[Inpycon] About keynote speakers

[Anand Chitipothu]

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Noufal Ibrahim KV
<noufal at nibrahim.net.in>wrote:

> On Tue, May 27 2014, Ratnadeep Debnath wrote:
>
>
> [...]
>
> > IIRC, Kushal was proposed as a keynote speaker. Why not go with Kushal
> > as a keynote speaker? Kushal has been into Python for 9+ years and has
> > contributed to numerous open source projects. I support Kushal for the
> > following reasons:
> >
> > - CPython core developer from India
> > - A veteran mentor on FOSS technologies
> > - Upstream and contributor to various open source projects (apart from
> work)
> > - Running DGPLUG summer training successfully for years. DGPLUG summer
> > training has produced numerous contributors to and upstreams of open
> > source projects.
> > - Hails from an underdog college with limited infrastructure and
> > support. He's got hell of a real life experience to share on how he
> > started with FOSS and created DGPLUG from scratch to help young minds
> > get into and contribute to FOSS.
>
> [...]
>
> +1.
>

+0

I'm interested to hear his experiences of becoming cpython core dev, but at
the same time I prefer to have him as keynote speaker for next year, not
this year. He is contesting for a position in the PSF board. As a PSF
member, I would surely support him as having someone from India in the PSF
board is going to help the Indian Python community a lot. I'm hopeful that
he'll succeed. If we wait for an year, we can have him as keynote speaker,
representing PSF.

So my suggestion is to have him as invited speaker this year and consider
as keynote for next year.

What do you think?

Anand
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