Re: [COSCUP-GAS] Good news: Mark Shuttleworth, Keynote speech



That's great news! Mark Shuttleworth will bring lots of attention to our joint meeting! His speech should be arranaged at keynote.

Looking forward to his speech!

-Emily

2010/5/16 Ernest Chiang <dwchiang gmail com>
Dear Pockey, Emily, and others in the Committee,

The COSCUP Team is happy to inform you that Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical, has agreed to come and give a keynote speech. We believe his presence will give a big boost to the joint conference!

We started to invite him to COSCUP back in April. He accepted our invitation on May 14 and made his itinerary to stay one day for the conference. The topic of his talk remains to be confirmed. Based on his keynote speech in the Ubuntu Developer Summit on May 10 (youtube link at [1]), we believe his talk will be about Unity and Ubuntu Light [2], which works with GNOME and sounds like a great topic for a keynote of the joint conference.

We are in the process of securing sponsorship with Canonical, too. We'll update on the progress once we know more.

We agreed that there will be 3 or 4 keynotes for the joint conference in the last IRC meeting. Nokia will take one slot as a diamond sponsor. The COSCUP Team has secured Charles McCathieNevile [3] of W3C fame for a keynote on web related technology, too. We'd like to give Mark Shuttleworth as the 3rd keynote. Your comments are welcome.

By the way, with the netbook industry heavyweights in Taipei, Mark Shuttleworth mentioned Taipei in the first minutes of his UDS keynote. The potential to create a great program on open mobile this year in Taipei is enormous!
[3] Charles McCathieNevile: pre-2005: 
http://www.w3.org/People/Charles/, 2005 and beyond: http://my.opera.com/chaals/about/. We'll try our best to make sure he talks about not just open standards but also open source software.





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