Schedule/Keynote

Keynote Speaker Suggestions - Open December 31, 2011 - January 7, 2012

Please use the space below to indicate your preferences for those we should consider inviting to participate as keynote speakers at Wikimania 2012. Who would you like to see, and why would you like to hear that person speak? If you have a link to a video of your nominee's past speaking engagement, that would be especially helpful.

Format

The format is as follows:

• Name:
  • Why?
  • Past Speaking Engagements
  • Additional Signatures

Special guidelines for this page

1. This page will only be open for suggestions from December 30 to January 6.
2. Do NOT use this page to indicate potentially negative aspects of a speaker. Negative comments will be removed.
3. You are encouraged to voice support for other nominations by adding a "+1" or providing additional information on what makes the nominee a good candidate for a keynote speech.
4. The format of the submission style is purposefully simplified.

Nominations

• Name: Dries Buytaert (proposed by: MADe)
  • Founder of a popular opensource software program. Can tell Wikipedians something about promoting a brand, working together, the combination of a opensource with a commercial company having the copyright on the logos and names, ...
  • KS at several Drupal and opensource conferences all around the world
  • Additional Signatures

• Name: Barack Obama
  • Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Harvard Law School alumni and currently a Washington D.C. resident
  • He once gave a speech in Kairo (http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/NewBeginning)
  • MetalBrasil 21:16, 1 January 2012 (UTC) 21:16, 1 January 2012 (UTC) It will be awesome!

• Name: Clay Shirky
  • One of the most famous authors on the topic of social software, possibly the most insightful external commentator on Wikipedia
  • Wiki-Conference New York 2010, Web 2.0 Expo 2008, DrupalCon 2011, many others
  • Tgr 20:17, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Note: he is member of the WMF Advisory Board SPQRobin 02:52, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

• Name: Gabriella "Biella" Coleman
  • Anthropologist of digital media, Anonymous, open source, and distributed collaboration
    • Could shed light on vandalism problems in a new and useful way
  • Videos of past speaking engagements available at gabriellacoleman.org
  • Submitted by: Sumana Harihareswara mw:User:Sumanah

• Name: Mary Gardiner
  • Activist on the cause of women in open culture.
  • Video of a past speaking engagement: Keynote at PyConAu
  • Submitted by: Sumana Harihareswara mw:User:Sumanah

• Name: Stephen Colbert and/or Jon Stewart
  • Because of their love for us, because it could give them some material for their shows and because it can be hilarious! A good laugh keynote would definitely not hurt.
  • Did several comedy shows where Wikipedia was mentioned etc.
  • Suggesteed by: Lodewijk Gelauff, User:Lodewijk

• Name: Irina Bokova
  • Director-General of UNESCO. Wikipedia for World Heritage is a nice connection?
  • Numerous, see for a selection their website and this overview of speeches.
  • Suggesteed by: Lodewijk Gelauff, User:Lodewijk

• Name: Michael Trucano, Senior ICT/Education Specialist at World Bank
  • Huge fan of Wikimedia Commons. He often uses images from Commons in his articles
  • Past Speaking Engagements: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRaweF0QV3Y
  • Suggested by Abbas Mahmood, User:Abbasjnr

• Name: Queen Rania
  • Recently tweeted about WikiArabic. Eloquent speaker from the Arab world.
  • This is a video of Queen Rania talking about using real time web for real time change: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpA1Y9vnkps
  • Suggested by abbas Mahmood, User:Abbasjnr