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## Profile Speakers
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This year 30 members of Computer Society attended PyCon 2023 in the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Dublin.
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PyCon is an international conference about the programming language Python.
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There are several PyCon conferences run in Europe each year, with the Dublin one being one of the largest ones.
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As such there is a large variety of top tier and distinguished presenters.
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While it is a two day event we were only able to attend the Saturday of it.
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### Pablo Galindo Salgado
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#### The snake of Theseus
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Pablo was the keynote speaker for Saturday of this conference.
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His presentation was focusing on how the language itself has changed over time, so much so that the original code has all been replaced.
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Yet it is still Python.
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Even with Countless contributors over the years Python has changed, yet remained the same.
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Different syntax, personalities and methodologies have contributed to shaping the language to what it is today and inspiring it forwards into the future.
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### Mia Bajić
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#### The Standard Library TourK
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Mia is a regular speaker at Python Conferences as well as co-organising the Prague PyCon in 2023.
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Her talk was aimed at enlightening attendees by informing them of the tools they did not know they needed, the unknown unknowns.
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She opened up the powerful functions and methods contained within the inbuilt library to show us what we had been missing before now.
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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.
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Everyone left the lecture hall knowing far more than they entered.
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### Rodrigo Girão Serrão
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#### How to implement a Python-like programming language
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Rodrigo is an educator for mathematics and Python, particularly in the area of data processing and analysis.
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His main section in the conference was a workshop on how to create a new programming language by using Python.
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This was an engaging introduction to compilers, a topic that is only covered by Computer Science in 4th year.
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Within the two hours participants had constructed a small functional language and were given the tools/knowledge to work on it further.
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Several of the attendees from our group have continued to work on their own language, taking inspiration from this workshop
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### Steve Holden
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#### The death of PyCon
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Steve is the founder of PyCon.
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He has been the Chairman and a director of the Python Foundation.
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He had the honor of opening the Lightning Talks for the conference.
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Lightning Talks are 5 minute presentations where anyone can volunteer to present.
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His chosen topic was ``The Death of PyCon`` where he outlined that community run events die if all the attendees stand back and watch.
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The way forward is to roll up your sleeves and pitch in, in doing so it is a far better experience for all involved.
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<<https://www.linkedin.com/in/holdenweb/>>
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