Entries For: July 2007
2007-07-17
Tux Droid at Europython 2007
by David BourgeoisTux, Se and me were at Europython last week. It was the opportunity to show what Tux Droid could do, meet a couple of guys from the python community and have a quick tour of Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital where the event was held.
Vilnius, here we go. Tux was proud to meet some old guys along the bridge getting to Vilnius "Old town".
I was really impressed by the quantity of churches over there. We did a quick tour of Vilnius in half a day but if you want to visit all of these churches, it will take a couple of days.
My talk was programmed on Monday morning at noon time and my slides were done just on time. I spent part of the night finishing up some interactive sequences I had with Tux during my talk. The presentation went well and people were quite curious about seeing Tux in real. I got some good feedback after the talk and some people had different interests around tux. We setup a table in the afternoon to show them and the 12 Tuxs we could take with us on the plane were adopted very quickly.
You can find most of my slides here.
On Tuesday, as we were supposed to have a table there to show tux during the day, but still wanted to see the presentations, I wrote a script during one of the many talks of Arlo Belshee (sorry for that ;-) so that we could leave Tux on a table with a computer and he'll do the presentation. He used a couple of my slides and explained all his functionalities by himself. That was great to see, and great for us as we didn't have to stay nearby all the time.
As I wrote that script in a hurry, it's pretty lame but you can still find it together with the slides on the script forum. I'm going to clean it a bit and extend it with some more functions and information, but that's already fun to look at. I'll post a video of that.
Finally, thanks to all the organizers of Europython, here you can see Laura Creighton and Aiste Kesminaite that somehow enjoyed the presence of Tux over there ( a glass of wine helps of course ;-).