We are aiming to have 2 keynotes in Almería. If you have suggestions for a good keynote, please add them below.

Template

<name>

  • Why they would make a good keynote: <reason>

  • What topic: <topic>

  • Do you have contact with them/know how to contact them (if yes, leave either their contact details or your name): <contact info>

  • Your contact details: <your email>

Ideas

Eben Upton

  • Why they would make a good keynote: from Raspberry Pi foundation
  • What topic: ?
  • Do you have contact with them/know how to contact them (if yes, leave either their contact details or your name): ?
  • Your contact details: ?

Juan Gonzalez aka Obijuan

  • He has been championing an open hardware revolution in the 3D printing through building the Clone Wars 3D printing community, arduino and open FPGA space through tutorials, creating content and championing the use of free software tools. He has built two open source hardware boards in a community driven fashion collaboratively, the ZUM to improve the use of Arduino in robotics, and the IceZum, an FPGA based on the reverse engineered iCE40 chipset with an Arduino-like layout to improve its use for teaching FPGA and electronics.

  • He won the O'Reilly Open Source Award '17 through massive popular support
  • Do you have contact with them/know how to contact them (if yes, leave either their contact details or your name): Ismael can provide the contact

  • Contact details: ismael@olea.org

Someone from EFF

  • They are world champion on user rights and privacy.
  • What topic: maybe something like perspectives of user digital rights for end user software developers?

  • Contact: https://www.eff.org/about/contact

  • Your contact details: ?

Audrey Eschright

  • She is the creator/editor of The Recompiler magazine. She couldn't attend GUADEC last year, but I think she may be able to this year.
  • What topic: economic sustainability of free software
  • Yes, I can contact Audrey.

  • Your contact details: <federico@gnome.org>

Sharon Woods

  • General council of Defence Digital Service, US Department of Defence. She has pushed using Free Software within governments and particularly within a traditionally closed environment and against heavy lobbying from proprietary software vendors. Gave an excellent and engaging talk at LibrePlanet, and would be an interesting keynote for GUADEC attendees.

  • What topic: The battle to free the code at the Department of Defense
  • Neil can contact them

  • Your contact details: neil@gnome.org

Alexandra Elbakyan

=== Wikidata person ===

GUADEC/2018/Talks/Keynotes (last edited 2018-06-07 08:39:44 by IsmaelOlea)