[guadec-list] keynote speaker..

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

Happy New Year!

I've joined the list, as I'm mainly interested in keynote speakers. I
would really like to help find and get quality speakers.  I have one
suggestion that I think would be really good.  Her name is Genevieve
Bell, she is an Intel Fellow and is the Director of User Experience.
She spoke at the equivalent of a Northwest version of  SXSW.  She
works here in Hillsboro, and with your permission I would like to
approach her as a possible candidate.  Here is some background
reading:

http://techfestnw.com/lineup/genevieve-bell/
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/technology/intels-sharp-eyed-social-scientist.html
http://delight.us/human-digital-world/

I think she has some amazing qualities and I think I can make a good
sell given Intel's involvement with the GNOME project.  Let me know if
you feel that this would be a good candidate.  I would like to start
early.  If you reject, I will think of someone else.

As luck would have it, she works in the same campus as I do and it
should not be hard to send her a note and meet for coffee and talk
about GNOME, its mission, GUADEC, and anything else you might want me
to bring up.

sri