Any ideas on who we want to invite? I think atleast 3 of us on the list are attending the PyCon in Atlanta this year and we might be able to talk to people first hand to get them to come if we decide on the details. The general use of Python in India as far as I can tell is for web related programming so perhaps some notable from the Django, Pinax, Pylons etc. communities? Other good speakers that come to mind are Raymond Hettinger (core Python), Ian Bicking(infrastructure, web, packaging), Michael Foord(testing), David Beazley (concurrency). --
The general use of Python in India as far as I can tell is for web related programming so perhaps some notable from the Django, Pinax, Pylons etc. communities?
Other good speakers that come to mind are Raymond Hettinger (core Python), Ian Bicking(infrastructure, web, packaging), Michael Foord(testing), David Beazley (concurrency).
Jacob Kaplan Moss (Django), Armin Ronacher (Flask, Jinja, Werkzeug, Pygments). Regards, BG -- Baishampayan Ghose b.ghose at gmail.com
On Tue, Feb 15 2011, Baishampayan Ghose wrote:
The general use of Python in India as far as I can tell is for web related programming so perhaps some notable from the Django, Pinax, Pylons etc. communities?
Other good speakers that come to mind are Raymond Hettinger (core Python), Ian Bicking(infrastructure, web, packaging), Michael Foord(testing), David Beazley (concurrency).
Jacob Kaplan Moss (Django), Armin Ronacher (Flask, Jinja, Werkzeug, Pygments).
[...] Jacob is the keynote speaker for APAC PyCon this year. I don't know if he's interested in *2* trips. We can ask however. We might be able to ask some of the other core Django people or maybe the Pinax chaps like James Tauber or someone. I'm not really into Django so I don't know who'd be good. Armin's an awesome hacker but he's very young and I don't know if he can really pull off a keynote. It's the same reason why I didn't suggest Alex Gaynor. Also, English is not his mother tongue so the presentation quality might suffer a little. The same reason why I didn't suggest Tarek (of distutils2 fame). Another person I can think of that can *really* liven a conference is the PSF chairman Steve Holden. He's got a knack for making things come to life and would considerably change the general mood of the event. --
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15 2011, Baishampayan Ghose wrote:
The general use of Python in India as far as I can tell is for web related programming so perhaps some notable from the Django, Pinax, Pylons etc. communities?
Other good speakers that come to mind are Raymond Hettinger (core Python), Ian Bicking(infrastructure, web, packaging), Michael Foord(testing), David Beazley (concurrency).
Jacob Kaplan Moss (Django), Armin Ronacher (Flask, Jinja, Werkzeug, Pygments).
[...]
Jacob is the keynote speaker for APAC PyCon this year. I don't know if he's interested in *2* trips. We can ask however. We might be able to ask some of the other core Django people or maybe the Pinax chaps like James Tauber or someone. I'm not really into Django so I don't know who'd be good.
Armin's an awesome hacker but he's very young and I don't know if he can really pull off a keynote. It's the same reason why I didn't suggest Alex Gaynor.
Also, English is not his mother tongue so the presentation quality might suffer a little. The same reason why I didn't suggest Tarek (of distutils2 fame).
Another person I can think of that can *really* liven a conference is the PSF chairman Steve Holden. He's got a knack for making things come to life and would considerably change the general mood of the event.
Would be great to have him! Raymond Hettinger is one of the most valuable Python developers in terms of his range and depth of contributions and his remarkable consistency in adding high-performance modules to the stdlib. Would be an ideal fit for our conf, if he agrees to come. IMHO, let us try and get core Python devs for keynote. No offence meant, but inviting a non-core contributor from one of the other projects, will give the <wrong> idea that the conf is not a generic Python conference, the first hour of the first day itself. As a side-note, do we want to go for PSF sponsorship this time for the foreign delegate ? Considering the hoops we went through last time to get the money refunded to David from PSF, I would be very relieved if we can avoid this.
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai < abpillai@gmail.com> wrote:
Would be great to have him!
Raymond Hettinger is one of the most valuable Python developers in terms of his range and depth of contributions and his remarkable consistency in adding high-performance modules to the stdlib. Would be an ideal fit for our conf, if he agrees to come.
