Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming
Hi, On 05/22/2013 02:55 AM, Allan Day wrote: Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: In short, we will have plenty of community members talking to each other - even in the keynotes. I see one or two keynotes per year when we choose not to navel gaze or preach to the choir to be a good thing. Both Karen and Lennart have important things to say about GNOME's wider significance and the challenges ahead. I find your assertion that this would be navel gazing to be a pretty rude. My apologies, I did not intend to be rude. I find it frustrating that every year we have a variety of people criticising invited keynotes. I think they bring a lot to the GNOME community. Regards, Dave. -- Dave Neary, Lyon, France Email: dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@gmail.com ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming
On 2013-05-22 00:07, Karen Sandler wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2013 1:40 pm, Dave Neary wrote: In short, we will have plenty of community members talking to each other - even in the keynotes. I see one or two keynotes per year when we choose not to navel gaze or preach to the choir to be a good thing. I agree that I'm not a great choice, but I'm always here as a back up option, especially if someone flakes out at the last minute :D What about Cathy Malmrose? I think it would be really interesting hearing from a GNU/Linux focused hardware manufacturer, especially someone independent like Zareason... Sounds nice with a talk from a OEM that actually ships a lot of GNOME systems. Found a FOSDEM talk from her: https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/uefi_secureboot/ On a totally different note, David Eaves (http://eaves.ca). His The Science of Open Source Community Management talk is pretty awesome, so everyone should see it regardless :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvteDoRSRr8 - Andreas ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming
On Wed, May 22, 2013 9:20 am, Andreas Nilsson wrote: On 2013-05-22 00:07, Karen Sandler wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2013 1:40 pm, Dave Neary wrote: In short, we will have plenty of community members talking to each other - even in the keynotes. I see one or two keynotes per year when we choose not to navel gaze or preach to the choir to be a good thing. I agree that I'm not a great choice, but I'm always here as a back up option, especially if someone flakes out at the last minute :D What about Cathy Malmrose? I think it would be really interesting hearing from a GNU/Linux focused hardware manufacturer, especially someone independent like Zareason... Sounds nice with a talk from a OEM that actually ships a lot of GNOME systems. Found a FOSDEM talk from her: https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/uefi_secureboot/ On a totally different note, David Eaves (http://eaves.ca). His The Science of Open Source Community Management talk is pretty awesome, so everyone should see it regardless :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvteDoRSRr8 We invited him last year, but he had personal conflicts. I could poke him and see if he's free this year. karen - Andreas ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming
How about Michael Larabel? He gave an interesting talk on Wayland at our Chicago GNOME meeting a few months ago. He's also part of the Fedora community, a free software activist, and a GNOME supporter. Meg On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2013 9:20 am, Andreas Nilsson wrote: On 2013-05-22 00:07, Karen Sandler wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2013 1:40 pm, Dave Neary wrote: In short, we will have plenty of community members talking to each other - even in the keynotes. I see one or two keynotes per year when we choose not to navel gaze or preach to the choir to be a good thing. I agree that I'm not a great choice, but I'm always here as a back up option, especially if someone flakes out at the last minute :D What about Cathy Malmrose? I think it would be really interesting hearing from a GNU/Linux focused hardware manufacturer, especially someone independent like Zareason... Sounds nice with a talk from a OEM that actually ships a lot of GNOME systems. Found a FOSDEM talk from her: https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/uefi_secureboot/ On a totally different note, David Eaves (http://eaves.ca). His The Science of Open Source Community Management talk is pretty awesome, so everyone should see it regardless :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvteDoRSRr8 We invited him last year, but he had personal conflicts. I could poke him and see if he's free this year. karen - Andreas ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming
