Re: [guadec-list] Keynotes to invite

[Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>]

Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Glynn Foster wrote:
>   
> > Again, let's think outside the box - access the speakers outside our direct
> > community
> >     
>
> Indeed :) So far I have 4 broad categories - design, business/politics,
> marketing/blogosphere/user experience and technical.
>
> There's some overlap, but that's the general guidelines. In technical I
> have not been putting any GNOME-related speakers - jdub's not on the
> list, nor is Federico, Havoc, Nat or any of the other community members
> who could give a great "setting the compass" keynote.
>
> We will have one or two of those, don't worry, but as I said, these
> people have close to a 100% acceptance rate - when I invite a community
> member it'll be to talk about a specific technology, trend or whatever.
> In fact, one or two people usually say "I have something really
> important to say, can I keynote?" Oftentimes, I (or whoever is in
> charge) say "not really" - that's why Seth Nickell did his condom
> presentation in Stuttgart as part of the conference opening - Owen
> Taylor left him some of "his" time during the chairman's address.
>
> The list of potential keynotes to hunt down and invite has grown pretty
> long - mostly in the technical area, but thanks to Bryan Clark and Seth
> Nickell also in the design area.
>
> Some ideas in marketing and user experience (along the lines of
> Anderson, Godin, Alan Cooper, ...) would be great.
>   
Hi Dave!
As you asked on irc today for some ideas for more design people.

Aza Raskin [1] [2] is a great and inspiring guy. I had a beer with him 
when he stopped by Gothenburg a couple of weeks ago, and I think he have 
some good ideas how we can take our interface design to a new level.

1. http://www.humanized.com
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aza_Raskin
- Andreas

> Remember, the goal with a good keynote is to get people thinking
> differently about the way the approach things - to bring new
> perspectives to how you analyse problems, or get you thinking about
> novel solutions. Reinforcing current views isn't really that interesting
> to me.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
>