Opera Software University Tours

Our last tour took us to beautiful Mexico - for the first time! We have been to Brazil before, but this was our first time visiting a Spanish-speaking country in Latin America! The tour was conducted by speaker Charles "Chaals" McCathieNevile (Chief Standards Officer), Zoe Zermeno (Market Coordinator Latin America) and Anna Brandt (Education Manager).

During our tour we visited three universities: the Technological University of Monterrey, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), both in Mexico City.

Our adventure started in Monterrey, in northeastern Mexico, where we were invited to participate in the university's student-run IT symposium (which has been held every year since 1974!). Together with speakers from Twitter, Google, Mozilla, Nokia and others, we experienced 3 packed days full of discussions, presentations, workshops, and tons of amazing Mexican food!

Then we traveled on to the big capital, Mexico City. At both UNAM and IPN, Chaals gave a presentation on the future of the Web and held workshops on how to create widgets, web-based applications. The level of interest and curiosity by the students was impressive. The last two workshops were so full that we did not even have room for everybody who wanted to participate! One participant impressed us even more by creating a widget basically on the spot!

In Mexico City we also met up with a few Campus Crew members from the Technological Institute of Aguascalientes, who made a trip of five hours just to participate in the events in Mexico City!

We met up with Opera fans on three different occasions, sharing conversation, drinks and Mexican tapas. It's always great for us to meet our users, answer their questions and hear about how they use Opera technologies in their daily lives. One of our most active community members surprised us by holding an excellent presentation on Opera Dragonfly and its practical use for designers.

Overall, it was an amazing trip and we cannot wait to return to Mexico. Thank you to the universities who took such excellent care of us and made sure that our experience was a fantastic one!

Gracias y hasta luego!

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