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

[Shawn Pearce <sop@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If the conference is going to have a web track, what about someone
like Ian Hickson the editor of the HTML5 spec?

On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Pascal Rapicault <pascal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As discussed during the call. I've added Massimo Banzi to the wiki. He is
> one of the founder of Arduino and I found him to be a good speaker during a
> Ted talk:
> http://www.ted.com/talks/massimo_banzi_how_arduino_is_open_sourcing_imagination.html
> Given that we intend to have a m2m day, he would be a interesting speaker to
> start the day, and beyond that it could be good for our m2 initiative to
> have his endorsement.
>
> Pascal
>
>
>  09/08/2013 11:31 PM, Ian Bull wrote:
>
> 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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