On 21 May 2013 12:05, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: More ideas (when do we go from ideas to invitations? Who's doing the invitations? As I said before we already have 2 out 4 confirmed keynote speakers. We have discussed potential speakers during the public IRC meetings and also in private mail and face to face meetings among the local organization. Then we've asked someone that already knows a potential candidate to send them the invitation. E.g. Karen has sent a few invitations personally already. Are we still using guadec-planning for non-public conversations? I haven't seen any traffic from that list recently): There is no guadec-planning mailing list that I know of. Both guadec-list and guadec-local are open lists and the non-public discussion as been through private mail and face to face meetings. There is a guadec-organization list that was created recently and is private that we could use for non-public discussions though we haven't been using it for that yet. It's currently just set as the default place where various email addresses @guadec.org end up so that the org team can deal with them in a distributed fashion. 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? One of the keynote speakers we have is an ISV. I'd like to wait a bit longer until we announce them though. 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. All good suggestions, thank you. We'll discuss them on tomorrow's IRC meeting a bit more and then make a decision for who to invite. Rui ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
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On 21 May 2013 12:28, Robert Kratky robert.kra...@liberix.cz wrote: 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. Fair enough. Thanks for asking him Robert! Rui ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
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On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Debarshi Ray rishi...@lostca.se wrote: - 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. I think that's a really good idea. Xan was mentionned on IRC as well. -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming
On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 19:40 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: But then we've also had other keynotes, from designers and user experience experts [...] We might be able to arrange for Lea Verou from W3C to give a talk about the open web platform, future of CSS, design, HTMl 17 or whatever. I'm told she's a really good speaker :) Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming
Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: ... This year, I would love to see a talk on GNOME's place in the larger ecosystem of computing today. Someone like Stephen O'Grady presenting the potential axes of development for desktop Linux in a cloudy world. In short, we will have plenty of community members talking to each other - even in the keynotes. I see one or two keynotes per year when we choose not to navel gaze or preach to the choir to be a good thing. Both Karen and Lennart have important things to say about GNOME's wider significance and the challenges ahead. I find your assertion that this would be navel gazing to be a pretty rude. Allan ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming
Hi all, one month has passed and I'm happy to say that we have 2 confirmed keynote speakers but we are still missing 2 more so I'd like to ask for more suggestions again! The confirmed speakers will be announced later and we'd like to keep them in secret for now (actually one requested so explicitly) so don't ask me that :-) I should point out that Sumana Harihareswara, Sue Gardner, Anne Gentle and Ryan Gordon all declined the invitations. Rui ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming
- Mensaje original - De: Rui Tiago Cação Matos tiagoma...@gmail.com Para: guadec-list guadec-list@gnome.org CC: Enviado: Martes 7 de Mayo de 2013 18:48 Asunto: Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming Hi all, one month has passed and I'm happy to say that we have 2 confirmed keynote speakers but we are still missing 2 more so I'd like to ask for more suggestions again! The confirmed speakers will be announced later and we'd like to keep them in secret for now (actually one requested so explicitly) so don't ask me that :-) I should point out that Sumana Harihareswara, Sue Gardner, Anne Gentle and Ryan Gordon all declined the invitations. I think Bryan Lunduke could be a good speaker. Maybe he can do a Why GNOME doesn't suck ? talk http://www.youtube.com/user/BryanLunduke https://plus.google.com/108930697266689628917/posts http://lunduke.com/ https://twitter.com/bryanlunduke Cheers, -- Juanjo Marin ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
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--- Florian Nadge, GUADEC 2013 GUADEC c/o Red Hat| Purkynova 71/99| 61200 Brno| tel: +420 603 764 858 Anne Gentle is indeed a great choice choice for the keynotes. I met her in Cincinnati and found her to be a highly intelligent and fun-to-listen speaker. On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Sun, April 7, 2013 3:41 pm, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, On 04/07/2013 04:03 PM, Karen Sandler wrote: On Wed, April 3, 2013 11:26 am, Joaquim Rocha wrote: I remember Karen knew Chris DiBona. Karen, is that right? yep! I haven't attended any Ryan's talks but I love the theme so +1 from my side. I haven't had time to watch this yet, but here's a link to one of his talks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkvDhdK0HAE No thoughts on my various suggestions (Anne Gentle, Pia Waugh, Leslie Hawthorn, Hilary Mason)? I know someone who knows Hilary pretty well, I think (right Karen? ;-) ) and I know all of the others - if there's interest. Has anyone seen them speak? I think Pia's awesome. I like Anne too but have never seen her speak. I see that she's got a few things on youtube that I'll check out. I love Leslie, but if we're getting a RH speaker there might be others that I'd choose first for GUADEC from our previous brainstorming. With Hilary, I'd love for her to speak if she would tailor her talk to GNOME (like Jacob did). I'm going to ask my inside track about it :) Great suggestions, Dave! As you know, we'll need a lot of ideas to get four solid speakers who can actually make it. karen Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary, Lyon, France Email: dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@gmail.com ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming
On 2013-04-03 12:18, Rui Tiago Cação Matos wrote: Hi, let's get the keynote speakers discussion started so that we have time to invite people. On this week's meeting several possible candidates were suggested: a) Sumanah or Sue Gardner from Wikimedia; b) Chris DiBona from Google; c) Ryan Gordon (icculus) who has ported several games to Linux; Please comment add your suggestions! So one question that have been floating around in my head the last couple of days is how well these speakers (and others suggested in the thread) align with the main topics of the conference. Do the proposed keynote speakers map directly to the topics, or is the selection supposed to be more fun and inspiring? The list below is copypaste from guadec.org: * Design of the core user experience (core applications, shell, toolkit) * Design of the developer experience (tools, documentation, services) * Integration and extension of the operating system plumbings into the core UX * Application development and deployment * Integration of web technologies into the GNOME user experience * Improving the user experience on different form factors * Outreach to new contributors * Organization and governance of the project - Andreas ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
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Hi Andreas, On 04/08/2013 10:59 PM, Andreas Nilsson wrote: So one question that have been floating around in my head the last couple of days is how well these speakers (and others suggested in the thread) align with the main topics of the conference. Do the proposed keynote speakers map directly to the topics, or is the selection supposed to be more fun and inspiring? snip * Design of the developer experience (tools, documentation, services) Anne Gentle falls squarely into this category - documentation is her thing, and working with Rackspace on OpenStack, it's been all about the developer experience so far. * Integration of web technologies into the GNOME user experience I will note that we've had keynotes in the past 4-5 GUADECs from Alp Toker on Webkit, Chris Blizzard on Mozilla, Alex Gravely on Big Board (I think that's what it was called), was it Owen Taylor on the Online Desktop stuff?, Luis Villa also Mozilla, and I'm sure I'm missing one or two. Haven't we been over this already? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary, Lyon, France Email: dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@gmail.com ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
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* Design of the developer experience (tools, documentation, services) * Application development and deployment Ryan Gordon fits these two categories as one of the most well-known game Linux developers. Cheers, Debarshi -- If computers are going to revolutionize education, then steam engines and cars and electricity would have done it too. -- Arjun Shankar pgpQt0rL3cvVY.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
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Hey Rui, (Last year I took care of getting the keynotes, with a lot of support from Dave Neary and Karen.) I remember Karen knew Chris DiBona. Karen, is that right? I haven't attended any Ryan's talks but I love the theme so +1 from my side. Cheers, -- Joaquim Rocha http://www.joaquimrocha.com On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Rui Tiago Cação Matos tiagoma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, let's get the keynote speakers discussion started so that we have time to invite people. On this week's meeting several possible candidates were suggested: a) Sumanah or Sue Gardner from Wikimedia; b) Chris DiBona from Google; c) Ryan Gordon (icculus) who has ported several games to Linux; Please comment add your suggestions! Rui ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
