Showing posts with label Free Software. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Free Software. Show all posts

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Python in the Clouds

Consegi 2010 is over. It was a great meeting! I was happily suprised to realize how far the adoption of free software has come in the last few years. Congratulations to the Free Software community for such a successful lobby!

Big thanks are due to Giuseppe (@gsromag) , Luiz Guilherme (@aldabalde) and their colleagues from SERPRO, who where responsible for the or ganization of this amazing meeting.

Python was also a big winner in this event. A large number of talks and workshops either focused or used python directly. I personally gave a workshop and a talk on Google App Engine in auditoriums filled to capacity with people with the most varied backgrounds, from students to government IT people.

Another interesting trend (sentiment?) that I could pick up in the event was a certain disconfort around JAVA, mainly due the its legal liabilities as illustrated by the recent legal action unleashed by Oracle against the usage of Java in the Android platform.

I was also glad to learn about the Free Cloud alliance, and some interesting free-software, cloud related tools such as NiftyName and Neopodd.

My big thanks to the organizers for inviting me, and for such a great event.




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