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title: Pycon Argentina 2009 Day 1
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I am tired as a dog, back home after day 1 of PyCon Argentina 2009.

So, what happened:

* I was late with my brochures because the train got delayed (doors were not closing, so we had to change trains)

* Anyway, I got there kinda in time (about 30 minutes after registration started)

* Saw `Leito Monk's lecture`_

* Saw `Alejandro Cura's lecture`_

* Saw the final printed version of `the python tutorial in spanish`_. He is experimenting with *very* low cost printing to use for educational purposes. It looks nice, and I am a very proud uncle, since it was typeset using rst2pdf_!

  I hope I can get a copy tomorrow!

* Then the lights went out, so had a coke with Leito

* Then lunch

* Saw Karucha's `Juegos educativos con PyGame`_

* Grabbed a precious seat near a power outlet and worked in...

* My `A spellchecker in 5 minutes`_ lightning talk! Based in `this Norvig code`_

  I think it went fine. At least it lasted EXACTLY 5 minutes and covered all the slides :-)

* Talked a minute with `Jacob Kaplan-Moss`_, told him I wrote rst2pdf_, he said he likes it (blush) and maybe something about using it to generate custom books to sell via lulu.com_

.. _lulu.com: http://lulu.com

.. _rst2pdf: http://rst2pdf.googlecode.com

.. _Jacob Kaplan-Moss: http://jacobian.org


Now, to finish writing my slides for tomorrow!


.. _A spellchecker in 5 minutes: //ralsina.me/static/spellcheck.pdf

.. _this Norvig code: http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html

.. _Juegos educativos con PyGame: http://ar.pycon.org/2009/conference/talks/#proposal_link_29

.. _the python tutorial in spanish: http://trac.usla.org.ar/proyectos/python-tutorial

.. _Leito Monk's lecture: http://ar.pycon.org/2009/conference/talks/#proposal_link_39

.. _Alejandro Cura's lecture: http://ar.pycon.org/2009/conference/talks/#proposal_link_41