[yyggvbb]

I felt pretty disappointed going to the conference. Though it’s a pivotal and awesome time to be a Python dev and historic to remove the GIL. I found the talks to be very low information and sometimes not really relevant to the title and description of the talk. For example the “Blender integration” talk was 40 minutes with 8 minutes of blender discussion. The talk on Mocking was extremely basic and spent most of the time describing the concept of unit testing. Talks during the end of the day tended to be better than the morning ones. They need more web development experts of this committee, most of the web dev talks were rehashing online tutorials or felt that way.

[jbmny]

I attended, and one thing I learned is that being good at giving talks is often more important than the subject matter of the talk. It's all about keeping it slow and digestible and making sure you don't lose your audience. "Computational Origami" is an example of a talk I loved because of how well it was executed, not necessarily because of the subject matter.

[pingohits]

The origami talk was my favorite despite being the least relevant to python

[leetrout]

We might just be at peak webdev. Everything will seem new to someone and old to someone else.

There were so many bad talks at All Things Open in 2022 I didnt go last year. I will try it again this year, though.

The worst offenders are always 25 min talks with 10-15 min "why I am great" self-intros. I am in the minority, perhaps, but I dont really care what you have done / where you work if you have something interesting to say. But we all default to appeals to authority.

[yyggvbb]

Yeah I think we are past peak to that’s where the foucus on speed is coming from.

[gg1993]

What did you get out of it, if anything?

[yyggvbb]

The two talks about the Gil removal were great. Also pyscript is great though they had 3 talks for some reason and only one really explained it. I did not watch the keynotes, but I heard they were bad and not technical. The general friendliness was good, masks didn’t feel annoying to me as it was okay outside and when eating and it was easy to just go outside.

[gbnvc]

The two talks about the Gil removal were great. Also pyscript is great though they had 3 talks for some reason and only one really explained it. I did not watch the keynotes, but I heard they were bad and not technical. The general friendliness was good, masks didn’t feel annoying to me as it was okay outside and when eating and it was easy to just go outside.

[stuckinhell]

I agree with you.