Keynote speakers for PyCon India 2013
Okay. We need to get this wrapped up. We are planning to have 2 speakers. The first one is Kiran. The second is undecided although there are some potential candidates. I'll let this thread grow for suggestions. This is the list so far. I've also included a brief bio/list of projects they're famous for. - Armin Ronacher - Flask, pocco projects. - Kenneth Reitz - Requests and other "for humans" alternatives to stdlib. - Alex Gaynor - PyPy and optimisation in general. - Steve Holden - PSF - Van Lindberg - PSF - Hilary Mason - bit.ly (we invited her last year but she had other engagements). In addition to this, we have one other invited speaker. - Joe Gibbs (of the lambda-py project). I don't want to this democratically (via voting) but it would be nice to have some discussion. We'll zero in on someone by the middle of next week and I'll invite them formally. Time is running short and we need to make a decision. I'm personally for inviting Hilary Mason. She's technically strong, active in the startup community and was a keynote speaker at PyCon in Atlanta. In addition to this, we tried to invite her last year and she was interested but couldn't because of a schedule conflict. Steve Holden and Van Lindberg can speak from a PSF/community perspective. The others are technically strong and from what I know, good speakers. -- Cordially, Noufal http://nibrahim.net.in
I feel Kenneth Reitz will catch people's fancy (eg. students) with his talk, especially about contributing back to Python/FOSS, etc. Hillary Mason is awesome from a technical standpoint as well. ~BG On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@nibrahim.net.in> wrote:
Okay. We need to get this wrapped up.
We are planning to have 2 speakers. The first one is Kiran. The second is undecided although there are some potential candidates. I'll let this thread grow for suggestions. This is the list so far. I've also included a brief bio/list of projects they're famous for.
- Armin Ronacher - Flask, pocco projects. - Kenneth Reitz - Requests and other "for humans" alternatives to stdlib. - Alex Gaynor - PyPy and optimisation in general. - Steve Holden - PSF - Van Lindberg - PSF - Hilary Mason - bit.ly (we invited her last year but she had other engagements).
In addition to this, we have one other invited speaker.
- Joe Gibbs (of the lambda-py project).
I don't want to this democratically (via voting) but it would be nice to have some discussion. We'll zero in on someone by the middle of next week and I'll invite them formally. Time is running short and we need to make a decision.
I'm personally for inviting Hilary Mason. She's technically strong, active in the startup community and was a keynote speaker at PyCon in Atlanta. In addition to this, we tried to invite her last year and she was interested but couldn't because of a schedule conflict.
Steve Holden and Van Lindberg can speak from a PSF/community perspective.
The others are technically strong and from what I know, good speakers.
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i vote for Armin Ronacher On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Vaidik Kapoor <kapoor.vaidik@gmail.com>wrote:
I feel Kenneth Reitz will catch people's fancy (eg. students) with his talk, especially about contributing back to Python/FOSS, etc. Hillary Mason is awesome from a technical standpoint as well. ~BG
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Heroku offers travel grants for Kenneth AFAIK. If his availability is confirmed and travel is sponsored. Armin or Alex can be sponsored. That will have three key note speakers. On Apr 25, 2013 10:48 AM, "Baishampayan Ghose" <b.ghose@gmail.com> wrote:
I feel Kenneth Reitz will catch people's fancy (eg. students) with his talk, especially about contributing back to Python/FOSS, etc. Hillary Mason is awesome from a technical standpoint as well. ~BG
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@nibrahim.net.in> wrote:
Okay. We need to get this wrapped up.
We are planning to have 2 speakers. The first one is Kiran. The second is undecided although there are some potential candidates. I'll let this thread grow for suggestions. This is the list so far. I've also included a brief bio/list of projects they're famous for.
- Armin Ronacher - Flask, pocco projects. - Kenneth Reitz - Requests and other "for humans" alternatives to
stdlib.
- Alex Gaynor - PyPy and optimisation in general. - Steve Holden - PSF - Van Lindberg - PSF - Hilary Mason - bit.ly (we invited her last year but she had other engagements).
