Keynotes
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Ideas for possible keynote speakers, listed in the order they were suggested, affiliations given where known.
- Linus Torvalds (Big Kahuna)
- 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)
- Elizabeth Garbee VIDEO
- Ted Ts'o (Google, kernel dev)
- Amanda McPherson (Linux Foundation)
- Matt Asay (Canonical)
- Kirk McKusick - from BSD VIDEO
- 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)
- Deb Bryant Oregon State University
- David Nalley Fedora Projects
- Miguel de Icaza - GNOME, Mono, Novell
- Dan Frye - IBM LINUX Foundation Keynote Video
- 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 VIDEO
- Leo Laporte
- Louis Suarez-Potts - Open Office
- Mark Spencer - Asterisk (good technical and good keynoter)
- Michael Shiloh - Good technical hands on for Arduino Open Moko VIDEO
- Tim O'Reilly
- 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
- Nicholas Negroponte - OLPC/Media lab
- Ian Murdock - founder of Debian
- Jon "maddog" Hall VIDEO
- Ric Wheeler
- 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
- Cathy Malmrose, founder of Zareason
- 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, Legal Counsel, 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 CTO Wikimedia
- Strata R. Chalup, President of Virtualnet, author
- Sulamita Garcia Technical marketing engineer at Intel
- Evi Nemeth Guru, Author.
- AEleen Frisch Author, Guru.
- Phil Robb manager of HP's Open Source Program Office
- Dawn Foster Community Manager MeeGo MeeGo
- Robert Love Linux Kernel and Android.