On 24 September 2014 16:08, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > One of our keynotes for ApacheCon Budapest has been withdrawn, and we need > to come up with a replacement, fairly quickly. > > I wanted to have a bunch of eyes on the options that have been already > suggested to me. If you have a *great* suggestion, and contact info, please > speak up. If it's just a random suggestion and you don't have a personal > contact, please save it for next year, as we need to move quickly on this. > > EU-based speakers are preferred for reasons of logistics. > > So, here's what's been suggested so far: > > Dirk-Willem suggests: can prolly dig out a BBC one from the woman who is > the key brain/architect behind iplayer and olympics if needed - or > something from the BBC archive folks. > Watch out, UK is in many aspect not europe...and if the angle is to much "uk" then it will not be well received in my opinion.
> > Sebastien suggests: you might reach out to @swardley who has connection > with UK gov and their adoption of open source open standards. It does not > seem that the intent was to discuss open source in e-governement, but It > would be an interesting subject and slightly less politically tainted. > > Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier has a talk schedule about why we need to preach > the gospel of Apache more than we're doing now, and this was initially > submitted as a keynote +1 > . > > I was sure I had more of them, but I'm not able to find them right now in > the brief break between meetings, so please speak up if you've suggested > something and I've overlooked it. > > Of these listed, Joe's is the only one that we know for certain that we > have already in the can. The others would require more legwork, and > probably more cost. > > While the decision is, in the end, on me, I very much value your input to > help me make the decision. I'd like to have something tentatively decided > by the end of the week, and messages sent out to the potential speakers in > question. > How about pursuading one of the "old" guys, to give a talk about Apache growth in europe. We seem to be very disproportional represented within europe, I am sure a couple of charts and history could make a super keynote. rgds jan I. > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon > >
