Last year we had a discussion on whether to do keynotes or not. This turned into a discussion to identify who would be good to do keynotes. There was a poll posted on a variety of different suggested names. I personally like keynotes - I think that they draw attendees and give an event a sense of "fit and finish". I'd like to propose that we start a list of potentials here just to break the ice. I'll start the process by suggesting three inside our community.

Within the Drupal community:

  • Jeffrey (Jam) McGuire - Hornecologne
  • Angie Byron - Webchick
  • Dries Buytaert - Dries
  • Greg Dunlap - Heyrocker
  • Josh Koenig - joshk
  • Allie Micka - vauxia
  • Jen Lampton - jenlampton
  • Ariane Khachatourians - arianek
  • Jay Batson - batsonjay
  • Mike Meyers - michaelemeyers

Outside the Drupal community:

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cyberswat commented

Have we identified a theme for the camp? The theme of the event tends to help me identify good candidates for keynotes and featured speakers.

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matthews commented
Related issues: +#2153453: Identify a Camp Theme

I've added a related issue - "Identify a Camp Theme".

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cyberswat commented

I'd like to see Michael Meyers give a keynote

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matthews commented

+1 Meyers

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I'm adding Felicia Pride to this year's list. Seems like people were really interested in seeing her speak last year and I have a feeling we'd be able to worth through whatever issues prevented her from speaking last year.

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I'm adding everyone we had on the list last year, except Jeff Eaton, since he actually spoke last year. I don't see any reason not to include everyone else.

That said, I would recommend not inviting Felicia Pride again, based on my experience working on that last year. As excited as I was about her speaking last year, it now seems like way more risk than it's worth when we have so many other great potential speakers.

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I added Meyers to the main list.

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cyberswat commented

Waiting for #2153453: Identify a Camp Theme to close out before resuming this.

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matthews commented

Ok, time to revive this thread. LSD is the theme. Mike Meyers, the VP of LSD for Acquia has indicated he would be interested in presenting. He'd be great on this subject.

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matthews commented
Title: Identify Potential Keynotes (or not) » Identify Potential Keynotes

I've updated the title to reflect we are looking for keynotes.

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matthews commented

Lets nail this down. Cyberswat, do you have any updates? I'm in meetings with Holly this week - should I to talk to her about this?

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cyberswat commented

Meyers is confirmed ... Have vocal confirmation from Holly, waiting for final confirmation from her.

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cyberswat commented

Holly declined. Waiting on a response from the next candidate (Jeffrey (Jam) McGuire - Hornecologne).

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matthews commented

JAM declined for personal reasons. Not the least of which, it turned out it is in the middle of his vacation. He suggested we contact Chris Shattuck. What do others think about this?

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matthews commented

Angie would also be a great one to reach out to.

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cyberswat commented

We have two candidates for the second keynote slot. The first is Jamshid Khazenie who is interested but has asked for a little time to confirm. We have asked that he do so by Wed. The second is Ken Rickard. Both are fantastic speakers with LSD experience.

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cyberswat commented

Ken Rickard has confirmed.

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