Brandon is a consulting programmer and professional Python trainer who is looking forward to 2014 as his seventh PyCon. He started using Python in 1997 or 1998 (the exact year has been lost to history) and for 15 years has written and maintained the PyEphem library for amateur astronomers. He is the author of Foundations of Python Network Programming, was an architect of the New England Wildflower Society’s Django-powered “Go Botany” web site, and tries to share everything he learns with the community that has given him such a great programming language for free.