We are pleased to introduce our next keynote speaker for EuroPython 2015: Holger Krekel. He will be giving a keynote on Wednesday, July 22.
About Holger Krekel ------------------- Holger is a prolific Python developer with a strong interest in communication: “Socially this means engaging and co-organizing neighborhoods and technically it means i am interested in distributed systems and thriving to make available and built better communication machines for other people.” He also is a proud father and loves to dance to “electronic swing” music. Python projects --------------- You will probably know Holger as author of the well-known pytest testing framework and co-founder the PyPy project: “When i discovered Python I was thrilled by its high-level constructs and introspection facilities. I am still thrilled by the idea of dynamically deploying and executing high level programs on the net. In my view, Python and testing are a wonderfully productive combination for writing software. Out of this conviction, I founded and co-developed the PyPy project and maintain the pytest and tox testing tools. I also maintain a number of other projects, among the more popular are execnet for ad-hoc cross-interpreter communication and the py lib. Most of my code you find at bitbucket/hpk42.” The coding culture in almost all his projects consists of test- and documentation-driven development and applying meta programming techniques. The Keynote: Towards a more effective, decentralized web -------------------------------------------------------- In this talk, Holger will discuss the recent rise of immutable state concepts in languages and network protocols: “The advent of hash-based data structures and replication strategies are shaking the client/server web service paradigm which rests on managing mutable state through HTTP. By contrast, building on git, bittorrent and other content addressed data structures provides for a more secure, efficient decentralized communication topology. There are projects, thoughts and talk to create new web standards to bring such technologies to mass deployment and fuel a new wave of decentralization. What can Python bring to the table?” Enjoy, -- EuroPython 2015 Team http://ep2015.europython.eu/ http://www.europython-society.org/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
