Suggestions for potential keynotes for ApacheCon US (Austin) 2015 go here.
- Brian Behlendorf (Confirmed) - ApacheCon Austin marks 20 years since the initial release of the Apache Web Server, in April 1995. Brian will talk about how things were, what's happened since then, and where he thinks things are going. Brian served as President of the ASF for the first three years, has served on the board of the Mozilla Foundation since 2003, Benetech since 2009, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation since 2013.
- Andy Terrel - http://andy.terrel.us/ - Recommended by Chris Mattmann. Is willing, but haven't committed to anything yet. Will add details soon. Per Chris: He’s the Chief Scientist at Continuum Analytics (based in Austin) and on the board of the Num Focus foundation working on Scientific Python
- Adam Savage - he's a fan of AOO - and supposedly has reached out to them in the past, so we might have a contact.
- Jessica McKellar of PSF - suggested by Jim Jag (Jim has her contact info and will make the intros to Rich)
- Jono Bacon. Suggestion from Ross. He's got the open source creds but his new gig at XPrize is a fascinating demonstration that what we do here in open source is akin to the processes needed to create huge innovation leaps. If we were to pair that with some bigwig at a research org then we can do the full story from invention through innovation to production (I'm assuming production is a given with the ASF). I can fish around for a research bigwig if you want, but we have plenty of people around here more directly connected to that world too.