[Inpycon] Suggestions for the Keynote Speaker

[qua non]

Correction, Tim Berners Lee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 4:04 PM, qua non <akshayaurora at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just to throw this in the mix, since PyDelhiConf invited a member from
> CERN, we were offered to try and talk to tim Berbers Lee for PyCon.
>
> The reason for not bringing this earlier was I was not sure if he would be
> a good fit cause I don't see him using much python.
>
> +1 for Noufal and Anand B, both as Indian Keynote speakers.
>
> There is no reason why we can't have multiple Indian Keynote speakers.
>
> Regards
> Akkshay
>
> P.S
> We are aiming to close the suggestion list by tomorrow evening,
> get all your suggestions in before that.
>
>
> On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Kracekumar Ramaraj <me at kracekumar.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 11:13 AM, Vijay Kumar <vijaykumar at bravegnu.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, April 26, 2017 6:50 pm, Jaidev Deshpande wrote:
>>>
>>> > Have any of you spoken to anyone about being a keynote speaker? Do you
>>> > have any suggestions?
>>>
>>> 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 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Vijay Kumar (@bravegnu)
>>>
>>>
>> Vijay, I created a new thread to discuss about your point [0].
>>
>> [0]: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/inpycon/2017-May/011060.html
>>
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