Is there a PyCon Python Conference held in Iraq? In a talk given at the Dutch Embassy in San Franciso, Guido van Rossum, the creator of the Python programming language, claimed that a PyCon is held in Iraq: > The Python user community is formed of millions of people who consciously use Python, and love using it. There are active members organizing Python conferences — affectionately known as PyCons — in faraway places like Namibia, Iran, Iraq, even Ohio! However, a simple search didn't turn up evidence of this, and the index of national PyCons does not list an Iraqi conference. Does PyCon occur in Iraq? Was Guido conflating this with the video conference call he mentions shortly after?

Python conferences are not "affectionately known as PyCons", so much as some conferences are authorised by the Python Software Foundation to license the PyCon registered trademark. It has been registered since 2014, two years before the van Rossum's speech.

The PSF PyCon Trademark Usage Policy explains:

> In order to protect the term "PyCon" against unwanted or misleading use by third parties, the PSF claims the term “PyCon” as a trademark worldwide for conference activities.
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> Use of the trademark is subject to approval by the PSF trademarks committee [...]

The same page also lists authorized PyCon community conferences, which excludes Iraq.

So, no there is no PyCon Iraq.