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

[Pockey Lam <pockey beijinglug org>]

Dear Ernest, 

Thanks a lot of updating us of the excellent news from your side! Sure,
please do include Mark as a keynote speaker. 

Thanks,
Pockey


On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 22:50 +0800, Ernest Chiang wrote:
> 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!
> 
> cheers,
> Ernest
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw2w0GPWPOk
> [2] http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/383
> [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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