Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

2013-05-22 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, On 05/22/2013 02:55 AM, Allan Day wrote: Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: In short, we will have plenty of community members talking to each other - even in the keynotes. I see one or two keynotes per year when we choose not to navel gaze or preach to the choir to be a good thing.

Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

2013-05-22 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 2013-05-22 00:07, Karen Sandler wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2013 1:40 pm, Dave Neary wrote: In short, we will have plenty of community members talking to each other - even in the keynotes. I see one or two keynotes per year when we choose not to navel gaze or preach to the choir to be a good

Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

2013-05-22 Thread Karen Sandler
On Wed, May 22, 2013 9:20 am, Andreas Nilsson wrote: On 2013-05-22 00:07, Karen Sandler wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2013 1:40 pm, Dave Neary wrote: In short, we will have plenty of community members talking to each other - even in the keynotes. I see one or two keynotes per year when we choose

Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

2013-05-22 Thread meg ford
How about Michael Larabel? He gave an interesting talk on Wayland at our Chicago GNOME meeting a few months ago. He's also part of the Fedora community, a free software activist, and a GNOME supporter. Meg On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, May 22,

Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

2013-05-21 Thread Rui Tiago Cação Matos
On 21 May 2013 12:05, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: More ideas (when do we go from ideas to invitations? Who's doing the invitations? As I said before we already have 2 out 4 confirmed keynote speakers. We have discussed potential speakers during the public IRC meetings and also in private

Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

2013-05-21 Thread Rui Tiago Cação Matos
On 21 May 2013 12:28, Robert Kratky robert.kra...@liberix.cz wrote: I spoke to Vlastimil Ott, whom some of you have mentioned as a potential speaker during our last IRC meeting. He thanked you for the offer but declined, saying he would not have enough time to prepare a presentation with

Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

2013-05-21 Thread Alexandre Franke
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Debarshi Ray rishi...@lostca.se wrote: - Someone from GNOME (Lennart?) Can be a good to highlight some of the big things that we want to push through. eg., the application story. I think that's a really good idea. Xan was mentionned on IRC as well. --

Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

2013-05-21 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 19:40 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: But then we've also had other keynotes, from designers and user experience experts [...] We might be able to arrange for Lea Verou from W3C to give a talk about the open web platform, future of CSS, design, HTMl 17 or whatever. I'm told

Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

2013-05-21 Thread Allan Day
Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: ... This year, I would love to see a talk on GNOME's place in the larger ecosystem of computing today. Someone like Stephen O'Grady presenting the potential axes of development for desktop Linux in a cloudy world. In short, we will have plenty of community

Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

2013-05-07 Thread Rui Tiago Cação Matos
Hi all, one month has passed and I'm happy to say that we have 2 confirmed keynote speakers but we are still missing 2 more so I'd like to ask for more suggestions again! The confirmed speakers will be announced later and we'd like to keep them in secret for now (actually one requested so

Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

2013-05-07 Thread Juanjo Marín
- Mensaje original - De: Rui Tiago Cação Matos tiagoma...@gmail.com Para: guadec-list guadec-list@gnome.org CC: Enviado: Martes 7 de Mayo de 2013 18:48 Asunto: Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming Hi all, one month has passed and I'm happy to say that we have 2

Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

2013-04-08 Thread Florian Nadge
--- Florian Nadge, GUADEC 2013 GUADEC c/o Red Hat| Purkynova 71/99| 61200 Brno| tel: +420 603 764 858 Anne Gentle is indeed a great choice choice for the keynotes. I met her in Cincinnati and found her to be a highly intelligent and fun-to-listen speaker. On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 6:09 AM,

Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

2013-04-08 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 2013-04-03 12:18, Rui Tiago Cação Matos wrote: Hi, let's get the keynote speakers discussion started so that we have time to invite people. On this week's meeting several possible candidates were suggested: a) Sumanah or Sue Gardner from Wikimedia; b) Chris DiBona from Google; c) Ryan

Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

2013-04-08 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Andreas, On 04/08/2013 10:59 PM, Andreas Nilsson wrote: So one question that have been floating around in my head the last couple of days is how well these speakers (and others suggested in the thread) align with the main topics of the conference. Do the proposed keynote speakers map

Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

2013-04-08 Thread Debarshi Ray
* Design of the developer experience (tools, documentation, services) * Application development and deployment Ryan Gordon fits these two categories as one of the most well-known game Linux developers. Cheers, Debarshi -- If computers are going to revolutionize education, then steam

Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

2013-04-07 Thread Joaquim Rocha
Hey Rui, (Last year I took care of getting the keynotes, with a lot of support from Dave Neary and Karen.) I remember Karen knew Chris DiBona. Karen, is that right? I haven't attended any Ryan's talks but I love the theme so +1 from my side. Cheers, -- Joaquim Rocha

Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

2013-04-07 Thread Karen Sandler
On Sun, April 7, 2013 3:41 pm, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, On 04/07/2013 04:03 PM, Karen Sandler wrote: On Wed, April 3, 2013 11:26 am, Joaquim Rocha wrote: I remember Karen knew Chris DiBona. Karen, is that right? yep! I haven't attended any Ryan's talks but I love the theme so +1 from my

Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

2013-04-05 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, On 04/05/2013 05:33 PM, Jiri Eischmann wrote: Yeah, that was one of the persons I was thinking of. But there are certainly others. Novell announced a large desktop deployment in PSA Peugeot Citroen a couple of years ago. Red Hat surely has some larger desktop customers, too, etc. That

Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

2013-04-05 Thread Jiri Eischmann
Dave Neary píše v Pá 05. 04. 2013 v 18:41 +0200: Hi, On 04/05/2013 05:33 PM, Jiri Eischmann wrote: Yeah, that was one of the persons I was thinking of. But there are certainly others. Novell announced a large desktop deployment in PSA Peugeot Citroen a couple of years ago. Red Hat surely

Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

2013-04-04 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
Hi! On 3 April 2013 16:18, Rui Tiago Cação Matos tiagoma...@gmail.com wrote: On this week's meeting several possible candidates were suggested: a) Sumanah or Sue Gardner from Wikimedia; b) Chris DiBona from Google; c) Ryan Gordon (icculus) who has ported several games to Linux; Please

Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

2013-04-03 Thread Matthias Clasen
- Rui Tiago Cação Matos tiagoma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, let's get the keynote speakers discussion started so that we have time to invite people. On this week's meeting several possible candidates were suggested: a) Sumanah or Sue Gardner from Wikimedia; b) Chris DiBona from

Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

2013-04-03 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, On 04/03/2013 05:45 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: a) Sumanah or Sue Gardner from Wikimedia; b) Chris DiBona from Google; c) Ryan Gordon (icculus) who has ported several games to Linux; Please comment add your suggestions! How about somebody from the Fedora side (given that we are in a

Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

2013-04-03 Thread Jiří Eischmann
Matthias Clasen píše v St 03. 04. 2013 v 11:45 -0400: - Rui Tiago Cação Matos tiagoma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, let's get the keynote speakers discussion started so that we have time to invite people. On this week's meeting several possible candidates were suggested: a)

Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

2013-04-03 Thread Karen Sandler
On Wed, April 3, 2013 1:17 pm, Jiří Eischmann wrote: Matthias Clasen píše v St 03. 04. 2013 v 11:45 -0400: - Rui Tiago Cação Matos tiagoma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, let's get the keynote speakers discussion started so that we have time to invite people. On this week's meeting

Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

2013-04-03 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, On 04/03/2013 08:34 PM, Karen Sandler wrote: I know Robyn and Jaroslav personally and I think they're good fits for this. On the other hand, I'm a bit concerned that people might feel GUADEC is too much about Red Hat. Red Hat is going to be one of the major partners and sponsors, most

Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

2013-04-03 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 2013-04-03 12:18, Rui Tiago Cação Matos wrote: Hi, let's get the keynote speakers discussion started so that we have time to invite people. On this week's meeting several possible candidates were suggested: a) Sumanah or Sue Gardner from Wikimedia; b) Chris DiBona from Google; c) Ryan

Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

2013-04-03 Thread Dave Neary
How about Steven O'Grady? He has just written a book on that exact subject. Dave. On Apr 3, 2013 9:36 PM, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se wrote: On 2013-04-03 12:18, Rui Tiago Cação Matos wrote: Hi, let's get the keynote speakers discussion started so that we have time to invite people.

Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

2013-04-03 Thread Rui Tiago Cação Matos
On 3 April 2013 21:36, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se wrote: What about someone who can talk about developer experience? So we can get inspired to create a awesome experience for the 3rd party developers that will help us win. This is exactly why I proposed Ryan Gordon. Or someone else

Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming

2013-04-03 Thread Dave Neary
How about Steven O'Grady? He has just written a book on that exact subject. Dave. On Apr 3, 2013 9:36 PM, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se mailto:li...@andreasn.se wrote: On 2013-04-03 12:18, Rui Tiago Cação Matos wrote: Hi, let's get the keynote speakers discussion