Hot Talks at PyCon 2009

This year's PyCon talks look absolutely fabulous, and should be a real treat for attendees. I'm probably not going to be able to make it (working for a startup last year put me in a financial position I'm only slowly recovering from). Since it looks like the Landscape team won't be sprinting there this year, Canonical won't be footing the bill.

Were I to attend, though, the talks I have my eyes on are the following (listed in visual scanning order of the schedule):

< li>Twisted, AMQP and Thrift: Bridging messaging and RPC for building scalable distributed applications (#40)
• Panel: Python VMs (#15)
• Building tests for large, untested codebases (#112)
• Introd uction to Multiprocessing in Python (#6)
• The State of the Python Community: Leading the Python tribe (#118)
• PyPy status talk. (#72)
• Concurrency and Distributed Computing with Python Today (#49)
• Batter ies Included! Python on Low Cost Tiny Embedded Wireless Devices (#28)
• Easy AI with Python (#115)
• Abstraction as Leverage (#110)
• Metaprogramming with Decorators and Metaclasses (#120)

There are many different wonderful topics being covered at PyCon this year – this just happens to be the list that converges most closely with my own interests :-) No offense if I've left you out!

I will be sorry to have to miss these, but I will greatly look forward to their audio or video recordings as well as the presenters' published slides and papers.