Anniversary edition of PyConPL took place in Hotel Ossa Congress & Spa near Rawa Mazowiecka, Poland. During the days 17th and 20th of August around half a thousand people gathered at the biggest Python conference in Poland.
The tenth edition began with PyLadies workshops on 16th of August, it was the second edition with a multi-day schedule. Despite a huge interest, finally, because of financial aid, 22 people could attend (we strongly encourage supporting the next editions, so we can have more attendees). The formula of the workshops got revised based on experience from the previous year, and more attention was put on mastering the basics. A new set of materials have been created for this purpose. Additionally, during the last day, the attendees could focus on topics related to their interests. The workshops were supported by the Python Software Foundation, Dreamlab, Ebadu, Elastic and one anonymous donor.
In addition to the PyLadies workshop, a small workshop Reproducible Research took place, led by Mateusz Kuzak and Christian Barra.
Agenda of the conference consisted of 45 talks and 10 workshops. Five of the talks were keynotes and were delivered by Carol Willing, Mateusz Kuzak, Daniel Pope, Marc Garcia and Thomas Waldmann.
Traditionally they were financed in part with the funds provided by Python Software Foundation, which also supported the financial aid program for the attendees, resulting in $4500 combined.
On Thursday and Friday, there were Open Spaces, where the attendees could discuss various topics and meet new people. Thanks to the nice weather, we were able to organize a BBQ outside.
In the spirit of Star Wars, a third edition of the Python Challenges programming contest took place. There were also other activities that didn't require programming skills, such as board games, retro computers, and consoles. All that with interesting conversations lasting up to morning. Some people took place in evening sprints, that took place three times.
The 2017 edition was as calm as the previous years, by no Code of Conduct breaches noted by Anna Wszeborowska.
After the conference, some of the attendees prepared their own blog posts and summaries of the conference:
PyCon PL 2017 - our take on the biggest Python conference in Poland