In addition to this, we have one other invited speaker.
- Joe Gibbs (of the lambda-py project).
I don't want to this democratically (via voting) but it would be nice to have some discussion. We'll zero in on someone by the middle of next week and I'll invite them formally. Time is running short and we need to make a decision.
I'm personally for inviting Hilary Mason. She's technically strong, active in the startup community and was a keynote speaker at PyCon in Atlanta. In addition to this, we tried to invite her last year and she was interested but couldn't because of a schedule conflict.
Steve Holden and Van Lindberg can speak from a PSF/community perspective.
The others are technically strong and from what I know, good speakers.
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me kracekumar <me@kracekumar.com> writes:
Heroku offers travel grants for Kenneth AFAIK. If his availability is confirmed and travel is sponsored. Armin or Alex can be sponsored. That will have three key note speakers.
That will dilute the value of the "keynote". We should stick to two (one per day) rather than try to pull in as many people as possible. [...] -- Cordially, Noufal http://nibrahim.net.in
+1 for either Armin Ronacher or Alex -- Dhruv Baldawa (http://www.dhruvb.com) On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@nibrahim.net.in>wrote:
me kracekumar <me@kracekumar.com> writes:
Heroku offers travel grants for Kenneth AFAIK. If his availability is confirmed and travel is sponsored. Armin or Alex can be sponsored. That will have three key note speakers.
That will dilute the value of the "keynote". We should stick to two (one per day) rather than try to pull in as many people as possible.
[...]
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@nibrahim.net.in>wrote:
That will dilute the value of the "keynote". We should stick to two (one per day) rather than try to pull in as many people as possible.
You could have end-of-day keynotes like FOSS.IN has. That'll ensure people stay through the day. Kiran -- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://jace.zaiki.in http://hasgeek.com
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda <jace@pobox.com> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@nibrahim.net.in> wrote:
That will dilute the value of the "keynote". We should stick to two (one per day) rather than try to pull in as many people as possible.
You could have end-of-day keynotes like FOSS.IN has. That'll ensure people stay through the day.
+1
Kiran
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+1 for Armin Ronacher ________________________________ From: Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@nibrahim.net.in> To: Mailing list for the PyCon India conference <inpycon@python.org> Sent: Thursday, 25 April 2013 10:39 AM Subject: [Inpycon] Keynote speakers for PyCon India 2013 Okay. We need to get this wrapped up. We are planning to have 2 speakers. The first one is Kiran. The second is undecided although there are some potential candidates. I'll let this thread grow for suggestions. This is the list so far. I've also included a brief bio/list of projects they're famous for. - Armin Ronacher - Flask, pocco projects. - Kenneth Reitz - Requests and other "for humans" alternatives to stdlib. - Alex Gaynor - PyPy and optimisation in general. - Steve Holden - PSF - Van Lindberg - PSF - Hilary Mason - bit.ly (we invited her last year but she had other engagements). In addition to this, we have one other invited speaker. - Joe Gibbs (of the lambda-py project). I don't want to this democratically (via voting) but it would be nice to have some discussion. We'll zero in on someone by the middle of next week and I'll invite them formally. Time is running short and we need to make a decision. I'm personally for inviting Hilary Mason. She's technically strong, active in the startup community and was a keynote speaker at PyCon in Atlanta. In addition to this, we tried to invite her last year and she was interested but couldn't because of a schedule conflict. Steve Holden and Van Lindberg can speak from a PSF/community perspective. The others are technically strong and from what I know, good speakers. -- Cordially, Noufal http://nibrahim.net.in _______________________________________________ Inpycon mailing list Inpycon@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon
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Okay. We need to get this wrapped up.
We are planning to have 2 speakers. The first one is Kiran. The second is undecided although there are some potential candidates. I'll let this thread grow for suggestions. This is the list so far. I've also included a brief bio/list of projects they're famous for.
