Hey Ed, I also wanted to chime in here. Its good to see your feedback about this conference!
-----Original Message----- From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ed Leafe Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 11:07 AM > They announced this morning that there are 1,025 > paid attendees at PyCon Atlanta, making it the largest > PyCon ever. What's more, nearly 11% were women: while > this sounds very small, if you've ever been to a tech > conference, you;ll understand how remarkable that is. I totally agree with you - that IS Good news! For so very long - it seems that our industry of techies is mostly populated by guys(myself included). It's a breath of fresh air to see more gals joining our ranks. They actually hired here at my job a Very pretty young lady about 5 months ago to program in C# - and she was sitting right next to me. And, I was overjoyed to have such a pretty cubicle mate - who also happened to be Smart and a Techie! It was Great! We even went out to lunch on several occasions - and she was very pleasant company! Too bad it didn't last - as she ran out of here several weeks ago - and quit the job - because of the treatment by a fellow programmer. And she refused to take any more! Oh well, its there Loss here - as she was a VERY Good programmer, and Very responsive - and many people here really liked her... > Just goes to show that the whole notion that "in-person > conferences are dead" simply isn't true. -- Ed Leafe I also agree with you there. Every year I go to a conference in my other field - computer graphics - as my other specialty is 3D graphics art. For me - I look forward to this conference EVERY Year! I get to meet so many cool people - as well as see really COOL Technology applications and presentations - as well as the newest and the greatest 2D and 3D animations in the World - as its an International conference. Next year will be the 1st time the conference will occur outside the USA - as it will be held up in Canada. Although - sadly enough - the number of attendees - and the overall size of the conference has been dwindling over the years. I remember about 8 or 10 years ago - which I went to the conference when it was in LA - there were about 60,000 attendees. Yet, in the past few years when its in LA (the conference occurs in different cities each year - with past years being San Diego, Boston & New Orleans to name a few) - the numbers have only reached about 35K to 40K. (When held in other cities like Boston or New Orleans - it tends to only get to around 20-23K.) The reason its so big in LA - is that this area of CA is at the heart of the movie industry - with Hollywood being there - as well as many of the biggest Animation studios! L8r, -K- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/289ea162f5642645b5cf64d624c66a14071a1...@us-ny-mail-002.waitex.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