IMHO, let us try and get core Python devs for keynote. No offence meant, but inviting a non-core contributor from one of the other projects, will give the <wrong> idea that the conf is not a generic Python conference, the first hour of the first day itself.
As a side-note, do we want to go for PSF sponsorship this time for the foreign delegate ? Considering the hoops we went through last time to get the money refunded to David from PSF, I would be very relieved if we can avoid this.
Whats the financial impact of this in approximate terms ?
Dhananjay
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Dhananjay Nene <dhananjay.nene@gmail.com>wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai < abpillai@gmail.com> wrote:
Would be great to have him!
Raymond Hettinger is one of the most valuable Python developers in terms of his range and depth of contributions and his remarkable consistency in adding high-performance modules to the stdlib. Would be an ideal fit for our conf, if he agrees to come.
IMHO, let us try and get core Python devs for keynote. No offence meant, but inviting a non-core contributor from one of the other projects, will give the <wrong> idea that the conf is not a generic Python conference, the first hour of the first day itself.
As a side-note, do we want to go for PSF sponsorship this time for the foreign delegate ? Considering the hoops we went through last time to get the money refunded to David from PSF, I would be very relieved if we can avoid this.
Whats the financial impact of this in approximate terms ?
Calclate at 1.5 L per person all inclusive. We may be able to scale it down....
Dhananjay
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Ramdas S <ramdaz@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Dhananjay Nene <dhananjay.nene@gmail.com>wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai < abpillai@gmail.com> wrote:
Would be great to have him!
Raymond Hettinger is one of the most valuable Python developers in terms of his range and depth of contributions and his remarkable consistency in adding high-performance modules to the stdlib. Would be an ideal fit for our conf, if he agrees to come.
IMHO, let us try and get core Python devs for keynote. No offence meant, but inviting a non-core contributor from one of the other projects, will give the <wrong> idea that the conf is not a generic Python conference, the first hour of the first day itself.
As a side-note, do we want to go for PSF sponsorship this time for the foreign delegate ? Considering the hoops we went through last time to get the money refunded to David from PSF, I would be very relieved if we can avoid this.
Whats the financial impact of this in approximate terms ?
Calclate at 1.5 L per person all inclusive. We may be able to scale it down....
If thats an impact we have to bear, will it come from some existing fund, or have we accounted for it in terms of additional sponsorships ? If not how does one budget it ? Dhananjay
On Tue, Feb 15 2011, Dhananjay Nene wrote: [...]
If thats an impact we have to bear, will it come from some existing fund, or have we accounted for it in terms of additional sponsorships ? If not how does one budget it ?
[...] It's part of the budget. I sent out an email earlier to the list with approx. budget calculations. We get sponsors in brackets with different amounts rather than have them sponsor "a foreign delegate". We just factor in the cost to bring a person into the budget when we make it. We have some cash left over. I don't know how much. We have to go for additional sponsorships anyway. --
On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 16:17 +0530, Dhananjay Nene wrote:
If thats an impact we have to bear, will it come from some existing fund, or have we accounted for it in terms of additional sponsorships ? If not how does one budget it ?
who all are talking to potential sponsors? I had three on the hook (2 are tamilnadu specific so can be revisited when the conference comes here), the third is a possibility - I cannot say more at present. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves http://lawgon.livejournal.com/
FYI, Zed Shaw is going to be there in Atlanta for PyCon. Anyone fancies to hear him talk our PyCon India keynote? :D On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 16:17 +0530, Dhananjay Nene wrote:
If thats an impact we have to bear, will it come from some existing fund, or have we accounted for it in terms of additional sponsorships ? If not how does one budget it ?
