As I mentioned to you in private I can reach out to UK government CTO if you want an eGovernment replacement (would likely result in the same outcome as going to Wardley)
Sent from my Windows Phone ________________________________ From: jan i<mailto:j...@apache.org> Sent: 9/24/2014 8:06 AM To: dev@community.apache.org<mailto:dev@community.apache.org> Subject: Re: [ApacheCon] Fallback keynote for Budapest On 24 September 2014 16:46, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: > One idea: I met Bror Salmelin ( > http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/bror-salmelin) > from OISPG (https://sites.google.com/site/openinnovationplatform/) > a few years ago at an open source conference in Malta and > have been invited to speak at some confs regarding > open innovation and open source. He's a great guy, and > is a good speaker. > He would be a real good choice, I dont know how he is with a big group, but in smaller groups he is brilliant. rgds jan I. > > I'd be happy to make intros if desired. > > On Sep 24, 2014, at 10:08 AM, 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 One of our keynotes for ApacheCon Budapest has been withdrawn, and we 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. > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > -- > > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon > > > >
