[Inpycon] Keynote speakers

[Anand Chitipothu]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>wrote:

> Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in
> >wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Apropos keynote speakers, we contacted Hilary Mason last year and she
> >> couldn't make it because the dates clashed with a personal appointment
> >> she had at the time. I'd very much like to invite her this year. Do we
> >> have the budget for it?
> >>
> >
> > We haven't decided the other keynote speaker yet.
> >
> > We kind of have a guest lecture on lambda-py. So if we get someone from
> > PyPy team, then python implementations will be a nice theme of the
> > conference. What do you say?
>
> The 'theme' idea is nice but I'm not sure how much that helps the
> conference as a whole.
>
> There are not many people who are seriously interested in
> implementations (most people are into application level stuff -
> specfically web).
>
> I'm not insistent about this but I don't really see what
>
> 1. "theming" the event gives us
> 2. How an "implementations" theme is relevant/useful to the Indian
>    community.
>

I'm trying to see if we can raise the level/depth of talks at PyCon India
this year. Hoping that having keynotes like that will have effect on the
overall conference.

I'm open to other options too. Lets decide something and move on.

Anand
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