<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 9:11 PM Noufal Ibrahim KV <<a href="mailto:noufal@nibrahim.net.in">noufal@nibrahim.net.in</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Sat, Apr 18 2015, vijay kumar wrote:<br>
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> Any more suggestion before i start approaching suggested keynote speakers.<br>
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I think if we're flying someone down, we should consider some people who<br>
are more well known. I don't want to be misconstrued as being against<br>
Senthil but when you consider that it will cost us the same amount of<br>
money to get him or (say) Alex Gaynor, the latter is who I would vote<br>
for.<br>
<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>+1. This makes sense.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hilary Mason is a good choice. I've contacted her a few times for<br>
earlier events but she's always been busy. In fact, I think last year<br>
was the first year during which I *didn't* contact her. :)<br>
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Jessica is a good choice and it would be a good idea, if we decide to<br>
invite her, to do it as early as possible so that there are no<br>
unexpected problems like last year.<br>
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I've never heard Lynn speak but I follow her blogs and twitter and am<br>
in favour of inviting her.<br>
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There are a few others that come to mind.<br>
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1. Audrey Roy Greenfeld [1] - She's the co author of the recent Two<br>
Scoops book. Her contributions are really widespread. Community work,<br>
tech contributions, documentation, the book. And finally, she's got<br>
quite a few interests outside of tech. which, in my experience, makes a<br>
speaker much more interesting. I've been in touch with her and Danny<br>
for a while and think that she'd make an ideal keynote speaker.<br>
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2. Armin Ronacher [2] - We invited him once before but he couldn't make<br>
it for personal reasons. I think that was the year Kenneth Reitz came<br>
down. He'd definitely be a good speaker and his work is well known in<br>
India where much of Python work is web related.<br>
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3. Alex Gaynor [3] - We've never had anyone speaking from the PyPy<br>
team. Also, like Anand Pillai once said, people like Alex and Armin<br>
are a newer generation of Python programmers and offer new<br>
perspectives that the old timers might not have.<br>
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4. Holger Krekel [4] - Holger provided the infrastructure for PyPy<br>
during it's early days. I know him mostly through his work on py.test<br>
(my testing tool of choice). I've spoken to him about various things<br>
over email and in person and have a lot of respect for his ideas.<br>
A presentation from him about testing technologies in Python or about<br>
his experiences as an open source consultant based on the toolkit he<br>
maintains would be good.<br>
<br>
5. Zed Shaw [5] - This is probably atleast a little controversial. I<br>
actually invited Zed to be the keynote speaker for an earlier event<br>
(don't remember when) and he had just changed jobs so couldn't<br>
come. I've spoken to him in person a number of times and listened to<br>
him in various private interviews and have a really high opinion<br>
about his level headedness and points of view. His abrassive public<br>
persona really shadows his actual self which is really great.<br>
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I can think of a few more but I think we can get 2 people from this<br>
set. Also, I don't see the need to have 2 keynote slots with a separate<br>
list for each slot. I think we can just pool these folks together and<br>
then discuss amongst ourselves and then invite two of them.<br>
<br>
Opinions?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><span style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px">+1 for Armin and Alex. We can also consider Daniel Lindsley (<a href="https://github.com/toastdriven">https://github.com/toastdriven</a>). He is the author of django-tastypie.</span> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Footnotes:<br>
[1] <a href="https://twitter.com/audreyr" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/audreyr</a><br>
[2] <a href="https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko</a><br>
[3] <a href="https://twitter.com/alex_gaynor" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/alex_gaynor</a><br>
[4] <a href="https://twitter.com/hpk42" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/hpk42</a><br>
[5] <a href="https://twitter.com/zedshaw" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/zedshaw</a><br>
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Cordially,<br>
Noufal<br>
<a href="http://nibrahim.net.in" target="_blank">http://nibrahim.net.in</a><br>
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