On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Ninad Pundalik <ninadsp16...@gmail.com> wrote: > This year, the festival is scheduled from 10th to 14th March, and we > are interested in inviting someone to speak about Open Source. Some > of the names that we've come up with are:
Great. But you need to request them well in advance. Please do it asap if you have not done it yet. > Jono Bacon - Ubuntu Community Manager, Canonical - > http://www.jonobacon.org/about/ > Mark Shuttleworth - CEO, Canonical - http://www.markshuttleworth.com/ + 1 to both these folks. Jono might be a better person when it comes to Community building. > Richard Stallman - http://www.stallman.org/ > Eric S Raymond - http://www.catb.org/~esr Interesting combo. :) > Blake Ross - http://en.wikipedia.org/Blake_Ross > Miguel de Icaza - http://tirania.org/blog/ > Matthias Ettrich - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Ettrich > Arun Ranganathan - http://arunranga.com/blog/about/ Why not try someone in India as well? Browse through FOSS.IN or any other conference speaker list and pick out people who might interest you. > As most of the above do not reside in India, it would be great if we > could arrange a tour through the country/places near Delhi or Jaipur. > If interested, kindly reply to this mail (with a CC to > ninadsp16...@gmail.com) so that we can get in touch off the list and > start working on organizing. :) I can get the entire tour organised. Contact me offline for the details. Regards, Aanjhan -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in