Suggested Speakers 2011
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Proposed speakers
Name | Comment | Status |
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[Manuel Castells] | Sociologist associated particularly with research into the information society and communications. | To be invited by Henrik |
[Yochai Benkler] | THE keynote speaker to have at FSCONS. | To be invited by Stian |
Joi Ito | ||
[Vandana Shiva] | She is one of the leaders of the International Forum on Globalization, and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalization movement. | |
Charles Nesson | One of the coolest law professors in history, currently leading a project to "reify university as a meta player in cyberspace": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Nesson | |
Frederick Noronha | Free Software chronicler from Goa, India | |
Danny O'Brien | International Outreach Coordinator of EFF. Started Open Rights Group with Cory Doctorow | |
Alan Cox | Kernel hacker ..... | |
Andrew Morton | Kernel hacker | |
Richard Stallman | ||
Benjamin Mako Hill | ".. a scholar, technologist, programmer and free software and free culture activist" | |
Ilkka Tuomi | ||
John Perry Barlow | ||
John Gilmore | ||
Heidi Grande Røys | Norwegian minister responsible for the Open Standards policy and the Friprog centre. Has just released a book under a CC licence. | |
Franz Nahrada | Global Villages | |
Alex Rollin | works on open source car and is doing a project with Smári on peer-to-peer gratitude based currencies | |
Marcin Jakubowski | http://www.openfarmtech.org | |
Clay Shirky | Author of Here Comes Everybody: On Organizing Without Organizations - http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/ | |
Lawrence Liang | Author of Guide to Open Licences and involved in almost everything FSCONS stands for. Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Liang | |
Charles Leadbeater | Author of "We-think: The Power of Mass Creativity" (See his amazing talks on TED and/or youtube) | |
Chris Anderson | of wired magazine is a good idea for a keynote speaker | |
Bruce Schneier | Excellent high-profile speaker with a security focus |