WOW.

Yesterday was the last day of GUADEC 2013 in Brno.

These past four days have been... WOW. Interesting and exciting talks (including some inspiring keynotes), great conversations, amazing human beings (once more, special mention for the Women's Dinner). It was fantastic.

I felt so well that I even managed not to make too much of a mess during my talk: I went through it a bit too quickly in the first half, but I managed to slow down in the second one (that was the one that I cared the most about), and in the end it was great having more time than previously thought for the discussion, which brought some great ideas for my future plans.

And today... Documentation BoF! Where all these plans will begin to be planned in more detail. After Ekaterina Gerasimova and Sindhu Sundar talks, after a couple of conversations with Meg Ford and Federico Mena Quintero, I am really looking forward to it.

The slides for my talk are here (.pdf). Kitten included. Have fun.

GUADEC + 1 (actually: + 2)

OK, I got it wrong.

GUADEC did not really end on Sunday.

On Monday, I went to my first hackfest - the PyGObject hackfest. It was fantastic. Thank you to Martin Pitt and Paolo Borelli and John Palmieri and everyone (sorry, I am terrible at remembering names!) that helped me to learn so many new things. Thank you, in particular, for your patience with this beginner.

On Tuesday, I finally sat down at a table with Tiffany and we redesigned what I am doing for this summer, given the many useful suggestions we had during GUADEC. The new idea: you should be able to consult the "example" pages (which are divided into: example, code for the example, useful methods, API references, exercises) both from a page that groups the widgets by "category" (windows, display widgets, buttons...) and from a page that gives you a series of "lessons" - a more "sequential" tutorial. The former is aimed at more expert hackers, whereas the latter is for almost absolute beginners. In the latter there are also the "theory" pages (properties, the MVC design...). For the order of the tutorial I owe a lot to Taryn Fox's page here (although I changed some things).

Any suggestion is, as always, very welcome!

Last day of GUADEC ahead...

After three intense days, which feel as full as a week and quick as a minute; after beautiful talks (not as many as I had hoped to have time or strength for), addictive chats (I did not expect as many, I want more!), great parties (thank you, organizing committee), games to rival the Olympics (thank you, Game Master! Also: we won!), general hacking (thank you yet another time, Tiffany; and thank you to Ryan and Colin who helped us), and last but not least incredible people, GUADEC 2012 will end today. It will be missed...

And at 3:30pm and something I will present my lightning talk on The 0 Beginners Tutorial for using GTK+ in Python. Feel free to come and/or to ask me about the content of the talk when you see me around... I surely have a lot of question for you if you are interested in the subject, since the tutorial is a work in progress and I am always trying to improve it!

and I love every minute of it!

Greetings from A Coruña.

I am getting used to eating dinner at 9:30pm (as opposed to 7:00pm, like we usually do in London).

Now I am waiting for the pre-registration event, for my mentor to arrive, for the conference to start!

And of course there are at least two talks I want to attend that are scheduled at the same time...

I'm attending GUADEC!

Plane (sigh, I hate flying!) and hotel: booked.

I can't wait.