How about we go through the suggestions on the next PC call. I think Pattie Maes and Luis Von Ahn look really interesting. We do indeed of two keynotes left to fill.
John, would you also mind sending out a reminder of when the next call will be?
Thanks
Ian
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Jeff knows the EclipseCon audience pretty well, if he has ideas about someone who would be a great speaker of interest to our audience, I would be curious to know about it. But I agree if it's not someone we know or have public examples to look at, we should look at other options too. In a similar vein there is also Kevin's suggestion of Ariel Waldman.
I didn't hear much comment on my suggestion of Luis Von Ahn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_von_Ahn). Any thoughts on that one from anyone? I think his subject area of expertise would be interesting to an open source audience.
Another name suggested to me is Pattie Maes from MIT (http://web.media.mit.edu/~pattie/). There is no Eclipse connection here but it could be a cool talk about something completely different that would get people talking.
So in short summary we have filled one slot and need two more right?
John
Good news and bad news about the keynotes.
1. Good news: github and twitter has both agreed to each do 30 minute keynote presentations.
2. Bad news: Jeff Norris had to declined due to scheduling issues. He was honoured to be asked but didn’t have the time. He volunteered to find someone else in NASA to speak. My inclination is the we invited Jeff since he was so awesome the last time. I don’t think it is really worth have just another NASA speaker. Thoughts/comments?
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