Hi, 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 which he would feel comfortable.
Robert On Tuesday 21 of May 2013 12:05:52, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > More ideas (when do we go from ideas to invitations? Who's doing the > invitations? Are we still using guadec-planning for "non-public" > conversations? I haven't seen any traffic from that list recently): > > On 05/21/2013 11:55 AM, Debarshi Ray wrote: > > Here are some suggestions: > > > > - Jan Wildeboer, http://wildeboer.net/, Red Hat > > Needs little introduction and can talk on a variety of topics. Based out > > of > > Munich. > > - Jaroslav Reznik, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JaroslavReznik, Fedora > > Represents one of the downstream consumer of GNOME. Based out of Brno. > > - Someone (Florian Schiessl?) from LiMux, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux > > They are using KDE, but can still be interesting. Based out of Munich. > > - Someone from Mozilla > > Large free software project with a stronger brand than GNOME's -- surely > > we have something to learn from them. Also, the web is in vogue. > > - Someone from WebKit > > Same as above, but more closely affiliated to GNOME via WebKitGTK+. > > - 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. > > Last year we had a presentation from Yorba, one of GNOME's ISVs. Do we > have any other ISVs who we could invite? > > I'd suggest Mike Milinkovic from the Eclipse Foundation, to speak about > their experiences with GTK+ as a toolkit for Linux. > > Also VMware, Amazon and Adobe are GTK+ consumers. Some digging there > would likely turn up a promising keynote invitation. > > Are we looking for a designer again this year? Those are always my > favourite keynotes. I would love to get Ivanka Majic (ex Canonical) > along to talk about designing a desktop environment and ecosystem, and > her experiences with that. > > Cheers, > Dave. _______________________________________________ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
