Just getting things started here so I can post my thoughts during this conference. I'll likely create child streams for the Sprints and different talks that I attend.

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Looking forward to picking up [Michael Trier](https://twitter.com/mtrier) and having a pre-sprint dinner before meeting up with folks at Emma.

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Very active sprints for the initial night! Lots of Pinax activity.

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Look at what Alex Gaynor has made [cryptography.io](https://cryptography.io/)

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Wow. That was a fantastic conference. Very proud that this was in *my* city. I was too buys chatting with the attendees to spend time live "ThoughtStreaming".

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There was a healthy interest in Pinax and Eldarion open source and got some great contributions on [biblion](http://github.com/eldarion/biblion), [kaleo](http://github.com/eldarion/kaleo), and [anafero](http://github.com/eldarion/anafero).

In addition, was able to introduction the [pinax-starter-app](http://github.com/pinax/pinax-starter-app), [pinax-project-blog](http://github.com/pinax/pinax-project-blog), and in general the concept of Pinax as a whole to a number of folks.

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The final talk/keynote of the the conference, I thought was fantastic and completed a nice theme in this conference which was the involvement of children who want to learn to code.

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Jessica McKellar's final keynote:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Slides from my <a href="https://twitter.com/PyTennessee">@PyTennessee</a> keynote on CS ed. &amp; teaching the next generation of Python programmers: <a href="http://t.co/Kgo68Oemdn">http://t.co/Kgo68Oemdn</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23PyTN2014&amp;src=hash">#PyTN2014</a></p>&mdash; Jessica McKellar (@jessicamckellar) <a href="https://twitter.com/jessicamckellar/statuses/437710037604003840">February 23, 2014</a></blockquote>

As well as Katie Cunningham [teaching a young coders class ALL DAY](http://programming.oreilly.com/2013/08/so-you-want-to-run-a-young-coders-class.html), made for what I hope to see more off at programming conferences.

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I have thought for years now that schools should be teaching programming as young as elementary the way my generation learned typing. It was a standard thing. 

Even if kids are not going to be programmers, understanding the basics of development will serve them well.

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The combination of Jessica's talk and Katie's light-talk report, provided lots of concrete ideas for taking action.

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Katie had mentioned a link in her lighting-talk to a Github repo with the curriculum for running a class. But I don't remember nor am unable to find it right now. However, I think that would be a very doable thing to do at my kid's school one Saturday.