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Re: [eclipsecon-na-program-committee] keynote suggestions

On Aug 29, 2011, at 5:37 PM, Gunnar Wagenknecht wrote:

> Am 29.08.2011 17:20, schrieb Ian Skerrett:
>> What about asking Tim O'Reilly to talk about open data and open government?
> 
> I like that idea. But I think that there should be a good portion of
> technical focus/affiliation in the talk. Otherwise it might bore
> developers. At least, I remember open government related talks which
> were really boring. But maybe the speaker, language and context (German
> government) was to blame. ;)

Yes, we need to be sure that the actual speaker is excellent.

> 
> FWIW, I really liked the Hadoop talk this year. It had some interesting
> numbers and technical details in it.
> 
> I'm not so sure about the 'giving good presentations' keynote. IMHO it
> has to be entertaining to work.

Absolutely.
I was thinking of something like this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U-ecOk0gWA

> 
> What about one open government/data, one entertaining and one technical
> and keynote?

Sounds good. They all should be entertaining, though :-)

Sven

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