On 10/04/2012 12:20 PM, Deryck Chan wrote: > Dear Wikimaniacs, > > Hello from the Wikimania 2013 Hong Kong local team! We are beginning the > process of inviting external keynote speakers, and would like the wider > Wikimania community to review our shortlist before we make formal > invitations. > > Feel free to suggest additional names for the list. We have more than two > names at the moment, so do reply if you have preferences among the list too!
[snip] Thank you, Deryck! A few additional suggestions: Finn Brunton, an academic who thinks a lot about privacy, spam, trust, and similar topics: http://finnb.net/cv.html Jennifer 8 Lee, US journalist of Chinese heritage who has worked on the Knight Foundation's News Challenge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_8_Lee Audrey Tang, a Taiwanese programmer who's well-known in the Perl community and who worked on the new parser for MediaWiki (the underpinnings of the new visual editor): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang Just for completeness, I'm including this link to the suggested names from the previous Wikimania, even though you've probably already thought about them: https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule/Keynote (includes Irina Bokova of UNESCO, academic Clay Shirky, anthopologist Biella Coleman, etc.) -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
