Hi,
Paul Cooper wrote:
> Sorry for lack of feedback - I've been away in deepest
darkest
> Cornwall where there is no internet (it would appear).
In general I
> think for the keynotes with need a mix of people from
inside the OSS
> community, and those outside with interesting
viewpoints.
>
> We were aiming to get invites out first thing in the
new year -
> although first we need to finalise an ordered list of
keynotes (or
> perhaps a set of ordered lists in the different types;
Marketing,
> Technical, General, etc).
Thanks for the comments! All spot on, and in line with my
own thinking
(I would like to see more names for the design category
though, if
anyone has ideas - last year I suggested James Dyson, for
example - or
how about Jonathan Ives?). Simon Phipps was there last year,
so I'd
hesitate about inviting him again as a keynote.
One other comment jumped out at me, and demanded a response:
>> - Joel Spolsky - http://www.joelonsoftw
are.com/ - Eric Sink -
>> http://www.ericsink.com/
(pretty windows oriented, though...)
>
> Both of these guys would be good to give a more
developer oriented
> talk - Joel would be my preference since he would seem
to have more
> interest / awareness of open-source.
Eric Sink was a founder of Abisource, and one of the initial
developers
of Abiword (just a point of information).
And just a couple of other notes:
>> - The Internet's Jono Bacon?
>
> I was going to suggest Jono too, but then I thought it
might be even
> better to have the whole LUGRadio team do a keynote.
Perhaps they
> could do a series of 5 - 10 minute interviews? They are
pretty
> creative so maybe just leave it to them and see what
they come up
> with. Might be good for the closing keynote?
Jono contacted me after I suggested him to say that he would
love to do
a keynote, and is preparing a new keynotey type presentation
which he
would like to give us.
> To add to the list;
>
> Tim O'Reilly (Thos's suggestion) - Tim has family in
the UK so is a
> possibility but it might be too close to OSCON.
He's Irish - get your filthy "any Paddy who succeeds is
really British"
mits off 'im.
> Hugh McCleod - http://www.gapingvoid.com
/. Slightly left field
> suggestion. Blogger who helped build English Cut, and
Stormhoek wine
> simply through his blog, cartoons, and word of mouth.
In line with Seth Godin and Guy Kawasaki - but I get the
feeling that
all of those aren't really well suited to GUADEC.
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Neary
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> - The Internet's Jono Bacon?
I was going to suggest Jono too, but then I thought it might
be even better to have the whole LUGRadio team do a keynote.
Perhaps they could do a series of 5 - 10 minute interviews?
They are pretty creative so maybe just leave it to them and
see what they come up with. Might be good for the closing
keynote?
To add to the list;
Tim O'Reilly (Thos's suggestion) - Tim has family in the UK
so is a possibility but it might be too close to OSCON.
Linda Stone -