Austin is the home of the Texas Advanced Computing Center, which at times has the largest high performance computing cluster.
https://www.tacc.utexas.edu I have lost touch with them a bit, but could rekindle a connection. They have tons of cool stuff to show and use open source a lot. An idea that comes to mind is: https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/about/directory/kelly-gaither She is quite good, and would have lots of cool stuff to show. Though I don't know how open source what she does is. -sebastien On Jan 6, 2015, at 4:48 PM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > 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
