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| = More or less Python related = | * Alan Kay * Raymond Kurzweil * Robert Lefkowitz * Jon Udell (InfoWorld) * Someone from Firaxis to talk about and show Python in the Civilization IV game * 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 * Greg Wilson * Tim O'Reilly |
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| * Eric Raymond * Jon Udell (InfoWorld) * Bram Cohen (BitTorrent) * 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 |
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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 |
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Here are some people who have been suggested as keynote speakers.
Ideas
- Alan Kay
- Raymond Kurzweil
- Robert Lefkowitz
Jon Udell (InfoWorld)
- Someone from Firaxis to talk about and show Python in the Civilization IV game
- 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
- Greg Wilson
- Tim O'Reilly
Other more or less Python related
- David Ascher
- Laura Creighton
- timbot
- Evelyn Mitchell
- effbot
- Gitte Wange
- MvL
- MAL
- 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)