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On Sun, April 7, 2013 3:41 pm, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, On 04/07/2013 04:03 PM, Karen Sandler wrote: On Wed, April 3, 2013 11:26 am, Joaquim Rocha wrote: I remember Karen knew Chris DiBona. Karen, is that right? yep! I haven't attended any Ryan's talks but I love the theme so +1 from my side. I haven't had time to watch this yet, but here's a link to one of his talks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkvDhdK0HAE No thoughts on my various suggestions (Anne Gentle, Pia Waugh, Leslie Hawthorn, Hilary Mason)? I know someone who knows Hilary pretty well, I think (right Karen? ;-) ) and I know all of the others - if there's interest. Has anyone seen them speak? I think Pia's awesome. I like Anne too but have never seen her speak. I see that she's got a few things on youtube that I'll check out. I love Leslie, but if we're getting a RH speaker there might be others that I'd choose first for GUADEC from our previous brainstorming. With Hilary, I'd love for her to speak if she would tailor her talk to GNOME (like Jacob did). I'm going to ask my inside track about it :) Great suggestions, Dave! As you know, we'll need a lot of ideas to get four solid speakers who can actually make it. karen Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary, Lyon, France Email: dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@gmail.com ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
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Hi, On 04/05/2013 05:33 PM, Jiri Eischmann wrote: Yeah, that was one of the persons I was thinking of. But there are certainly others. Novell announced a large desktop deployment in PSA Peugeot Citroen a couple of years ago. Red Hat surely has some larger desktop customers, too, etc. That does bring up an interesting question - is there any enterprise distribution running GNOME 3 now? RHEL 6.4 is still GNOME 2 based. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary, Lyon, France Email: dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@gmail.com ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
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Dave Neary píše v Pá 05. 04. 2013 v 18:41 +0200: Hi, On 04/05/2013 05:33 PM, Jiri Eischmann wrote: Yeah, that was one of the persons I was thinking of. But there are certainly others. Novell announced a large desktop deployment in PSA Peugeot Citroen a couple of years ago. Red Hat surely has some larger desktop customers, too, etc. That does bring up an interesting question - is there any enterprise distribution running GNOME 3 now? RHEL 6.4 is still GNOME 2 based. I don't think any enterprise distribution has switched to GNOME 3 yet, but IMHO even customers using GNOME 2 should be welcome. GNOME 2 is not something we drew a line under completely. Many GNOME developers still support GNOME 2 in their enterprise solutions. And customers with GNOME 2 will have to switch to GNOME 3 eventually. It's still interesting to hear their opinions, experience etc. Jiri ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
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Hi! On 3 April 2013 16:18, Rui Tiago Cação Matos tiagoma...@gmail.com wrote: On this week's meeting several possible candidates were suggested: a) Sumanah or Sue Gardner from Wikimedia; b) Chris DiBona from Google; c) Ryan Gordon (icculus) who has ported several games to Linux; Please comment add your suggestions! All three of these sound like they would be great choices. Between Sumana and Sue, I would prefer to hear Sumana speak, but that's mostly because I have had some contact with her and she struck me as being able to speak well on a range of interesting subjects. ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
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- Rui Tiago Cação Matos tiagoma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, let's get the keynote speakers discussion started so that we have time to invite people. On this week's meeting several possible candidates were suggested: a) Sumanah or Sue Gardner from Wikimedia; b) Chris DiBona from Google; c) Ryan Gordon (icculus) who has ported several games to Linux; Please comment add your suggestions! How about somebody from the Fedora side (given that we are in a location with some Fedora affinity), such as Jaroslav Reznik (he's the Fedora program manager, and also a kde person - could be interesting), Robyn Bergeron (Fedora project leader) or Matt Miller (Fedora cloud architect). Just an idea ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
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Hi, On 04/03/2013 05:45 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: a) Sumanah or Sue Gardner from Wikimedia; b) Chris DiBona from Google; c) Ryan Gordon (icculus) who has ported several games to Linux; Please comment add your suggestions! How about somebody from the Fedora side (given that we are in a location with some Fedora affinity), such as Jaroslav Reznik (he's the Fedora program manager, and also a kde person - could be interesting), Robyn Bergeron (Fedora project leader) or Matt Miller (Fedora cloud architect). Robyn or Christian Schaller are both good candidates. Matt Miller seems a little far off the GNOME radar. I don't know Jaroslav. Other ideas: Anne Gentle (community documentation - Rackspace person, and OPW mentor), Leslie Hawthorn (she keynoted FOSDEM this year), Pia Waugh (a bit far for her to travel, but she is awesome), Hilary Mason (on using data to drive decisions, perhaps?). Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary, Lyon, France Email: dne...@gnome.org / Jabber: nea...@gmail.com Ph: +33 950 71 55 62 / Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13 ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
