Let's try to re-start this discussion as we need to find keynote speakers at some point :D I think it does make a lot of sense to put Michael Miller in front of the audience to talk about what openSUSE can expect from SUSE. A second keynote I'd like to propose would be Aaron Seigo. He's a KDE rockstar developer, excellent speaker, and head of the Plasma development team. More importantly, and the reason I think he's a good choice for a speaker, is that the Plasma hacker team has recently started to experiment with new ways of collaborating. Keyword here: Kanban. See an article mentioning this way of working here: http://dot.kde.org/2011/06/29/platform-frameworks-kde-hackers-meet- switzerland Aaron would probably be willing to give a keynote talking about collaboration and working together, both on-line & face to face. I think it could be very valuable for us as we, as a community, don't have much experience with this yet. Obviously, if any of you has an idea for someone else who could touch on the same subject that'd be awesome! If not, I can contact Aaron next week or so and ask him. In either case, with a keynote about collaboration & a keynote about SUSE we still have two slots available. Based on what was discussed last time, we could do a 'history session' or forum although I'd rather have a forward-looking thing. Maybe a few opinionated, core techies together on stage, talking about future stuff? And what other community member(s) could talk? cheers, Jos On 2011-05-28 Jos wrote:
Hi all,
let's put our new list to good use! We need to find 4 keynote speakers for the conference. Below some suggestions (most are not mine as I simply don't know many possible keynote speakers).
* Bob Sutor, IBM: Inspirational speaker, great thinker, and for a business guy keeps his eye on the Big Picture * Diego Rodriguez, IDEO: Another excellent public speaker, designer at IDEO, co-founder of the Stanford d.school. Get a feel for the personality at http://metacool.typepad.com/ he's a rock star designer and a great speaker. * Stephen O'Grady, RedMonk: Industry analyst, very clued in to the geek developer community. High profile, quality speaker. * Cory Doctorow, lives in London, interesting speaker and a Free Culture guy (not Free Software itself but he does use a free desktop). * Benjamin Mako Hill - Free Software Foundation a great speaker and has some great ideas and fun ways to tackle them (http://www.unhappybirthday.com/). His antifeatures talk is really worth watching: http://2009.r2.co.nz/20100118/50349.htm * Mark Pesce, the dude who did 3D in a browser 15 years ago. Great speaker, visionairy. Very much into freedom of speech & working on a free, de- centralized internet and alternatives to facebook etc we'd have to pay him at least a business class ticked from Australia but I think I can convince him to come talk for free otherwise (yes, this person I do know and he's awesome). Watch http://linuxconfau.blip.tv/file/4851926 and http://darcy1968.vodspot.tv/watch/793677-those-wacky-kids-mark-pesce
More suggestions? Anyone knows any of the above? Comments?
And who does have an overview of who we've contacted up until now?
Jos