Hello, Bibhas +1. Thanks, With Best Wishes, Chandan Kumar Final Year, Computer Science and Engineering Dr.B.C.Roy Engineering College, Durgapur https://ciypro.wordpress.com On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Bibhas Ch Debnath <me@bibhas.in> wrote:

I'd love to see an Indian keynote speaker this time.

---- Bibhas

On 8 March 2013 16:25, Vaidik Kapoor <kapoor.vaidik@gmail.com> wrote:

...

I know that there are a couple of more people who are going to be attending PyCon US:

- Kushal Das - Konark Modi - Adwait Sharma

As for keynote speakers, here are a few suggestions:

- Armin Ronacher (http://lucumr.pocoo.org/about/) - Kenneth Reitz (http://kennethreitz.org/) - Jeff Lindsay (http://progrium.com/) - David Beazley (http://www.dabeaz.com/)

Yes, I took all the famous names. But, I will also die to attend the conference if any of these guys are speaking.

-- Vaidik Kapoor www.vaidikkapoor.info

On 8 March 2013 16:11, Anand Chitipothu <anandology@gmail.com> wrote:

...

Hi,

I think it is time to think about keynote speakers. Anand Pillai is attending US PyCon, I hope he'll be abe to speak to potential keynote speakers there if we decide whom to invite.

Anybody else from bangpypers attending US PyCon?

Whom should we invite? How many keynote speakers should we have? 2 or 4? Anyone from India?

Please share your inputs?

Anand

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Hi, Just a thought. Alex Gaynor is an up and coming Python core developer and emerging star. He is core dev at Python, Django, PyPy (you name it). He is also young, very much so :) Might be a good idea to invite him - he would set a good example for college kids wanting to do good in Python - a good role model. I could have talked to him while I was there. Anyway, Ramki is still in the U.S so we can still get this done. Regards, --Anand On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Shalabh Aggarwal < shalabh.aggarwal@openlabs.co.in> wrote:

+1 for an Indian Keynote Speaker.

Would love to have Armin Ronacher as keynote speaker too.

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 4:44 PM, chandan kumar < chandankumar.093047@gmail.com> wrote:

...

Hello, Bibhas +1.

Thanks,

With Best Wishes,

Chandan Kumar Final Year, Computer Science and Engineering Dr.B.C.Roy Engineering College, Durgapur https://ciypro.wordpress.com

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Bibhas Ch Debnath <me@bibhas.in> wrote:

...

I'd love to see an Indian keynote speaker this time.

---- Bibhas

On 8 March 2013 16:25, Vaidik Kapoor <kapoor.vaidik@gmail.com> wrote:

...

I know that there are a couple of more people who are going to be attending PyCon US:

- Kushal Das - Konark Modi - Adwait Sharma

As for keynote speakers, here are a few suggestions:

- Armin Ronacher (http://lucumr.pocoo.org/about/) - Kenneth Reitz (http://kennethreitz.org/) - Jeff Lindsay (http://progrium.com/) - David Beazley (http://www.dabeaz.com/)

Yes, I took all the famous names. But, I will also die to attend the conference if any of these guys are speaking.

-- Vaidik Kapoor www.vaidikkapoor.info

On 8 March 2013 16:11, Anand Chitipothu <anandology@gmail.com> wrote:

...

Hi,

I think it is time to think about keynote speakers. Anand Pillai is attending US PyCon, I hope he'll be abe to speak to potential keynote speakers there if we decide whom to invite.

Anybody else from bangpypers attending US PyCon?

Whom should we invite? How many keynote speakers should we have? 2 or 4? Anyone from India?

Please share your inputs?

Anand

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On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Anand B Pillai <abpillai@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Just a thought. Alex Gaynor is an up and coming Python core developer and emerging star. He is core dev at Python, Django, PyPy (you name it). He is also young, very much so :)

Might be a good idea to invite him - he would set a good example for college kids wanting to do good in Python - a good role model.

I could have talked to him while I was there. Anyway, Ramki is still in the U.S so we can still get this done.

Steve Holden also might be able to come down based on availability. I had a small chat with him regarding the same. His only issue was Djangocon 2013. Kushal -- http://fedoraproject.org http://kushaldas.in

It would be great to have Van Lindberg or Steve Holden come down. But they may not be available. David Beazly said he is strongly avoiding long international trips. Good to have chats with more people. I'd also like to suggest: Ned Batchelder. On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@nibrahim.net.in>wrote:

He's an excellent hacker but I'm not sure about a keynote presentation by him for a predominantly non American audience.

