[Inpycon] Foreign delegates

[Dhananjay Nene]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Ramdas S <ramdaz at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Dhananjay Nene <dhananjay.nene at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai <
>> abpillai at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Would be great to have him!
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>>> Raymond Hettinger is one of the most valuable Python developers
>>> in terms of his range and depth of contributions and his remarkable
>>> consistency in adding high-performance modules to the stdlib. Would
>>> be an ideal fit for our conf, if he agrees to come.
>>>
>>> IMHO, let us try and get core Python devs for keynote. No offence
>>> meant, but inviting a non-core contributor from one of the other
>>> projects, will give the <wrong> idea that the conf is not a generic
>>> Python conference, the first hour of the first day itself.
>>>
>>> As a side-note, do we want to go for PSF sponsorship this time for
>>> the foreign delegate ? Considering the hoops we went through last time
>>> to get the money refunded to David from PSF, I would be very relieved
>>> if we can avoid this.
>>>
>>> Whats the financial impact of this in approximate terms ?
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> Calclate at 1.5 L per person all inclusive. We may be able to scale it
> down....
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If thats an impact we have to bear, will it come from some existing fund, or
have we accounted for it in terms of additional sponsorships ? If not how
does one budget it ?

Dhananjay
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