Things I learned at EuroOSCON

Man, it seems like there are more OSS conventions than there are holidays! Regardless, from what I am gathering, the conference known as the first ever O’Reilly European Open Source Convention was considered to be a huge success.

Last week was the first ever O’Reilly European Open Source Convention, held in the magnificent NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam. It was the first big budget conference I’d been too (previously I’ve stuck to less expensive affairs such as SxSW Interactive and PyCon) but the money seems to have been well spent. The venue was fantastic and there was a great line-up of speakers, keynotes and panels.

I organised a Python Lightning Talks session at the last minute (I agreed to run them on Monday) which, despite some trouble with the room booking, seemed to go pretty well. Overall there was a strong bias towards Perl at the conference, probably because the European Perl scene is well established (see the London Perl Mongers) and can provide plenty of excellent speakers. [Read the rest]

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