[Inpycon] Keynote speakers for PyCon India 2013

me kracekumar me at kracekumar.com
Thu Apr 25 07:35:34 CEST 2013


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 at 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 at 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Cordially,
> > Noufal
> > http://nibrahim.net.in
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