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