EuroPython 2008 is over. I packed and now I am waiting to leave for the airport to catch afternoon flight back home. Sadly I don’t have time to attend sprints and since I only recently started to write python again, I probably wouldn’t be of much use anyhow.

Conference itself was great. Smaller than web conferences I usually attend with a more friendly, homey feeling, but with plenty of excellent talks where I learned a lot. I also met a bunch of friendly interesting people and had in general a wonderful time.

It was also interesting to compare the whole experience with other conferences I go to. Apple is popular, but there are fewer Macs than at web events. Ubuntu seems to completely dominate Linux crowd (me included), since it was the only distribution I actually have seen and Windows is in minority. Everyone is much more willing to participate to the point, where sadly not all who wanted to present a Lightning talk on last day had the opportunity to do so.

I certainly hope to attend EuroPython 2009, which will be in Birmingham around this time next year. At the end I also have a present. Yesterday I got a license for Wing IDE Professional and since I don’t need one, I’ll give it to the first person who expresses a wish to have it in comments and leaves his/her email address in relevant part of comment form.

Update : License is gone, sent to a new owner.