[Inpycon] PyCon India 2014 Guest speakers

[Baiju M]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm in San Francisco now and met Senthil Kumaran today for dinner. Senthil
> used to be an active member of Python community in Bangalore, he volunteered
> for the first PyCon India. He is a core contributor to CPython and currently
> working for  Twitter.
>
> I've discussed with him about how he can participate actively in PyCon India
> and Indian Python community in general. Couple of things that came up are:
>
> * Giving a talk at PyCon India 2014. May be we can invite him as a guest
> speaker and see if Twitter can sponsor his travel.
> * Being part of the talk selection committee.
> * Doing online talks once in a while (like Noufal is doing now)
>
> I think it'll be wonderful to have Senthil as speaker at PyCon India 2014
> and I feel we should invite him as a guest speaker. What do you guys think?

+1

It would be great to get a core contributor to CPython from India as a speaker.

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Baiju M