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
• Ted Ts'o (Google, kernel dev)
• Amanda McPherson (Linux Foundation)
• Matt Asay (Canonical)
• Kirk McKusick - from BSD
• Eric Allman - sendmail
• Michael Stonebraker - Ingres, Postgres, other database things
• Bill McKeeman - Matlab and compilers
• Bill Cheswick - security
• Dan Geer
• Marcus Ranum - but don't invite Marcus if B. Cheswick or D. Geer are present
• Andrew Morton - Linux kernel (good technical speaker, not sure about keynote)

• 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)

• Leah Culver, Django Project
• Randi Harper, aka freebsdgirl
• Juliet Kemp, sysadmin and writer for most Linux mags
• Dee Ann LeBlanc, writer
• Cathy Malmrose, founder of Zareason
• Celeste Lynn Paul, KDE Usability Team, KDE eV Board Member
• Radia Perlman, "Mother of the Internet", currently at Intel
• Joanna Rutkowska, Xen developer
• Pamela Samuelson, Law professor at UC Berkeley, and open source/information policy expert
• Karen Sandler, Legal Counsel, Software Freedom Law Center
• Carla Schroder, author of Linux Cookbook, TresChix of LinuxChix
• Mena Trott, Movable Type