[Conferences-discuss] Python 4 - my first and favorite

[Guido van Rossum]

> I'm not suggesting that Python 4 should be the model for the 
> small/cheap conference, but it had some features that really
> worked for me:

That was Python 5 (http://www.python.org/workshops/1996-11/) -- Python 4
was at LLNL (http://www.python.org/workshops/1996-06/).

In my memory, Python 5 at FedUnix was pretty dismal -- a huge glooming
building with nothing else going on (FedUnix started two days later,
we got space while they were setting up the expo space).

But yes, some aspects were good: free venue in a part of town with
lots of eateries.  I'm not sure if that particular kind of venue
scales to 300+ people.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)