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

[David Christian]

Ned, this list is great!  Thanks for putting this together.  Now to
plan one of these for NYC...

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com> wrote:
> 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)
> -------------------------------
>
> 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)
>
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