Re: [Debconf-team] Minutes from the last meeting

[Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>]

Quoting Margarita Manterola (margamanterola@gmail.com):

> BTW, the only real "invite" up to now is bubulle's.  Bdale had his
> right to the talk because HP is a Platinum sponsor.  And Sledge
> because he's the current DPL.

Please allow me to comment, here (yes, I'm reading -team.....more
because I better appreciate the hard work this way and even though I
never involved myself in DebConf orga).

Marga contacted me a few days ago about this keynote proposal. She
didn't give much details but I understood this as an attempt by the
orga team to make the attendees' experience more complete...or to fill
in the schedule..:-)

I slightly hesitated because, this year I voluntarily refrained myself
to propose a talk to avoid "the gazillionth talk by bubulle about
i18n"...and also to be able, for once, to fully enjoy a conference
without having to think about the bloody slides.

I accepted mostly because (I think) I somewhat failed ashamed to not be
able to give en i18n talk at DebianDay because I *have* to leave after
the end of Debconf. And also because I I realized that there seems to
be an expectation to have such general lecture (of course about i18n,
would you guess?).

However, if this idea of keynotes turns out to be something
controversial inside the orga team, please don't hesitate changing
your mind. I understand how sensitive the topic might be and I fully
respect the work of the talks team for not minimizing the reaction
expressed by Martin.

I have seen the names of other potential keynote speakers and I feel
that all of them entirely qualify to give a keynote lecture intended
for the entire Debian audience.

I think that a good agreement about what keynote lectures should be
and how they should be "chosen" (and if there should be some!) is much
much more important than our own ego or whatever it is.