Keynotes

Ideas for possible keynote speakers, listed in the order they were suggested, affiliations given where known. Some people who have been suggested but are unlikely have been moved to Non-keynotes to shorten this list.

• Sam Adams (mayor of Portland, Oregon)
• Klaus Knopper/English interview (Knoppix)
• Amber Graner (Ubuntu/Canonical)
• Rikki Kite (Linux New Media)
• Valerie Aurora (Red Hat)
• H. Peter Anvin (Intel, kernel dev)
• Jonathan Corbet (LWN.net)
• Bob Young (formerly Red Hat)
• Jane Silber (Canonical)

• Mitchell Baker (Mozilla)
• Ted Ts'o (Google, kernel dev)
• Amanda McPherson (Linux Foundation)
• Matt Asay (Canonical)
• Eric Allman - sendmail VIDEO
• Michael Stonebraker - Ingres, Postgres, other database things VIDEO
• Bill McKeeman - Matlab and compilers
• Bill Cheswick - security Packet Filter Firewall AT&T

• Dan Geer security VIDEO Microsoft is a monoculture
• Marcus Ranum Homepage VIDEO TED - but don't invite Marcus if B. Cheswick or D. Geer are present
• Andrew Morton - Linux kernel (good technical speaker, not sure about keynote)VIDEO
• Deb Bryant Oregon State University Open Source Medical VIDEO
• David Nalley Fedora Projects
• Miguel de Icaza - GNOME, Mono, Novell
• Dan Frye - IBM LINUX Foundation Keynote Video
• Bdale Garbee - SPI, Debian, HP VIDEO
• Aaron Seigo - KDE VIDEO
• Brian Stevens - CTO Red Hat VIDEO RED HAT SUMMIT 2008

• Jim Gettys - X Windows, One Laptop Per Child One Laptop Per Child VIDEO
• Chris Dibona - Google
• Almost anyone from Fermilab
• Frederick Brooks - (Mythical Man Month) VIDEO 2007 Interview 2009
• Jarod Wilson - (MythTV - good technical speaker)
• Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier
• Josh Abraham - security - good technical speaker, interesting personal story VIDEO
• Judith Hurwitz - cloud computing analyst VIDEO
• http://www.mefeedia.com/watch/33189792* Louis Suarez-Potts - Open Office

• Michael Shiloh - Good technical hands on for Arduino Open Moko VIDEO
• Tim O'Reilly VIDEO
• Donald Becker - Beowulf supercomputers (good technical and keynote) VIDEO non-tech
• 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 VIDEO
• Tim Ney
• Ian Murdock - founder of Debian
• Jon "maddog" Hall VIDEO
• Ric Wheeler RED HAT FILE SYSTEM MANAGER VIDEO

• Jeff Moyer
• Larry Woodward
• Rik Van Riel of Red Hat for VM
• Rob Weir (IBM, ODF)
• Leah Culver, Django Project VIDEO
• Randi Harper, aka freebsdgirl VIDEO
• Juliet Kemp, sysadmin and writer for most Linux mags
• Dee Ann LeBlanc, writer VIDEO

• Celeste Lynn Paul, KDE Usability Team, KDE eV Board Member VIDEO
• Radia Perlman, "Mother of the Internet", currently at Intel VIDEO Yes, THAT spanning tree.
• Joanna Rutkowska, Xen developer VIDEO
• Pamela Samuelson, Law professor at UC Berkeley, and open source/information policy expert
• Karen Sandler, GNOME Foundation Executive Director, and Counsel to Software Freedom Law Center VIDEO
• Carla Schroder, author of Linux Cookbook, TresChix of LinuxChix VIDEO
• Mena Trott Movable Type TED Video
• Laura Bowser Gemini Security (Washington, D.C.)
• Máirín Duffysenior interaction designer with Red Hat, Inc video (Boston)
• Tina Gasperson (Tampa)

• Mackenzie Morgan (Washington, D.C.)
• Michelle Murrain Director of Engineering at OpenIssue Video
• Akkana Peck author Beginning GIMP(San Jose)
• Danese Cooper, Drupal Association board member, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Strata R. Chalup, President of Virtualnet, author
• Sulamita Garcia Technical marketing engineer at Intel
• AEleen Frisch Author, Guru.
• Phil Robb manager of HP's Open Source Program Office (Phil is now with the Linux Foundation)
• Dawn Foster Community Manager MeeGo MeeGo

• Robert Love Linux Kernel and Android.
• Leo Laporte

• Limor Fried, Founder of Adafruit Profile Q&A Video Video Video Video Video
• Dane Jasper, CEO of Sonic.net Video
• Stephen Downes, online learning pioneer Blog Video (starting around 40 minutes in)
• Ken Starks, Reglue Project Video (Ken is now recovering from throat cancer, and may not be able to deliver a speech)
• Biella Coleman Trained as a cultural anthropologist, she researches, writes, and teaches on computer hackers and digital activism. Researched the Debian Project and Anonymous
• Gabe Newell CEO of Valve Software. Linux is the future of gaming
• Tarus Balog, founder and COO of OpenNMS Group Video
• Ladar Levison, founder of Lavabit, Darkmail developer Video? profile/interview
• Aaron Seigo, KDE & open hardware developer