Keynote suggestions?

[Ruth Suehle]

Does anyone have recommendations for keynoters for Flock? Preferences are:

- Europe-based (to reduce flight costs)
- Of a broad interest (for example, last year we had talks on open fonts
and 3D printing)

Ruth

[Stephen Gallagher]

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On 05/05/2014 12:41 PM, Ruth Suehle wrote:
>  Does anyone have recommendations for keynoters for Flock?
>  Preferences are:
>  
>  - Europe-based (to reduce flight costs) - Of a broad interest (for
>  example, last year we had talks on open fonts and 3D printing) 

The latest round of Lennart and Kay's "What are we breaking now?" talk
might be a good choice for a keynote.

I've also suggested that the Fedora.next joint session[1] probably
should be treated like a keynote (in the sense that the topic should
justify being run without competing sessions so that everyone can
participate).



[1] https://flock-lmacken.rhcloud.com/proposals#65
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[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 01:07:33PM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>  On 05/05/2014 12:41 PM, Ruth Suehle wrote:
>  > Does anyone have recommendations for keynoters for Flock?
>  > Preferences are:
>  > 
>  > - Europe-based (to reduce flight costs) - Of a broad interest (for
>  > example, last year we had talks on open fonts and 3D printing)
>  
>  
>  The latest round of Lennart and Kay's "What are we breaking now?" talk
>  might be a good choice for a keynote.
>  
>  I've also suggested that the Fedora.next joint session[1] probably
>  should be treated like a keynote (in the sense that the topic should
>  justify being run without competing sessions so that everyone can
>  participate).
>  
>  [1] https://flock-lmacken.rhcloud.com/proposals#65 
I would suggest that a Lennart/Kay talk like that makes sense as a
session in a large room but not a keynote.

Some of the best keynotes I've attended at conferences -- and the 3D
printing talk last year at Flock was up there -- involve more than
just technology.  They also touch on larger issues of community,
social, and cultural impact.  The Fedora.next session might fall into
this bin, but I'd say something more outward-looking would be a great
pace to set.

What about having someone speak on an initiative related to (but not
part of) the brave new world of Fedora.next, like Docker, the Maker
world outside 3D printing, or some other non-Fedora interest?

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[Ruth Suehle]

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Some of the best keynotes I've attended at conferences -- and the 3D
>  printing talk last year at Flock was up there -- involve more than
>  just technology.  They also touch on larger issues of community,
>  social, and cultural impact.  The Fedora.next session might fall into
>  this bin, but I'd say something more outward-looking would be a great
>  pace to set.
>
>  What about having someone speak on an initiative related to (but not
>  part of) the brave new world of Fedora.next, like Docker, the Maker
>  world outside 3D printing, or some other non-Fedora interest? 

This is the kind of thing I was thinking. In addition, it would be nice if
it were people who aren't keynoting every other conference three times a
year. People who could use a boost in visibility.

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 02:09:17PM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>  On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 01:07:33PM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>  > On 05/05/2014 12:41 PM, Ruth Suehle wrote:
>  > > Does anyone have recommendations for keynoters for Flock?
>  > > Preferences are:
>  > > 
>  > > - Europe-based (to reduce flight costs) - Of a broad interest (for
>  > > example, last year we had talks on open fonts and 3D printing)
>  > 
>  > 
>  > The latest round of Lennart and Kay's "What are we breaking now?"
> talk
>  > might be a good choice for a keynote.
>  > 
>  > I've also suggested that the Fedora.next joint session[1] probably
>  > should be treated like a keynote (in the sense that the topic should
>  > justify being run without competing sessions so that everyone can
>  > participate).
>  > 
>  > [1] https://flock-lmacken.rhcloud.com/proposals#65
>  
>  I would suggest that a Lennart/Kay talk like that makes sense as a
>  session in a large room but not a keynote.
>  
>  Some of the best keynotes I've attended at conferences -- and the 3D
>  printing talk last year at Flock was up there -- involve more than
>  just technology. They also touch on larger issues of community,
>  social, and cultural impact.   
So true. It's always refreshing to hear a talk/keynote that touches on
multiple facets. Majority of a (Linux distribution-style) conference is
dominated by technical content anyway.

>  The Fedora.next session might fall into
>  this bin, but I'd say something more outward-looking would be a great
>  pace to set.
>  
>  What about having someone speak on an initiative related to (but not
>  part of) the brave new world of Fedora.next, like Docker, the Maker
>  world outside 3D printing, or some other non-Fedora interest? 
Maker world (outside of 3D printing) sounds good to me.

