Hi, Glynn Foster wrote: > Again, let's think outside the box - access the speakers outside our direct > community
Indeed :) So far I have 4 broad categories - design, business/politics, marketing/blogosphere/user experience and technical. There's some overlap, but that's the general guidelines. In technical I have not been putting any GNOME-related speakers - jdub's not on the list, nor is Federico, Havoc, Nat or any of the other community members who could give a great "setting the compass" keynote. We will have one or two of those, don't worry, but as I said, these people have close to a 100% acceptance rate - when I invite a community member it'll be to talk about a specific technology, trend or whatever. In fact, one or two people usually say "I have something really important to say, can I keynote?" Oftentimes, I (or whoever is in charge) say "not really" - that's why Seth Nickell did his condom presentation in Stuttgart as part of the conference opening - Owen Taylor left him some of "his" time during the chairman's address. The list of potential keynotes to hunt down and invite has grown pretty long - mostly in the technical area, but thanks to Bryan Clark and Seth Nickell also in the design area. Some ideas in marketing and user experience (along the lines of Anderson, Godin, Alan Cooper, ...) would be great. Remember, the goal with a good keynote is to get people thinking differently about the way the approach things - to bring new perspectives to how you analyse problems, or get you thinking about novel solutions. Reinforcing current views isn't really that interesting to me. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ guadec-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
