Hi Dave, On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 10:51 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > By getting some new ideas/asking some other people for help, and > removing those who have keynoted recently, I've arrived at this list of > potential keynotes. Can anyone think of others who might be interesting? > > I suggest for a GNOME community related keynote or two that we wait > until a little closer to the time - the response rate is close to 100% > for people who are going to the conference anyway, and it's entirely > likely that some exciting GNOME related stuff will happen between now > and next March.
As you know from previous years, with external keynoters it's best to start asking as soon as the dates are confirmed. I messed this up last year, and without Dave's networking skillz would have been quite stuck. Couple of additions / comments; > Cheers, > Dave. > > GUADEC Keynote ideas > > Design & user experience: > • Scott McCloud > • Philippe Starck > • Jonathan Ives > • Don Norman > • Alan Cooper > • James Dyson > • Lisa Strausfeld http://pentagram.com/en/partners/lisa-strausfeld.php > • Linda Stone > • Leisa Reichelt http://www.disambiguity.com/ > • Diego Rodriguez (IDEO & http://metacool.typepad.com/metacool/) > • gapminder: http://www.gapminder.org/ > > > Business: > • Jonathan Schwarz > • Ron Hovsepian > • JP Rangaswami > • Tim O'Reilly > • RedHat guy Micheal Tiemann? (Also on OSI board) > • Jim Zemlin > • Richard Taylor (Weta Digital) Nicholas Negroponte? > > Marketing/blogosphere: > • Seth Godin > • Don Marti > • Steven O'Grady > • Hugh MacLeod > • Tara Hunt > • Chris Messina Cory Doctorow - is a high profile switcher from OS X to GNOME, plus CC and EFF connections. > Technical: > • Joel Spolsky > • Eric Sink > • Mirco Mueller Mirco would be a community keynote > • Scott Berkun > • Don Knuth > • Tim Berners-Lee > • Tristan Nitot > • Mitchell Baker > • Ken Schwaber > • Chris DiBona Sorry to nitpick categories but I think Mitchell Baker and Chris DiBona should be in Marketing or Business. Just the first few thoughts off the top of my head, Paul _______________________________________________ guadec-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