Also, maybe a topic related to open source project governance, or
something related to security and the growing awareness of it since the
"Heartbleed" (I wonder if security is considered too uninteresting), or
how open source is impacting/disrupting education.

Just my 0.04 pence.

-- 
/kashyap

[Jaroslav Reznik]

----- Original Message -----
>  On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 02:09:17PM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>  > On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 01:07:33PM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>  > > On 05/05/2014 12:41 PM, Ruth Suehle wrote:
>  > > > Does anyone have recommendations for keynoters for Flock?
>  > > > Preferences are:
>  > > > 
>  > > > - Europe-based (to reduce flight costs) - Of a broad interest (for
>  > > > example, last year we had talks on open fonts and 3D printing)
>  > > 
>  > > 
>  > > The latest round of Lennart and Kay's "What are we breaking now?"
> talk
>  > > might be a good choice for a keynote.
>  > > 
>  > > I've also suggested that the Fedora.next joint session[1] probably
>  > > should be treated like a keynote (in the sense that the topic should
>  > > justify being run without competing sessions so that everyone can
>  > > participate).
>  > > 
>  > > [1] https://flock-lmacken.rhcloud.com/proposals#65
>  > 
>  > I would suggest that a Lennart/Kay talk like that makes sense as a
>  > session in a large room but not a keynote.
>  > 
>  > Some of the best keynotes I've attended at conferences -- and the 3D
>  > printing talk last year at Flock was up there -- involve more than
>  > just technology. They also touch on larger issues of community,
>  > social, and cultural impact.
>  
>  So true. It's always refreshing to hear a talk/keynote that touches on
>  multiple facets. Majority of a (Linux distribution-style) conference is
>  dominated by technical content anyway.
>  
>  > The Fedora.next session might fall into
>  > this bin, but I'd say something more outward-looking would be a great
>  > pace to set.
>  > 
>  > What about having someone speak on an initiative related to (but not
>  > part of) the brave new world of Fedora.next, like Docker, the Maker
>  > world outside 3D printing, or some other non-Fedora interest?
>  
>  Maker world (outside of 3D printing) sounds good to me.
>  
>  Also, maybe a topic related to open source project governance, or
>  something related to security and the growing awareness of it since the
>  "Heartbleed" (I wonder if security is considered too uninteresting), or
>  how open source is impacting/disrupting education. 
Fedora usually tries to avoid real politics but as this year Flock is
in Europe, maybe someone from Pirate Party? I personally do not vote for
them but I really like what they do on front of free culture, overall
freedom (Internet, personal), copyrights... And they are moving this
direction from the old "let's steal music/movies, we have right to 
do it".

One of my friends is now running for a seat in European Parliament,
if he will be elected... 

Jaroslav

>  Just my 0.04 pence.
>  
>  --
>  /kashyap
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[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 05:54:35AM -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  > On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 02:09:17PM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>  > > On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 01:07:33PM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>  > > > On 05/05/2014 12:41 PM, Ruth Suehle wrote:
>  > > > > Does anyone have recommendations for keynoters for Flock?
>  > > > > Preferences are:
>  > > > > 
>  > > > > - Europe-based (to reduce flight costs) - Of a broad interest (for
>  > > > > example, last year we had talks on open fonts and 3D printing)
>  > > > 
>  > > > 
>  > > > The latest round of Lennart and Kay's "What are we breaking
> now?" talk
>  > > > might be a good choice for a keynote.
>  > > > 
>  > > > I've also suggested that the Fedora.next joint session[1] probably
>  > > > should be treated like a keynote (in the sense that the topic should
>  > > > justify being run without competing sessions so that everyone can
>  > > > participate).
>  > > > 
>  > > > [1] https://flock-lmacken.rhcloud.com/proposals#65
>  > > 
>  > > I would suggest that a Lennart/Kay talk like that makes sense as a
>  > > session in a large room but not a keynote.
>  > > 
>  > > Some of the best keynotes I've attended at conferences -- and the 3D
>  > > printing talk last year at Flock was up there -- involve more than
>  > > just technology. They also touch on larger issues of community,
>  > > social, and cultural impact.
>  > 
>  > So true. It's always refreshing to hear a talk/keynote that touches on
>  > multiple facets. Majority of a (Linux distribution-style) conference is
>  > dominated by technical content anyway.
>  > 
>  > > The Fedora.next session might fall into
>  > > this bin, but I'd say something more outward-looking would be a great
>  > > pace to set.
>  > > 
>  > > What about having someone speak on an initiative related to (but not
>  > > part of) the brave new world of Fedora.next, like Docker, the Maker
>  > > world outside 3D printing, or some other non-Fedora interest?
>  > 
>  > Maker world (outside of 3D printing) sounds good to me.
>  > 
>  > Also, maybe a topic related to open source project governance, or
>  > something related to security and the growing awareness of it since the
>  > "Heartbleed" (I wonder if security is considered too uninteresting), or
>  > how open source is impacting/disrupting education.
>  
>  Fedora usually tries to avoid real politics  
I didn't mean to imply "real politics", but I felt topics like project
governance are worth a merit as most open source projects strive to have
a healthy community with a diverse (not just "diversity of opinions and
a diversity of sponsoring organizations"[1]) contributor base.


  [1] Borrowed phrase from a thoughtful post by Mark here:
  http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2014/01/12/openstack-meritocracy-and-divers...

>  but as this year Flock is
>  in Europe, maybe someone from Pirate Party? I personally do not vote for
>  them but I really like what they do on front of free culture, overall
>  freedom (Internet, personal), copyrights... And they are moving this
>  direction from the old "let's steal music/movies, we have right to 
>  do it".
>  
>  One of my friends is now running for a seat in European Parliament,
>  if he will be elected... 
>  
>  Jaroslav 
 

-- 
/kashyap

[Jaroslav Reznik]

----- Original Message -----
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  > On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 02:09:17PM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>  > > On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 01:07:33PM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>  > > > On 05/05/2014 12:41 PM, Ruth Suehle wrote:
>  > > > > Does anyone have recommendations for keynoters for Flock?
>  > > > > Preferences are:
>  > > > > 
>  > > > > - Europe-based (to reduce flight costs) - Of a broad interest (for
>  > > > > example, last year we had talks on open fonts and 3D printing)
>  > > > 
>  > > > 
>  > > > The latest round of Lennart and Kay's "What are we breaking
> now?" talk
>  > > > might be a good choice for a keynote.
>  > > > 
>  > > > I've also suggested that the Fedora.next joint session[1] probably
>  > > > should be treated like a keynote (in the sense that the topic should
>  > > > justify being run without competing sessions so that everyone can
>  > > > participate).
>  > > > 
>  > > > [1] https://flock-lmacken.rhcloud.com/proposals#65
>  > > 
>  > > I would suggest that a Lennart/Kay talk like that makes sense as a
>  > > session in a large room but not a keynote.
>  > > 
>  > > Some of the best keynotes I've attended at conferences -- and the 3D
>  > > printing talk last year at Flock was up there -- involve more than
>  > > just technology. They also touch on larger issues of community,
>  > > social, and cultural impact.
>  > 
>  > So true. It's always refreshing to hear a talk/keynote that touches on
>  > multiple facets. Majority of a (Linux distribution-style) conference is
>  > dominated by technical content anyway.
>  > 
>  > > The Fedora.next session might fall into
>  > > this bin, but I'd say something more outward-looking would be a great
>  > > pace to set.
>  > > 
>  > > What about having someone speak on an initiative related to (but not
>  > > part of) the brave new world of Fedora.next, like Docker, the Maker
>  > > world outside 3D printing, or some other non-Fedora interest?
>  > 
>  > Maker world (outside of 3D printing) sounds good to me.
>  > 
>  > Also, maybe a topic related to open source project governance, or
>  > something related to security and the growing awareness of it since the
>  > "Heartbleed" (I wonder if security is considered too uninteresting), or
>  > how open source is impacting/disrupting education.
>  
>  Fedora usually tries to avoid real politics but as this year Flock is
>  in Europe, maybe someone from Pirate Party? I personally do not vote for
>  them but I really like what they do on front of free culture, overall
>  freedom (Internet, personal), copyrights... And they are moving this
>  direction from the old "let's steal music/movies, we have right to
>  do it".
>  
>  One of my friends is now running for a seat in European Parliament,
>  if he will be elected... 
Btw. when will be embargo for Flock talks lifted?

Jaroslav

>  Jaroslav
>  
>  > Just my 0.04 pence.
>  > 
>  > --
>  > /kashyap
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[Ruth Suehle]

On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  Btw. when will be embargo for Flock talks lifted?
>  
I think you're asking when the accepted talks will be announced? If so,
voting ended right before Tom and I were both out of town, and we got back
yesterday. We're also not 100% on what rooms we will have available.
(Miro?) So it will be at least a few more days or a week before we can
announce the schedule.

