Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

[Rui Tiago Cação Matos <tiagomatos gmail com>]

On 21 May 2013 12:05, Dave Neary <dneary gnome org> wrote:
> More ideas (when do we go from ideas to invitations? Who's doing the
> invitations?

As I said before we already have 2 out 4 confirmed keynote speakers.
We have discussed potential speakers during the public IRC meetings
and also in private mail and face to face meetings among the local
organization. Then we've asked someone that already knows a potential
candidate to send them the invitation. E.g. Karen has sent a few
invitations personally already.

> Are we still using guadec-planning for "non-public"
> conversations? I haven't seen any traffic from that list recently):

There is no guadec-planning mailing list that I know of. Both
guadec-list and guadec-local are open lists and the non-public
discussion as been through private mail and face to face meetings.

There is a guadec-organization list that was created recently and is
private that we could use for non-public discussions though we haven't
been using it for that yet. It's currently just set as the default
place where various email addresses @guadec.org end up so that the org
team can deal with them in a distributed fashion.

> 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?

One of the keynote speakers we have is an ISV. I'd like to wait a bit
longer until we announce them though.

> 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.

All good suggestions, thank you. We'll discuss them on tomorrow's IRC
meeting a bit more and then make a decision for who to invite.

Rui