I just got back a few days ago from the 2012 edition of PyCon Canada , which was a great success. I wanted to thank the team who invited me for a fantastic experience: Diana Clarke who as conference chair did an incredible job, Greg Wilson from Software Carpentry with whom I had a chance to interact a lot (he already has a long list of ideas for the IPython notebook in teaching contexts we're discussing), Mike DiBernardo and the rest of the PyConCa team. They ran a conference with a great vibe and tons of opportunity for engaging discussion. Thanks to Greg I also had a chance to give a couple of more academically-oriented talks at U. Toronto facilities, both at the Sunnybrook hospital and their SciNet HPC center, where we had some great discussions. I look forward to future collaborations with some of the folks there. The PyConCa kindly invited me to deliver the closing keynote for the conference, and I tried to provide a presentation on the part of the Python world that I...
Thoughts and notes on open scientific computing, with a focus on Python-based tools (IPython, numpy, scipy, matplotlib and friends). By Fernando Pérez, UC Berkeley Statistics and Data Science Professor. Website at fernandoperez.org.