Hi, I just realised I wasn't on this list & resubscribed :}
I saw the suggestions of Simon Phipps & Evan from StatusNet and they're both good! Simon keynoted GUADEC Villanova, but perhaps he's learned some new stuff since then... Evan is a little close to our only confirmed (and yet unannounced) keynote, Danny O'Brien, in subject matter for my taste, but he's a great speaker & the cross-over between web & desktop is bound to be a big theme in the conference this year. To answer Reinout's question: "How is the list of keynote speakers coming along?", my answer is: the list is great, but we don't have anyone co-ordinating keynote invitations right now, so we have only invited one speaker so far. A second invitation is in the workings. I have been pushing on guadec-planning to have someone take control of keynotes (I don't have time this year, really, even though I'm happy to invite anyone I have a contact for if the co-ordinator decides that we want them). The problem is that we have lots of ideas, and we need someone to say "OK, this week we invite X, Y and Z, and then hassle them for a reply, and when they say no, we'll invite A, B and C". Right now we just have a big fat keynote wishlist. Here's the synthesis of the list of suggestions I sent to guadec-planning a week or so back: Local: * Ton Roosendaal from Blender * the guy who designed the special edition Dutch coins * Theo Jansen and his kinetic sculptures * Neelie Kroes (EU competition commissioner)... Inspirational/international: Data & visualisation: * Hans Riesling, gapminder: http://www.gapminder.org/ * Scott McCloud Design: * Alan Cooper (Author: "The Inmates are Running the Asylum") - http://www.cooper.com/ * Philippe Starck (no chance, but why not ask?) * James Dyson * Lisa Strausfeld http://pentagram.com/en/partners/lisa-strausfeld.php * Linda Stone * Diego Rodriguez (IDEO & http://metacool.typepad.com/metacool/) Legal: * Eben Moglen * Lawrence Lessig * Pamela Jones (Groklaw fame, fallback for Lessig?) Famous geek: * Don Marti * Alan Kay * Dan Ingalls * Tim Berners Lee * Guido van Rossum (Python for the desktop) * John Carmack (linux desktop as a gaming platform) * James Gosling (Java and the free desktop, java GPL, GTK L/F) * Ken Thompson * Dennis Ritchie * Brian Kernighan Business of software/famous geek: * Scott Berkun - http://www.scottberkun.com/ * Joel Spolsky - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/ * Eric Sink - http://www.ericsink.com/ (previously accepted & had to cancel) * Jonathan Schwarz * Steven O'Grady * Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu or linux desktop 3rd world) * Miguel de Icaza (Mono?) * Jim Zemlin * Tim O'Reilly * Jim Whitehurst * Michael Tiemann * Nat Friedman * Matt Asay Famous people (Business/web/marketing): * Seth Godin - http://sethgodin.typepad.com/ * Guy Kawasaki - http://www.guykawasaki.com/ * Chris Messina * Hugh McCleod * Merlin Mann (The guy from 43Folders) I'm not sure where these fit in...: * JP Rangaswami * Richard Taylor - GNOME at Weta Digital (no idea if that is a fact) * Ben Hammersley * Jyri Engeström Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [email protected] _______________________________________________ guadec-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
