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* Joanna Rutkowska, Xen developer
 
* Joanna Rutkowska, Xen developer
 
* Pamela Samuelson, Law professor at UC Berkeley, and open source/information policy expert
 
* Pamela Samuelson, Law professor at UC Berkeley, and open source/information policy expert
* Karen Sandler, Legal Counsel, Software Freedom Law Center
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* Karen Sandler, Legal Counsel, [http://softwarefreedom.org/ Software Freedom Law Center] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcWlD2Y6HNM VIDEO]
 
* [http://tuxcomputing.com/ Carla] [http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/147981 Schroder], author of Linux Cookbook, [http://courses.linuxchix.org/course/view.php?id=20 TresChix] of LinuxChix [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp8bcwdQQZ4 VIDEO]
 
* [http://tuxcomputing.com/ Carla] [http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/147981 Schroder], author of Linux Cookbook, [http://courses.linuxchix.org/course/view.php?id=20 TresChix] of LinuxChix [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp8bcwdQQZ4 VIDEO]
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mena_Grabowski_Trott Mena Trott] Movable Type  [http://www.ted.com/talks/mena_trott_tours_her_blog_world.html TED Video]
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mena_Grabowski_Trott Mena Trott] Movable Type  [http://www.ted.com/talks/mena_trott_tours_her_blog_world.html TED Video]

Revision as of 22:15, 6 December 2010

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)