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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 Endsley (opensource.com)
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
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 Duffy senior 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)
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 Video

Alastair Parvin, founder of WikiHouse Article Video Video

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-Ideas for possible keynote speakers, listed in the order they were suggested, affiliations given where known.
+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.
-* Linus Torvalds (Big Kahuna)
 * [http://www.portlandonline.com/mayor/index.cfm Sam Adams] (mayor of Portland, Oregon)
 * [http://www.knopper.net/knopper/ Klaus Knopper]/[http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/knoppix-founder-klaus-knopper-speaks/ English interview] (Knoppix)
 * [http://akgraner.com/ Amber Graner] (Ubuntu/Canonical)
-* [http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/Blogs/ROSE-Blog-Rikki-s-Open-Source-Exchange Rikki Kite] (Linux New Media)
+* [http://rikkiendsley.com/ Rikki Endsley] (opensource.com)
-* [http://lwn.net/Articles/341334/ Valerie Aurora] (Red Hat)
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Peter_Anvin H. Peter Anvin] (Intel, kernel dev)
 * [http://lwn.net/op/FAQ.lwn Jonathan Corbet] (LWN.net)
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Young_(businessman) Bob Young] (formerly Red Hat)
 * [http://www.canonical.com/about-canonical/overview/management-team Jane Silber] (Canonical)
 * [http://www.spreadfirefox.com/MozillaBios#MitchellBaker Mitchell Baker] (Mozilla)
-* Elizabeth Garbee [http://vimeo.com/2761855 VIDEO]
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Ts%27o Ted Ts'o] (Google, kernel dev)
 * [http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/amanda/ Amanda McPherson] (Linux Foundation)
 * [http://voices.canonical.com/user/80/ Matt Asay] (Canonical)
-* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Kirk_McKusick Kirk McKusick] - from BSD [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds77e3aO9nA VIDEO]
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Allman Eric Allman] - sendmail [http://e3.g4tv.com/videos/2019/Eric-Allman-and-Sendmail/ VIDEO]
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stonebraker Michael Stonebraker] - Ingres, Postgres, other database things [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5533787888402394375# VIDEO]
 * [http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/authors/22546 Bill McKeeman] - Matlab and compilers
-* Bill Cheswick - security
+* [http://web2.research.att.com/people/Cheswick_William_R/ Bill Cheswick] - security Packet Filter Firewall AT&T
-* Dan Geer
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Geer Dan Geer]  security  [http://current.com/1mjra4c VIDEO] Microsoft is a monoculture
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_J._Ranum Marcus Ranum] [http://www.ranum.com/ Homepage] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o59mQhBiUo4 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)
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Morton_(computer_programmer) Andrew Morton] - Linux kernel (good technical speaker, not sure about keynote)[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1742374580386548257# VIDEO]
-* Deb Bryant Oregon State University
+* [http://www.bryantsblog.com/ Deb Bryant] Oregon State University Open Source Medical [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leYbpCS394Q  VIDEO]
-* David Nalley Fedora Projects
+* [http://www.nalley.me/david/ David Nalley] Fedora Projects
-* Miguel de Icaza - GNOME, Mono, Novell
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Icaza Miguel de Icaza] - GNOME, Mono, Novell
 * [http://www.consultingtimes.com/articles/ibm/frye/fryeinterview.html Dan Frye] - [http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/biography/20125.wss IBM] [http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1709 LINUX Foundation Keynote Video]
-* Bdale Garbee - SPI, Debian, HP
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bdale_Garbee Bdale Garbee] - SPI, Debian, HP [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNrJmMSJ8r8 VIDEO]
-* Aaron Seigo - KDE
+* Brian Stevens - CTO Red Hat [http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1318 VIDEO RED HAT SUMMIT 2008]
-* Brian Stevens - CTO Red Hat
-* Jim Gettys - X Windows (good technical speaker, perhaps not so good at keynote)
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gettys Jim Gettys] - X Windows, One Laptop Per Child [http://forum-network.org/lecture/jim-gettys-one-laptop-child One Laptop Per Child VIDEO]
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_DiBona Chris Dibona] - Google
 * Almost anyone from Fermilab
-* Frederick Brooks - (Mythical Man Month)
