Hello everybody,This year, on top of the many excellent contributed talks, BoFs, and other events always part of DebConf (some of which have already been announced) we are excited to have confirmed the following keynote speakers.
During the Open Weekend (Saturday, August 15th and Sunday, August 16th), we will have keynotes delivered by:
* Bradley M. Kuhn *President, Software Freedom Conservancy / Board of Directors, Free Software Foundation
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_M._Kuhn)Bradley M. Kuhn is the President and Distinguished Technologist at Software Freedom Conservancy. A long-time contributor to and volunteer of various Free Software projects, Kuhn spent five years working for the Free Software Foundation (FSF) from 2000, serving as its Executive Director from 2001-2005. During this time, he led FSF's GPL enforcement, launched its Associate Member program, and invented the Affero GPL. Kuhn was appointed President of Software Freedom Conservancy in April 2006, was Conservancy's primary volunteer from 2006-2010, and has been a full-time staffer since early 2011. He is also on the Board of Directors of the FSF, editor-in-chief of copyleft.org and the co-host of the 'Free as in Freedom' podcast'.
* Werner Koch * Creator and Lead Developer, GnuPG Project / g10 Code GmbH (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Koch)Werner Koch is a German Free Software developer and the managing director of g10 Code GmbH, a company specialized in development of Free Software based security applications. He is best known as the principal author of the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG), a Free Software mail encryption program according to the OpenPGP and S/MIME standards. Koch is also a founding member of the Free Software Foundation Europe.
* Bdale Garbee * Chief Technologist Open Source and Linux, HP / Debian Project (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bdale_Garbee)Bdale Garbee drives open source strategy and advocacy within Hewlett-Packard as an HP Fellow in the CTO Office. Most recently, he was HP Chief Technologist for Open Source and Linux. He took early retirement in 2012 and served briefly as Senior Open Source Adviser to Samsung before returning to HP in 2014. Garbee has been a Debian developer since the earliest days of the project, serving as Debian Project Leader (DPL) from 2002-2003 and as a longtime Chairman of the Debian Technical Committee, of which he is still a member. Garbee is further president of Software in the Public Interest, represents the interests of individual members and developers on the board of directors of the Linux Foundation, and serves on the board of the Freedombox Foundation.
On the last day of DebConf, we look forward to the closing keynote by: * Jacob Appelbaum * Security Researcher and Journalist / Tor Project (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum)Jacob Appelbaum is an American independent computer security researcher, artist and journalist. Currently, Appelbaum is a core member, developer and spokesperson of the Tor project (a free software network designed to provide online anonymity), a Debian Developer and a Freedom of the Press Foundation Technical Advisory Board member. Appelbaum has co-authored several articles on surveillance published in the German Der Spiegel magazine. His work as an artist includes the Autonomy Cube - a Debian GNU/Linux powered minimalist sculpture.
For more information about our invited speakers, please see: http://debconf15.debconf.org/invited_speakers.xhtml Citizenfour Screening =====================Additionally, there will be a screening of the Citizenfour [1] movie, winner of the Best Documentary Feature Academy Award on the evening of Friday, August 21st.
You still have time to submit your talk =======================================There are only a few days left before the end of the Call for Proposals on June 15th. Events submitted after that date might not be part of the official DebConf schedule. So, please, hurry, check out the proposal submission guide [2] and submit your event.
Regards from the DebConf Team [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenfour [2]: http://debconf15.debconf.org/proposals.xhtml -- "The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time." -- Tom Cargill Saludos /\/\ /\ >< `/
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