This past Saturday I have attended to PyDay Galicia 2017. It has been a very interesting one-day conference, with 2 tracks (Basic and Professional). These are some of the talks I have attended to:
Ricardo Samaniego talked about OpenCV con Python. A very engaging talk with loads of live demos showing the power that a few lines of OpenCV for Python can deliver.
Clara Casas Castedo and Miguel Sánchez de León Peque talked about Python para MacGyvers. The idea of the talk is to show the versatility of Python applied to a series of problems, explained in several jupyter notebooks.
Miguel González gave an astounding talk, oddly named Dónde está mi ñ. He recapped the history of language encoding, ranging from Morse to UTF-8, and explained how do encoding and decoding works in Python 3. A 5-stars talk, very illustrative and entertaining.
José Juán Montes gave two talks. The first one, about Automatizacion de hogar con Home Assistant: a Python package that enables not only a dashboard but a fully-fledged automation system. The second one (Análisis y visualización de datos con Cubes y CubesViewer) was about one side project that enables an OLAP front-end and capabilities over SQL backends.
Yamila Moreno talked about Cicerón y las comunidades tecnológicas. The classic virtues revisited in order to boost diversity and inclusiveness in our programming communities. You should check the slides right now :-)
Inés Vazquez explained the goals and actions that Adalab is performing in order to increase the diversity in our society. In the Q&A after the talk, many attendees showed interest in the subject, commenting that there are no similar initiatives in Vigo.
Jose Corral gave a talk about the evolution of the technological stack in his company and a brief introduction to Kubernetes.
And after some lightning talks, and a couple of post-event beers, I should say that it has been a very refreshing one-day conference. Kudos to the organizers!
P.D: My lightning talk Docker images for Python is now available online!