Speakers

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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Who should we try and get? 3 Topics, Themes and Streams 4 Who's been good from previous years? 4.1 Many years 4.2 2006 4.3 2005 4.4 2004 4.5 2003 4.6 2002 4.7 2001 4.8 1999 5 The Process 5.1 CFP (Call for papers) 5.2 Invite Guest Speakers 5.3 Review of paper submissions 5.4 Selection of speakers 5.5 Inform speakers of selection 5.6 Schedule speakers at conference 5.7 misc. 6 Number of Speakers in previous years 7 Gifts for Speakers 8 See Also

Introduction

Everything to do with speakers

Draft SpeakerFAQ for the main website

Speaker Training / Presentation Skills Workshops

Was mentioned somewhere (maybe in the howto) This is a great idea.

If it's not possible to co-ordinate...

But presentation skills and tips information would be another good thing to have on the website:

• http://www.linuxworldsummit.com/live/14/speakers//SN292439/CC392453

Rusty suggests asking speakers to submit a 30 sec video as part of the submission process.

Who should we try and get?

• Someone from Novell/SuSE on their vision?
• Nicholas Negroponte - MIT medialab and the $100 laptop
• Someone from Creative Commons?

Wireless Community

• Kat Jungnickel - Community Wireless Anthropologist. http://studioincite.com/makingwifi/
• Dharamsala Wireless project people? - http://tibtec.org/?q=node/60
• Sandoval County - http://www.sandovalcounty.com/BBandInfo/BBandInfo.html

Law - Digital Access

• Pamela Jones -- She of Groklaw fame
• Kim Weatherall - http://weatherall.blogspot.com/
• Lawrence Lessig - http://www.lessig.org/blog/
• Eben Moglen - http://www.softwarefreedom.org/
• Ed Felten - http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/
• Peter Drahos - http://cccp.anu.edu.au/people/index.html
• Michael Geist - http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1410/125/

Free Culture

• Angela from WikiMedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Angela
• Purser Media Barons* on generating a community voice and profile. (*by then) =)
• Cory Doctorow - http://craphound.com/

Topics, Themes and Streams

• kernel stuff
• distros
• languages
• community/culture
• security
• the desktop
• embedded
• mobility
• userspace
• legal shtuff

Who's been good from previous years?

Many years

• Tridge -- Great speaker (2004, K2005, 2006)
• Rusty -- Decent speaker, not sure what could speak on (K2003, 2004?, 2005, 2006)
• Bdale -- Great speaker, always has intresting projects (K2004, 2005, 2006)
• Rasmus Lerdorf -- Decent speaker, tute generally well attended, but content much the same year-to-year (2004, 2005, 2006)
• Wayne Piekarski -- (The augmented reality guy) Always some intresting research, plus neat hardware (2004, 2005, 2006)
• Keith Packard -- Great speaker, cool demo's, a lifetime of graphics knowledge (2004, 2005, 2006)
• Arjen Lentz -- good speaker, the updates on new stuff with MySQL generally go well (2004, 2006)
• Damian Conway -- Excellent speaker, great gags and evil perl tricks (2004, 2006)
• Mark Shuttleworth -- Strong intrest from attendees (2005, 2006)

2006

• Dave Miller -- Not a bad speaker, entertaining
• Van Jacobson -- Not the worlds best speaker, but incredible material

2005

• Pia Waugh -- Great for community issues
• Mark Shuttleworth -- Intresting guy, great vision (plus has better photos then bdale
• Eben Moglen -- Awsome speaker, we want someone who's as good a speaker on those topics

2004

Keynotes

• Jon "Maddog" Hall - Programmers Are From Mars, Users/Managers/Companies are from Venus
• Bdale Garbee - Where Would You Like One Hundred Thousand Users to Go Today?
• havoc - The state of the Open-Source Desktop

2003

• Telsa Gwynne -- Good speaker on QA topics

Keynotes:

• Paul "Rusty" Russell - Hacking the kernel and looking cool while driving a fast car
• Bdale Garbee - Herding Wild Cats and Related Adventures - An Inside Look at the Debian Project
• Andrew Tridgell - Network analysis techniques

2002

• Andrew Tridgell & Jeremy Allison - Ten Years of SAMBA
• Michi Henning - Computing Fallacies
• Theodore Tso - Ten Years of Linux

2001

• Alan Cox - World Domination: Classified Progress Report and Briefing
• David Miller - A Zero-copy and Delayed Fragment Reassembly Framework for Linux
• Andrew Tridgell - Inside the mind of... TiVo

1999

Jon "Maddog" Hall - Take No Prisoners (Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus)

The Process

From Call for Papers to Published conference Proceedings this is the most important part of our jigsaw puzzle.

CFP (Call for papers)

We put the call out as early as possible

Invite Guest Speakers

Review of paper submissions

Selection of speakers

Inform speakers of selection

Schedule speakers at conference

misc.

http://www.iiisci.org/sci2005/website/regards.asp A note from conference organisers about bogus submissions, peer review and other 'gotchas' to do with the paper review and publication process.

Number of Speakers in previous years

This is _very_ rough from a quick scan of previous websites - anyone with _definate_ numbers, please amend.

year total (invited)

• 2007 - 85
• 2006 - 66 (6)
• 2005 - 45 (6)
• 2004 - 46
• 2003 - 34
• 2002 - 42
• 2001 - 40
• 1999 - 23

Gifts for Speakers

Definitely something with an Australian, preferably Victorian (of course!) theme. And definitely not something that an airline would consider a weapon :) Perhaps we could get our own hampers made (if we go with hampers, some of them are really nice).

Here are some sites with gift ideas:

http://www.thebasketcase.com.au/Item.aspx?id=427&cID=84&page=0

http://www.thebasketcase.com.au/Item.aspx?id=423&cID=84&page=0

http://www.basketsbecause.com.au/pages/default.cfm?page_id=23908

http://www.simplygifts.com.au/catalogue/category47/category53/p645

See Also

Other pages relating to speakers.

• SpeakerDinner - Dinner only for speakers, evening before conference
• SpeakerProbs - Contingency plans for speaker issues
• SpeakerFAQ - Answers to questions that potential speakers may have