who all are talking to potential sponsors? I had three on the hook (2 are tamilnadu specific so can be revisited when the conference comes here), the third is a possibility - I cannot say more at present. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves http://lawgon.livejournal.com/
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Diptanu Choudhury <admin.nitjece@gmail.com> wrote:
FYI, Zed Shaw is going to be there in Atlanta for PyCon. Anyone fancies to hear him talk our PyCon India keynote? :D
I do recollect reading about some talk at the rubyconf in bangalore last year where the organisers had to step in to apprise the speaker of some local sensitivities especially regarding vocabulary. I might've got the specifics wrong, but I'm sure something along similar lines did happen :) Dhananjay
On Tue, Feb 15 2011, Dhananjay Nene wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Diptanu Choudhury <admin.nitjece@gmail.com> wrote:
FYI, Zed Shaw is going to be there in Atlanta for PyCon. Anyone fancies to hear him talk our PyCon India keynote? :D
[...] I have a high opinion of him. He's a polygot programmer and while abrassive, his points of view are usually sound. If there's interest, we can ask him. Opinions? --
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15 2011, Dhananjay Nene wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Diptanu Choudhury <admin.nitjece@gmail.com> wrote:
FYI, Zed Shaw is going to be there in Atlanta for PyCon. Anyone fancies to hear him talk our PyCon India keynote? :D
[...]
I have a high opinion of him. He's a polygot programmer and while abrassive, his points of view are usually sound.
If there's interest, we can ask him. Opinions?
+1. I have high respect for him as a programmer. Just that some upfront awareness of local context might be called for.
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Hey Dhananjay, You are right about the RubyConf incident, but hey they are different people. Zed usually talks about technology be it good or bad, but the other person in RubyConf went off-topic! On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Dhananjay Nene <dhananjay.nene@gmail.com>wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15 2011, Dhananjay Nene wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Diptanu Choudhury <admin.nitjece@gmail.com> wrote:
FYI, Zed Shaw is going to be there in Atlanta for PyCon. Anyone fancies to hear him talk our PyCon India keynote? :D
[...]
I have a high opinion of him. He's a polygot programmer and while abrassive, his points of view are usually sound.
If there's interest, we can ask him. Opinions?
+1. I have high respect for him as a programmer. Just that some upfront awareness of local context might be called for.
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Diptanu Choudhury <admin.nitjece@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Dhananjay, You are right about the RubyConf incident, but hey they are different people. Zed usually talks about technology be it good or bad, but the other person in RubyConf went off-topic!
From what I recollect - it was about repeated use of the F word, not about the content. But my recollection is vague - so I could be wrong.
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Dhananjay Nene <dhananjay.nene@gmail.com> wrote:
From what I recollect - it was about repeated use of the F word, not about the content. But my recollection is vague - so I could be wrong.
Nevertheless, I see no reason to interrupt the speaker just because he was using the "dreaded" F-word. That word is very common in their culture (and increasingly ours) and even though we can establish some guidelines about language beforehand it's not a serious enough "crime" to rebuke the speaker repeatedly in front of the audience. AFAIK the event was organised by a company and they had their own reasons about handling the situation in that manner. We can't judge potential speakers by their probability of discharging "F-bombs". Regards, BG -- Baishampayan Ghose b.ghose at gmail.com
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Baishampayan Ghose <b.ghose@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Dhananjay Nene <dhananjay.nene@gmail.com> wrote:
From what I recollect - it was about repeated use of the F word, not about the content. But my recollection is vague - so I could be wrong.
Nevertheless, I see no reason to interrupt the speaker just because he was using the "dreaded" F-word. That word is very common in their culture (and increasingly ours) and even though we can establish some guidelines about language beforehand it's not a serious enough "crime" to rebuke the speaker repeatedly in front of the audience.
AFAIK the event was organised by a company and they had their own reasons about handling the situation in that manner.
We can't judge potential speakers by their probability of discharging "F-bombs".
I am a little concerned about F-bombs, but its not a particularly big issue for me. I can imagine myself being culturally sensitive to some other aspects which could be interpreted as being politically incorrect in a western milieu, in a western setting. But thats just me. So if the group as a whole is comfortable with it, I can tag along.
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Dhananjay Nene <dhananjay.nene@gmail.com> wrote:
I am a little concerned about F-bombs, but its not a particularly big issue for me.
We can just publish a set of guidelines for speakers and be done with it. There is no point judging people like that... Regards, BG -- Baishampayan Ghose b.ghose at gmail.com
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Baishampayan Ghose <b.ghose@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Dhananjay Nene <dhananjay.nene@gmail.com> wrote:
I am a little concerned about F-bombs, but its not a particularly big issue for me.
We can just publish a set of guidelines for speakers and be done with it. There is no point judging people like that...
