Suggested Speakers 2011
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Kenote speakers
Invited speakers
| Name | Comment | Status |
|---|---|---|
| TBA | TBA | TBA |
Proposed keynote speakers
| Name | Comment |
|---|---|
| Unhosted (project) | unhosted.org Unhosted is an open web standard for decentralizing user data. On the unhosted web, data is stored per-user, wherever the user decides. |
| Christina Haralanova | Currently a team member at LabCMO, Previously Managing Director at Internet Rights Bulgaria Foundation; Coordinator and trainer in FOSS at WITT. Also Women, Geeks, Culture |
| Jeremie Miller | Currently building the Locker Project, TeleHash, and Singly with a focus on personal data + distributed protocols. Helped found Jabber/XMPP, open platforms FTW! |
| Gabriella Coleman | Gabriella Coleman: Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication |
| Jacob Appelbaum | Ethics enthusiast |
| The Serval Project | Communicate anywhere, any time, without infrastructure or carriers.Communication should be freely available to everyone, because communication is a human right. |
| douglas rushkoff | media theorist, author; new book: PROGRAM OR BE PROGRAMMED: 10 Commands for a Digital Age http://www.orbooks.com/our-books/program/ |
| Sue Gardner | Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director |
| Simon Phipps | Eclectic geek, campaigning for software freedom and political transparency. Photos & music to protect sanity in the process. |
| Isobel Hadley-Kamptz | Writer, freelance columnist, netizen icon |
| Ian Clarke | Entrepreneur and Computer Scientist, grew up in Ireland, currently living in Austin, Texas. |
| Farmor Gun | Senior blogger and grandmother (blog in Swedish) |
| Zooko | Technology wizard |
| Heidi Grande Røys | Norwegian minister responsible for the Open Standards policy and the Friprog centre. Has just released a book under a CC licence. |
| Oscar Swartz | IT guru, writer, former entrepreneur (Founded Swedish Free Speech ISP Bahnhof - now hosting Wikileaks). |
| Trudy Barber | |
| Peter Sunde | Flattr founder etc |
| Niva Elkin Koren | |
| Marcin Jakubowski | Founder of Open Source Ecology. Hacks the Global Village Construction Set. Builds open source tractors and other farm equipment. |
| 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. |
| Richard Stallman | President of FSF. GNU Project. |
| Joi Ito | |
| Cory Doctorow | Blogger, Author, Free Culture proponent etc |
| Manuel Castells | Sociologist associated particularly with research into the information society and communications. |
| Yochai Benkler | THE keynote speaker to have at FSCONS. |
| Pelle Snickars | Head of Research at the Swedish National Archive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images. (now a part of National Library of Sweden), Articles (swedish) in SvD "under strecket" are linked from SLBA. Here is an interesting interview (swedish). |
| 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 |
| Pippa Buchanan | P2P University and more |
| Benjamin Mako Hill | ".. a scholar, technologist, programmer and free software and free culture activist" |
| Ilkka Tuomi | |
| John Perry Barlow | |
| John Gilmore | |
| 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. He wrote a book on Free. |
| Bruce Schneier | Excellent high-profile speaker with a security focus |
| James Boyle |
Conference and theme speakers
| Name | Comment | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Your | suggestions | here! |
