Why your employer Should send you to PyCon

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LINKS:
https://us.pycon.org/2013/about/what-is-pycon/
http://juliaelman.com/blog/2012/mar/13/my-first-pycon/
http://pydanny.blogspot.com/2011/01/why-you-should-go-to-pycon.html
http://jessenoller.com/2011/09/23/pycon-2012-sponsorship-making-the-case-for-sponsorship/
https://us.pycon.org/2013/sponsors/whysponsor/

Goal of this document: Provide a compelling case for why companies should send their employees to PyCon. Ideally tie into stories like this: http://pycon.blogspot.com/2012/09/pycon-us-2013-highlighting-aweber.html and http://pycon.blogspot.com/2012/09/pycon-us-2013-highlighting-dreamhost.html

This document will be converted to markdown/html and posted to the PyCon website and the PyCon blog.
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Pycon is where I find the technologies and techniques that I use the entire next year in our development cycle.

I also get to rub elbows with the maintainers of the packages we use. Great for future support!

PyCon provides extremely cost effective training. For the cost of a typical training program ($1,500) attendees have access to a wide variety of tutorials, presentations and discussions. Add onto that access the authors of libraries and tools they use and you have some very compelling reasons to attend PyCon.