( 0) Pacific Northwest ( 0) Pacific North East ( 0) Other Midwest city ( 0) Oregon ( 0) Omaha NE ( 0) Northwest ( 0) North Midwest ( 0) North East ( 0) North Carolina ( 0) Newport Beach CA ( 0) NE ( 0) Montreal ( 0) ( 0) Mobile AL ( 0) Mid West ( 0) Los Angeles ( 0) ( 0) Long Beach CA ( 0) Lawrence KS ( 0) Las Vegas ( 0) Indianapolis IN ( 0) Hartford CT ( 0) Ft. Worth TX ( 0) Elsewhere on West Coast ( 0) ( 0) Doesn't really matter, if I can go, I will go where ever!!! ( 0) Columbus OH ( 0) Cleburne TX ( 0) Charlotte NC ( 0) Central US ( 0) Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina ( 0) Canada ( 0) CA or WA would be good sometime ( 0) Burlington MA ( 0) Bay Area/LA or other warm cali region with a beach and a major city ( 0) Arlington TX ( 0) Arizona ( 0) Anywhere with int'l airport }}} = Tutorials = == Would you be interested in attending half-day ( 0) tutorials next year? == Yes 0.0 % ( 0) No 0.0 % ( 0) == If yes, please list 3 tutorial subjects you would like to attend. == {{{( 0) twisted ( 0) Django ( 0) wxPython ( 0) SQLAlchemy ( 0) PyGame ( 0) testing ( 0) ctypes ( 0) Optimization ( 0) Advanced Python ( 0) pylons ( 0) Zope 3 ( 0) Testing Tools ( 0) Stackless Python ( 0) Parallel Programming ( 0) Object Oriented Programming and overall program structure ( 0) Database ( 0) Dabo ( 0) Advanced SQLAlchemy ( 0) zope programming ( 0) writing maintainable code ( 0) web frameworks ( 0) web application development ( 0) using matplotlib ( 0) unicode ( 0) turbogears and NVU or like ( 0) test automation ( 0) secure programming ( 0) qt4 ( 0) paste ( 0) numpy ( 0) nokia python ( 0) network utilities ( 0) beginner's python ( 0) metaclasses ( 0) jython ( 0) intro to turbogears ( 0) intermediate data structures ( 0) formencode ( 0) eric3 and svn ( 0) eggs ( 0) don't know yet ( 0) debugging ( 0) classes ( 0) advice for people new to programming/python ( 0) advanced anything -- all tutorials seem mostly beginner/intro level ( 0) advanced advanced ( 0) Zope3 Site Deployment and scaling ( 0) WxPython / Graphing ( 0) Writing unit tests ( 0) Writing c extensions ( 0) Writing a Twisted Server ( 0) Web Framework ( 0) ( 0) Web Application Programming ( 0) WSGI ( 0) Using the Natural Language Tool Kit ( 0) Using setuptools ( 0) Using SSL in Python ( 0) Using Python modules ( 0) Using Pyrex to write C extensions ( 0) Understanding generic functions ( 0) Twisted client-server development ( 0) TurboGears hands on programming ( 0) TurboGears ( 0) Trac Plugin development ( 0) Testing frameworks ( 0) Talking to hardware with Python ( 0) TCP/IP network programming ( 0) Scientific Computing with Python ( 0) Scientifc Python, Numpy etc. ( 0) Scaling Python ( 0) SQLAlchemy ( 0) ( 0) SQL Alchemy ( 0) RAD wxpython ( 0) PythonCard/wxPython/GUIs ( 0) Python optimization ( 0) Python metaprogramming: metaclasses and related stuff ( 0) Python internals ( 0) ( 0) Python idioms ( 0) Python code transformations using parsing modules ( 0) Python and SOA ( 0) Python Programming ( 0) Python Institute ( 0) ( 0) Python 101 ( 0) PyPy transformations ( 0) ( 0) Porting to Python 3000 ( 0) Patterns in Python ( 0) Parsing data from the Web ( 0) ( 0) Optimizing Python for Smarties ( 0) Optimisation ( 0) ORMs ( 0) OOP ( 0) OLPC ( 0) Module writing in C ( 0) or C# ( 0) ( 0) Meta-programming ( 0) Managing large projects ( 0) ( 0) Making Best Use of ZODB/Durus ( 0) Libraries ( 0) Leveraging Python 3.0 ( 0) Komodo hands on training ( 0) Jython/WxPython/IPython ( 0) Iterators, Decorators ( 0) Intro to agile programming; testing frameworks ( 0) Intro to Web Frameworks & Python ( 0) Intro to SQL & Python ( 0) Intermediate to Advanced Python ( 0) Interfaces in application integration ( 0) Int./adv. programming techniques ( 0) IPython ( 0) IP law ( 0) How to not mess up using setuptools ( 0) ( 0) Hard-CS topics ( 0) ( 0) Giving Talks about Python ( 0) Game Programming ( 0) Framework ( 0) ( 0) FFT audio analysis and filtering using Numeric ( 0) ( 0) Extensions, optimization ( 0) Extension writing ( 0) ( 0) ElementTree ( 0) ( 0) Eggs, distutils, etc. ( 0) Documentation and Testing ( 0) Django or TurboGears tutorial ( 0) Django for beginners ( 0) ( 0) Deploying a Python web app ( 0) Depends on what I'm doing next year ( 0) Decorators ( 0) Debugging Python Programs ( 0) Debian Python policy ( 0) Creating a SWIG .i file ( 0) Cool Things You Didn't Know about Python ( 0) Compiler Writing ( 0) Building a web gallery using Python ( 0) Basics of network programming ( 0) Anything about numpy or scipy ( 0) Anything David Goodger does ( 0) Advanced Web UI design/Development with Zope3 ( 0) Advanced Python Programming ( 0) Advanced Python Networking ( 0) Actor Gaming Using Stackless and PyGame }}} ---- CategoryPyConPlanning |
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