[NeedForSpeed] Arrival in Reykjavik

[Steve Holden]

Martin Blais wrote:
> Thanks Steve, you rock, this is great! :-)
> 
> On 5/19/06, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> 
>> When you arrive in Keflavik, after collecting your baggage and clearing
>> customs, please look for someone holding a card with your name on it.
>>
Well, it's nice of you to say so, but without EWT's support I would just 
be Mr. Python Community, mouthing platitudes at people who were happy to 
pick up a free ride from someone with larger pockets than I. So please 
direct your thanks to David Salomon, EWT principal and CEO, whose vision 
created this event, and his co-founder Vincent Viola.

David was originally planning to attend the sprint, but had to change 
his plans due to some of his many other commitments. I hope that at some 
future stage he will be able to support similar events in person, as I 
know his dedication to finding the appropriate partnership between the 
open source community and the commercial world will ultimately pay huge 
dividends to both sides of the equation.

We do at least have a video conference session on Tuesday or Wednesday 
to look forward to, where I hope we will hear David's opinions on how 
the open source community and the commercial world can usefully and 
profitably co-exist. We will also have the opportunity to contribute our 
own visions as to how we can best make this happen, and the most 
practical outcome from this week is to make sure Python 2.5 runs faster 
for everyone than it otherwise would.

I hope all delegates will feel free to express their gratitude to both 
David (whose vision is larger than this single event) and EWT (to whom 
expressions of gratitude have so far been limited to my own utterances), 
for their huge investment in the sprint.

Whatever mistakes may have been made in the organization of this sprint 
have been mine alone, and good people have been upset by my 
shortcomings. Chalk up the successes to EWT, David and Vinnie Viola.

Now let's go ahead and prove that we can make Python rock as much as you 
seem to think *I* do.

Thanks, David. I'll miss your guiding hand this week in Iceland.

regards
  Steve
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