Wasn't attempting to judge in the sense you probably understood. To quote from one of my comments "+1. I have high respect for him as a programmer. Just that some upfront awareness of local context might be called for."
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Dhananjay Nene <dhananjay.nene@gmail.com> wrote:
Wasn't attempting to judge in the sense you probably understood.
I wasn't talking about you, Dhananjay. I was mostly pointing to the sub-topic of this thread, which has mostly hovered about someones likelihood of using F-bombs in a talk. Sorry for the confusion. Let's just draft a set of guidelines for our speakers. Regards, BG -- Baishampayan Ghose b.ghose at gmail.com
On Tue, Feb 15 2011, Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15 2011, Dhananjay Nene wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Diptanu Choudhury <admin.nitjece@gmail.com> wrote:
FYI, Zed Shaw is going to be there in Atlanta for PyCon. Anyone fancies to hear him talk our PyCon India keynote? :D
[...]
I have a high opinion of him. He's a polygot programmer and while abrassive, his points of view are usually sound.
If there's interest, we can ask him. Opinions?
There's going to be an interview with Zed at PyCon in Atlanta. http://pycon.blogspot.com/2011/02/title-pycon-2011-interview-with-zed.html I *really* think we should consider inviting him. Any naysayers? --
+1 for inviting Zed. On Feb 18, 2011 10:08 PM, "Noufal Ibrahim" <noufal@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15 2011, Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15 2011, Dhananjay Nene wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Diptanu Choudhury <admin.nitjece@gmail.com> wrote:
FYI, Zed Shaw is going to be there in Atlanta for PyCon. Anyone fancies to hear him talk our PyCon India keynote? :D
[...]
I have a high opinion of him. He's a polygot programmer and while abrassive, his points of view are usually sound.
If there's interest, we can ask him. Opinions?
There's going to be an interview with Zed at PyCon in Atlanta.
http://pycon.blogspot.com/2011/02/title-pycon-2011-interview-with-zed.html
I *really* think we should consider inviting him. Any naysayers?
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On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 13:05, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 19 2011, Roshan Mathews wrote:
+1 for inviting Zed.
[...]
Well then, my proposal is as follows.
1. Zed Shaw 2. Steve Holden
If these are the final names, +1 for both (budget permitting ofcourse). -- vid ॥ http://svaksha.com ॥
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wrote:
FYI, Zed Shaw is going to be there in Atlanta for PyCon. Anyone fancies to hear him talk our PyCon India keynote? :D
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon@gmail.com>wrote:
On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 16:17 +0530, Dhananjay Nene wrote:
If thats an impact we have to bear, will it come from some existing fund, or have we accounted for it in terms of additional sponsorships ? If not how does one budget it ?
who all are talking to potential sponsors? I had three on the hook (2 are tamilnadu specific so can be revisited when the conference comes here), the third is a possibility - I cannot say more at present. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves http://lawgon.livejournal.com/
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Diptanu & others, One way most conferences get International speakers is coordinating with their local offices or associate offices, and scheduling their visit to coincide with the conference. If there's someone whom you feel in one of your overseas offices who makes sense to be at Pycon, you can ask your office to actually to schedule it that way. Check whether there's someone at Thoughtworks who can be brought in thru this route. I know several other companies such as Google, IBM etc where there are several known Pythonistas who may be as we speak working with some local teams. In such cases the companies are happy to schedule a visit and bring them down to India. We may be willing to take care of their local commute and stay. Zed Shaw should be cool, after all he has written Lamson ad Mongrel.. Also the book Python the Hard way
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Dhananjay Nene <dhananjay.nene@gmail.com>wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai < abpillai@gmail.com> wrote:
Would be great to have him!
Raymond Hettinger is one of the most valuable Python developers in terms of his range and depth of contributions and his remarkable consistency in adding high-performance modules to the stdlib. Would be an ideal fit for our conf, if he agrees to come.
IMHO, let us try and get core Python devs for keynote. No offence meant, but inviting a non-core contributor from one of the other projects, will give the <wrong> idea that the conf is not a generic Python conference, the first hour of the first day itself.
As a side-note, do we want to go for PSF sponsorship this time for the foreign delegate ? Considering the hoops we went through last time to get the money refunded to David from PSF, I would be very relieved if we can avoid this.
