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PyCon Uno

June 13, 2007 at 1:33 am · tags:

The first Italian Python Conference ever has been a great success. We (the organization board) had about 200 attendees and considering PyCon US had 600 this year I can bet the Python community is great.

Some random notes:

  • 21 talks not including the two keynotes and the lightning ones
  • The first keynote was about Technical management in software development and the open source lesson by Alex Martelli who flew from California just for us. Thanks a lot Alex!
  • The final keynote was about OLPC and it was held by Marco Pesenti Gritti. Thanks Marco!
  • We had a lot of fun in Florence (I think fun it’s essential in the Python world)
  • We had a couple of recruiters from Google hanging around :-)
  • The talks were divided in two tracks: discovering python and spreading python
  • We had talks about: Python in hybrid environments, Python in the pharmaceutical world, SqlAlchemy, a distributed CMS, a RAD framework with roots in both desktop and web environments, an application of docutils, unit testing of GUI applications, Python at NASA, SciPy on WSGI, psycopg (directly from its author), design patterns, business applications, Python and Unicode, PyPy (directly from Antonio Cuni), Python and Nintendo DS, Python 3000 (Giovanni Bajo anyone?), Django, Python in the high school and even a Webpanel with experts in Django, Nevow, Zope/Plone and Ruby On Rails.
  • About 10/12 attendees were female
  • I had the chance to meet a lot of smart people, to put faces upon names I read daily on newsgroups and mailing lists and to discover that there’s some kind of connection between former C++ers and Pythonistas
  • We recorded the talks so pretty soon we’re gonna have videos too.
  • Most of the people there had Apple laptops :-D

The people loved it, we spent a lot of time organizing the conference and we are pleased that it went all well.

I’m looking forward to PyCon Due :-)

I surely forgot to mention something 8-)

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PyCon It is approaching

May 18, 2007 at 12:22 pm · tags:

The first Python conference in Italy, ever, is finally approaching. Our aim is to promote, spread and get to know people in the Python world.

The conference will be held in Florence on June, the 9th and 10th.

If you understand Italian and are remotely interested in Python just come. I bet it will be great.

The conference is divided in two parallel tracks: the first one is a tutorial track and the second one is based on advanced material and use cases.

We’ll have a lot of speakers and a lot of known people in Italy among them (like the author of psycopg). We’ll also have two keynotes: one by Alex Martelli (Management of software development and lessons from opensource) and one by Marco Pesenti Gritti of Gnome fame talking about OLPC.

More Python in Italy means more fun and maybe more jobs :-)

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PyCon Italia, Call For Papers

March 27, 2007 at 1:10 am · tags:

We finally did it! A bunch of eager people including myself managed to organize what’s going to be the first Italian Python Conference, ever.

It will be held in Florence, in the wonderful Tuscany on June the 9th and 10th, 2007.

If you happen to be Italian and also interested in Python keep an eye on the official website. If, better, you’re also interested in taking an active part and speak to the fellow pythonista in the country read the instructions for the Call for Papers on pycon.it.

It’s gonna be cool so bookmark the website and check in the near future for further info.

Obviously the long term aim is to spread the Python word across to increase utilization, the community and maybe, why not, also the job offerings.

Python, Conference, Italy. Enough said!

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