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks Frederick Brooks] - (Mythical Man Month) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC-DlX-PaF4 VIDEO 2007] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nROdbiOPwgA Interview 2009]
-* Jarod Wilson - (MythTV - good technical speaker)
+* [http://wilsonet.com/ Jarod Wilson] - (MythTV - good technical speaker)
-* Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier
+* [http://dissociatedpress.net/ Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier]
-* Josh Abraham - security - good technical speaker, interesting personal story
+* [http://spl0it.wordpress.com/ Josh Abraham] - security - good technical speaker, interesting personal story  [http://www.mefeedia.com/watch/33189792 VIDEO]
 * [http://www.hurwitz.com/index.php/about-us/judith-hurwitz Judith Hurwitz] - cloud computing analyst [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7a-3GDCO9I  VIDEO]
-* Leo Laporte
+* http://www.mefeedia.com/watch/33189792* Louis Suarez-Potts - Open Office
-* Louis Suarez-Potts - Open Office
-* Mark Spencer - Asterisk (good technical and good keynoter)
 * Michael Shiloh - [http://teachmetomake.wordpress.com/ Good technical]  [http://www.teachmetomake.com/ hands on for Arduino] [http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Who_is_Who Open Moko] [http://vimeo.com/8814779 VIDEO]
-* Tim O'Reilly
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_O'Reilly Tim O'Reilly] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAau6W--iMo VIDEO]
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Becker Donald Becker] - Beowulf supercomputers (good technical and keynote) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EQE3dKU_X8 VIDEO non-tech]
 * [http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale8x/blog/interview-ron-minnich-coreboot.html 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 [http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1710297 VIDEO ]
 * [http://www.elgallego.info/?p=257 Tim Ney]
-* Nicholas Negroponte - OLPC/Media lab
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Murdock Ian] [http://ianmurdock.com/about/ Murdock] - founder of Debian
-* Ian Murdock - founder of Debian
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hall_(programmer) Jon "maddog" Hall]  [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb26slhtT1Q VIDEO]
-* Ric Wheeler
+* Ric Wheeler RED HAT FILE SYSTEM MANAGER  [http://vimeo.com/15331369 VIDEO]
-* Jeff Moyer
+* [http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2010/ocw/users/1203 Jeff Moyer]
 * Larry Woodward
-* Rik Van Riel of Red Hat for VM
+* [http://kernelnewbies.org/RikvanRiel Rik Van Riel] of Red Hat for VM
 * [http://www.robweir.com/blog/ Rob Weir] (IBM, ODF)
 * [http://blog.leahculver.com/about.html Leah Culver], Django Project [http://vimeo.com/7091700 VIDEO]
 * Randi Harper, aka freebsdgirl [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzkudNGUepQ VIDEO]
 * [http://the.earth.li/~juliet/ Juliet Kemp], sysadmin and writer for most Linux mags
 * [http://deesadornments.com/dee-annleblanc.com/ Dee Ann LeBlanc], writer [http://sciencestage.com/v/18947/o-reilly-webcast-when-times-get-tough-the-tough-get-tuning.html  VIDEO]
-* [http://malmrose.wordpress.com/ Cathy Malmrose], founder of [http://zareason.com/shop/home.php Zareason]
 * [http://celestelynpaul.com/ Celeste Lynn Paul], KDE Usability Team, KDE eV Board Member [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9fn3jty1T8 VIDEO ]
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_Perlman Radia Perlman], "Mother of the Internet", currently at Intel [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-25NoCOnP4 VIDEO] Yes, THAT spanning tree.
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Rutkowska Joanna Rutkowska], Xen developer  [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjwe5RvVrA0 VIDEO]
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Samuelson Pamela Samuelson], [http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~pam/ Law professor at UC Berkeley], and open source/information policy expert
-* Karen Sandler, Legal Counsel, [http://softwarefreedom.org/ Software Freedom Law Center] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcWlD2Y6HNM VIDEO]
+* Karen Sandler, [http://www.gnome.org/foundation/governance/ GNOME Foundation] Executive Director, and Counsel to [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://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]
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 * [http://mairin.wordpress.com/ Máirín Duffy][http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MairinDuffy senior interaction designer with Red Hat, Inc] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yH6IMydxdQ video] (Boston)
 * [http://gasperson.com/ Tina Gasperson] (Tampa)
 * [http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com/ Mackenzie Morgan] (Washington, D.C.)
