[OSDC Israel] OSDC guest speakers

[Shlomi Fish]

On Thursday 06 July 2006 17:11, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
> One of the main "attractions" at any Open Source Developer Conference
> is the guest "star" speakers. 2006's Larry and Audrey were great, and
> were one of the main reasons that i decided to pay my money and come.
>

Hi Amir and everybody!

With Gabor's permission I'd like to request the permission to try and contact 
such internationl "big names" and see what would it take for them to come to 
OSDC. Here is my tentative list of such people. Feel free to add more. (We'll 
put it in the wiki eventually). By categories:

1. Linux/BSD/OpenSolaris People:

Linus Torvalds (we can always hope).
Theo de Raadt
Alan Cox

* There are many other Linux kernel developers or BSD system workers.

2. Perl People

Damian Conway
Randal L. Schwartz (merlyn)
Andy Lester (petdance)
Michael G. Schwern
Adam Kennedy
Curtis "Ovid" Poe
Larry Wall - already been here once.
MJD - ditto.
Audrey ("Autrijus") Tang - ditto.
Stas Bekman - does annual visits and Perl Mongers lectures, but not at
              February.
chromatic
Ingy dot Not (a.k.a Brian Ingerson).
brian d foy
Tom Christiansen (has been inactive for a while)

3. Other P-Languages People

Yukihiro Matsumoto ("Matz") - Ruby creator.

Guido van Rossum - of Python fame

* More prominent Pythoneers can be found here: 
http://cben-hacks.sourceforge.net/python/lectures/py-dev/dev-lecture.s5.html

(I was not previously familiar with them by names before Beni's presentation, 
but I'm barely using Python.)

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmus_Lerdorf

4. Software Management and Philosophy Gurus:

Paul Graham

Eric S. Raymond

Joel "on Software" Spolsky

Extreme Programming People - Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, Ward Cunnigham, etc. 
(Cunnigham is also known as the originator of the first Wiki)

Eric Sink - http://software.ericsink.com/

Richard M. Stallman

5. Free Content People

* Lawrence Lessig (Creative Commons, etc.)

* Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales (Wikipedia).

* Others?

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If you can think of any other people please either reply. I'll set up a page 
on our wiki for this soon.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

> I tried to think of people that i would be interested to see in the
> next conference. The first name that sprung up was Theo de Raadt, the
> leader of OpenBSD. Even though i have never actually used OpenBSD, i
> am quite curious about their "code auditing" process - i am a
> certified fanatic of clean and robust code. This topic may seem dull
> and extremely geeky, but Theo is known as a guy with personality, so
> he can make this interesting.
>
> Another person would be Lawrence Lessig - founder of Creative Commons
> and author of the book "Free Culture". His book tells about the the
> draconian copyright laws, the way that media cartels are using them to
> sustain their outdated business model and the irreversible damage that
> these things do to human civilization - no less. These are the things
> that should encourage open source developers to stick to the ideals of
> freedom.
>
> My third idea for a guest speaker is in between these two extremes -
> Damian Conway, a well-known contributor to Perl and CPAN and the
> author of "Perl Best Practices" and several other books. His writing,
> both in Perl and in English is clear and to-the-point, and he is an
> experienced conference speaker.
>
> A couple of other possible guest speakers are Sir Tim Berners Lee and
> Richard M. Stallman, who need no introduction.

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