Re: ApacheCon Austin keynotes (and other stuff)

[Rich Bowen <rb...@rcbowen.com>]

By the way, if anyone has any reason at all that one of the proposed 
keynoters is going to be an embarrassment, *PLEASE* speak up sooner 
rather than later, and don't be worried about hurting feelings. 
Canceling a keynote at the last minute is a HUGE embarrassment, not to 
mention cost, and if you know something I don't, tell me now before I 
buy someone plane tickets.

No, I won't be asking any politicians. Ever again.

--Rich


On 12/15/2014 12:09 PM, Rich Bowen wrote:
> Over the coming days, I'm going to be tossing some things onto the list,
> in the hopes that someone will have time to step up and take some of
> these tasks, which I afraid I'm going to drop if I don't get them
> written down somewhere. So, here's one of them ...
>
> I started a conversation a while back about potential keynotes for
> Austin - that thread is at http://markmail.org/message/gmerzm2c7fnzz4at
>
> I wonder if someone might have time to dig through that thread for
> names, and, perhaps contact information that might go with them.
>
> And we're always looking for additional suggestions, always bearing in
> mind that diversity is important, and, as observed at ApacheCon last
> month, "dudes with beards", and "dudes without beards" doesn't count as
> diversity.
>
> We've got an etherpad going at https://pad.apache.org/p/AustinBrainstorm
> with a Keynotes section down at the bottom. It's becoming a bit of a
> mess, but until we have a better place to track stuff (maybe an actual
> doc in svn?) that's where I've been braindumping stuff. (You'll need ASF
> LDAP committer credentials to edit that etherpad.)
>
> Thanks in advance.
>


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Re: ApacheCon Austin keynotes (and other stuff)

[Vincent Keunen <vi...@keunen.net>]

Well, now that you say so, there is that guy called "Rich Bowen". You 
know, most developers ain't that rich and this guy ostensibly says he's 
Rich...   This may hurt financial feelings.

Another option is to call the guy "Poor Bowen", so everyone feels ok?

Just a suggestion.

On 2015-01-06 22:48, Rich Bowen wrote:
> By the way, if anyone has any reason at all that one of the proposed 
> keynoters is going to be an embarrassment, *PLEASE* speak up sooner 
> rather than later, and don't be worried about hurting feelings. 
> Canceling a keynote at the last minute is a HUGE embarrassment, not to 
> mention cost, and if you know something I don't, tell me now before I 
> buy someone plane tickets.
>
> No, I won't be asking any politicians. Ever again.
>
> --Rich
>

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Re: ApacheCon Austin keynotes (and other stuff)

[Sebastien Goasguen <ru...@gmail.com>]

Austin is the home of the Texas Advanced Computing Center, which at times has the largest high performance computing cluster.

https://www.tacc.utexas.edu

I have lost touch with them a bit, but could rekindle a connection. They have tons of cool stuff to show and use open source a lot.

An idea that comes to mind is:

https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/about/directory/kelly-gaither

She is quite good, and would have lots of cool stuff to show. Though I don't know how open source what she does is.

-sebastien


On Jan 6, 2015, at 4:48 PM, Rich Bowen <rb...@rcbowen.com> wrote:

> By the way, if anyone has any reason at all that one of the proposed keynoters is going to be an embarrassment, *PLEASE* speak up sooner rather than later, and don't be worried about hurting feelings. Canceling a keynote at the last minute is a HUGE embarrassment, not to mention cost, and if you know something I don't, tell me now before I buy someone plane tickets.
> 
> No, I won't be asking any politicians. Ever again.
> 
> --Rich
> 
> 
> On 12/15/2014 12:09 PM, Rich Bowen wrote:
>> Over the coming days, I'm going to be tossing some things onto the list,
>> in the hopes that someone will have time to step up and take some of
>> these tasks, which I afraid I'm going to drop if I don't get them
>> written down somewhere. So, here's one of them ...
>> 
>> I started a conversation a while back about potential keynotes for
>> Austin - that thread is at http://markmail.org/message/gmerzm2c7fnzz4at
>> 
>> I wonder if someone might have time to dig through that thread for
>> names, and, perhaps contact information that might go with them.
>> 
>> And we're always looking for additional suggestions, always bearing in
>> mind that diversity is important, and, as observed at ApacheCon last
>> month, "dudes with beards", and "dudes without beards" doesn't count as
>> diversity.
>> 
>> We've got an etherpad going at https://pad.apache.org/p/AustinBrainstorm
>> with a Keynotes section down at the bottom. It's becoming a bit of a
>> mess, but until we have a better place to track stuff (maybe an actual
>> doc in svn?) that's where I've been braindumping stuff. (You'll need ASF
>> LDAP committer credentials to edit that etherpad.)
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Rich Bowen - rbowen@rcbowen.com - @rbowen
> http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon