Articulo de primera PyCon Colombia a la pagina principal en inglés y español

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 ### The Call[^not-a-call]
 A couple weeks after and during a work trip I saw a message about being a volunteer at PyCon by Javier. OMG!, OMG! --totally keeping composure in front of clients while running in circles and skipping around in my mind[^on-skipping]-- I'm getting the chance to participate in a PyCon!
 
-![seinfeld-celebration](/img/posts/2024/primera-PyCon-como-voluntario/seinfeld-celebration.gif)
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 ### First Volunteer work.
 I arrived, was given a wrist band to help identify me as an attendee. The organizers tried to give me a volunteer T-Shirt, but there were none my size (not important, happens a lot). And was given the task to guard the entrance to the main Auditorium. Felt like being a very kind bouncer. Only had to check everyone had the wrist band and remind that beverages and food had to stay outside. While standing in the way I saw [Nicole Franco](http://www.nicolefrale.com/) (the host at auditorium 101), then Javier came and pointed her out and then she came by and introduced herself. This continued during most of Qumisha's talk. The keynote talk quickly rose above all the noise and it became harder to pay attention to those entering the auditorium; thankfully almost everyone was already inside.
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 Now, adding a little bit of crazy to a long task helps doing it: I developed the theory that Nicole is a real-life Jedi. Listen, she needed the speaker to look at her to see the little papers with 10, 5 and 1 minute time warnings. She would look at them attentively and eventually they would look back at her. She was doing something, I didn't know what at that moment; more on that later.
 
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 Aaand first day ended with [Cristian Oña](https://2024.pycon.co/en/speakers/christian-ona) talking about automating pen-testing with python. A theme that we already knew about from our dear friend Sergio Molinares[^pentesting]. I'm not forgetting Matt Harrison as keynote speaker, we'll talk more later more about him.
 
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 The afternoon at the 101 concluded with a shower of embeddings. First text, then audio and video. Text embeddings and what they represent in the vectorial space of concepts generated by large language models was explained by [Juan Gomez](https://2024.pycon.co/en/speakers/juan-gomez). Then [Jose Alcocer](https://2024.pycon.co/en/speakers/jose-alcocer) took the bases set forth by Juan and added on top all the audio and video embedding's nitty-gritty. However, the most important part was what I witnessed during that afternoon: As always Nicole was being ignored while trying to display the time notices, she put the papers down and did the whole "look at me" silent speak together with hand waves and all! I knew it. And the speaker looked at her!!!
 
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 It was a good team! Looking at the picture now, I see she reminds me of a good friend from school. Anyways, thank you Nicole for the amazing experience and all the teaching by example you did.
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+![101-team](/img/posts/2024/primera-pycon-como-voluntario/101-team.jpg)
 
 ### Oh, the Keynote Speakers!
 First, I must say I was absolutely flabbergasted by Keynote Speakers. Their command of the matter they presented, the simple points and the approachability! They're experts with a wealth of experience roaming around the PyCon talking with anyone interested. I had never experienced that and it moved me. This was not unique to keynote speakers --I must say; everyone was furthering conversations and offering advice or guidance in a way or another. In essence a vibrant community that hinged around python and around every attendee.
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 #### [Qumisha Goss](https://2024.pycon.co/en/keynotes/qumisha-goss)
 We want to be welcoming towards beginners at Python Barranquilla. We also had an amazing experience during [past years endeavor with the Barranquilla District Education Secretariat](https://pybaq.co/blog/experiencia-taller-sed/). Qumisha provided many samples about how we should go towards fostering learning both in kids and adults. Personally, after her talk, she gave me really good advice on how to ease tensions during difficult to understand meetups. Mostly adults should not bother to pretend we understand all, and we'll make it easy for all to express our doubts and communicate effectively while solving them together.
 
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 Here's a lovely picture, a little out of focus, but a good memento. Love how the light accent falls right around her head.
 
 #### [Matt Harrison](https://2024.pycon.co/en/keynotes/matthew-harrison)
 I have to confess I find book writers intimidating in the sense that it requires huge determination, focus, persistence and expertise in the subject of their book. That very same expertise is what makes the book valuable --at least in the tech world-- to the readers. We heard how we must become experts in order to leverage AI to the max, as the tool it is. Expertise comes with practice and study and there is no shortcut to get there. That's what we learned from Matt, it's not AI that will replace us, people who leverage it will.
 
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 A nice picture at the stage. Don't they look like a nice father-daughter team?
 
 #### [Cris Ewing](https://2024.pycon.co/en/keynotes/cris-ewing)
 I really don't know why, but Cris's talk resonated so much in my thoughts. I was impressed, moved and motivated. He described his journey from music studies to IT and Python while sharing little bits of music theory and small lessons that will empower us in becoming better people and programmers. We had a nice conversation about grace and how we can let go some of our perfectionist traits through bestowing some of it on us and others. Love how he described the Colombian Python Community to organizers when asked how he was doing; paraphrasing: It's an amazing community, they stop me, talk to me, they are thankful for my talk and I feel recharged with all this wonderful vibe.
 
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 Wouldn't you want to talk to this joyful guy? (On the right, BTW)
 
 #### [Van Lindberg](https://2024.pycon.co/en/keynotes/van-lindberg)
 I remember standing close to Van and Matt during the first day's group picture, and heard when Van mentioned he hope his talk wouldn't overlap Matt's too much. And it gladly didn't. Van gave a masterclass in reality/reasonableness around many AI Doom Scenarios, from the most apocaliptic --forget about terminator and Skynet-- to friendlier ones. He talked about current state of the art advances, computation and correlated that with the possible AI futures he could see. He did coincide with Matt in that we need to be prepared to make the most out of AI as the tool it is.
 
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 Van, thank you for letting me try your Apple Vision Pros. I had truly underestimated how amazing it is as a product.
 
 #### [Lorena Barba](https://2024.pycon.co/en/keynotes/lorena-barba)
 I had the chance to accompany Lorena during her stage tests, since Javier needed to do something else an allowed me the honor. I had talked to to her multiple times during the PyCon without knowing the great engineering professor she is. Her use of jupyter notebooks in class, how she prepares courses and her introduction to [jupyter-ai](https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyter-ai) was all mesmerizing. When the question session started the room felt intimidated. What could people ask? Her delivery was loud and clear, but the room overcame their fears and questions started to flow.
 
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 She is brilliant, asks great questions, amazing listener and an amazing engineering professor (aeronautics)
 
 #### [Sebastian Ramirez](https://2024.pycon.co/en/keynotes/sebas-ramirez)
 We didn't know whether we heard a keynote speaker or a standup comedy show. It was magnificent and extremely fast paced. If you want to shed off your excuses and some preconceptions, just listen to his talk (once it's published) Hopefuly they'll have good captions for English speakers as he spoke in Spanish. 
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 Yep, that's me trying not to be the foaming mouth guy [^foaming-mouth-guy].
 
 ### What I Took Home