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| = More or less Python related = * Eric Raymond - unofficially contacted, is interested. * Jon Udell (InfoWorld) * Bram Cohen (BitTorrent) * Limi and Runyan (Plone) * 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 * David Ascher * Laura Creighton * timbot * Evelyn Mitchell * effbot * Gitte Wange * MvL or MAL * Greg Wilson = General Tech related = * Mark Shuttleworth '''declined''' * Tim O'Reilly * Mitchell Baker or Asa Dotzler from Mozilla.org * Vernor Vinge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_Vinge) * Sam Ruby * Alan Kay * Bill Joy * Jonathan Corbet of Linux Weekly News = 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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