Adnan Hodzic dijo [Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 11:40:29PM +0100]: > Hey, Hai!
> As we discussed on our last meeting, I mentioned inviting certain > people to participate on DebConf11, have a lecture or whatever. All of > this is to "exploit" whole event so we could get more interest and > basically introduce ~60million users to this Debian. Also we discussed > that this would be more of a mention/notification rather then > invitation. My initial idea was to invite Stallman, after discussed > this it turned out he's really not a person to invite. Mostly because > it could stray attention from original idea, and would more harm whole > event rather then help it. Umh... I still don't like the idea. DebConf is not meant to attract attention - Of course, the sponsors (in this case, the government) want DebConf to be a media hit, as they profit from it... but we want to be able to work! :) And to have many presentations on interesting topics nobody outside our very select group would be excited about at all. > But another person I was thinking we could notify/invite/whatever > would be Kevin Mitnick. Only thing we could debate over is would be > probably "what does he have to do with Debian, or DebConf"? Right now > I don't have a lot of clue, except the fact that government would > probably like if we're bringing someone like him, regarding security > of course. And because then this whole event could be exposed through > media even more of course. _If_ the Bosnian gov't wants to fly somebody in (given Holger's mail, I am basically sure it will not be Mitnick) and give a talk during DebianDay or something, it should be made with separate funds. I oppose using DebConf money for bringing in a Debian-unrelated keynote speaker. We have enough keynote-speaker material in our group, if that's what you need... Or if you want to push for a politically recognizable figure, many people are active in Central Europe, much probably with easier conditions than the people you have suggested. Still, from a purely DebConf perspective, I'd much prefer not having to bring in externals. _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
