Ooookay, the follow-up of my PyConBrasil[3] musings took longer than I expected :P

Anyway, after many hours of an exhausting drive, a nice get together in a local bar and, for at least two of us, an international travel, Danilo, Leo, Nate and I were all very tired. Besides, I forgot to mention on the previous post but, when we arrived at our hotel, we found out that they had cancelled our reservations without any warning! Luciano Ramalho managed to find a couple of rooms in the hotel where he was staying, we drove over and finally managed to sleep.

With all that, we were late for the first day of the conference and ended up missing Pedro Werneck's talk ("What Python Does When You're Not Looking", which was widely hailed and everyone agreed was a mistake to slot so early in the morning).

Actually, we got there just in time for Nate's "Multimedia and Podcasting with Plone" presentation (which was convenient, since he was in the car with us ;)). I only knew Plone4Artists by name and, being a frequent complainer about Plone's late adoption of "whistles and bells" (a complaint Plone3 also put to the ground), I was really impressed! I hope I get a chance to play around with it soon (and apparently I will! But more on that later). Nate also gave us a sneak preview of a website he and others at Jazkarta have been working on. But I won't name it or link to it here, because it only officially launches at PloneConf next week and I don't want to spoil the surprise :).

As usual, I skipped many of the presentations to talk to people outside the conference room, and the next one I watched was Dirceu Tiegs's "Introduction to Grok". Now, I've had a lot of interest in Grok lately and have been somewhat involved in Luciano's Kirbi project (though far less than I wanted to), so it was cool to see Grok in the spotlight (with at least two talks and a training session). I also got a chance to buy a Grok t-shirt (like the one Leo's wearing in this picture) :).

Leo, BTW, sensibly changed the topic of his presentation from "Security in Plone" (an interesting subject, but there were a lot of plone talks already) to Ipython (which most people at the conference didn't know about, or didn't use regularly). A very cool presentation, despite some difficulties getting the colour scheme right for projection.

I also particularly enjoyed Érico's "Why Python Matters" (and its point that "industry standards" are stuff to beware of) and Senra's "Pyrotechnical Show - Part II" (neat tricks, impress your friends at parties!).

Another one of notice to me was LZT's presentation of their gas station automation system (in Python, obviously): based on the screenshots they showed, the gas station where I usually refuel my car uses this system! I was so amused by this that I decided not to post here the picture of their jobs page written in php ;). That, and the picture came out too light :P.

There were a few more presentations, some more relevant than others, and then, of course, a large group of us went to a bar for the night :).