[Inpycon] Necessity of foreign delegates. Was Re: Notes from InPyCon planning meeting of local Pune Team

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 10:56 +0530, Anand Chitipothu wrote:
> > Good points, these.  But Dhananjay did raise an interesting point,
> is
> > it customary for a conference to pay for the travel and board of the
> > keynote speakers?  Or are the keynote speakers mostly locals?  What
> > happened in the APAC Pycon?  That was in Singapore, right?  About
> the
> > same distance from Europe and the US, as India.
> 
> http://pycon.sit.rp.sg/pycon-apac-2010
> 
> They had Steve Holden as keynote speaker. 

one fossconf we held in Chennai, one foreign speaker invited himself -
he was in India at the time, registered as a delegate and registered a
talk - we bumped his talk to keynote status.
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Kenneth Gonsalves
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