One idea: I met Bror Salmelin (http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/bror-salmelin) from OISPG (https://sites.google.com/site/openinnovationplatform/) a few years ago at an open source conference in Malta and have been invited to speak at some confs regarding open innovation and open source. He's a great guy, and is a good speaker.
I'd be happy to make intros if desired. On Sep 24, 2014, at 10:08 AM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > One of our keynotes for ApacheCon Budapest has been withdrawn, and we need to > come up with a replacement, fairly quickly. > > I wanted to have a bunch of eyes on the options that have been already > suggested to me. If you have a *great* suggestion, and contact info, please > speak up. If it's just a random suggestion and you don't have a personal > contact, please save it for next year, as we need to move quickly on this. > > EU-based speakers are preferred for reasons of logistics. > > So, here's what's been suggested so far: > > Dirk-Willem suggests: can prolly dig out a BBC one from the woman who is the > key brain/architect behind iplayer and olympics if needed - or something from > the BBC archive folks. > > Sebastien suggests: you might reach out to @swardley who has connection with > UK gov and their adoption of open source open standards. It does not seem > that the intent was to discuss open source in e-governement, but It would be > an interesting subject and slightly less politically tainted. > > Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier has a talk schedule about why we need to preach the > gospel of Apache more than we're doing now, and this was initially submitted > as a keynote. > > I was sure I had more of them, but I'm not able to find them right now in the > brief break between meetings, so please speak up if you've suggested > something and I've overlooked it. > > Of these listed, Joe's is the only one that we know for certain that we have > already in the can. The others would require more legwork, and probably more > cost. > > While the decision is, in the end, on me, I very much value your input to > help me make the decision. I'd like to have something tentatively decided by > the end of the week, and messages sent out to the potential speakers in > question. > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon >
