[EuroPython] Proposal: Keynote speakers for EP 2008

[Christian Theune]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:14:58PM +0100, Steve Alexander wrote:
> I want to propose two keynote speakers for EuroPython this year.  Let me
> know what you think of this.
> 
> The first is Karl Fogel, author of the Red Bean book on Subversion.  His
> web site and weblog is at http://rants.org/
> 
> Karl's current passion is copyright reform, so I propose inviting him to
> give a keynote at EuroPython about what's up with copyright, and what we
> can do about it.

Yay. I really enjoy Karls writing (he also wrote "Producing Open Source
Software").

> The second is Van Lindberg.  Van is a Python programmer and also a
> lawyer at a US law firm.  He gave a keynote at PyCon this month, also
> about copyright, showing how it works, what it's for, its history and
> its problems.

I liked his presentation. In fact I thought it was the best keynote at PyCon
actually.

Christian

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