[Inpycon] Keynote speakers

[Anand B Pillai]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:37 AM, vijay <vnbang2003 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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

+1. Let us not dilute the keynote weight.

2 keynote plus 1-2 solid invited speakers  seems about right.

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> *From:* Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com>
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> *To:* Mailing list for the PyCon India conference <inpycon at python.org>
> *Sent:* Friday, 29 March 2013 6:44 AM
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> *Subject:* Re: [Inpycon] Keynote speakers
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> On Thursday, March 28, 2013, Anand Chitipothu wrote:
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> On Thursday, March 28, 2013, Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
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> Anand B Pillai <abpillai at gmail.com> writes:
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> [...]
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> > 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.
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>
> +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.
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>
> How about getting 4 keynote speakers in total?
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> * David Beazly to talk about GIL
> * someone from PyPy team
> * Sriram Krishnamurty to talk about lambda-py
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> 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:
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> * 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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