After cooling down from the intense heat with a swim in the hotel pool, we treated ourselves to a very typical Bolognese dinner near the hotel 🍝✨
Then one last round of chats at the hotel bar before the night ended.
Days at @pycon always become very long, and somehow nobody ever seems to want to go to sleep 😄
Next stop: the official start of the conference tomorrow morning 🐍
After the morning workshop about Django here at @pycon 2026, we rewarded ourselves with a good lunch at the hotel restaurant 🍝🐍
In the afternoon, while finishing setting up the community booths, I started meeting participants arriving for registration. Many of them then stayed for a relaxed chat and an aperitivo outside near the hotel bar ✨
We’re in Bologna. @pycon Italia 2026 starts today.
Find us at the Networking Area with Nephila gadgets, workstation rescue tools (powerbanks, adapters, cables, clickers), and the AI Debug Challenge.
Scan the QR code, open it on your phone, and test your instinct for spotting bugs in AI-generated code 👾
👇 You’ll find us in the Networking Area and around the conference starting tomorrow.
👾 Look for the 8-bit shirts and come say hi.
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 🙂
#PyCon #PyConItalia #Django #DjangoOnTheMed #DjangoOffTheMed #DotM
🎉 Ready for the social side of #PyConIT26?
🎤 Karaoke joins the PyDrink tomorrow night
🏛️ Last hours to book your guided tour. Reservations close tomorrow at 1 PM
See you around Bologna 💛
🐍 Day one of #PyConIT 2026 is HERE and Bologna is ready!
Free workshops, talks on everything from music with Python to WebGPU, and crescentine at PyDrinks tonight 🍝
The Python community never misses! see you there 👋
Are you headed to #PyConIT? Want to learn more about packaging apps with #BeeWare? @juanlu.space is giving a workshop.
Unfortunately, the Bee Team is missing out, but you don't have to!
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Day 0 of @pycon 2026 was quite intense already 🐍🇮🇹
After the train trip to Bologna we went to a traditional trattoria for lunch: tagliatelle al ragù, because “spaghetti bolognese” do not really exist here 😄
Then unloading the van with conference materials, testing the hotel pool with @carlton, pizza dinner with the PyCon Italia organizers, and ending the evening watching fireworks over the hotel pool 🎆
And the conference has not even started yet 😅
⏳ One day left until #PyConIT26!
Tomorrow we’ll finally meet in Bologna for talks, workshops, social events, and four days of Python and community 💛
🎟️ Joining remotely? Remote tickets are available on our website too.
On May 28 at @pycon 2026, Iacopo Spalletti (@yakky) will talk about FastHTML, Leonardo Cavallucci will dive into realistic E2E testing with Playwright, and Juliana Nicacio will explore async workflows in Django 6.0.
Three different perspectives from our Python team on how the Python and Django ecosystem keeps evolving. Come meet us on Thursday.
🫵 Which one are you most curious about?
👋 See you in Bologna!