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Matthias Clasen píše v St 03. 04. 2013 v 11:45 -0400: - Rui Tiago Cação Matos tiagoma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, let's get the keynote speakers discussion started so that we have time to invite people. On this week's meeting several possible candidates were suggested: a) Sumanah or Sue Gardner from Wikimedia; b) Chris DiBona from Google; c) Ryan Gordon (icculus) who has ported several games to Linux; Please comment add your suggestions! How about somebody from the Fedora side (given that we are in a location with some Fedora affinity), such as Jaroslav Reznik (he's the Fedora program manager, and also a kde person - could be interesting), Robyn Bergeron (Fedora project leader) or Matt Miller (Fedora cloud architect). Just an idea I know Robyn and Jaroslav personally and I think they're good fits for this. On the other hand, I'm a bit concerned that people might feel GUADEC is too much about Red Hat. Red Hat is going to be one of the major partners and sponsors, most people in the organizing team are redhatters, there will be a lot of attendees from Red Hat since it's held in Brno etc. What about inviting a representative of users? I suppose there some larger deployments of GNOME no matter if it's on RHEL or SUSE or some other system. There are also companies that build their solutions on GNOME technologies. I've always felt that such voices (of those that use the software in day-to-day business) are not emphasised enough at conferences such as GUADEC. Just my 2c. Jiri ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
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On Wed, April 3, 2013 1:17 pm, JiÅà Eischmann wrote: Matthias Clasen pÃÅ¡e v St 03. 04. 2013 v 11:45 -0400: - Rui Tiago Cação Matos tiagoma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, let's get the keynote speakers discussion started so that we have time to invite people. On this week's meeting several possible candidates were suggested: a) Sumanah or Sue Gardner from Wikimedia; b) Chris DiBona from Google; c) Ryan Gordon (icculus) who has ported several games to Linux; Please comment add your suggestions! How about somebody from the Fedora side (given that we are in a location with some Fedora affinity), such as Jaroslav Reznik (he's the Fedora program manager, and also a kde person - could be interesting), Robyn Bergeron (Fedora project leader) or Matt Miller (Fedora cloud architect). Just an idea I know Robyn and Jaroslav personally and I think they're good fits for this. On the other hand, I'm a bit concerned that people might feel GUADEC is too much about Red Hat. Red Hat is going to be one of the major partners and sponsors, most people in the organizing team are redhatters, there will be a lot of attendees from Red Hat since it's held in Brno etc. Good point. I also worry a bit about GUADEC seeming too Red Hat focused this year. This is a bit crazy perhaps, but I'm just tossing out an idea - what about having distro themed keynoters with one from fedora, one from debian, one from opensuse and then one from either mint or ubuntu? Or this may be difficult to limit now that I think of it, given all the other relevant distros... What about inviting a representative of users? I suppose there some larger deployments of GNOME no matter if it's on RHEL or SUSE or some other system. There are also companies that build their solutions on GNOME technologies. I've always felt that such voices (of those that use the software in day-to-day business) are not emphasised enough at conferences such as GUADEC. this is another good way to go! We probably should just put together a list of people that we think would be good speakers and start inviting them though. A lot of them won't be able to make it anyway. karen Just my 2c. Jiri ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming
Hi, On 04/03/2013 08:34 PM, Karen Sandler wrote: I know Robyn and Jaroslav personally and I think they're good fits for this. On the other hand, I'm a bit concerned that people might feel GUADEC is too much about Red Hat. Red Hat is going to be one of the major partners and sponsors, most people in the organizing team are redhatters, there will be a lot of attendees from Red Hat since it's held in Brno etc. Good point. I also worry a bit about GUADEC seeming too Red Hat focused this year. This is a bit crazy perhaps, but I'm just tossing out an idea - what about having distro themed keynoters with one from fedora, one from debian, one from opensuse and then one from either mint or ubuntu? Or this may be difficult to limit now that I think of it, given all the other relevant distros... I agree on the fear of RHT overload point, but one keynote is not *that* huge - unless we also end up with a design team keynote (which would be Red Hat) too. Then again, I like breaking habits before they get too embedded in the psyche - so I'd suggest avoiding a Shell/design keynote this year, since we've had one each of the last 3 years. I love the idea of a Mint keynote - I also think you'll have some resistance to it. I would not suggest