Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi,

More ideas (when do we go from ideas to invitations? Who's doing the
invitations? Are we still using guadec-planning for "non-public"
conversations? I haven't seen any traffic from that list recently):

On 05/21/2013 11:55 AM, Debarshi Ray wrote:
> Here are some suggestions:
>
> - Jan Wildeboer, http://wildeboer.net/, Red Hat
>   Needs little introduction and can talk on a variety of topics. Based out of
>   Munich.
> - Jaroslav Reznik, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JaroslavReznik, Fedora
>   Represents one of the downstream consumer of GNOME. Based out of Brno.
> - Someone (Florian Schiessl?) from LiMux, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
>   They are using KDE, but can still be interesting. Based out of Munich.
> - Someone from Mozilla
>   Large free software project with a stronger brand than GNOME's -- surely
>   we have something to learn from them. Also, the web is in vogue.
> - Someone from WebKit
>   Same as above, but more closely affiliated to GNOME via WebKitGTK+.
> - Someone from GNOME (Lennart?)
>   Can be a good to highlight some of the big things that we want to push
>   through. eg., the application story.

Last year we had a presentation from Yorba, one of GNOME's ISVs. Do we
have any other ISVs who we could invite?

I'd suggest Mike Milinkovic from the Eclipse Foundation, to speak about
their experiences with GTK+ as a toolkit for Linux.

Also VMware, Amazon and Adobe are GTK+ consumers. Some digging there
would likely turn up a promising keynote invitation.

Are we looking for a designer again this year? Those are always my
favourite keynotes. I would love to get Ivanka Majic (ex Canonical)
along to talk about designing a desktop environment and ecosystem, and
her experiences with that.

Cheers,
Dave.

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