[FOSS4G2016] Ebola and other Keynote

[Steven Feldman]

If you want someone from the UK ODI to keynote at FOSS4G, I think Jeni Tennison (Deputy CEO and Technical Director) might be a better person to ask given our audience, she could talk about the crossover between Open Data and Open Source. I know Jeni pretty well so could make the approach if you want.
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Steven


> On 2 May 2016, at 11:39, Codrina Maria Ilie <codrinamariailie at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi, guys!
> 
> I agree with Marc.
> 
> What do you say if we approach in the same way these guys as well:
> 
> 
> 1. Joel Gurin (New York), as EVP of Consumers Union, launched and grew Consumer Reports' website, www.ConsumerReports.org; under his leadership it became the world's largest information-based paid-subscription site, with 3M+ subscribers. In December 2009, Gurin joined the Obama Administration as Chief of the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission. He served as Chair of the White House Task Force on Smart Disclosure, which studied how the government can provide Open Data to help consumers make choices in complex markets including health care, financial services, education, and energy.
> 
> - this is a very long shot, but worth trying.
> 
> 
> 2. Richard Stirling:
> He leads ODI (Open Data Institute) global advisory work, overseeing all ODI’s work helping people innovate with data from multi-nationals and national governments to small startups.
> 
> Richard has considerable experience at the heart of UK government transparency and data initiatives, creating the strategy and leading implementation of open data in the UK and advising the UK Prime Minister and Cabinet Office on public sector reform.
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> 
> 
> Should I write them ?
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> 
> 
> Regards,
> Codrina
> 
> On 02/05/16 09:29, Marc Vloemans wrote:
>> GertJan
>> 
>> Please prepare the invite to Ton as a invite for interest without promise ;-)
>> 
>> Vriendelijke groet,
>> Marc Vloemans
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Vriendelijke groet,
>> Marc Vloemans
>> 
>>> Op 2 mei 2016 om 08:25 heeft Gert-Jan van der Weijden (OSGeo.nl) <gert-jan at osgeo.nl> het volgende geschreven:
>>> 
>>> Good morning y'all!
>>> 
>>> Which brings me to de general question (espicailly to Marc and Codrina):
>>> Any news from the keynote front? Or should i already prepare a mail to Ton Zijlstra?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Kind regards,
>>> 
>>> GJ
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Volker Mische schreef op 02-05-2016 8:13:
>>>> Hi LOC,
>>>> sadly Patricia does have time to give the talk (she would've been
>>>> excited to give it though). So sadly we don't have another keynote.
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Volker
>>>>> On 04/27/2016 09:59 AM, till.adams at fossgis.de wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> another proposal from Volker Mische for a keynote.
>>>>> Pluspoint: Would be a woman and interesting topic fitting into the
>>>>> keytopic "disaster management".
>>>>> Till
>>>>> -------- Originalnachricht --------
>>>>> Betreff: Ebola Keynote
>>>>> Datum: 2016-04-27 09:53
>>>>> Absender: Volker Mische <volker.mische at gmail.com>
>>>>> Empfänger: Till Adams <till.adams at fossgis.de>
>>>>> Hi Till,
>>>>> here's the details to a potential keynote that fits the disaster topic.
>>>>> It's from a project from eHealth Africa [1] to fight Ebola. The talk was
>>>>> already presented at the JSConf EU [2] (a really high profile
>>>>> conference), that talk is really worth a watch. It was presented by
>>>>> Patricia Garcia, she was technical lead. She now longer works for
>>>>> eHealth Africa, but I don't think that's a problem.
>>>>> Its main topics are are how to reduce the response times. How open
>>>>> source was used. How great open source communities are. It also gets a
>>>>> bit technical about which lessons were learned from using Apache
>>>>> CouchDB, which mistakes were made and what you should keep in mind when
>>>>> you do sync.
>>>>> For me I'd expect non technical people to be impressed how fast such a
>>>>> system can be built and how great open source is, for technical people
>>>>> it gets into enough detail to be interesting.
>>>>> [1]: http://www.ehealthafrica.org/
>>>>> [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sLjWlWvCsc
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Volker
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