Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi Rui,

<historian hat>

On 05/21/2013 01:36 PM, Rui Tiago Cação Matos wrote:
> 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.

The IRC conversations are at awkward times for me (and, I imagine,
anyone else in the same timezone with small children). The only way I'll
be able to help this year, if I see an opportunity, is by email.

> > 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-planning mailing list. It was the primary mailing list
for (private) team communications from when I first became involved in
GUADEC planning until the Hague. Desktop Summit in Berlin used a
different forum, and I wasn't so involved in last year's organisation,
so it's entirely possible that the Coruna team used different processes.
There is a bug from 2011 asking to have the list "reset", but that bug
was closed, I'm still a member, and looking at the archives it doesn't
look like it was used then. So perhaps that "reset" never happened.

https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-planning
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662045


The guadec-planning list was the continuity channel - organisers from
previous years stayed subscribed in following years, and occasionally
shared their experiences with the local team. That ended when someone
(can't recall who - perhaps Behdad or Olav?) "cleaned up" the list one
year and unsubscribed everyone to resubscribe current organisers.

Private email and f2f is bad for opening/tracing event organisation -
there's no opportunity to offer to participate, there's no record of
past discussions, there's no way for future generations to learn from
the past.

As someone who invited keynotes for most of the past 10 years, I have
been surprised not to see lists of potential keynotes, or not to be
asked to invite some people I've suggested. I'm happy to defer to how
you want to do it, but I don't think this year has been optimal.

</historian hat>

> 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.

I would recommend switching to the traditional and long-established
guadec-planning instead of guadec-organization, before the new list
builds up a lot of traffic.

> > 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.

Let me know if I can help.

Cheers,
Dave.

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