Re: [eclipsecon-na-program-committee] Keynote ideas

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

FWIW Bret was asked last year and rejected.
He was quite clear that he had no interest in talking at EclipseCon. He
doesn't actually give talks often and I think he is very selective.

There are some other ideas in the list
last year. Some of the rejects were because of scheduling conflicts so
they might be worth trying again.

https://www.eclipsecon.org/wiki/2013_Program_Committee#Keynotes

John




From:      
 Ian Bull <irbull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date:      
 09/08/2013 11:31 PM
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   [eclipsecon-na-program-committee]
Keynote ideas
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Hi everyone,

I would like to start putting together some keynote ideas
for EclipseCon 2014. Here are two talks that I'm particularly fond of:

This talk is by Greg Wilson. He talks about the assumptions
we make as software engineers (TDD is good, CI is good, etc..) and challenges
us to 'prove' why those things are good. Instead of just following the
advice of a famous software engineer (Joel, Martin, etc..), he challenges
us to force the issue and make these authors back-up their claims with
an evidence based approach.

http://vimeo.com/9270320

This talk is by Bret Victor. He sets himself in 1973 and
looks 40 years into the future. He explains the state of the art (for 1973)
and imagines how much will have changed by 2013... Unfortunately, much
of what we did in 1973 is still the same today. He then challenges us to
rethink what we are doing, and not just follow the same-old-same-old. 

http://vimeo.com/71278954

Does anyone else have talks they are particularly fond
of? Are there any speakers that you think we could invite to EclipseCon?

Cheers,
Ian

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