[Inpycon] [Discussion] Guidelines for Keynote speaker

[praveen patil]

On 2 May 2017 13:27, "Anand B Pillai" <anandpillai at letterboxes.org> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 02 May 2017 12:33 PM, Kracekumar Ramaraj wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> >  As per Vijay Kumar's [0] email in another thread, I'm spinning this
> > conversation to prevent diverting the existing conversation.
> >
> > Here is the stated response
> >
> > ----
> > Hi Everyone,
> > I have been following this thread, and would like to make a suggestion
> > here. The term keynote speaker is heavily overloaded. As it is obvious
> > from the Wikipedia page on the subject. It will be great, if we can
have a
> > guidelines page in https://github.com/pythonindia/pyconindia-handbook
> > <https://github.com/pythonindia/pyconindia-handbook> as
> > to what is expected from a keynote speaker. This will help set, clear
> > expectations, which will help save time and effort. Just my 2 cents.
> >
> > BTW, I do understand the role of a keynote speaker in the context of
PyCon
> > India. But there will definitely be a skew to my own understanding. And
in
> > a community run event, where a lot of people are involved, each one will
> > have a distorted  view of his own. Setting a common guidelines, will
help
> > set a baseline. This will also be useful to people new to the community.
>
> In Gary Zukav's "Dancing Wu Li Masters" - which I've been re-reading the
> last few days - there's a simple definition of the word "Master".
>
> "A Master is someone who has been there before you"
>
> For a me a keynote speaker is first a Master, who has been there before
> you. A keynote speaker is someone who inspires you at least a little bit
> - to follow his path - for some of the things he has done.
>
> A keynote speaker is someone who you look up to in at least one or two
> ways and deep inside you think - "Hey, I like what he did there"
>
> I would rather phrase the requirements in such Zen terms than couch it
> in any strict definitions.
>
> >

Simple and beautiful :)
+1

> > Just in case, it sounds so, I am not trying to undermine any suggestion
> > made over here. I have a great respect for all people mentioned on this
> > thread. I am just trying to streamline the process.
>
> This is a very personal thing and trying to put a process around it
> would be rather counter productive IMHO.
>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Vijay Kumar (@bravegnu)
> > ----
> >
> > [0]: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/inpycon/2017-May/011059.html
> >
> > --
> > Regards
> > R.Kracekumar
> > http://kracekumar.com
> >
> >
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> --
> Regards,
>
> --Anand
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