2011/7/4 Izabel Valverde <valverde.izabel@gmail.com>:
2011/6/30 Jos Poortvliet <jos@opensuse.org>:
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...
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