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Ideas for possible keynote speakers, listed in the order they were suggested, affiliations given where known.


  • Miguel de Icaza - GNOME, Mono, Novell
  • Dan Frye - IBM
  • Bdale Garbee - SPI, Debian, HP
  • Aaron Seigo - KDE
  • Brian Stevens - CTO Red Hat
  • Jim Gettys - X Windows (good technical speaker, perhaps not so good at keynote)
  • Chris Dibona - Google
  • Almost anyone from Fermilab
  • Frederick Brooks - (Mythical Man Month)
  • Jarod Wilson - (MythTV - good technical speaker)
  • Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier
  • Josh Abraham - security - good technical speaker, interesting personal story
  • Judith Hurwitz - cloud computing analyst
  • Leo Laporte
  • Louis Suarez-Potts - Open Office
  • Mark Spencer - Asterisk (good technical and good keynoter)
  • Michael Shiloh - Good technical hands on for Arduino
  • Tim O'Reilly
  • Donald Becker - Beowulf supercomputers (good technical and keynote)
  • Ron Minnich - Supercomputers, coreboot (good technical, could probably do a good keynote if asked) - Note: do not invite Ron and Donald Becker to the same conference
  • Tim Ney
  • Nicholas Negroponte - OLPC/Media lab
  • Ian Murdock - founder of Debian
  • Jon "maddog" Hall
  • Ric Wheeler
  • Jeff Moyer
  • Larry Woodward
  • Rik Van Riel of Red Hat for VM
  • Rob Weir (IBM, ODF)
  • Leah Culver, Django Project
  • Randi Harper, aka freebsdgirl
  • Juliet Kemp, sysadmin and writer for most Linux mags
  • Dee Ann LeBlanc, writer
  • Cathy Malmrose, founder of Zareason
  • Celeste Lynn Paul, KDE Usability Team, KDE eV Board Member
  • Radia Perlman, "Mother of the Internet", currently at Intel
  • Joanna Rutkowska, Xen developer
  • Pamela Samuelson, Law professor at UC Berkeley, and open source/information policy expert
  • Karen Sandler, Legal Counsel, Software Freedom Law Center
  • Carla Schroder, author of Linux Cookbook, TresChix of LinuxChix
  • Mena Trott, Movable Type
  • Laura Bowser (Washington, D.C.)
  • Máirín Duffy (Boston)
  • Tina Gasperson (Tampa)
  • Mackenzie Morgan (Washington, D.C.)
  • Michelle Murrain (Massachusetts)
  • Akkana Peck (San Jose)
  • Danese Cooper
  • Strata R. Chalup, President of Virtualnet, author
  • Sulamita Garcia (Brazil)
  • Evi Nemeth
  • AEleen Frisch
  • Phil Robb
  • Dawn Foster