[Inpycon] PyCon India 2018 | Suggestions for Keynote speakers

[Ramanathan Ramakrishnamoorthy]

Hello All,

We have some news to share. We have three Keynote speakers confirmed.

1. Travis Oliphant
2. Armin Ronacher
3. Carol Willing

In the recent CFP workgroup meeting, we had a discussion and suggestions
for the fourth Keynote speaker.  The following were the suggestions.

- Sidu Ponnappa
- Rishabh Mehta
- Anand S
- Professor Janakiraman from IIIT
- Dhanunjaya Neni

The community's thought on this would be great.

Thanks,
Ramanathan.






On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 5:18 PM, Ramanathan Ramakrishnamoorthy <
ramanathanhari at gmail.com> wrote:

> ​Having 4 keynote speakers instead of 3 will be great! ​​
>
> We indeed plan to have 4 Keynotes.  We have Travis Oliphant confirmed and
> we need to finalize three more Keynote speakers.
>
>
>>
>> I think we should decide on what we want out of a keynote speaker. For
>> example, do we want a core CPython contributor to help attendees get
>> motivated towards contributing to CPython, or we want someone from PyPy
>> team to so that attendees can learn about PyPy etc. Just because we can
>> call someone, or someone is a good speaker, we should not call them. I
>> agree that we can't get everything we decide but that will be a good step.
>
>
> I can definitely say that is the exact thought process the community is
> working with - a fact quite evident with the suggestions so far. Based on
> my past experience, the community (just not the speakers & organizing team)
> will make sure that the attendees leave the conference motivated for a long
> haul :)
>
> We are reaching out to various suggestions in this list.  If you have
> specific names in mind, please suggest.
>
> Thanks,
> Ramanathan.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 3:53 PM, Pulkit Goyal <7895pulkit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 12:13 AM, Ramanathan Ramakrishnamoorthy <
>> ramanathanhari at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> As most of you would aware,  PyCon India is happening in Hyderabad on
>>> October 5-9, 2018   We have one confirmed keynote speaker (Travis Oliphant)
>>> who we had invited as part of planning for PyCon Hyderabad.  We reached out
>>> to him about the change in plans, and he has confirmed his availability for
>>> PyCon India 2018.
>>>
>>> On the other hand, Nick Coughlan has backed due to some personal
>>> reasons.  As part of the event, we intend to have four Keynote speakers
>>> which means we need to identify three more keynote speakers.
>>>
>>
>> ​Having 4 keynote speakers instead of 3 will be great! ​​
>>
>>>
>>> We request the community to provide suggestions for Keynote speakers.
>>> Based on popular ask, we can reach out to the speakers requesting them to
>>> Keynote.
>>>
>>
>> ​I think we should decide on what we want out of a keynote speaker. For
>> example, do we want a core CPython contributor to help attendees get
>> motivated towards contributing to CPython, or we want someone from PyPy
>> team to so that attendees can learn about PyPy etc. Just because we can
>> call someone, or someone is a good speaker, we should not call them. I
>> agree that we can't get everything we decide but that will be a good step.
>>
>> For example: PyCon Pune keynote speakers were CPython devs and that
>> motivated and helped people to contribute to CPython.
>>
>> Moreover I have seen instances when big companies like Google, Fb,
>> Instagram become a major sponsor for the event and they gets a keynote
>> slot. I think this is also worth giving a thought.
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ramanathan.
>>>
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>> ​Regards
>> Pulkit​
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 12:13 AM, Ramanathan Ramakrishnamoorthy <
>> ramanathanhari at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> As most of you would aware,  PyCon India is happening in Hyderabad on
>>> October 5-9, 2018   We have one confirmed keynote speaker (Travis Oliphant)
>>> who we had invited as part of planning for PyCon Hyderabad.  We reached out
>>> to him about the change in plans, and he has confirmed his availability for
>>> PyCon India 2018.
>>>
>>> On the other hand, Nick Coughlan has backed due to some personal
>>> reasons.  As part of the event, we intend to have four Keynote speakers
>>> which means we need to identify three more keynote speakers.
>>>
>>> We request the community to provide suggestions for Keynote speakers.
>>> Based on popular ask, we can reach out to the speakers requesting them to
>>> Keynote.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ramanathan.
>>>
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>>> Inpycon mailing list
>>> Inpycon at python.org
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>>>
>>
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