Re: [guadec-list] Potential keynoters

[Karen Sandler <karen gnome org>]

On 2014-05-20 06:08, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Some keynoters could be
> - Roberto di Cosmo (" Roberto Di Cosmo is a computer scientist and
> director of IRILL, the Innovation and research initiative for free
> software.")
> - Tariq Krim ("Tariq Krim is a French digital entrepreneur, creator of
> Netvibes and currently the founder and CEO of Jolicloud, a personal
> cloud content computing platform and Joli OS a free operating system
> based on the jolicloud platform"
> - Jan Wildeboer (Red Hat Evangelist at the EU commission)

Good ideas, especially as they are Europe based! I've never seen any of 
them speak.  I'm a bit busy right now but it's worth looking to see if 
there are videos of their talks so we can see their style as speakers.

I think this is a public list, right? So everyone be careful what you 
say about people you don't want to invite :)

A suggestion that already came up in discussions was Matthew Garrett and 
since a few people thought it was a good idea I asked him if he would be 
interested (without promising him an invitation) and he would be! He 
plans to attend anyway (I think he already has his ticket). So someone 
just needs to formally invite him.

We should also think about inviting women speakers asap (I'm trying to 
pick which keynotes I will do in fall already).

Someone suggested Bradley Kuhn and he recently told me that he always 
loved coming to Guadec, so that's a possibility too (though he'd need 
funding and is coming from the US).

karen


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