Whats the financial impact of this in approximate terms ?
PSF gave 1K dollars, but I think our net expenses came to approximately double that. Sree can clarify this.
Dhananjay
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On Tue, Feb 15 2011, Dhananjay Nene wrote: [...]
Whats the financial impact of this in approximate terms ?
Dhananjay
[...] It costs around 1L to bring a foreign delegate from North America 60k or so was the tickets and the rest was accomodation, food etc. If they're from Europe, the flight costs would be lesser. The PSF funded us for 1000 USD (approx 45k INR) towards this. We don't *need* PSF funding to bring someone but it's nice to formally associated with them for the event. --
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Sreenivas Reddy T < thatiparthysreenivas@gmail.com> wrote:
Raymond Hettinger is one of the most valuable Python developers
in terms of his range and depth of contributions and his remarkable consistency in adding high-performance modules to the stdlib. Would be an ideal fit for our conf, if he agrees to come.
How about AM Kuchling ??
A Python veteran. I think the crux of the matter is what we want the keyword speaker to talk about. - If it is the Python community, look at people like Steve Holden, Aahz, Kuchling etc. - If it is core Python dev, look at key devs like Antoine, Hettinger, Tarek etc. - If it is projects which are using the Python platform like Django, TG etc look at their devs. - If it is just anyone, do a random selection and go for those people who happen to be here during Sep, like Ramdas said. It is quite practical and reduces our overheads and expenses. No offense meant, but we can keep throwing names around till kingdom come and never reach an agreement because we are talking of apples and grapes. My suggestion is, decide what we want to "project as a keyword theme" and then bring in the names.
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On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai < abpillai@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Sreenivas Reddy T < thatiparthysreenivas@gmail.com> wrote:
Raymond Hettinger is one of the most valuable Python developers
in terms of his range and depth of contributions and his remarkable consistency in adding high-performance modules to the stdlib. Would be an ideal fit for our conf, if he agrees to come.
How about AM Kuchling ??
A Python veteran.
I think the crux of the matter is what we want the keyword speaker to talk about.
- If it is the Python community, look at people like Steve Holden, Aahz, Kuchling etc. - If it is core Python dev, look at key devs like Antoine, Hettinger, Tarek etc. - If it is projects which are using the Python platform like Django, TG etc look at their devs. - If it is just anyone, do a random selection and go for those people who happen to be here during Sep, like Ramdas said. It is quite practical and reduces our overheads and expenses.
No offense meant, but we can keep throwing names around till kingdom come and never reach an agreement because we are talking of apples and grapes. My suggestion is, decide what we want to "project as a keyword theme" and then bring in the names.
Well, s/keyword/keynote/g :)
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On Wed, Feb 16 2011, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: [...]
- If it is the Python community, look at people like Steve Holden, Aahz, Kuchling etc. - If it is core Python dev, look at key devs like Antoine, Hettinger, Tarek etc. - If it is projects which are using the Python platform like Django, TG etc look at their devs. - If it is just anyone, do a random selection and go for those people who happen to be here during Sep, like Ramdas said. It is quite practical and reduces our overheads and expenses.
[...] My thoughts. A highly focussed technical talk is not ideal for a keynote. It will be interesting and useful but too heavy for a keynote. We need one person who is familiar with the community and the general state of things for the keynote (this is the reason we got David last time). The same person can give a regular talk later in the conf. on something "heavier". I'd prefer someone from the "Python" community rather that from an external popular project like Django etc. but Python is almost a "web language" in India so I understand the value. Based on this, I think we should prioritise people like Holden, Kuchling etc. If we can't get them, we should try to get someone who's active in a Python sub community (like Django etc.). If our budget permits (and I have a feeling that it will), we might be able to fly in one extra person in which case, we should consider the core Python team (Raymond, Antoine, Bicking etc.) So, in short, the priority list as far as I can tell is 1. Core community people (Holden, Kuchling etc.) 2. Project community people (Jacob Kaplan-Moss etc.) 3. Core technical people (Raymond, Antoine etc.) We can go down the list based on their availabilities and can select multiple people if our budget allows it. Thoughts? --
Hi, On 02/16/2011 01:41 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
[...snip...] My thoughts.
