By the way, if anyone has any reason at all that one of the proposed
keynoters is going to be an embarrassment, *PLEASE* speak up sooner
rather than later, and don't be worried about hurting feelings.
Canceling a keynote at the last minute is a HUGE embarrassment, not to
mention cost, and if you know something I don't, tell me now before I
buy someone plane tickets.
No, I won't be asking any politicians. Ever again.
--Rich
On 12/15/2014 12:09 PM, Rich Bowen wrote:
Over the coming days, I'm going to be tossing some things onto the list,
in the hopes that someone will have time to step up and take some of
these tasks, which I afraid I'm going to drop if I don't get them
written down somewhere. So, here's one of them ...
I started a conversation a while back about potential keynotes for
Austin - that thread is at http://markmail.org/message/gmerzm2c7fnzz4at
I wonder if someone might have time to dig through that thread for
names, and, perhaps contact information that might go with them.
And we're always looking for additional suggestions, always bearing in
mind that diversity is important, and, as observed at ApacheCon last
month, "dudes with beards", and "dudes without beards" doesn't count as
diversity.
We've got an etherpad going at https://pad.apache.org/p/AustinBrainstorm
with a Keynotes section down at the bottom. It's becoming a bit of a
mess, but until we have a better place to track stuff (maybe an actual
doc in svn?) that's where I've been braindumping stuff. (You'll need ASF
LDAP committer credentials to edit that etherpad.)
Thanks in advance.
--
Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen
http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon
