The last two days of PyCon AU were devoted to sprints.
There were active sprints for CPython, Django, Zookeepr, Requests, Persona, and various other projects. There were about seventy people on the Monday, and forty on the Tuesday.
Chris N described the Wrest Point Casino as a “Frankenstein” building, which is a good description of how different parts of the casino have been tacked onto the original 1930’s hotel over the last six decades. The conference was based in the old hotel, which has some beautiful art deco rooms. The sprints happened in the Derwent Room, which happened to have a very nice fireplace.
Cunningly, there were no power points near the fire place, so you coded there for as long as your battery allowed…