Re: [guadec-list] Keynotes to invite

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

The ruby-on-rails dude.  Makes a lot of sense in teh Online Desktop
world.  eg:

  http://www.scribemedia.org/2006/07/09/dhh/

behdad

On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 14:10 -0500, David Bolter wrote:
> Sorry I didn't suggest this earlier, and I'm not sure how off the beaten 
> path you want to go but... how about someone who is deeply into software 
> development methodology?  Just throwing it out there... maybe scrum guy 
> Ken Schwaber?  (sample: 
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7230144396191025011)
> 
> cheers,
> D
> Dave Neary wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'd like to get a prospect list of keynotes we should work on inviting
> > to GUADEC. First things first, check out the discussions last year and
> > the year before:
> >
> > 2007: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/guadec-list/2006-December/msg00003.html
> > (and in guadec-planning):
> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/private/guadec-planning/2007-January/msg00010.html
> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/private/guadec-planning/2007-January/msg00000.html
> >
> > 2006 (in GUADEC planning):
> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/private/guadec-planning/2005-December/msg00009.html
> >
> > The names that came out last year (brainstorm mode, no names eliminated
> > yet):
> >
> > Some kind of conclusion list:
> >   
> >> * Design
> >> Don Norman, Alan Cooper, Scott Berkun.
> >>
> >> * Blogoshpere
> >> Doc Searls, Don Marti, Steven O'Grady
> >>
> >> * Technical
> >> Joel Spolsky, Eric Sink, Mirco Mueller
> >>
> >> * Business
> >> Ari Jaaski, Jonathan Schwarz
> >>
> >> * Misc
> >> Seth Godin, Jono Bacon, JP Rangaswami, Linda Stone, Hugh McCleod
> >>
> >> * Customer
> >> A big / notable user of Gnome. Bastien seemed confident that he could scare up some options here. 
> >>     
> >
> > >From Christian Schaller:
> >   
> >> * Lawrence Lessig (software patents, very relevant with novell & MS
> >> deal)
> >> * Pamela Jones (Groklaw fame, fallback for Lessig?) 
> >> * John Carmack  (linux desktop as a gaming platform)
> >> * Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu or linux desktop 3rd world)
> >> * Miguel de Icaza (Mono?)
> >> * Guido van Rossum (Python for the desktop)
> >> * James Gosling (Java and the free desktop, java GPL, GTK L/F)
> >> * Larry Page or Sergey Brin - Linux desktops at Google/Google and free
> >> desktop integration)
> >> * Richard Taylor - GNOME at Weta Digital (no idea if that is a fact)
> >>     
> >
> > I can add a few more names, but this is a good start. We should filter
> > out those who keynoted last year, add some more people currently in the
> > news, and start sending people hunting to get in contact. From past
> > experience, we'll need to invite about 20 people to get 6 or 7
> > acceptances - the acceptance rate is much higher for people within the
> > GNOME community, though.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dave.
> >
> >   
> 
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