[Inpycon] Keynote speakers

[vijay]

2 keynote speaker and  (1 or 2) invited speakers should be fine.



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 From: Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com>
To: Mailing list for the PyCon India conference <inpycon at python.org> 
Sent: Friday, 29 March 2013 6:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Inpycon] Keynote speakers
 



On Thursday, March 28, 2013, Anand Chitipothu  wrote:


>On Thursday, March 28, 2013, Noufal Ibrahim  wrote:
>
>Anand B Pillai <abpillai at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>> That is a plus in favor of young folks like Alex, right ?
>>> I am sure he can make the trip in a jaunt :)
>>>
>>> No dis-respect intended, but I think Van and Steve represent the
>>> older generation. I am not too excited about inviting any of them.
>>>
>>> Well, I dont want to push the point too firmly, but I strongly believe
>>> we need to prefer the younger bunch over rather than the older
>>> generation -The Armins, Alexs and Maciejs of the Python world.
>>
>>I'm in favour of getting 2 people (atleast). One who can speak from a
>>PSF non-tech perspective and the other who can do something hardcore
>>technical to raise the bar a little.
>>
>
>
>+1 for inviting someone from  PyPy Gang.
>
>
>How about making Python implementations a major theme of our conference? 
>
>
>I know an interesting project of implementing Python in Racket.
>
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>https://github.com/brownplt/lambda-py
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>
>(disclaimer: I've contributed in a small way to that project)
>
>
>We can see if we can get one of the key devs of the project to come and give a talk here.

How about getting 4 keynote speakers in total?

* David Beazly to talk about GIL
* someone from PyPy team 
* Sriram Krishnamurty to talk about lambda-py

With this we'll set the theme of the conference as Python implementations. I think this also raises the quality of expectation of the talks that we get.

If you think we can 4 keynotes is too much, then:

* someone from PyPy team as keynote
* invited talk by Sriram/Joe to talk about lambda-py

What do you think?

Anand

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