Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

[Robert Kratky <robert kratky liberix cz>]

Hi,

I spoke to Vlastimil Ott, whom some of you have mentioned as a potential speaker during our last IRC meeting. 
He thanked you for the offer but declined, saying he would not have enough time to prepare a presentation 
with which he would feel comfortable.

Robert


On Tuesday 21 of May 2013 12:05:52, Dave Neary wrote:

> 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.