having an Ubuntu keynote - we've reached out to them a lot, and recent changes only reinforce the fact that the schism is consecrated - at this point, inviting an Ubuntu keynote would be the equivalent of inviting a KDE keynote. Interesting in the abstract, but very likely to be misunderstood by the audience. What about inviting a representative of users? I suppose there some larger deployments of GNOME no matter if it's on RHEL or SUSE or some other system. There are also companies that build their solutions on GNOME technologies. I've always felt that such voices (of those that use the software in day-to-day business) are not emphasised enough at conferences such as GUADEC. this is another good way to go! We probably should just put together a list of people that we think would be good speakers and start inviting them though. A lot of them won't be able to make it anyway. Well, the idea keeps coming up, so we might as well get it out there again this year... how about a nice, typical GNOME user like Greg KH or Linus Torvalds? For the record, I think neither would be a good choice. It's better to give someone who doesn't usually have a pulpit the opportunity to speak. Karen, do you have contacts with any prominent happy GNOME users? Institutional users would be best, but famous people who use GNOME 3 (fame is relative) would work too. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary, Lyon, France Email: dne...@gnome.org / Jabber: nea...@gmail.com Ph: +33 950 71 55 62 / Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13 ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming
On 2013-04-03 12:18, Rui Tiago Cação Matos wrote: Hi, let's get the keynote speakers discussion started so that we have time to invite people. On this week's meeting several possible candidates were suggested: a) Sumanah or Sue Gardner from Wikimedia; b) Chris DiBona from Google; c) Ryan Gordon (icculus) who has ported several games to Linux; Please comment add your suggestions! Ok, this is going to be fairly handwavey, but whatever. What about someone who can talk about developer experience? So we can get inspired to create a awesome experience for the 3rd party developers that will help us win. In general it would be good with keynoters who can inspire in the same way that Jacob Applebaum (last guadec) or Ned Richards (desktop summit) did. - Andreas ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming
How about Steven O'Grady? He has just written a book on that exact subject. Dave. On Apr 3, 2013 9:36 PM, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se wrote: On 2013-04-03 12:18, Rui Tiago Cação Matos wrote: Hi, let's get the keynote speakers discussion started so that we have time to invite people. On this week's meeting several possible candidates were suggested: a) Sumanah or Sue Gardner from Wikimedia; b) Chris DiBona from Google; c) Ryan Gordon (icculus) who has ported several games to Linux; Please comment add your suggestions! Ok, this is going to be fairly handwavey, but whatever. What about someone who can talk about developer experience? So we can get inspired to create a awesome experience for the 3rd party developers that will help us win. In general it would be good with keynoters who can inspire in the same way that Jacob Applebaum (last guadec) or Ned Richards (desktop summit) did. - Andreas __**_ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/**mailman/listinfo/guadec-listhttps://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming
On 3 April 2013 21:36, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se wrote: What about someone who can talk about developer experience? So we can get inspired to create a awesome experience for the 3rd party developers that will help us win. This is exactly why I proposed Ryan Gordon. Or someone else doing applications targeting the Linux desktop. I think that we have a lot to learn from their experience if we want to make GNOME be even more successful. Rui ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming
How about Steven O'Grady? He has just written a book on that exact subject. Dave. On Apr 3, 2013 9:36 PM, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se mailto:li...@andreasn.se wrote: On 2013-04-03 12:18, Rui Tiago Cação Matos wrote: Hi, let's get the keynote speakers discussion started so that we have time to invite people. On this week's meeting several possible candidates were suggested: a) Sumanah or Sue Gardner from Wikimedia; b) Chris DiBona from Google; c) Ryan Gordon (icculus) who has ported several games to Linux; Please comment add your suggestions! Ok, this is going to be fairly handwavey, but whatever. What about someone who can talk about developer experience? So we can get inspired to create a awesome experience for the 3rd party developers that will help us win. In general it would be good with keynoters who can inspire in the same way that Jacob Applebaum (last guadec) or Ned Richards (desktop summit) did. - Andreas ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org mailto:guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list -- Dave Neary, Lyon, France Email: dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@gmail.com ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
