Events in need of Speakers

• Free and Open Source Software Nigeria 2010 (FOSS Nigeria 2010 )

  • Organized by Free and Open Source Software Foundation Nigeria, The Centre for Information Technology at Bayero University Kano and HUTSOFT Nigeria Limited

  • Call for papers is now open and will accepting talks until 20th February 2010. Conference papers may cover all aspects of free and open source software projects.

  • For paper submissions, request for invitation letters or any other enquiry please write to the following e-mail addresses: conferences@fossnigeria.org, mustapha@fossnigeria.org and iadasuma@fossnigeria.org.

• Texas Linux Fest
  • April 10, 2010
  • Monarch Event Center in central Austin
  • We would love to have GNOME at the expo hall and for people in the organization to propose talks for the sessions.

  • CFP page

• FOSDEM 2010

  • GNOME devroom: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2009-December/msg00104.html

  • GNOME Mobile: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mobile-devel-list/2009-December/msg00015.html

  • February 6-7, 2010
• RPI Open Source Software Practices course

  • http://public.kitware.com/OpenSourceSoftwarePractice/index.php/Main_Page

  • The course takes place during the Fall (classes end on Dec 12 2009)

  • Location: Troy, NY (http://www.rpi.edu/tour/index.html)

  • Contact: Luis Ibanez ( luis dot ibanez at kitware dot com ) (LuisIbanez)

• Southern California Linux Expo

  • http://www.socallinuxexpo.org

  • Yearly event taking place in Southern California, usually in February
  • Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA

  • Contact: Gareth J. Greenaway ( gareth at socallinuxexpo dot org ) (GarethGreenaway)

    • PaulCutler submitted "An Introduction to GNOME 3.0" for SCALE & awaiting to hear back if it's accepted

• 2010 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World, June 22 - 25, in Boston.

  • Submit talks

Speakers

This is a list of speakers available to speak on GNOME related topics. If you are a speaker, please add your information (name, location, bio and topics.)

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• Stormy Peters
  • Location: Colorado, USA

  • Bio: Stormy is a passionate and frequent keynote speaker on free software related topics. She currently works as Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. She joined the GNOME Foundation from OpenLogic where she set up their OpenLogic Expert Community. Before that she worked at Hewlett-Packard where she founded and managed the Open Source Program Office that is responsible for HP's open source strategy, policy and business practices.

  • Topics: GNOME, Building businesses around free software, Free software communities. See her website for more info.

• Paul Cutler
  • Location: Minneapolis, MN USA
  • Bio: Paul Cutler has been using GNOME since 1999 and is active in the GNOME Marketing, Documentation and Sysadmin teams. He is the former community manager for Foresight Linux and formally joined the GNOME Foundation in 2009.
  • Topics: GNOME, GNOME 3.0, Documentation
• André Klapper
  • Location: Czech Republic
  • Bio: Andre Klapper works as maemo.org Bugmaster for Openismus GmbH. After getting involved in managing GNOME Evolution's bugs in 2003 and becoming Evolution bugmaster he is nowadays part of the GNOME Release Team (mostly release schedule and GNOME 3 platform cleanup), GNOME Bugsquad and the Czech translation team.
  • Topics: GNOME, GNOME 3.0, Bugsquad
• Dave Neary
  • Location: Lyon, France
  • Bio: A frequent speaker on GNOME Mobile, accessibility in GNOME, and other aspects of the project, Dave is a freelance consultant specialising in the relationship between companies and free software communities. He is heavily involved with Maemo and is currently the maemo.org docmaster.

• WillieWalker

  • Location: New Hampshire, USA
  • Bio: GNOME Accessibility lead, Orca project lead, has worked in the accessibility space for 20 years.
  • Topics: Frequent speaker on GNOME Accessibility from various facets (technical, end user, etc.)

• KarlLattimer

  • Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
  • Bio: Works for codethink as a UI/UX designer, software engineer and general open source consultant
  • Topics: ?

• Vincent Untz

  • Location: Grenoble, France
  • Bio: Vincent Untz is an active Free Software enthusiast, GNOME lover and advocate. He currently is GNOME Release Manager and a director of the GNOME Foundation. Rumours say Vincent started contributing by triaging bugs for the GNOME Bugsquad, before becoming maintainer of various GNOME modules. However, he finds it's simpler to declare he is a "touche-à-tout", working on various (some say random) areas of the desktop. Vincent is still pushing French as official language for GNOME, and hopes to succeed really soon now.

  • Topics: GNOME 3.0 (or in general, latest releases), GNOME Community, GNOME Foundation, Development, etc. Anything related to GNOME

  • Contact information: see links at the top of VincentUntz