A highly focussed technical talk is not ideal for a keynote. It will be interesting and useful but too heavy for a keynote. We need one person who is familiar with the community and the general state of things for the keynote (this is the reason we got David last time).
[...snip...] So, in short, the priority list as far as I can tell is
1. Core community people (Holden, Kuchling etc.) 2. Project community people (Jacob Kaplan-Moss etc.) 3. Core technical people (Raymond, Antoine etc.)
We can go down the list based on their availabilities and can select multiple people if our budget allows it.
Thoughts?
I agree. Just curious since I wasn't paying attention do we have a 'theme' for the conference in general ? I liked David's keynote last year and it set the tempo for the event. I would summarize last year's 'feel' as being a 'get involved with python' event and David's talk was IMHO a good fit (whether intentional or not). So, maybe thinking in terms of a theme for this year's event may help narrow the choice for the keynote speaker. I apologize if this has already been discussed. Feel free to hit me with a loaded URL to the thread. cheers, - steve -- random spiel: http://lonetwin.net/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/
On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 13:41 +0530, Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
2. Project community people (Jacob Kaplan-Moss etc.)
lots of core devs in django who are in Australia - I think it is cheaper to fly from there than US. Which is why I suggested Russell Keith-Magee - he is now practically the leading dev of django and also president of the django foundation. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves http://lawgon.livejournal.com/
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 06:15, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 13:41 +0530, Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
2. Project community people (Jacob Kaplan-Moss etc.)
lots of core devs in django who are in Australia - I think it is cheaper to fly from there than US.
Which airline portal did you check that with? I found the opposite is true and here is the estimates for Jacob[0] and Russell[1] Afaik, AU flights to/from India have always been very expensive. [0] http://www.hipmunk.com/results?from=ATL+-+Hartsfield-Jackson&to=Pune%2C+India&s=sg4t6j829ij [1] http://www.hipmunk.com/results?from=PER+-+Perth+International&to=Pune%2C+India&s=sa8j6zkhoov -- Regards, vid ॥ http://svaksha.com
On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 09:11 +0000, ॥ स्वक्ष ॥ wrote:
lots of core devs in django who are in Australia - I think it is cheaper to fly from there than US.
Which airline portal did you check that with? I found the opposite is true and here is the estimates for Jacob[0] and Russell[1] Afaik, AU flights to/from India have always been very expensive.
never been to either place, so will take your word for it -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves http://lawgon.livejournal.com/
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@gmail.com> wrote:
The general use of Python in India as far as I can tell is for web related programming so perhaps some notable from the Django, Pinax, Pylons etc. communities?
Another significant use I've seen of Python (at least in Pune) is for data analysis, amongst the maths/stats and science community. So if you run across someone from scipy/numpy, that might also be interesting.
On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 12:43 +0530, Navin Kabra wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@gmail.com> wrote:
The general use of Python in India as far as I can tell is for web related programming so perhaps some notable from the Django, Pinax, Pylons etc. communities?
Another significant use I've seen of Python (at least in Pune) is for data analysis, amongst the maths/stats and science community. So if you run across someone from scipy/numpy, that might also be interesting.
they will be there -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves http://lawgon.livejournal.com/
On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 12:35 +0530, Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
Other good speakers that come to mind are Raymond Hettinger (core Python), Ian Bicking(infrastructure, web, packaging), Michael Foord(testing), David Beazley (concurrency).
try for Russell Keith-Magee -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves http://lawgon.livejournal.com/
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 12:35 +0530, Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
Other good speakers that come to mind are Raymond Hettinger (core Python), Ian Bicking(infrastructure, web, packaging), Michael Foord(testing), David Beazley (concurrency).
try for Russell Keith-Magee
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On 02/15/2011 02:43 PM, kausikram krishnasayee wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon@gmail.com <mailto:lawgon@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 12:35 +0530, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Other good speakers that come to mind are Raymond Hettinger (core > Python), Ian Bicking(infrastructure, web, packaging), Michael > Foord(testing), David Beazley (concurrency).
