Some PyCon Stats

2009-11-14 (permalink tags: , , )

Since I'm coordinator of the Python track at ConFoo.ca, I like to keep track of what's going on at other Python conferences. PyCon recently published the list of selected talks so I decided to summarize it into a few high level stats:

  • 96 sessions, that's 32 per day;
  • 69 presenters, 1 for 3 sessions, 8 for 2 sessions, 60 for a single session (there are panels and sessions with more than one presenters);
  • 75 sessions of 30 mins, 20 of 45 mins, and one that my scraper missed somehow;
  • 27 'beginner' sessions, 60 'intermetiate', and 8 'advanced'.

How does that compare with PyCon 2009? Honestly, I don't know. Quick like that I can say that it's going to be a larger PyCon and that the level of the talks is increasing but that's about it.

How does it compare to ConFoo? Hard to say since we have not selected the talks yet but it's sure to influence us on the number of talks per speaker and on the level of the sessions. By the way, the ConFoo call for speakers was extended by a few days so it's not too late to submit something over the weekend.

Comments

2009-11-14 23:15:20 by Doug Napoleone (direct link | reply)

Some additional information:

The number of proposals increased from ~130 for the past two years to almost 180.

Stats on the proposals: 2010 Stats 2009 Stats

We once again have 10 invited talks.

The # of advanced talks are actually wrong and we will be updating once we get confirmation from invited speakers whom are all set to 'intermediate'. A few of the accepted talks will be updated to 'advanced' as well to reflect changes during the review process; feedback from the PC resulted in proposal changes and shifts in talk focus, not all of which has been updated. We expect to have ~30 beginner ~45 intermediate and ~20 advanced. This was in reaction to requests be attendees to have more advanced material.

We will have 5 talk tracks instead of 4 as we have had for the past few years.

Sunday will once again be a 1/2 day for talks (actually closer to 1/3rd of a day due to poster sessions which have yet to be announced as the call for posters is still open: Call for Posters

This means that there will actually be ~40 talks Friday, ~40 talks Saturday, and ~16 talks Sunday.

The 2009 talks are here for scraping: 2009 Scheduled Talks

For 2009:

  • 76 talks
  • 60 speakers, 17 speakers with 2 talks, 2 with 3 due to panels. (we dramatically cut back speakers with multiple talks this year intentionally)
  • 56 30min, 18 45min, 1 55min panel, 2 60min panels
  • 34 beginner, 45 intermediate, 7 advanced
2009-11-14 23:18:45 by Doug Napoleone (direct link | reply)

um.. that should be 34 beginner, 35 intermediate, and 7 advanced for 2009.

2009-11-15 08:58:30 by Yannick (direct link | reply)

Thanks for the extra infos, Doug. It's really interesting to see the progressions.

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