I'd love for him to come down but as a second rather than a primary keynote speaker.

Anand B Pillai <abpillai@gmail.com> writes:

...

Hi,

Just a thought. Alex Gaynor is an up and coming Python core developer and emerging star. He is core dev at Python, Django, PyPy (you name it). He is also young, very much so :)

Might be a good idea to invite him - he would set a good example for college kids wanting to do good in Python - a good role model.

I could have talked to him while I was there. Anyway, Ramki is still in the U.S so we can still get this done.

Regards,

--Anand

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Shalabh Aggarwal < shalabh.aggarwal@openlabs.co.in> wrote:

...

+1 for an Indian Keynote Speaker.

Would love to have Armin Ronacher as keynote speaker too.

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 4:44 PM, chandan kumar < chandankumar.093047@gmail.com> wrote:

...

Hello, Bibhas +1.

Thanks,

With Best Wishes,

Chandan Kumar Final Year, Computer Science and Engineering Dr.B.C.Roy Engineering College, Durgapur https://ciypro.wordpress.com

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Bibhas Ch Debnath <me@bibhas.in> wrote:

...

I'd love to see an Indian keynote speaker this time.

---- Bibhas

On 8 March 2013 16:25, Vaidik Kapoor <kapoor.vaidik@gmail.com> wrote:

...

I know that there are a couple of more people who are going to be attending PyCon US:

- Kushal Das - Konark Modi - Adwait Sharma

As for keynote speakers, here are a few suggestions:

- Armin Ronacher (http://lucumr.pocoo.org/about/) - Kenneth Reitz (http://kennethreitz.org/) - Jeff Lindsay (http://progrium.com/) - David Beazley (http://www.dabeaz.com/)

Yes, I took all the famous names. But, I will also die to attend the conference if any of these guys are speaking.

-- Vaidik Kapoor www.vaidikkapoor.info

On 8 March 2013 16:11, Anand Chitipothu <anandology@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, > > I think it is time to think about keynote speakers. Anand Pillai is > attending US PyCon, I hope he'll be abe to speak to potential keynote > speakers there if we decide whom to invite. > > Anybody else from bangpypers attending US PyCon? > > Whom should we invite? How many keynote speakers should we have? 2 or > 4? Anyone from India? > > Please share your inputs? > > Anand > > > -- > Anand > http://anandology.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > >

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On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@nibrahim.net.in>wrote:

Lakshman Prasad <scorpion032@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

...

Good to have chats with more people. I'd also like to suggest: Ned Batchelder. [...]

I spoke with him last year. He said that he can't do the 20 hour trip.

That is a plus in favor of young folks like Alex, right ? I am sure he can make the trip in a jaunt :) No dis-respect intended, but I think Van and Steve represent the older generation. I am not too excited about inviting any of them. Well, I dont want to push the point too firmly, but I strongly believe we need to prefer the younger bunch over rather than the older generation -The Armins, Alexs and Maciejs of the Python world.

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Anand B Pillai <abpillai@gmail.com> writes: [...]

That is a plus in favor of young folks like Alex, right ? I am sure he can make the trip in a jaunt :)

No dis-respect intended, but I think Van and Steve represent the older generation. I am not too excited about inviting any of them.

Well, I dont want to push the point too firmly, but I strongly believe we need to prefer the younger bunch over rather than the older generation -The Armins, Alexs and Maciejs of the Python world.

I'm in favour of getting 2 people (atleast). One who can speak from a PSF non-tech perspective and the other who can do something hardcore technical to raise the bar a little. [...] -- Cordially, Noufal http://nibrahim.net.in

+1 for the suggested theme Regards, Abdul Muneer -- Follow me on Twitter: @abdulmuneer <http://twitter.com/#%21/abdulmuneer> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology@gmail.com>wrote:

On Thursday, March 28, 2013, Noufal Ibrahim wrote:

...

Anand B Pillai <abpillai@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

...

That is a plus in favor of young folks like Alex, right ? I am sure he can make the trip in a jaunt :)

No dis-respect intended, but I think Van and Steve represent the older generation. I am not too excited about inviting any of them.

Well, I dont want to push the point too firmly, but I strongly believe we need to prefer the younger bunch over rather than the older generation -The Armins, Alexs and Maciejs of the Python world.

I'm in favour of getting 2 people (atleast). One who can speak from a PSF non-tech perspective and the other who can do something hardcore technical to raise the bar a little.

+1 for inviting someone from PyPy Gang.

How about making Python implementations a major theme of our conference?

