Here are some people who have been suggested as keynote speakers.

Ideas

• Alan Kay
• 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)

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