On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 17:08 +0100, Joaquim Rocha wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm sorry I didn't reply this earlier. > > I think Jon 'maddog' Hall would be perfect for a keynote. > I'm friends with him so if you think he's a good match I'll contact him. > > In case you don't know: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hall_(programmer) > > He's a wonderful guy and can talk about different subjects but his usual > talks nowadays are about the "Total Cost of Ownership" and about Project > Cauã [1]. FWIW, Maddog gave a keynote during the 3rd GUADEC (Seville 2002). As a side note, I can not recall if that what the time when he tried to convince people to adopt a new logo or a mascot. His rationale was the foot is not good for marketing: nobody can hug a foot, you can not name it, a foot is not neutral everywhere (he said a foot can be extremely insulting in Thailand), etc. -- Germán Póo-Caamaño http://people.gnome.org/~gpoo/
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