Keynote Talks

Alan Runyan and Alexander Limi on "Plone: It ain't about the software"

Biographies

Alexander Limi combines the kind of good looks, intelligence, sensitivity, and raw animal magnetism that only come from writing his own biography. He works as an interaction architect and interface designer for Plone Solutions in cool Scandinavia. Limi is the all-hands person in the project, and is responsible for keeping the user experience and visual layout consistent and easy to use - as well as herding the cats known as the Plone community.

Based out of Montrose in Houston, TX. Alan is continually fighting the swirling evil that emanates from Houston. After working for submerging.com, he gave up on corporate life and started his own company working with Zope. When Plone and clients are not soaking up his time you can find him making pilgrimages to the Rothko Chapel and the Menil Collection. He is a principal in the commercial Plone training/product company, Enfold Systems, LLC.

Guido van Rossum on "The State of Python"

Biography

Guido van Rossum is the creator of Python, one of the major free scripting languages. He created Python in the early 1990s at CWI in Amsterdam, and is still actively involved in the development of the language.

Bram Cohen, "A Conversation with Bram Cohen"

Instead of a conventional keynote, this will be an interview-format presentation. You can suggest questions for Mr. Cohen by adding them to the wiki page at http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyCon2006/BramCohenInterview

Biography

Bram Cohen is CEO and co-founder of BitTorrent. He is also the co-founder of CodeCon and the author of Codeville.

BitTorrent is both the name of the peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol and the client application for it created by Cohen. BitTorrent is designed to widely distribute large amounts of data without incurring the corresponding consumption in server and bandwidth resources (and typically, monetary fees attracted as a result of that). Currently, BitTorrent has more than 45 million users worldwide.

Cohen graduated from Stuyvesant High School and attended the University at Buffalo. Cohen currently works out of the company's headquarters in San Francisco and lives in Marin County with his wife and children.