I came back yesterday from the third Italian PyCon (aka pycon3) which was held in Florence and all I can say is that has been an amazing experience. I had the chance to meet a lot of new great people as well as the BDFL (which won’t be back in Europe for quite some time, as he said). Here follows a resume of what I think were the most interesting talks.
On first day, there were two keynotes: “A retrospective of how the community helped build Python 3.0”, held by Guido van Rossum and “Zen and the art of Abstractions’ maintenance” by Alex Martelli. I can just say that they were two extremely interesting talks which by the way weren’t diving too much — or any at all as in Guido’s talk — into code.
On the second day I really enjoyed two talks: “Erlang + Python, joining two worlds” by Lawrence Oluyede and a really great talk by Raymond Hettinger, “Easy AI with Python.” The former left me with a great curiosity about the functional languages world, while the latter really impressed me with how easy is to solve certain AI problems with Python (I solved many of the problems Raymond talked about previously, but never in Python and never really thought about even trying to).
On third day the Antonio Cangiano’s talk was enlightening. Even though it wasn’t really Python specific, he has given a great insight of how you can, well, “become rich with Python.”
Unfortunately I didn’t follow the Sunday afternoon’s talks since my airplane was leaving at 3.00pm, but at the end I can say that this was an incredible experience that I hope I can make again next year. And as a side note: the food was marvelous.
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