[EuroPython] Interested in giving a keynote at Europython 2007 in Vilnius?

[David Axmark]

On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 11:12 +0200, Steve Alexander wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> > Yes, I can still do it but only on the first day or possibly on the
> > morning of the second (11th).
> 
> You mean the 10th here, right?

Yes, I did mean that when I wrote it. But now I actually manged to move
my other talk so I can talk during the 11th to if needed.

I will now fly in on the 8th or 9th depending on where you schedule my
talk(s). And fly out on the morning of the 12th.

If you want I could do a normal session talk on optimizing MySQL also.
Mostly about how to get your indexes fast but a bit of other stuff to.

If you can fit that I will use some MySQL internal Python resources to
tune the talk for a Python audience.

...

> I just checked with the other organisers, and this is all fine.  We can
> arrange something that works with the dates and times.
> 
> We have two keynote speakers arranged already.  One of them is Guido van
> Rossum, and while his speech is important, it always has the same
> content and perspective on the recent past and future of Python
> development. 

Sounds just like my State of MySQL talks I have done many times. Very
interesting if you hear it for the first time and is a heavy user. But a
bit boring the 10th time :-)

>  So this year, we'd like to have two other perspectives as
> keynotes at the conference.

Sounds good.

> Welcome to EuroPython as a keynote speaker!

Thanks!

I hope to be able to learn a bit more about Python. Both Python and Ruby
and been on my to learn list for years. Usually the language itself is
easy to learn (when you know a couple already) but the libraries and
runtime tends to take quite a while to learn.

/David