try for Russell Keith-Magee
TurboGears - Kevin Dangoor :)
I don't know who all are attending the PyCon, but I'd like to see of the core developers of the Pyramid project[1] (Ben Bangert, ChrisMcDonough...etc). Technology aside (which is simply excellent !) the community around Pylons, repoze and TurboGears showed immense maturity in merging their individual projects[2]. cheers, - steve [1] http://pylonsproject.org/ [2] http://lists.repoze.org/pipermail/repoze-dev/2010-November/003619.html http://compoundthinking.com/blog/index.php/2010/12/28/turbogears-joins-the-p... -- random spiel: http://lonetwin.net/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/
So, Option 1. Zed Shaw Option 2. Steve Holden The plan is to call Zed and if he's unavailable call Steve. If Zed agrees to come and we raise an extra 1L, we'll call Steve *also*. Any objections? -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@gmail.com> wrote:
So,
Option 1. Zed Shaw Option 2. Steve Holden
The plan is to call Zed and if he's unavailable call Steve.
If Zed agrees to come and we raise an extra 1L, we'll call Steve *also*.
Any objections?
Not me, but verify with the anti "foreign-delegate" group :)
-- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in
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On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 14:42 +0530, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote:
Option 1. Zed Shaw Option 2. Steve Holden
The plan is to call Zed and if he's unavailable call Steve.
If Zed agrees to come and we raise an extra 1L, we'll call Steve *also*.
Any objections?
Not me, but verify with the anti "foreign-delegate" group :)
as already mentioned I am +0 -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves http://lawgon.livejournal.com/
On Fri, Feb 25 2011, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote:
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@gmail.com> wrote:
So,
Option 1. Zed Shaw Option 2. Steve Holden
The plan is to call Zed and if he's unavailable call Steve.
If Zed agrees to come and we raise an extra 1L, we'll call Steve *also*.
Any objections?
Not me, but verify with the anti "foreign-delegate" group :)
Dhananjay has already confirmed that we're planning to bring in a foreign speaker. I'm just making sure that the choice of people is fine. [...] -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in
On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 14:59 +0530, Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
Dhananjay has already confirmed that we're planning to bring in a foreign speaker.
it is now referred to as Invited speaker or Guest speaker ;-) -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves http://lawgon.livejournal.com/
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 14:59 +0530, Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
Dhananjay has already confirmed that we're planning to bring in a foreign speaker.
it is now referred to as Invited speaker or Guest speaker ;-)
Would be nice to do <sed -i s/foreign/invited/g "bangpypers archives">
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On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@gmail.com> wrote:
So,
Option 1. Zed Shaw Option 2. Steve Holden
The plan is to call Zed and if he's unavailable call Steve.
If Zed agrees to come and we raise an extra 1L, we'll call Steve *also*.
Any objections?
Given that we are linking it to funding, no issues whether its 2 or even more speakers. Dhananjay
On Fri, Feb 25 2011, Dhananjay Nene wrote:
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@gmail.com> wrote:
So,
Option 1. Zed Shaw Option 2. Steve Holden
The plan is to call Zed and if he's unavailable call Steve.
If Zed agrees to come and we raise an extra 1L, we'll call Steve *also*.
Any objections?
Given that we are linking it to funding, no issues whether its 2 or even more speakers.
[...] I'll mail him then with a initial intro etc. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in
Noufal, Did he reply yet? :-) On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 25 2011, Dhananjay Nene wrote:
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@gmail.com> wrote:
So,
Option 1. Zed Shaw Option 2. Steve Holden
The plan is to call Zed and if he's unavailable call Steve.
If Zed agrees to come and we raise an extra 1L, we'll call Steve *also*.
Any objections?
Given that we are linking it to funding, no issues whether its 2 or even more speakers.
[...]
I'll mail him then with a initial intro etc. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in _______________________________________________ Inpycon mailing list Inpycon@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon
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On Sun, Mar 06 2011, Diptanu Choudhury wrote:
Noufal,
Did he reply yet? :-)
[...] None yet but that has happened before. I'll try to speak with him directly. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in
participants (13)
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Anand Balachandran Pillai -
Baishampayan Ghose -
Dhananjay Nene -
Diptanu Choudhury -
kausikram krishnasayee -
Kenneth Gonsalves -
Navin Kabra -
Noufal Ibrahim -
Ramdas S -
Roshan Mathews -
Sreenivas Reddy T -
steve -
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