My big suggestion here was Andy Terrel - I think he would be fantastic. He’s the Chief Scientist at Continuum Analytics (based in Austin) and on the board of the Num Focus foundation working on Scientific Python
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Chief Architect Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398) NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527 Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -----Original Message----- From: Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> Reply-To: "dev@community.apache.org" <dev@community.apache.org> Date: Monday, December 15, 2014 at 9:09 AM To: dev <dev@community.apache.org> Subject: ApacheCon Austin keynotes (and other stuff) >Over the coming days, I'm going to be tossing some things onto the list, >in the hopes that someone will have time to step up and take some of >these tasks, which I afraid I'm going to drop if I don't get them >written down somewhere. So, here's one of them ... > >I started a conversation a while back about potential keynotes for >Austin - that thread is at http://markmail.org/message/gmerzm2c7fnzz4at > >I wonder if someone might have time to dig through that thread for >names, and, perhaps contact information that might go with them. > >And we're always looking for additional suggestions, always bearing in >mind that diversity is important, and, as observed at ApacheCon last >month, "dudes with beards", and "dudes without beards" doesn't count as >diversity. > >We've got an etherpad going at https://pad.apache.org/p/AustinBrainstorm >with a Keynotes section down at the bottom. It's becoming a bit of a >mess, but until we have a better place to track stuff (maybe an actual >doc in svn?) that's where I've been braindumping stuff. (You'll need ASF >LDAP committer credentials to edit that etherpad.) > >Thanks in advance. > >-- >Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen >http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon
