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