[group-organizers] Pycon speakers by region, for dress rehearsals

[Ned Batchelder]

Last year, the Boston python meetup had a "Pycon dress rehearsal" night 
for the Boston-area speakers headed  to Pycon.  It was very successful: 
we had three presenters, and our largest attendance in a long time.  The 
speakers had a chance to practice their talk, and the attendees got a 
jam-packed night.  Even people planning to attend Pycon could use it as 
a way to solve the "I want to see two talks at the same time" problem at 
Pycon.

I'm planning to do it again this year, and in preparation, I went 
through the Pycon speakers and organized them by region.  I thought 
other organizers might want to see the list, maybe it will spur them to 
run similar events.  At least it might alert you to active Pythonistas 
previously unknown to you in your neighborhood.

BTW: It turns out we have seven speakers from Boston including a 
keynoter, so I may be doing a Saturday afternoon event to get them all 
squeezed in.

--Ned.
http://nedbatchelder.com

Here's the list: I may have some people misplaced.  Some of this 
required real digging to get a physical location...

United States (or close enough)
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Atlanta
    Jonathan LaCour (ShootQ)
    Alfredo Deza
    Brandon Craig Rhodes (Rhodes Mill Studios, Inc.)
    Christopher Johnson (ifPeople)
    Mr. Rick Copeland (SourceForge)

Boston
    Francesco Pierfederici (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
    Mr. Edward L Abrams (Hewlett-Packard)
    Peter A Portante
    Glyph Lefkowitz
    Jack Diederich (Consultant)
    Ned Batchelder

Chicago
    Alex Gaynor (Eldarion)
    David Beazley (Dabeaz LLC)
    Ian Bicking (The Open Planning Project)

Colorado
    Dr. Steven H Rogers (Seagate Technology)

Dallas
    Jeff Rush (Tau Productions Inc.)

Kansas
    Matt Croydon (Mediaphormedia)
    James Bennett

Kansas City
    Mr. Eric Silverman (ALATEC Inc. / US Army)

Los Angeles
    Dr. Jonathan M Cameron (Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA))
    Peter Shinners
    Grig Gheorghiu (Evite)
    Dr. David Q Mertz (Gnosis Software)
    Raymond Hettinger
    Robert E Brewer (Polimetrix)

Maryland
    Eric Smith (True Blade Systems, Inc.)
    Nitin Madnani (University of Maryland, College Park)
    Dr. Jimmy J Lin (University of Maryland)
    Joseph Lisee (Robotics @ Maryland)

Michigan
    Mark Ramm (SourceForge)
    Dr. C. Titus Brown (Michigan State University)

Minnesota
    Chris Moffitt (Satchmo)

North Carolina
    Frank J Wierzbicki (Jython)
    Mr. Chander K Ganesan (Open Technology Group, Inc.)
    Mr. Gary Poster (Canonical)
    Joe Gregorio (Google)

New York City
    Mr. Roy Hyunjin Han (Columbia University)
    Wes McKinney (AQR Capital Management, LLC)
    Mr. Justin Lilly (HUGE Inc)

Ohio
    Catherine Devlin (IntelliTech Systems)

Seattle
    Dino E Viehland (Microsoft)
    Jimmy Schementi
    Ivan Beschastnikh (University of Washington)
    Justin Samuel
    Justin Cappos (University of Washington)

San Francisco
    David A Reid
    Aaron Maxwell (Hilomath Mobile)
    Mr. wesley j. chun (CyberWeb Consulting)
    Ms. Anna M Ravenscroft (PSF)
    Collin Winter (Google / Unladen Swallow)
    Mr. Eric Florenzano (Django, Hurricane)
    Mr. Jinal Jhaveri (Lolapps Inc)
    Charles Merriam
    Mr. Scott Chacon (GitHub)
    Donovan Preston
    Brett Slatkin (Google Inc.)
    Bob Ippolito (Mochi Media, Inc.)
    Alex Martelli
    Mr. Larry Hastings

Toronto
    Dr. Greg Wilson (University of Toronto)
    Ms. Leigh JM Honeywell (HackLab.TO)
    Mike C. Fletcher (VRPlumber Consulting Inc.)

Utah
    Jonathan Ellis
    Juliana Freire (University of Utah and VisTrails Inc.)

Vancouver BC
    Mr. Brett Cannon

Washington DC
    Ryan J O'Neil
    Ms. Katie A Cunningham (NASA/Indyne)
    Daniel Greenfeld (NASA / Indyne Inc.)
    Tres Seaver (Agendaless Consulting, Inc.)

Wisconsin
    Dr. Ilan Schnell (Enthought)


Elsewhere in the World
----------------------

Argentina
    Matias Torchinsky

Brazil
    Guilherme Chapiewski;
    Henrique Bastos

Dominican Republic
    Jorge L Vargas

England
    Mr. Michael J Foord
    Allison Randal (Parrot Foundation)
    Alexander Dutton (University of Oxford)
    Mr. Adam T. Lindsay (Lancaster University)

France
    Tarek Ziadé
    Dr. Matthieu Amiguet (Haute École Arc)

Germany
    holger krekel (merlinux gmbh)
    Mr. Maciej Fijalkowski (merlinux GmbH, pypy)

India
    Mr. Sanjiv Singh

Ireland
    Ms. Nadia Alramli (DemonWare)

Mexico
    Carlos de la Guardia

Netherlands
    Mr. Stani Michiels (Phatch, SPE)
    Dirkjan Ochtman

Sweden
    Andrew Dalke (Dalke Scientific)
    Tobias Ivarsson

Ukraine
    Max Ischenko

Venezuela
    Nicolas Lara


Couldn't Find
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    John Rittenhouse (CCP Games)