[Inpycon] Suggestions for the Keynote Speaker

[Kushal Das]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 9:08 AM, Pulkit Goyal <7895pulkit at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 10:27 PM, Haris Ibrahim K. V. <blucalvin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On 26 April 2017 at 18:50, Jaidev Deshpande <deshpande.jaidev at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi everyone,
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>> > I'm starting this thread to ask for suggestions for the three (at least
>> > two)
>> > keynote speakers we need for PyCon India 2017.
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>> > I have spoken to Peter Wang (https://www.continuum.io/people/peter-wang)
>> > about this and he has agreed in principle. He'll block his dates as soon
>> > as
>> > we send him a formal invitation.
>> >
>> > Have any of you spoken to anyone about being a keynote speaker? Do you
>> > have
>> > any suggestions?
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> I talked to Lukasz Langa and he is interested. He is one of the core
> developer of Python, maintainer of configparser, author of PEP 443 and
> co-author of PEP 484 (the type hint one) and also an engineer at Instagram.
> I think he will be a good one to have. Related links:
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> 1. Github : https://github.com/ambv?tab=repositories
> 2. Twitter : https://twitter.com/llanga
> 3. Personal Profile : http://lukasz.langa.pl/cv/
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Both Russel Keith-Magee, and llanga are excellent speakers. Peter Wang is also
a very exciting speaker and can motivate people.

Kushal
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