Ruth

[Jaroslav Reznik]

----- Original Message -----
>  On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Jaroslav Reznik <
> jreznik(a)redhat.com > wrote:
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  Btw. when will be embargo for Flock talks lifted?
>  
>  I think you're asking when the accepted talks will be announced? If so,
>  voting ended right before Tom and I were both out of town, and we got back
>  yesterday. We're also not 100% on what rooms we will have available. (Miro?)
>  So it will be at least a few more days or a week before we can announce the
>  schedule. 
Yep, and I'm really not pushing on you, sorry if it sounded that way. 

Thanks for reply.
Jaroslav

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[Kushal Das]

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Ruth Suehle <rsuehle(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Does anyone have recommendations for keynoters for Flock? Preferences
> are:
>
>  - Europe-based (to reduce flight costs)
>  - Of a broad interest (for example, last year we had talks on open fonts and
>  3D printing)
>  
Harald Welte http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Welte

Kushal
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CPython Core Developer
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http://kushaldas.in

[Jiri Eischmann]

Ruth Suehle píše v Po 05. 05. 2014 v 11:41 -0500:
>  Does anyone have recommendations for keynoters for Flock?
> Preferences
>  are:
>  
>  
>  - Europe-based (to reduce flight costs)
>  
>  - Of a broad interest (for example, last year we had talks on open
>  fonts and 3D printing)
>  
>  
>  Ruth 
I suppose the biggest thing in the Linux ecosystem are containers and especially Docker.
So what about:

Ben Golub - CEO of dotCloud
Solomon Hykes - the founder of Docker

Or

Gijs Hillenius - editor of Joinup which is an EU initiative to support
public institutions to find, choose, re-use, develop and implement open
source software and semantic interoperability assets.
He has a really good overview of open source software usage in public
institutions in Europe.

Or

I know we already had a keynote on 3D printing, but Josef Průša, one of
the most significant persons of 3D printing nowadays, resides in Prague,
so it would be a very cost effective option :)

Jiri

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Ruth Suehle <rsuehle(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Does anyone have recommendations for keynoters for Flock? Preferences
> are:
>
>  - Europe-based (to reduce flight costs)
>  - Of a broad interest (for example, last year we had talks on open fonts and
>  3D printing) 
At a couple of the prior FUDCon EMEAs there was a number of CERN
people present and given their wide use of a number of open source
technologies that we use/support in Fedora such as
koji/RDO/gluster/ceph/SL etc I think someone from there would be
interesting from a broad interest PoV.

Leslie Hawthorn from ElasticSearch is EU based as well and has talked
on a number of interesting community topics and IMO is an engaging
speaker.

If cost is of concern RH has a number of good EU evangelists that are
also good speakers like Jan Wildeboer and Richard Morrell.

Peter

[Haïkel]

2014-05-06 14:59 GMT+02:00 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson(a)gmail.com&gt;:
>  On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Ruth Suehle <rsuehle(a)gmail.com&gt;
> wrote:
> > Does anyone have recommendations for keynoters for Flock? Preferences are:
> >
> > - Europe-based (to reduce flight costs)
> > - Of a broad interest (for example, last year we had talks on open fonts and
> > 3D printing)
>
>  At a couple of the prior FUDCon EMEAs there was a number of CERN
>  people present and given their wide use of a number of open source
>  technologies that we use/support in Fedora such as
>  koji/RDO/gluster/ceph/SL etc I think someone from there would be
>  interesting from a broad interest PoV.
>  
I'd recommend Tim Bell from CERN :)


>  Leslie Hawthorn from ElasticSearch is EU based as well and has
> talked
>  on a number of interesting community topics and IMO is an engaging
>  speaker.
>  
+1

>  If cost is of concern RH has a number of good EU evangelists that
> are
>  also good speakers like Jan Wildeboer and Richard Morrell.
>
>  Peter 
Mark McLoughlin would be a good speaker from RH EMEA if you want a tech speaker.


Roberto Di Cosmo could be a great keynote speaker.
+1 for Harald Welte (gpl violations <3)
Alexis Monville (Chief Agility Officer at enovance a lead contributor
to openstack) is a good speaker (i recently saw his talk on agility in
distributed foss teams)
Mozilla is particularly strong in EMEA, we could get many speakers on
the mobile side of computing (which is one of the first user of Fedora
Cloud/Server)

I wish we could get one of the founders of fedora.us for a
retrospective of the last 10 years (nostalgia !)

regards,
H.

[Haïkel]

OMG, I just noticed that there is only one woman listed !

Maybe this list could give you ideas ;)
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_women_in_FLOSS

H.