Re: On Whose Desktop

Fuzzyman wrote:
On Dec 23, 12:06 pm, Steve Holden <st...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks to Barry Warsaw the "On Your Desktop" blog now has a new entry:

http://onyourdesktop.blogspot.com/

Who would you like to see profiled next?

Guido (of course), Brett Cannon, Martin v Loewis, Jim Hugunin, Ted
Leung, Dino Viehland (core developer of IronPython), Titus Brown, Ivan
Kristic, Mark Shuttleworth, Tim Golden, Michele Simionato, Thomas
Heller, Greg Ewing - any and all of these would be great.

Any women in Python you could ask - how about Anna Ravenscroft?
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:

The effbot ?

skip@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Maybe Martin v. Loewis? He contributes so much to Python. I met him once
several years ago at a Python conference (or maybe it was still just a
workshop then), but beyond seeing his titanic contributions to Python, I
know little about the guy.

I hope *everyone* knows that Martin was the winner of this year's Frank
Willison Award:

http://www.python.org/community/awards/frank-willison/#martin-von-l-wis-2008

Great! Keep the suggestions coming, please!

regards
Steve
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