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
On Thursday 26 May 2011 20:16:54 Alan Clark wrote:
> >>> On 5/24/2011 at 08:12 AM, in message <20110524141258.GA6158(a)hera.lan>,
> >>> Pascal
>
> Bleser <pascal.bleser(a)opensuse.org> wrote:
> > On 2011-05-20 11:35:08 (+0300), Kostas Koudaras <warlordfff(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> >> Hi
> >> I send you along the first draft I made for the letter. Let me know
> >> your opinion.
> >> I also created an ethepad for it at http://ietherpad.com/O5o2zD7Ym2
> >> where you can add something if you like.
> >
> > Hi Kostas
> >
> > I made a few changes.
> >
> > But I'm a bit puzzled... the letter is only some sort of "legal"
> > help for people to get a visa, it is not needed to attract
> > people or motivate them to come in that letter.
> >
> > It is something that must have an "official" character because
> > people from countries that need a visa to enter the EU will show
> > that letter to the embassy of Germany in their country.
> >
> > The effort is much appreciated, but I think the letter is going
> > in the wrong direction :)
> >
> > I made an alternative proposal below yours:
> > http://ietherpad.com/O5o2zD7Ym2
>
> The letter needs an official German address, so I put the SUSE office
> address, with an office contact.
Aaaand, provided you all joined opensuse-conference(a)opensuse.org let's move
this discussion there :D
> Alan
>
> > cheers
