PyCodeConf, PyOhio, and Airbnb -- "Don't Forget the Humans"

I posted this on the OP's blog; but I figure it's worth repeating here as well.

I'm only involved as a speaker; I was invited to speak, and so I am going to speak. Yes, I am the chair of PyCon, but me speaking at a conference is orthogonal to that.

I am not an organizer - but I am interested in seeing how "other conferences" such as pycodeconf run and play out in the community. I also don't drink, so I don't think I'll be attending many, if any of the parties.

The Python community has room in it for many types of conferences - DjangoCon, PyCon, PyOhio, PyTexas, EuroPython, PyCon Ireland, PyCodeConf - frankly, the more the merrier - each one brings its own flavor and color to the community.

Will PyCodeConf succeed? I don't know - but for me, as someone who has never been to an animal like it (unless you count Linux conferences in the dot com) I am very interested to see how it works, and how the community/attendees like it/etc.

As a PSF director; I can state that the PSF is frequently promoting and assisting in financing exactly the types of conference you cite; that's how we, as a board, feel that we can help grow the community we have all grown to know and to love.

So, in essence, I believe there is room for all of these flavors and conference, and they all go into making this fantastic community (http://jessenoller.com/2011/07/28/thank-you-the-impossibilit...) we both love so much.

No one is forgetting the humans, at least not while I'm around.