A site dedicated to showing how awesome PyCon was

A site dedicated to showing how awesome PyCon was(thisispycon.com)

40 points by megamark16 13 years ago | 10 comments

gojomo 13 years ago |

This site would be even stronger if it didn't mention the "sensations... inappropriate jokes... distastefully ugly backlash outside" at all.

Those captivated by that flaming (but short-burning) controversy can already appreciate the contrast. Others with negligible awareness of the controversy can just enjoy the awesomeness, without the injection of another emotionally-loaded reference.

hynek 13 years ago | |

I felt like it was good to mention it when we started out to give context. I’ve banned it now to a sub-page. I don’t want to remove it for good so nobody accuses us of being sneaky and ignoring incidents or something like that. It’s not the first thing you see when you come to the page anymore though.

jinushaun 13 years ago |

I must be the only one that doesn't think PyCon was tainted by Donglegate. This is TMZ for nerds.

hynek 13 years ago | |

Unfortunately mass media chose to report only on donglegate. One of them even started with something like “PyCon was as boring as a tech conference goes [until donglegate].”

mbetter 13 years ago | |

I think you're supposed to use asterisks instead of saying the D-word now.

eliben 13 years ago |

"And if you want to say “thank you” you should do so on Jesse’s Gittip page."

OK, seriously?

res0nat0r 13 years ago | |

What is wrong with giving the organizer of the conference a tip if you think he deserves it?

eliben 13 years ago | | |

Because this is about PyCon, not Jesse. With all due respect (and I respect him - he did a great job) he's not the only one who's been working to make PyCon possible and great. Not to mention the other people working on the organization, there are also the (unpaid) tutorial teachers, presenters, session leaders, volunteer developers of Python itself and other open-source related tools, and so on.

zalew 13 years ago |

isn't this http://pyvideo.org/category/33/pycon-us-2013 that site?