Re: [Debconf-team] Inviting certain people, Mitnick
@Gent,
Thank you for that information.
@Michael,
I was planning to have a lot of local speakers, we just don't have any
names in particular.
I was planning to more done between us, since I think local team
members should research topic, get involved and then lecture certain
ideas, basically propositions why should Debian be used in
universities or companies and so on.
Besides that I really don't even know who target locally on regional
level, by this I mean Balkans. So that's why I was thinking of all of
this more in a global sense. People from our whole region don't travel
that much, for various reasons. But from beginning this idea was to
bring the world to us, so people from whole region could extend and
wieden their ideas and their views.
Adnan
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 11:40:29PM +0100, Adnan Hodzic wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>
> Personally, I think that we were very lucky with Columbia as location for
> last year's Debconf, as a lot of great minds were living nearby (i.e.
> New York or Boston). I am not sure how many of those "non-Debian" (but
> awesome) speakers were invited by the local team, but my gut feeling
> would be that a lot of them just submitted talks because they themselves
> thought Debconf was awesome and right around the corner this time, so
> they should go.
>
> Now, I think we have to be careful about inviting speakers from all over
> the world (instead of a day's bus ride away). Some Debconf participants
> might think "why does this guy give a talk, he's not even involved with
> Debian, another one or two DDs from the US could be sponsored to attend
> instead of him".
>
> In general, I think the keynote approach we explored last year was quite
> successful, but I would suggest trying to think of interesting people
> from the local area first. And with local area, maybe south-east europe
> would do, after all, Debconf11 is the first Debconf in south-eastern
> europe. Are there some interesting politicians fighting for Free
> Software or net neutrality or free speech in the area? Or some artists
> who do awesome creative-commons work? Some hackers who create great
> things with little resources?
>
> If we don't find anybody around locally (and I am quite certain we
> would), we can still look for keynote speakers on a global level.
>
>
> Just my 0.02 EUR,
>
> Michael
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