Here are some people who have been suggested as keynote speakers.
More or less Python related
- Eric Raymond
Jon Udell (InfoWorld)
Bram Cohen (BitTorrent)
- Limi and Runyan (Plone)
- 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
- David Ascher
- timbot
- effbot
- MvL or MAL
- Greg Wilson
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
- 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