Hi, Paul Cooper wrote: > Sorry for lack of feedback - I've been away in deepest darkest > Cornwall where there is no internet (it would appear). In general I > think for the keynotes with need a mix of people from inside the OSS > community, and those outside with interesting viewpoints. > > We were aiming to get invites out first thing in the new year - > although first we need to finalise an ordered list of keynotes (or > perhaps a set of ordered lists in the different types; Marketing, > Technical, General, etc).
Thanks for the comments! All spot on, and in line with my own thinking (I would like to see more names for the design category though, if anyone has ideas - last year I suggested James Dyson, for example - or how about Jonathan Ives?). Simon Phipps was there last year, so I'd hesitate about inviting him again as a keynote. One other comment jumped out at me, and demanded a response: >> - Joel Spolsky - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/ - Eric Sink - >> http://www.ericsink.com/ (pretty windows oriented, though...) > > Both of these guys would be good to give a more developer oriented > talk - Joel would be my preference since he would seem to have more > interest / awareness of open-source. Eric Sink was a founder of Abisource, and one of the initial developers of Abiword (just a point of information). And just a couple of other notes: >> - The Internet's Jono Bacon? > > I was going to suggest Jono too, but then I thought it might be even > better to have the whole LUGRadio team do a keynote. Perhaps they > could do a series of 5 - 10 minute interviews? They are pretty > creative so maybe just leave it to them and see what they come up > with. Might be good for the closing keynote? Jono contacted me after I suggested him to say that he would love to do a keynote, and is preparing a new keynotey type presentation which he would like to give us. > To add to the list; > > Tim O'Reilly (Thos's suggestion) - Tim has family in the UK so is a > possibility but it might be too close to OSCON. He's Irish - get your filthy "any Paddy who succeeds is really British" mits off 'im. > Hugh McCleod - http://www.gapingvoid.com/. Slightly left field > suggestion. Blogger who helped build English Cut, and Stormhoek wine > simply through his blog, cartoons, and word of mouth. In line with Seth Godin and Guy Kawasaki - but I get the feeling that all of those aren't really well suited to GUADEC. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ guadec-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
