Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

["Karen Sandler" <karen gnome org>]

On Wed, April 3, 2013 1:17 pm, Jiří Eischmann wrote:
> 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.

Good point. I also worry a bit about GUADEC seeming too Red Hat focused
this year. This is a bit crazy perhaps, but I'm just tossing out an idea -
what about having distro themed keynoters with one from fedora, one from
debian, one from opensuse and then one from either mint or ubuntu? Or this
may be difficult to limit now that I think of it, given all the other
relevant distros...

> 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.

this is another good way to go! We probably should just put together a
list of people that we think would be good speakers and start inviting
them though. A lot of them won't be able to make it anyway.

karen

> Just my 2c.
>
> Jiri
>
>
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