diff --git a/Committee/2023-2024/Budget/11._Profile_Speakers.md b/Committee/2023-2024/Budget/11._Profile_Speakers.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..279635e --- /dev/null +++ b/Committee/2023-2024/Budget/11._Profile_Speakers.md @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +## Profile Speakers + +This year 30 members of Computer Society attended PyCon 2023 in the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Dublin. +PyCon is an international conference about the programming language Python. +There are several PyCon conferences run in Europe each year, with the Dublin one being one of the largest ones. +As such there is a large variety of top tier and distinguished presenters. +While it is a two day event we were only able to attend the Saturday of it. + + +### Pablo Galindo Salgado +#### The snake of Theseus +Pablo was the keynote speaker for Saturday of this conference. +His presentation was focusing on how the language itself has changed over time, so much so that the original code has all been replaced. +Yet it is still Python. +Even with Countless contributors over the years Python has changed, yet remained the same. +Different syntax, personalities and methodologies have contributed to shaping the language to what it is today and inspiring it forwards into the future. + +![img.png](11._Profile_Speakers_01.png) + +### Mia Bajić +#### The Standard Library TourK +Mia is a regular speaker at Python Conferences as well as co-organising the Prague PyCon in 2023. + +Her talk was aimed at enlightening attendees by informing them of the tools they did not know they needed, the unknown unknowns. +She opened up the powerful functions and methods contained within the inbuilt library to show us what we had been missing before now. +It was quite interesting seeing the emotions flash through the audience when folks realised that there were inbuilt and easier ways to handle objects and arrays. +Everyone left the lecture hall knowing far more than they entered. + +![img_1.png](11._Profile_Speakers_02.png) + +### Rodrigo Girão Serrão +#### How to implement a Python-like programming language +Rodrigo is an educator for mathematics and Python, particularly in the area of data processing and analysis. + +His main section in the conference was a workshop on how to create a new programming language by using Python. +This was an engaging introduction to compilers, a topic that is only covered by Computer Science in 4th year. +Within the two hours participants had constructed a small functional language and were given the tools/knowledge to work on it further. +Several of the attendees from our group have continued to work on their own language, taking inspiration from this workshop + + +![img_2.png](11._Profile_Speakers_03.png) + +### Steve Holden +#### The death of PyCon +Steve is the founder of PyCon. +He has been the Chairman and a director of the Python Foundation. + +He had the honor of opening the Lightning Talks for the conference. +Lightning Talks are 5 minute presentations where anyone can volunteer to present. + +His chosen topic was ``The Death of PyCon`` where he outlined tat community run events die if all the attendees stand back and watch. +The way forward is to roll up your sleeves and pitch in, in doing so it is a far better experience for all involved. + +<> diff --git a/Committee/2023-2024/Budget/11._Profile_Speakers_01.png b/Committee/2023-2024/Budget/11._Profile_Speakers_01.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1c217d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Committee/2023-2024/Budget/11._Profile_Speakers_01.png @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:95eaeeb0407ea65b49eb02514b9d014460cdcba62d10782b08e8e173f8ac28dc +size 124132 diff --git a/Committee/2023-2024/Budget/11._Profile_Speakers_02.png b/Committee/2023-2024/Budget/11._Profile_Speakers_02.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8040156 --- /dev/null +++ b/Committee/2023-2024/Budget/11._Profile_Speakers_02.png @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:6ad4aa7578df8f2bafc31815a2e40c408f891e901d81c1aa7c20cd567ab85ee3 +size 171221 diff --git a/Committee/2023-2024/Budget/11._Profile_Speakers_03.png b/Committee/2023-2024/Budget/11._Profile_Speakers_03.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..993f7b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Committee/2023-2024/Budget/11._Profile_Speakers_03.png @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:0511345340a5eee0bffc008903adba6af9654fd7d80952c20a68b8dc2d6e0a2c +size 252138