PyCon Days 2 & 3
Yesterday, I described the first keynote, which was about the OLPC project, as “inspiring”. Today’s first session was a keynote by Adele Goldberg entitled “Premise: eLearning does not Belong in Public Schools”. I would describe her talk as disturbing and challenging but hopeful. The condition of public schools in the United States is troubling. It seems that attempts to use computers in public schools to help better educate the children are destined to fail. This is a gross generalization, to be sure.
The next session I attended was an overview of SQLAlchemy by Mark Ramm. After SQLAlchemy, I attended a talk on IronPython by Jim Hugunin.
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Yesterday brought PyCon 2007 to a close. Well, sort of. There are sprints going on for the next few days, but the formal sessions are over. This was a great experience for me and I’m already looking forward to next year. I’ll try to put my thougts together for a “PyCon 2007 as a whole” blog post later.
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(In case you missed the earlier link: PyCon Day 1).
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