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= General Tech related = * Mark Shuttleworth '''declined''' * Vernor Vinge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_Vinge) * Sam Ruby * Alan Kay * Bill Joy * Jonathan Corbet of Linux Weekly News * Ray Kurzweil (http://www.kurzweiltech.com/aboutray.html) * Vint Cerf (http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/cerf.html) "The Interplanetary Internet" |
Here are some people who have been suggested as keynote speakers.
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
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)