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Re: [eclipsecon-na-program-committee] keynote idea
The best keynote I saw in the last 1-2 years was delivered at JFocus 2011 by Kevlin Henney about the topic "Cool Code"

Here are his slides: 

http://www.jfokus.se/jfokus12/preso/jf12_CoolCode.pdf

His bio:

Kevlin is an independent consultant and trainer based in the UK. His development interests are in patterns, programming, practice and process. He helps teams adopt techniques and improve their software development through training, mentoring and reviewing. He has been a columnist for various magazines and web sites. Kevlin is co-author of A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages, two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series. He is also editor of the 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know site and book.


2012/9/5 Kevin Sawicki <kevin@xxxxxxxxxx>
I saw Rob Pike speak at the Heroku Waza conference last year on concurrency and parallelism and found it fun and interesting:


Kevin

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Ian Skerrett <ian.skerrett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Greg Wilson is definitely an interesting speaker.  We should definitely have him on the list.

 

Ian

 

 

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Greg Wilson [1] might also be interesting. For those of you not familiar with Greg, he's authored a few books on how Open Source software is built [2,3,4] (including a chapter on Eclipse that was contributed by Kim).  He gave a Keynote at MSR (Mining Software Repositories) [5,6] about the importance of brining practitioners and researchers together.  Here is another link to a talk he gave on the importance of empirical evidence [7].

 

He has been talking a lot lately about why Software engineers (and especially those building tools... hum... that's us) need to look at empirical evidence instead of simply building things that some self proclaimed expert says. 

 

 

Cheers,

Ian

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:34 PM, John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yes Jeff would be great if he is willing. Just to throw out brainstorming ideas, I have also been thinking about:

- integrating social capabilities in software. Last year we had Mik on social software development, but I think a lot of developers are wondering how they can get on the social bandwagon and integrate social capabilities into their own applications.
- Developing software in the "post PC" era. Something on the impact of changing computer form factors in software development: touch, voice, mobile, etc.
- I have been reading Don Norman again recently and I think he would be great, but probably too expensive: http://www.jnd.org/
- I have no idea what this is, but I keep hearing about an imminent Microsoft dev tools announcement that could be interesting (or not)

http://gotocon.com/aarhus-2012/presentation/Closing%20Keynote:%20A%20yet%20to%20be%20disclosed%20project%20in%20the%20Development%20Tools%20space

Everyone keep thinking about this, both general areas and specific speaker names.

John



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What do people think of inviting Jeff Norris from NASA back to do another keynote at EclipseCon 2013?  Curiousity is doing some amazing things on Mars so it might be fun to get an update.   Jeff also is such a great speaker.

Here is a recent example from a game conference.  http://www.twitch.tv/pax/b/331118607


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