Hi, Paul Cooper wrote: >> In line with Seth Godin and Guy Kawasaki - but I get the feeling >> that all of those aren't really well suited to GUADEC. > > I think theres a two way trade if we can a) persuede one of these > guys to turn up - then we get informed & entertained and b) tempt > them to go to other talks or activities, and get them informed & > entertained. Hopefully our awesome community will inspire them to > spread the word.
Of the ones we've come up with, I like Seth best, since he's famous for something other than just being a blogger, and he hasn't had a career with one of our sworn enemies ;) > It seemed a shame to me that, for example, Kathy Sierra didn't appear > in any other sessions, granted she may have been in different ones to > me, but if she did go along to anything else it didn't inspire her to > write anything in her blog about it (whereas Euro RubyConf got a nice > entry - the much later entry about tshirts notwithstanding). Yeah - she did mention GNOME as "passionate community" in one blog entry, but I don't think she went to any sessions. I did suggest a few to her and Bert, but I guess they were on holiday, and drove around the region a bit. > Bastien suggested a large user a la Dreamworks in Stuttgart - we felt > that any of the main vendors might have contacts that could be > persued. Contact Jonathan Blandford - he's helped us in the past - and Simon Phipps may be able to point us in the direction of a big JDS customer. I don't know anyone who's been helpful with Novell customers in the past... > Along the same lines would be one of the 'big converts' Mark Pilgrim, > Tim Bray, and Cory Doctorow. By that time they'll have been using > Gnome for around a year (presuming that don't switch back or to > something else) and might provide some feedback? At least one of those has gone back, last I heard (or maybe I'm confusing them with someone else who was one of those A-list switchers). Worth checking before inviting. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ guadec-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
