5-minute talk about the Brazilian Python community and events, presented at PyCon 2009 in Chicago

1. Python in Brasil
Luciano Ramalho
Associação Python Brasil
luciano@python.org.br

2. Brasil is big
Territory larger than the continental USA
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Population larger than Russia
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Thousands of miles of beaches where you can swim
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year-round
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4. Brasil is complex
The only country in Latin America where Spanish
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is not spoken; we speak Portuguese
Belindia: islands of Belgium in a sea of India
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THX-cineplexes & slums
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5. The market
Brazilian Federal Government is a heavy user of
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Plone
Presidency, Congress, several ministries
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Serpro, the IT arm of the Brazilian Treasury, uses
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Plone in it's portal and Python in some systems
IDGnow, the largest IT news portal runs Plone
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No known large corporate users except for media
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Some small software companies are switching from
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Delphi to Python
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6. World-class
Brazilian Pythonistas
Some world-class Python users have software
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development teams in Brasil
Google, Nokia, Canonical, Mandriva
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Several Brazilian Python programmers telecommute
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to companies in Europe and the US
Core developers in large Python OSS projects
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Python (1)
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Plone (4)
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Zope (1)
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7. The community: origins
The year 2000 was key
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Mailing lists about Python and Zope created
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First FISL
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Fórum Internacional do Software Livre
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International Free Softwar Forum
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One of the largest OSS conferences in the world
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Aproximately 5000 attendees in recent years
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The leading voices met face to face
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friendships and a will to work together were born
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8. The community: assets
PythonBrasil.com.br
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A Moin-moin wiki
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Tchezope.org
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A Plone portal
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Mailing lists
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Python-brasil, zope-pt, django-brasil, pyscience-brasil,
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pygtk-brasil
PyCon Brasil
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9. The community: numbers
Attendance at our PyCons
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From 50 to 300 since 2005
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Main mailing lists (growth in the last 10 months)
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Python: 2276 to 2847, up 25%
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Zope: 965 to 1039, up 7%
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Django: 408 to 945, up 132%
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10. PyCon Brasil
2005: Campinas, SP
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2006: Brasília, DF
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2007: Joinville, SC
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2008: Rio de Janeiro, RJ
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2009: Caxias do Sul, RS
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2010: undecided
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Usually held at a university campus
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11. PyCon Brasil 2008
Rio de Janeiro
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Aproximately 300 attendees
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Several high-visibility sponsors
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First time we invited international speakers
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Bruce Eckel
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Alexander Limi, co-founder of Plone
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12. Associação Python Brasil
Incorporated in 2007
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Certified non-profit (org.br)
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Democratic and transparent governance
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Yearly elecions for directors and council
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Enabled sponsorships
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13. Come to Brasil!
We will continue to invite international speakers
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Do something cool, get voted, get invited, come!
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We welcome international speakers, sprinters and
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participants
But get a Visa if you are American or Canadian
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(reciprocity, sorry abou that)
Talk to anyone who's been to Brasil and you will know
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how welcome you will be
Paul Everitt, Bruce Eckel, Alexander Limi, Nate Aune,
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Shane Hathaway, Alan Runyan
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