- Armin Ronacher - Flask, pocco projects. - Kenneth Reitz - Requests and other "for humans" alternatives to stdlib. - Alex Gaynor - PyPy and optimisation in general. - Steve Holden - PSF - Van Lindberg - PSF - Hilary Mason - bit.ly (we invited her last year but she had other engagements).
In addition to this, we have one other invited speaker.
- Joe Gibbs (of the lambda-py project).
I don't want to this democratically (via voting) but it would be nice to have some discussion. We'll zero in on someone by the middle of next week and I'll invite them formally. Time is running short and we need to make a decision.
I'm personally for inviting Hilary Mason. She's technically strong, active in the startup community and was a keynote speaker at PyCon in Atlanta. In addition to this, we tried to invite her last year and she was interested but couldn't because of a schedule conflict.
Steve Holden and Van Lindberg can speak from a PSF/community perspective.
The others are technically strong and from what I know, good speakers.
I like to vote for Kenneth Reitz and Hilary Mason. I would be great if Hilary Mason come in pycon india 2013. Thanks, With Best Wishes, Chandan Kumar Final Year, Computer Science and Engineering Dr.B.C.Roy Engineering College, Durgapur https://ciypro.wordpress.com
This is my take away from the discussion. I'm going to ask the people in this list and based on availability invite the first two. 1. Hilary Mason 2. Armin Ronacher 3. Kenneth Reitz 4. Alex Gaynor Any objections? Would it be a good idea to invite someone from the PSF? Steve Holden or Van Lindberg as well? I'm planning to send the emails at the end of the week. -- Cordially, Noufal http://nibrahim.net.in
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@nibrahim.net.in>wrote:
This is my take away from the discussion. I'm going to ask the people in this list and based on availability invite the first two.
We already have one keynote speaker confirmed. So we need to invite just one.
1. Hilary Mason 2. Armin Ronacher 3. Kenneth Reitz 4. Alex Gaynor
Any objections?
The list looks good to me.
Would it be a good idea to invite someone from the PSF? Steve Holden or Van Lindberg as well?
I'm not sure. Anand
+1 for the selection. Sent on my BlackBerry® from Vodafone -----Original Message----- From: Anand Chitipothu <anandology@gmail.com> Sender: "Inpycon" <inpycon-bounces+chris4python=gmail.com@python.org>Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:11:23 To: Mailing list for the PyCon India conference<inpycon@python.org> Reply-To: Mailing list for the PyCon India conference <inpycon@python.org> Subject: Re: [Inpycon] Keynote speakers for PyCon India 2013 _______________________________________________ Inpycon mailing list Inpycon@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@nibrahim.net.in>wrote:
This is my take away from the discussion. I'm going to ask the people in this list and based on availability invite the first two.
1. Hilary Mason 2. Armin Ronacher 3. Kenneth Reitz 4. Alex Gaynor
Any objections? Would it be a good idea to invite someone from the PSF? Steve Holden or Van Lindberg as well?
I'm planning to send the emails at the end of the week.
Kindly go ahead. I think we have had enough discussions on this topic. The list looks good.
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Hello, Is there any update on the invites to the first two yet? Regards, Lakshman On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:13 AM, Anand B Pillai <abpillai@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@nibrahim.net.in>wrote:
This is my take away from the discussion. I'm going to ask the people in this list and based on availability invite the first two.
1. Hilary Mason 2. Armin Ronacher 3. Kenneth Reitz 4. Alex Gaynor
Any objections? Would it be a good idea to invite someone from the PSF? Steve Holden or Van Lindberg as well?
I'm planning to send the emails at the end of the week.
Kindly go ahead. I think we have had enough discussions on this topic. The list looks good.
-- Cordially, Noufal http://nibrahim.net.in _______________________________________________ Inpycon mailing list Inpycon@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon
-- Regards,
--Anand
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Lakshman Prasad <scorpion032@gmail.com> writes:
Hello,
Is there any update on the invites to the first two yet?
I've sent the emails. Waiting for replies. [...] -- Cordially, Noufal http://nibrahim.net.in
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