{ "metadata": { "name": "121120-Back from PyCon Canada 2012" }, "nbformat": 3, "nbformat_minor": 0, "worksheets": [ { "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "I just got back a few days ago from the [2012 edition of PyCon Canada](http://2012.pycon.ca), which was a great success. I wanted to thank the team who invited me for a fantastic experience: [Diana Clarke](https://twitter.com/@diana_clarke) who as conference chair did an incredible job, [Greg Wilson from Software Carpentry](http://software-carpentry.org) with whom I had a chance to interact a lot (he already has a long list of ideas for the IPython notebook in teaching contexts we're discussing), [Mike DiBernardo](https://twitter.com/mdibernardo) and the rest of the PyConCa team. They ran a conference with a great vibe and tons of opportunity for engaging discussion.\n", "\n", "Thanks to Greg I also had a chance to give a couple of more academically-oriented talks at U. Toronto facilities, both at the Sunnybrook hospital and their SciNet HPC center, where we had some great discussions. I look forward to future collaborations with some of the folks there.\n", "\n", "The PyConCa kindly invited me to deliver the closing keynote for the conference, and I tried to provide a presentation on the part of the Python world that I've been involved with, namely scientific computing, but that would be of interest to the broader Python development community in attendance here. I tried to illustrate where Python has been a great success for modern scientific research, and in doing so I took a deliberately biased view where I spent a good amount of time discussing [IPython](http://ipython.org), which is how I entered that world in the first place.\n", "\n", "This is the video of the talk:\n", "\n", "