I know an interesting project of implementing Python in Racket.

https://github.com/brownplt/lambda-py

(disclaimer: I've contributed in a small way to that project)

We can see if we can get one of the key devs of the project to come and give a talk here.

Anand

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On Thursday, March 28, 2013, Roshan Mathews wrote:

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology@gmail.com<javascript:;>> wrote:

...

I know an interesting project of implementing Python in Racket.

https://github.com/brownplt/lambda-py

(disclaimer: I've contributed in a small way to that project)

When/where did this happen? Part of the CS173 course?

After the CS173 course. This is the Python glory project.

...

We can see if we can get one of the key devs of the project to come and give a talk here.

Who are the key devs?

Joe Gibbs Politz is leading the project. I think is a student/postdoc of brown. Other key developers are Alejandro Martinez, Matthew Milano and Sumner Warren. And of course, Sriram Krishnamurthi is overseeing the project. Anand -- Anand http://anandology.com/

On Thursday, March 28, 2013, Anand Chitipothu wrote:

On Thursday, March 28, 2013, Noufal Ibrahim wrote:

...

Anand B Pillai <abpillai@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

...

That is a plus in favor of young folks like Alex, right ? I am sure he can make the trip in a jaunt :)

No dis-respect intended, but I think Van and Steve represent the older generation. I am not too excited about inviting any of them.

Well, I dont want to push the point too firmly, but I strongly believe we need to prefer the younger bunch over rather than the older generation -The Armins, Alexs and Maciejs of the Python world.

I'm in favour of getting 2 people (atleast). One who can speak from a PSF non-tech perspective and the other who can do something hardcore technical to raise the bar a little.

+1 for inviting someone from PyPy Gang.

How about making Python implementations a major theme of our conference?

I know an interesting project of implementing Python in Racket.

https://github.com/brownplt/lambda-py

(disclaimer: I've contributed in a small way to that project)

We can see if we can get one of the key devs of the project to come and give a talk here.

For those of you unaware of lambda-py and the cs173 course: lambda-py is a project to build simple core language for Python based on Racket. This also includes a translation process that translates Python code into this core. With that we'll be able to reason about semantics of Python programs better. We'll be able to build better refactoring tools and other code transformations etc. Anand -- Anand http://anandology.com/

+1 for 4 keynote speakers. It'll raise the quality as mentioned.. Regards, Abdul Muneer -- Follow me on Twitter: @abdulmuneer <http://twitter.com/#%21/abdulmuneer> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology@gmail.com>wrote:

On Thursday, March 28, 2013, Anand Chitipothu wrote:

...

On Thursday, March 28, 2013, Noufal Ibrahim wrote:

...

Anand B Pillai <abpillai@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

...

That is a plus in favor of young folks like Alex, right ? I am sure he can make the trip in a jaunt :)

No dis-respect intended, but I think Van and Steve represent the older generation. I am not too excited about inviting any of them.

Well, I dont want to push the point too firmly, but I strongly believe we need to prefer the younger bunch over rather than the older generation -The Armins, Alexs and Maciejs of the Python world.

I'm in favour of getting 2 people (atleast). One who can speak from a PSF non-tech perspective and the other who can do something hardcore technical to raise the bar a little.

+1 for inviting someone from PyPy Gang.

How about making Python implementations a major theme of our conference?

I know an interesting project of implementing Python in Racket.

https://github.com/brownplt/lambda-py

(disclaimer: I've contributed in a small way to that project)

We can see if we can get one of the key devs of the project to come and give a talk here.

How about getting 4 keynote speakers in total?

* David Beazly to talk about GIL * someone from PyPy team * Sriram Krishnamurty to talk about lambda-py

With this we'll set the theme of the conference as Python implementations. I think this also raises the quality of expectation of the talks that we get.

If you think we can 4 keynotes is too much, then:

* someone from PyPy team as keynote * invited talk by Sriram/Joe to talk about lambda-py

What do you think?

Anand

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On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:37 AM, vijay <vnbang2003@yahoo.com> wrote:

2 keynote speaker and (1 or 2) invited speakers should be fine.

+1. Let us not dilute the keynote weight. 2 keynote plus 1-2 solid invited speakers seems about right.

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On Thursday, March 28, 2013, Anand Chitipothu wrote:

On Thursday, March 28, 2013, Noufal Ibrahim wrote:

Anand B Pillai <abpillai@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

...

That is a plus in favor of young folks like Alex, right ? I am sure he can make the trip in a jaunt :)

No dis-respect intended, but I think Van and Steve represent the older generation. I am not too excited about inviting any of them.

