Karolina SurmaBack from #europython2024 in #prague
First and foremost: huge, gigantic thanks to all the wonderful people who made the event happen!
I still can't really get it how it's possible that a volunteer-led conference turns out to be sooo good.
I'm notoriously unable to just buy a ticket and enjoy the contents - this time I joined the organizers' team and it was a blast - a model contributing experience in a volunteer-led event. Big shoutout to Cristián Maureira-Fredes who led the Programme team!
The conference gave me an opportunity to share some aspects of the licensing anabasis in Python packaging - for such a dry topic I had a lot fun presenting it and from the later discussions, the audience was there with me. :)
And so it also happened, I had the honor to chair @ambv keynote which was one of the best talks I've ever heard. Chapeau bas for going full in with live coding!
I love the focus on making event as accessible as possible.
Among many of them:
- plentiful of vegan food
- hygiene products in the bathrooms included chewing gum, yeeees!
- low-stim room to rest when you're overwhelmed
- overall feeling of being safe to express myself in a way that's natural to me
The organizers have repeatedly made it clear that they're interested to hear ANYTHING that may make the event better for EVERY single person.
There were many #pyladies at the event and the whole day dedicated to PyLadies events.
I attended the Meet & Greet session on Thursday afternoon and would like to give a great shout out to all the ladies who attended. There were many things shared and brainstormed there. I felt like I belong.
I've met so many wonderful folks, plans were made, events will come!
This needs to come with another Giant Thank You to Mia Bajić and Bára Drbohlavová who organized the conference social events and enabled that to happen.