[Python-Dev] Pycon and Randall Munroe

[Aahz]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2009, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
>>>
>>> Whoever thought this one up [1], thank you for making me almost choke on my
>>> meal due to laughing fits.  :-)
>>>
>>> [1] http://pycon.blogspot.com/2009/02/randall-munroe.html
>>
>> Primary credit for the writing goes to Catherine Devlin, who runs
>> publicity for PyCon, but it was to some extent a group effort on the
>> pycon-organizers list.  PyCon is all about the volunteering!
> 
> Very cool. Has anyone contacted Randall about giving a keynote at PyCon?

We're discussing it, but unless we want to conduct a public campaign to
push him to come, let's keep it low-key for now.
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