I'm back from RuPy 2009 in Poznań. The conference was really good, much better than I anticipated. Unfortunately some talks that seemed interesting were cancelled.

The talk by David Goodger on communities (and puzzles) was really great. Kristian Rother's talk on development in Bioinformatics lab provided some insights on software development processes in groups of non-professional developers, followed with some interesting discussions during coffee breaks.

On the second day, the talk about RabbitMQ was nice, though neccessarily it covered just pretty basic stuff. The lecture on Python packaging ecosystem (by Tarek Ziade) was very informative and useful. Also, Tarek answered questions about customizing distutils to needs of specific projects (I will definitely try them out).

I took a shot at doing a lightning talk during the second session, but screwed it up; should have prepared the talk better.

Besides official talks, the chats during breaks made the conference even better.

Also, thanks to all the nice people at Duszpasterstwo Akademickie (University Ministry) at Order of Saint Dominic for helping Marcin and me with companionship, hot tea and even a tour of Poznań on Sunday evening.