Well, I dont want to push the point too firmly, but I strongly believe we need to prefer the younger bunch over rather than the older generation -The Armins, Alexs and Maciejs of the Python world.

I'm in favour of getting 2 people (atleast). One who can speak from a PSF non-tech perspective and the other who can do something hardcore technical to raise the bar a little.

+1 for inviting someone from PyPy Gang.

How about making Python implementations a major theme of our conference?

I know an interesting project of implementing Python in Racket.

https://github.com/brownplt/lambda-py

(disclaimer: I've contributed in a small way to that project)

We can see if we can get one of the key devs of the project to come and give a talk here.

How about getting 4 keynote speakers in total?

* David Beazly to talk about GIL * someone from PyPy team * Sriram Krishnamurty to talk about lambda-py

With this we'll set the theme of the conference as Python implementations. I think this also raises the quality of expectation of the talks that we get.

If you think we can 4 keynotes is too much, then:

* someone from PyPy team as keynote * invited talk by Sriram/Joe to talk about lambda-py

What do you think?

Anand

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On 16 April 2013 10:22, Anand Chitipothu <anandology@gmail.com> wrote:

spoke to Joe about the speaking at PyCon India about lambda-py and he is interested. Looks like he can arrange $1000 from Brown university and we need to support another $1000 for his travel and stay. If there are no objections, we can confirm that.

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I spoke to Joe about the speaking at PyCon India about lambda-py and he

...

is interested. Looks like he can arrange $1000 from Brown university and we need to support another $1000 for his travel and stay. If there are no objections, we can confirm that.

You can know more about Joe Gibbs Politz from his website http://jpolitz.github.io/.

I'm sending confirmation to Joe by end of today about invited talk and a support $1000 for his travel. Please let me know if any of you have any thing to say.

Joe said he wouldn't be able to make it due to date conflicts his teaching schedule. Here is his response. "So this is really embarrassing... It turns out that after prodding you, I'm going to have to decline. I completely mis-planned my August time, and forgot that I have to run the TA camp for our two courses this fall exactly during the last week of August (classes start the first week of September). The TA camp is an intense week of preparing the course staff for classes, and the time is assigned by the school. There are too many TAs to change that many schedules, and a number get back into town just that week, so I haven't been able to work it out. I'm sure it will hurt the courses if I'm gone mid-week and over that weekend, so I can't bring myself to leave. I'm really sorry to yank you around like this, and I was really looking forward to coming! Sorry also that my declining is so badly-timed, and thanks for taking the time to invite me in the first place." Anand

Apropos keynote speakers, we contacted Hilary Mason last year and she couldn't make it because the dates clashed with a personal appointment she had at the time. I'd very much like to invite her this year. Do we have the budget for it? -- Cordially, Noufal http://nibrahim.net.in

Anand Chitipothu <anandology@gmail.com> writes:

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@nibrahim.net.in>wrote:

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Apropos keynote speakers, we contacted Hilary Mason last year and she couldn't make it because the dates clashed with a personal appointment she had at the time. I'd very much like to invite her this year. Do we have the budget for it?

We haven't decided the other keynote speaker yet.

We kind of have a guest lecture on lambda-py. So if we get someone from PyPy team, then python implementations will be a nice theme of the conference. What do you say?

The 'theme' idea is nice but I'm not sure how much that helps the conference as a whole. There are not many people who are seriously interested in implementations (most people are into application level stuff - specfically web). I'm not insistent about this but I don't really see what 1. "theming" the event gives us 2. How an "implementations" theme is relevant/useful to the Indian community. [...] -- Cordially, Noufal http://nibrahim.net.in

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@nibrahim.net.in>wrote:

Anand Chitipothu <anandology@gmail.com> writes:

...

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@nibrahim.net.in wrote:

...

Apropos keynote speakers, we contacted Hilary Mason last year and she couldn't make it because the dates clashed with a personal appointment she had at the time. I'd very much like to invite her this year. Do we have the budget for it?

We haven't decided the other keynote speaker yet.

We kind of have a guest lecture on lambda-py. So if we get someone from PyPy team, then python implementations will be a nice theme of the conference. What do you say?

The 'theme' idea is nice but I'm not sure how much that helps the conference as a whole.

There are not many people who are seriously interested in implementations (most people are into application level stuff - specfically web).

I'm not insistent about this but I don't really see what

1. "theming" the event gives us 2. How an "implementations" theme is relevant/useful to the Indian community.

I'm trying to see if we can raise the level/depth of talks at PyCon India this year. Hoping that having keynotes like that will have effect on the overall conference. I'm open to other options too. Lets decide something and move on. Anand