 * [http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/143264  Michelle Murrain] [http://openissue.com/aboutus  Director of Engineering at OpenIssue] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmCkRQjA2hI Video]
 * [http://www.shallowsky.com/ Akkana Peck] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEGR_Qps9OQ author] [http://gimpbook.com/author.html Beginning GIMP](San Jose)
-* Danese Cooper [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danese_Cooper CTO Wikimedia]
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danese_Cooper Danese Cooper], [http://association.drupal.org/about/board Drupal Association board member], Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
 * Strata R. Chalup, [http://www.virtual.net/ President of Virtualnet], [http://www.amazon.com/Strata-R.-Chalup/e/B001IGJN9E/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_3 author]
 * [http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/114222 Sulamita Garcia] [http://softtalkblog.com/2010/03/24/ada-lovelace-day-an-interview-with-sulamita-garcia/  Technical marketing engineer at Intel]
-* [http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~evi/sailing.html Evi Nemeth] Guru, Author.
 * [http://www.aeleen.com/home.htm AEleen Frisch] Author, Guru.
-* [https://fossbazaar.org/users/phil Phil Robb] manager of HP's [http://h20338.www2.hp.com/enterprise/cache/600004-0-0-0-121.html Open Source Program Office]
+* [https://fossbazaar.org/users/phil Phil Robb] manager of HP's [http://h20338.www2.hp.com/enterprise/cache/600004-0-0-0-121.html Open Source Program Office] (Phil is now with the Linux Foundation)
 * [http://fastwonderblog.com/ Dawn Foster] Community Manager [http://meego.com/about MeeGo]  MeeGo
 * [http://www.rlove.org/ Robert Love] Linux Kernel and Android.
+* [http://leo.am/podcasts/kfi.xml Leo Laporte]
+* [http://www.ladyada.net/ Limor Fried], Founder of [http://www.adafruit.com/ Adafruit] [http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/225213 Profile] [http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/03/ff_adafruit/ Q&A] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmO4NByNDXc Video] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYRhupdnUcY Video] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaGSi_q7apg Video] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSBPQ8SkHiA Video] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw9fhI8pRMA Video]
+* Dane Jasper, CEO of Sonic.net [http://corp.sonic.net/ceo/2011/02/22/triangulation/ Video]
+* [http://www.downes.ca/me/index.htm Stephen Downes], online learning pioneer [http://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm Blog] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeGR2mX7MOM Video (starting around 40 minutes in)]
+* [http://gabriellacoleman.org/ Biella Coleman] Trained as a cultural anthropologist, she researches, writes, and teaches on computer hackers and digital activism.  Researched the Debian Project and Anonymous
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabe_Newell Gabe Newell] CEO of Valve Software. [http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/16/valve-ceo-gabe-newell-says-linux-is-the-future-of-gaming-hints-at-steambox-announcement/ Linux is the future of gaming]
+* [http://www.adventuresinoss.com/ Tarus Balog], founder and COO of [http://www.opennms.com/ OpenNMS Group] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VcgEtXieJI Video]
+* Ladar Levison, founder of Lavabit, [http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/10/silent-circle-and-lavabit-launch-darkmail-alliance-to-thwart-e-mail-spying/ Darkmail] developer [http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/lavabit-founder-dark-mail/527a719a78c90a39800001f3 Video?] [http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/lavabit-founder-ladar-levison-discusses-his-federal-battle-for-privacy profile/interview]
+* [http://aseigo.blogspot.com/ Aaron Seigo], KDE & [http://makeplaylive.com/ open hardware] developer [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wohmsTTr3U Video]
+* Alastair Parvin, founder of [http://www.wikihouse.cc/ WikiHouse] [http://lwn.net/Articles/615906/ Article] [http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2014/design-and-democracy Video] [http://www.ted.com/talks/alastair_parvin_architecture_for_the_people_by_the_people#t-768287 Video]

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