Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

[Jiří Eischmann <eischmann redhat com>]

Matthias Clasen píše v St 03. 04. 2013 v 11:45 -0400:
> ----- Rui Tiago Cação Matos <tiagomatos gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > let's get the keynote speakers discussion started so that we have time
> > to invite people.
> >
> > On this week's meeting several possible candidates were suggested:
> >
> > a) Sumanah or Sue Gardner from Wikimedia;
> > b) Chris DiBona from Google;
> > c) Ryan Gordon (icculus) who has ported several games to Linux;
> >
> > Please comment add your suggestions!
>
> How about somebody from the Fedora side (given that we are in a location with some Fedora affinity), such 
> as Jaroslav Reznik (he's the Fedora program manager, and also a kde person - could be interesting), Robyn 
> Bergeron (Fedora project leader) or Matt Miller (Fedora cloud architect).
>
> Just an idea

I know Robyn and Jaroslav personally and I think they're good fits for
this. On the other hand, I'm a bit concerned that people might feel
GUADEC is too much about Red Hat. Red Hat is going to be one of the
major partners and sponsors, most people in the organizing team are
redhatters, there will be a lot of attendees from Red Hat since it's
held in Brno etc.

What about inviting a "representative of users"? I suppose there some
larger deployments of GNOME no matter if it's on RHEL or SUSE or some
other system. There are also companies that build their solutions on
GNOME technologies. I've always felt that such voices (of those that use
the software in day-to-day business) are not emphasised enough at
conferences such as GUADEC.

Just my 2c.

Jiri