The ruby-on-rails dude. Makes a lot of sense in teh Online Desktop world. eg:
http://www.scribemedia.org/2006/07/09/dhh/ behdad On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 14:10 -0500, David Bolter wrote: > Sorry I didn't suggest this earlier, and I'm not sure how off the beaten > path you want to go but... how about someone who is deeply into software > development methodology? Just throwing it out there... maybe scrum guy > Ken Schwaber? (sample: > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7230144396191025011) > > cheers, > D > Dave Neary wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'd like to get a prospect list of keynotes we should work on inviting > > to GUADEC. First things first, check out the discussions last year and > > the year before: > > > > 2007: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/guadec-list/2006-December/msg00003.html > > (and in guadec-planning): > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/private/guadec-planning/2007-January/msg00010.html > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/private/guadec-planning/2007-January/msg00000.html > > > > 2006 (in GUADEC planning): > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/private/guadec-planning/2005-December/msg00009.html > > > > The names that came out last year (brainstorm mode, no names eliminated > > yet): > > > > Some kind of conclusion list: > > > >> * Design > >> Don Norman, Alan Cooper, Scott Berkun. > >> > >> * Blogoshpere > >> Doc Searls, Don Marti, Steven O'Grady > >> > >> * Technical > >> Joel Spolsky, Eric Sink, Mirco Mueller > >> > >> * Business > >> Ari Jaaski, Jonathan Schwarz > >> > >> * Misc > >> Seth Godin, Jono Bacon, JP Rangaswami, Linda Stone, Hugh McCleod > >> > >> * Customer > >> A big / notable user of Gnome. Bastien seemed confident that he could > >> scare up some options here. > >> > > > > >From Christian Schaller: > > > >> * Lawrence Lessig (software patents, very relevant with novell & MS > >> deal) > >> * Pamela Jones (Groklaw fame, fallback for Lessig?) > >> * John Carmack (linux desktop as a gaming platform) > >> * Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu or linux desktop 3rd world) > >> * Miguel de Icaza (Mono?) > >> * Guido van Rossum (Python for the desktop) > >> * James Gosling (Java and the free desktop, java GPL, GTK L/F) > >> * Larry Page or Sergey Brin - Linux desktops at Google/Google and free > >> desktop integration) > >> * Richard Taylor - GNOME at Weta Digital (no idea if that is a fact) > >> > > > > I can add a few more names, but this is a good start. We should filter > > out those who keynoted last year, add some more people currently in the > > news, and start sending people hunting to get in contact. From past > > experience, we'll need to invite about 20 people to get 6 or 7 > > acceptances - the acceptance rate is much higher for people within the > > GNOME community, though. > > > > Cheers, > > Dave. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > guadec-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 _______________________________________________ guadec-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
