Paolo Melchiorre (74)
This afternoon at PyCon Italia 2026 I’m serving as talk manager in the “Gnocchi” room 🎤🍝
Right now I’m helping Aastha Asthana prepare her talk “Beyond Caching: Supercharging Python with Redis Data Structures”.
It’s always nice to help other speakers feel comfortable on stage, especially people giving one of their first talks, just like many others helped me years ago with mine ✨
Did anyone take a photo of Deb Nicholson pineapple pizza slide? 🍍🍕
As an Italian, I was too shocked to react quickly enough and capture it myself 😭
Currently following Pablo Galindo’s keynote at PyCon US 2026 🎤
It’s the first keynote in Spanish at PyCon US, and even as an Italian speaker I’m able to follow most of it surprisingly well 🙂
Pablo is giving a keynote that is both very interesting and genuinely funny, while talking about the life of open source maintainers and the changing world around them.
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Today was Beginners Day at @pycon 2026 🐍
Me and @carlton used the morning to run Django Off The Med: a small @django sprint, far from the sea but with the same spirit of Django on the Med.
Beginners, first-time contributors, and more experienced people worked together on issues and pull requests.
A productive and very nice way to start the conference 🙂
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PyCon US 2026 has officially started at the Long Beach Convention Center with the opening presentation from the Python Software Foundation ✨
The venue is now completely full of people from the Python community from all around the world.
After my talk this morning, I spent most of the afternoon in the hallway track talking with many people from the community 🙂
A lot of conversations started directly from the topics discussed during the session.
One of my favorite things about PyCon US is how many different communities, companies, and people all end up sharing the same space for a few hours ✨
Tomorrow morning the conference officially starts with the first keynote.
And for me, the next stop will be my talk tomorrow at 11:00 in the AI track 🎤
I spent most of the opening reception walking around the expo area, talking with people from sponsors, startups, the Python Software Foundation, Django, and many other communities 📸
Also met speakers, old friends, and many people from the US Python community and beyond.
Today is mostly a jet lag recovery day 😴
I went to the conference venue to pick up my badge while tutorials and sponsor talks were already running, and I already met and greeted some of the first people here.
The conference hasn’t officially started yet, but the Django/Python community atmosphere is already everywhere ✨
This afternoon was the opening reception of PyCon US ✨
The expo hall finally opened and the whole conference slowly came together in one place after the tutorials and sponsor talks.
A lot of people already here for the first days of the conference gathered to chat, meet again, and explore the booths.
