My talk "Writing your own python types in C" went OK. 150 people is more than I've spoken in front of in a long time, if ever. Some technical glitches and being the first talk on the first day compounded my nervousness. Next year I'll do a better job.

Lots of companies were here recruiting though with varying degrees of umph. When all the googlers are hanging out in the EWT suite it is a sign that maybe google should have one too. The CCP guys donated some beer on one of the nights but failed to mention they had an open tab at the bar for the whole week (they forgot because they were hanging out in the EWT suite as well). Tummy.com organized pool side pizzas on the last night.

At least for the companies I just mentioned this was all very non rivalrous (heck, the Tummy party included leftover beer from EWT). Many of the individuals representing the companies are python-devs and knew each other before they started their current gig. Mainly it is that orgs using python know that broadly supportive is a better strategy than trying to fight over developers in a zero-sum game. I was just surprised that most of the sponsoring companies spent thousands of dollars sending representatives and printing T-shirts and then stopped short of spending an extra few hundred a day on food and beer. Go figure (though the free T-shirts were popular. I don't understand that phenomenon).

Sprints started this morning, I promise to blog more about that than I have the conference.

Oh, and the Bowling BoF was a bust. Roberto de Almeda was the only one to sign up. Hopefully next year I'll be a sponsoring bowling dotcom and can do more to promote the idea than put up a wiki page.