Travel Blog (2024)

For my penultimate trip of 2024, I presented at conferences on both sides of the pond. First, I flew cross-country to San Francisco for a couple of days at ODSC West. From there, I headed to Strasbourg for my first PyCon France. Finally, I spent a week in London attending a training before heading home.

The third edition of PyCon Portugal was in Braga – a new Portuguese city for me. Not only was I presenting, but for the first time ever, I was one of the volunteers that helped organize the conference.

The Asia leg of my 2024 conference tour consisted of a talk and sprint at PyCon Taiwan in Kaohsiung City along with a talk at PyCon Japan in Tokyo.

Over the span of 23 days, I circumnavigated the globe, stepped foot on every hemisphere, and visited three new countries (bringing my total up to 43). I made this trip in order to present at three new conferences – Kiwi PyCon, PyCon Poland, and PyCon Estonia – which happened to be taking place over three consecutive weeks.

EuroPython 2024 was a conference of firsts for me: my first time presenting my new workshop on pre-commit hooks and my first time organizing a development sprint. During my time there, I was also feeling very creative and built out some new pages for my website. In this post, I share my experiences during this week.