On Monday 30 May 2011 14:01:02 Henne Vogelsang wrote:

Hey,

On 28.05.2011 12:38, Jos Poortvliet wrote:

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let's put our new list to good use! We need to find 4 keynote speakers for the conference. Below some suggestions

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Comments?

If we would do a general tech conference I would love to see most of them. The thing is we don't. Or are we? I always took the openSUSE Conference as the "general Meeting" of the openSUSE Project so I would look for keynotes that have some sort of relation to openSUSE. At the first conference we neglected this and although most of the speakers where high profile and the keynotes where nice they haven't had any effect on the conference or the project. Last year we had Frank, Gerald, Vincent and Me giving keynotes and each of them had very high impact on the people that gathered for our conference. So to make a long story short: My number one prio would be that keynotes need to have an effect on the conference and the project.

Now I might have an idea for something like this and would love feedback. At LinuxTag I talked to Lenz and we played with an Idea for a keynote for the conference. By now we have such a nice mixture of oldtimers and newcomers in the project that we could do a nice campfire bonding session with the grandpas to establishing identity. Sort of a war stories panel if you get what I mean :) Everybody loves war stories and we do have many great ones. We also played with names that night and here is who we could ask to attend and who would be fun to listen to about the good ol' days:

* Lenz Grimmer (nowadays mysql) * Bodo Bauer (nowadays Elektrobit) * Dirk Hohndel (nowadays Intel) * Adrian Schröter * Hubert Mantel

And there might be many many more that could share funny stuff from back then in the audience. I would love to organize something like this as keynote and maybe "moderate". What do you think?

Sounds surely fun and interesting. Yes, you have a point - having keynotes be about what WE do, our community. And stories are important for a community - they are what builds up a shared identity. So, I'm all for this. But an external keynote can also be nice, motivate people to look beyond their borders, etc So I'd say we need a mix. We could ask Michael Miller to keynote, I understand he's a good speaker. Would/could be interesting. And a well known community member. And an external person. And this forum. That would be 4 ;-)

Henne

Am Donnerstag 30 Juni 2011, 10:50:36 schrieb Jos Poortvliet:

Let's try to re-start this discussion as we need to find keynote speakers at some point :D Very good idea, thanks for pushing.

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. While I agree that it would be great to have that information at hand for the conference, I wonder if that has to be a keynote, or if it could be a press release for example. For me it depends if Michael likes to take the opportunity to really enthuse the community, if he wants, I am all for it.

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. Good idea, as Aaron obviously is a great speaker, and if he talks about the collaboration topic, especially with a upstream <-> downstream focus it would be great. I know he at least had issues with working downstreams, why not talking about that.

I don't think we want a KDE Plasma Active Keynote. On the other hand I of course hope that there will be quite a bunch of "normal" talks about Plasma Active.

In either case, with a keynote about collaboration & a keynote about SUSE we still have two slots available. What happened to Holgers offer to contact Gunter Dueck from IBM?

Does anybody have contacts to Intel to find somebody talking about what they intend with the buildservice and MeeGo for example? Would "Linux 3.0" be a topic? For whom? What about a more political topic? We could contact somebody from http://digitalegesellschaft.de . I would appreciate that as I think at least one not so technical topic would be fine. regards Klaas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-conference+help@opensuse.org

Am Samstag 02 Juli 2011, 11:19:52 schrieb Jos Poortvliet: Hi,

Count on it. From my dealings at least with him this week I can say he's about as enthusiatsic as it gets when it comes to openSUSE and he's quite clear in what he wants - openSUSE to be the most awesome FOSS community. And as many people in our community are still very much wanting to know the new SUSE and management I think it makes sense to put him in front of the openSUSE audience and let him prove himself ;-)

Yes, I see the point and I am not against it, but this can also fail. He needs to be aware of that, as it is not enough to stand in front of a community and state "I want you to be the most awesome FOSS ...". You know how that can feel.

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In either case, with a keynote about collaboration & a keynote about SUSE we still have two slots available.

What happened to Holgers offer to contact Gunter Dueck from IBM?

Does anybody have contacts to Intel to find somebody talking about what they intend with the buildservice and MeeGo for example?

Would "Linux 3.0" be a topic? For whom?

I dunno, is Greg a fun speaker? I'm bet he'd be happy to talk...

Greg certainly is. I ask him. regards, Klaas

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On 07/08/2011 04:05 PM, Klaas Freitag wrote:

Am Montag, 4. Juli 2011, 16:28:41 schrieb Klaas Freitag:

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Am Samstag 02 Juli 2011, 11:19:52 schrieb Jos Poortvliet:

hey,

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Would "Linux 3.0" be a topic? For whom?

I dunno, is Greg a fun speaker? I'm bet he'd be happy to talk...

Greg certainly is. I ask him. I asked Greg and he is willing to do a keynote.

He is not absolutely sure if Linux 3.0 is a good topic and asked for help on that. He thinks that its not much talk about...

Klaas

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2011/7/4 Izabel Valverde :

2011/6/30 Jos Poortvliet :

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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

I must to say that Aaron would be a great keynote...

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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?

I was in a big brazilian conference called FISL and I had the chance to talk with few interesting people. I step forward and invited them to join us. First Dennis Gilmore - He is Release Engineer at Red Hat for Fedora - must to read Fedora Project Contributor ;-) Second Lenz Grimmer - He knows a lot about openSUSE Conference and unfortunately has no agenda for us, but said that will see the possibility to sponsor us - maybe can send somebody else. and the third and last - Cedric Thomas - OW2 - it's a Consortium with solutions and the invitation had the intention to get sponsorship cause they are dealing with Canonical for something big in Brazil and the idea is pretty interesting and I thought we could make something with them.

For these three I will need an invitation letter to garantee that they will go by their own $efforts$ :-D

Izabel

Sorry! I forgot the fourth Fernanda Weiden - Google - System Administrator The reason Fernanda "nanda" Weiden is a system administrator and a former council member of Free Software Foundation Latin America. She is a participant in Debian Women. She lives in Zurich, Switzerland. She was a speaker at Wizards of OS 4 in Berlin ;-) Izabel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-conference+help@opensuse.org

On Monday, July 04, 2011 16:58:28 Izabel Valverde wrote:

2011/6/30 Jos Poortvliet :

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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

I must to say that Aaron would be a great keynote...

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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?

I was in a big brazilian conference called FISL and I had the chance to talk with few interesting people. I step forward and invited them to join us.

Thanks!

First Dennis Gilmore - He is Release Engineer at Red Hat for Fedora - must to read Fedora Project Contributor ;-) Second Lenz Grimmer - He knows a lot about openSUSE Conference and unfortunately has no agenda for us, but said that will see the possibility to sponsor us - maybe can send somebody else.

Lenz gave already a keynote at the first openSUSE conference. Will you followup with him regarding sponsorship or shall I as I know him?

and the third and last - Cedric Thomas - OW2 - it's a Consortium with solutions and the invitation had the intention to get sponsorship cause they are dealing with Canonical for something big in Brazil and the idea is pretty interesting and I thought we could make something with them.

For these three I will need an invitation letter to garantee that they will go by their own $efforts$ :-D

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