[Inpycon] Some thoughts on talks

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 20:56 +0530, Kannappan wrote:
> > one precaution we can take when accepting talks is to see where the
> > speaker is coming from. Many of them are deputed by their companies
> to
> > speak (usually to blow the company's trumpet). Take for example the
> talk
> > on openstreetmap. The person who was supposed to speak is unheard of
> in
> > OSM circles, and was probably deputed by mapquest to talk. He did
> not
> > turn up - disappointing quite a few people. I would have submitted a
> >
> 
> Coming from mapquest.. I wish to say that the talk I gave was out of
> my own
> interest for python. The company did not depute anyone.. I would have
> preferred to remain silent not replying to such mails...anyways..

my apologies - I was talking about this talk:
http://in.pycon.org/2010/talks/27-openstreetmap.org-and-python

and again I had misread it to mean from mapquest - sorry about the
misunderstanding. My browser was not working I could not check my
facts. 
-- 
regards
Kenneth Gonsalves