Back from PyCon Argentina

I don't have the words to describe how well organized the event was, how good talks were and how much fun I had these two days at the PyCon Argentina 2009.

On friday I had the chance to see these great talks:

• Python as a hacking language
• Byte twiddling
• Do the electric serpents dream?
• Extending PostgreSQL with PlPython
• Hacking Django

The end of the day was the keynote given by Jacob Kaplan-Moss titled "The State of Django", as you might know Jacob is one of the creators of Django.

Aversely from what the title says, the talk was not really related to Django itself but he talked about the current state of Web Development techonologies, HTML5, the problem of concurrency in Python and what we should do to make python the language of the Web on the 2020. A really perfect keynote.

On saturday I started the day with:

• PyQT, wxPython, PyGTK
• from wiimote import fun
• Python 3000
• Twisted for human beings
• Python development with buildout and virtualenv

This time the end of the day was on charge of Collin Winter, who works for Google and who is one of the guys working on a project called unladen-swallow, which is a CPython implementation which has as main objective to be completely compatible with CPython and (at least) run 5 times faster.

This presentation has blown our minds off. He talked about how this speed increase could be achieved, what's the status of the project and which are the future plans.

I really hope this project continues doing well so we can see this project merged with the CPython 2.x upstream in a no too far future.

Closing thoughts, you should notice the conference was really great, I have to say that even the lightning talks were excelent!

A weekend to remember, I take this oportunity to give thanks to all the colaborators, they did an outstanding job to make this conference the nice it was.

See you next year in Córdoba ;)