PyCon Due, Florence, Italy

Today I held a presentation of my Skype4Py binding at the PyCon Due conference in Florence, Italy. It was actually my first talk ever. It went OK but there is definitely space for improvement. It turned out I wanted to talk about too much stuff and was short on time. But the audience reaction was positive and it seems they had no problems understanding the concepts of Skype4Py. I'm looking forward to get some new library users.

The conference itself is very well organized. Lots of nice stuff is included in the participation fee, including a tasty launches every day and cakes during the coffee breaks. Besides normal talks, there are two interactive ones which seem to be an interesting way to get closer with the audience, unfortunately in Italian only, which I don't speak.

I also met with Antoine Bertout and Avo Nappo from Skype. We talked about the future of Skype4Py, how it fits into the Skype extras model and what can be done to promote it. Some ideas we came up with are very interesting so stay tuned.

I'm staying in Italy until Monday evening. I still have some time to walk around Florence and visit various famous places it has to offer. It's definitely a beautiful city, I like it very much.