[Inpycon] About keynote speakers

[Abdul Rauf]

On 5/18/14, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are late in finalizing the keynote speaker.
>
> The registration is already open, CFP deadline around the corner. We have
> finalized the keynote speakers by then.
>
> Anyway, let me summarized the discussion and move forward.
>
> Options:
>
> * Hilary Mason - can't come
> * Armin - Noufal is taking to him
> * Michel Ford
> * Jessica McKellar
>
> I personally think would be nice to have Jessica McKellar.   She has been
> trying to help the indian python user groups. I've received couple of
> emails from her asking if we need any support from PSF for bangpypers. I
> think having her here in person will be good to the community and improves
> our ties with PSF. Also having a female keynote speaker will be good for
> diversity.
>
> There were suggestion to invite someone from mozilla as guest speaker.
> Abdul Ralf was taking to them.
> Abdul, any updates?
>

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/inpycon/2014-May/007818.html

> There was a suggestion to invote Senthil Kumaran as a guest speaker. I can
> talk to him if everyone agrees to that.
>
> Apart from these, there were discussion about having an indian keynote
> speaker.  Do you any suggestion for someone who can add a lot of value to
> the Python community? May be someone from government? or FOSS community?
>
> Anand
>


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Abdul Rauf (haseeb)
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