Keynotes

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
• Bill McKeeman - Matlab and compilers
• Bill Cheswick - security
• Dan Geer
• 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
• 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.