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> From: "Stephen John Smoogen" <smooge@gmail.com>
> To: "Planning discussion for Flock (Fedora Contributor Conference)" <flock-planning@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 1:41:25 PM
> Subject: Re: Keynotes
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> On 29 May 2013 14:21, Ruth Suehle < rsuehle@gmail.com > wrote:
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> Of course Flock will have the usual State of Fedora FPL keynote, but I think
> it would be great to have other keynotes each day of Flock as well. Any
> suggestions on whom we should approach (even better if you know them!)?
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> Well keynotes are usually tied into the theme of a conference.. so suggesting
> the Red Hat CEO might not be good if that is not the theme. What is the
> theme of Flock? [And sorry if I am missing something obvious.]

I hope it is "get together and get things done/planned" :)

Aside from the FPL talk, which is not so much "so I have a keynote!" and more to make sure that future FPLs also have the opportunity to set the tone and issue the "go forth and kick butt" vibe... unless the topic is highly pertinent to Fedora, keynotes could be boring/not time well-used (If I had a dollar for every boring keynote I have attended, it would be almost as much as the If I had a dollar for every irrelevant keynote I didn't attend pile of money.)

It could also bring up logistics issues of "need to have separate theatre-style room available all mornings." Not sure if that's an issue or not offhand.

That said: I think other cool keynote possibilities are:

* People/Company using Fedora to make Real Downstream Product Things that are not ... RHEL (Arista Networks comes to mind with EOS)
* Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery/Deployment (or even more loosely, devops) topic - I can give a long list of names here. But the question here is - can they make it relevant to Fedora? Obviously it's a direction folks are talking about and I think it would be dandy to have an inspiring talk along the lines of of "look, end of rainbow! so pretty. we can get there!"
*  Sessions just expected to have asininely high participation could sub in.

Also: Instead of keynotes, could do a lightning-style session of "recap of everything yesterday" (this is similar to how ODS sums things up, so people get the gist of what's transpiring without having to be in all places at once) - 5m per team/group/session/whatever we decide. (ODS does it by project, the lead takes the responsibility to pull that stuff together each day, iirc.)

-r

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