PlzRec10

Recommend a speaker or topic for next year. 99 responses. Not very well sorted just yet.

Topics

• Installfest all weekend
• Someone from Oracle to explain their strategy,
• Another/more applications demos!
• I'd love to hear a told on using FOSS with amateur (HAM) radio.
• Linux on unusual devices (tvs, set-top boxes, hacked PDAs, washing machines, etc.)
• Imaging software such as blender, gimp, etc
• Python in a high school environment and the work they've done with Turtle graphics and small robotic devices.
• Open source uses in education. (I'm actually going to try to propose to do that talk next year.)
• I enjoy security topics, vulnerabilities and cryptography.
• How to help IT directors steer cash poor organizations to open source solutions
• Drupal, WordPress demos, intros, or features discussions.
• I'd like to see more about coding for medical devices.
• Also enjoy talks about how a living can be made within open source (such as Tarus Balog's talk) and how people can get involved.
• How about Linux on mobile? What things could I do with my Android telephone, for instance?
• Definitely multimedia and virtualization will continue to be major topics. also some additional general open source related topics would be good.
• web2py
• Talk about Linux Audio drivers/modules
• I'd love to see a talk on Audacity.
• Podcaster Track for Linux Podcasters and invite Linux Podcasters to be speakers.
• Cloud computing and thin client configurations. (Virtualization, VPN, Security, and cloud computing configurations)
• More python and/or media (Blender, GIMP, etc)
• Open Source Digital Voting if you haven't done that already.
• Maybe another talk on podcasting in Linux
• I would like to see more multimedia topics, I enjoyed the one this year on Kdenlive . I also like talking to the people from the cincy hacker space that was at the same table as Dual Core about the arduino micro controller. I boughtone to play around with at home. It seems like it would be easy to program and there are also a lot of info available online for it. So with that said, maybe something on open source hardware for enthusiasts.
• Open Source Video and Video Conferencing would be very interesting to hear about.
• Advanced Vim / Vim plugins. - Advanced Git - Something with Ruby . . . maybe see if somebody from EdgeCase will present . . . edgecase.com/team - they are out of Columbus.
• Something relating to advanced usage of OpenVPN.
• Security based track would be great. More on system admin automation.
• Perhaps a sales & marketing topic/s next year. How to helps individuals and companies make the move to Open Source, how to support them etc...
• You had a "Medical Track," and I would suggest an "Education Track" if possible.
• A track on web development would be great. A presentation showing the differences between different CMSs would be awesome. Good for people who are trying to decide which to use and good for users of one specific CMS to see what the other guys are doing.
• more on integrating FOSS in your business... less IT Professional or "hobbyist Linux guy" focus
• I enjoyed the talks relating to DevOps and Fully-Automated Infrastructure this year, more of that would be great. Seeing as how it will be 20 years of Linux next year, that would be a fitting theme. It would certainly be an appropriate closing keynote for either a Linux historian, or a key kernel developer, to share some war stories pertaining to the history of Linux
• More on InfoSec topics or maybe a android coding talk
• BTRFS features, Gnome3, Vala, Working with upstream.
• How to convert other users to Linux more easily.
• I would like to see more strategy/business sessions for myself.
• 1) Linux in the Private Sector 2) Linux HPC clustering
• Linux programming for beginner programmers
• How to apply open source methods to Science, the process, the publishing, and sharing of data.
• Splunk, Untangle
• Job market for Linux and FOSS professionals.
• I would love to hear a talk on digital typography and typesetting!
• A brainstorming session of ideas between electronic health records software programmers and developers, and users (medical doctors, nurses, etc.).
• Would suggest a technical track for Thursday with a topic of Linux integration in the Enterprise. With technical talks on using Linux in a professional setting where the need is to integrate it with other software solutions from BMC, CA and MS.
• A track on government or law enforcement open source
• android, smartphone integration with desktop apps
• Technical courses for the Medical Track (e.g. development and testing with HL7 or other HIT protocols, etc).
• Open Source Unified Messaging
• a hands on track "how to use linux/apps" would be great. i liked the video editing a lot because it was tangible and could put to good use right away.
• accessibility
• Ruby, more programming talks
• KDE4 (Semantic Desktop), OpenStack, Scalr, or anything about live demos of Security Flaws.
• What's new in clustering?
• Since Digital Media was this year, a natural follow-up in my mind would be video games.
• I would like to see the medical trak continued again - but I would suggest extending the reach for presenters - there is a very wide use of embedded Linux in medical devices - some technical level presentations from this group would be an excellent addition (IMO), and from my perspective with some content on data interchange protocals again.
• More on Arduino and the Python programming language
• Someone from Red Hat on training and certs. (Red Hat is a distro that is not based on Ubuntu :) )
• Surprise me!

People

• Bram Cohen (Bittorrent)
• Shawn Powers, Marcel Gagne, George Castro, LTSP, Rob Landly, Eric Raymond, and of course set your standards high, Linus
• Eben Moglen. Good luck.
• Just keep bringing maddog back, I'll show up
• Jono Bacon gave a great keynote a few years ago, you should bring him back.
• Mark Shuttleworth ??
• Can't think of anyone new but from previous years my favorites have been: Jono Bacon, John Hall, Shawn Powers, and Jorge Castro. I would love to hear lectures from them again
• Open source in the classroom. Mike Fischer
• The best speakers seem to be the ones that can take an off-the-wall topic and tie it back into open source and the spirit of open source. i.e. just about everything maddog ever presents on and Garbee's presentations on model rockets. You should get Vern Ceder to present on his experience teaching
• I would love to hear Michael Tiemann speak about how conventional business execs - who don't really care about FOSS, but rather about their company's success - come to believe in FOSS.
• I'd love to hear maddog talk every year.
• Mike Saunders or one of the guys from tuxradar (LinuxFormat magazine). They are great! I think they put out the best magazine for the general public as well. I have their emails :D!
• Ian Murdock
• Linus. Evan prodmorou status.net guy
• I would love to have Shawn Powers back. We need lively and entertaining speakers.
• I would like to see klaatu talk about using blender as video editor
• Mark Shuttleworth
• Allen Hicks
• Chris Mason / BTRFS
• Bradley Kuhn - Technology Director of Software Freedom Law Center
• Klaatu from Hacker pUblic radio, he was funny! and sigflup. Also CLI Magic, the guy who did the command line talk, you should bring him back.
• Bill Gates 8)
• Andrew Morton, Matt Zimmerman, Jos Poortvliet.
• The author of XKCD.
• Susan Rose, RN, Dr. David Chan, Fred Trotter, Amy Andres, Hard Hats (VistA EHR development) representative and Andy Hunt (Pragmatic Programmers writer) on the subject of "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning"
• If you could somehow snag Zed Shaw that would be really cool.
• Richard Harding, VIM.
• Jorge Castro, Jono Bacon, Aaron Siego, Linus Torvalds (obviously)