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= Top Choices (prioritized =

 * Limi and Runyan (Plone)
 * Jon Udell (InfoWorld)
 * Mark Hammond, who is making Python a first-class scripting language in the
 Mozilla platform: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/008865.html + someone from Mozilla like Mitchell Baker or Asa Dotzler
 * Tim O'Reilly
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 * Eric Raymond
 * Jon Udell (InfoWorld)
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 * Someone from Firaxis to talk about and show Python in the Civ IV game
 * Someone like Brendan Eich from Mozilla.org who can talk about plans to
 make Python a first-class scripting language, like Javascript, in the
 Mozilla platform
 * Someone from Firaxis to talk about and show Python in the Civilization IV game
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 * Laura Creighton
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 * Evelyn Mitchell
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= General Tech related =

 * Mark Shuttleworth
 * Mitchell Baker or Asa Dotzler from Mozilla.org
 * Vernor Vinge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_Vinge)
 * Sam Ruby
 * Alan Kay
 * Bill Joy
 * Gitte Wange
 * MvL
 * MAL
 * Greg Wilson
 * Andy Hertzfeld
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''(Judging by the feedback forms, people really do want Python-related keynotes. For
example, a number of people thought Mitch Kapor's keynote was interesting but didn't have enough Python content. So I think the Ruby on Rails idea would never fly. --amk)''
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Here are some people who have been suggested as keynote speakers.

Top Choices (prioritized

More or less Python related

  • Bram Cohen (BitTorrent)

  • Someone from Firaxis to talk about and show Python in the Civilization IV game
  • David Ascher
  • Laura Creighton
  • timbot
  • Evelyn Mitchell
  • effbot
  • Gitte Wange
  • MvL
  • MAL
  • Greg Wilson
  • Andy Hertzfeld

Potential topic ideas

  • New/Emerging Opportunities for Python
  • Python's biggest success (BitTorrent?)

  • Python at (a large visible organization, such as Disney, Lucasfilm, NASA)
  • The New New thing: Ruby on Rails
  • Taking Python Mainstream
  • Something really sexy, like scripting a popular game in python (Civilization IV comes to mind, it should be released by then)
  • How to change the world (for the better) with Python

(Judging by the feedback forms, people really do want Python-related keynotes. For example, a number of people thought Mitch Kapor's keynote was interesting but didn't have enough Python content. So I think the Ruby on Rails idea would never fly. --amk)


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