Keynote Speakers

The following people have been confirmed as keynote speakers at GUADEC 2007.

Stormy Peters

Stormy Peters joined OpenLogic from Hewlett-Packard (HP) where she founded and managed the Open Source Program Office. As an early adopter of open source, Stormy was responsible for HP's open source strategy, policy and business practices. She was also a founding member of HP's Linux Division.

Stormy is a frequent keynote speaker on business aspects of open source software at major conferences such as the Open Source Business Conference and the O'Reilly conferences. She has addressed the United Nations, European Union and various U.S. state governments on open source software. Stormy is a co-founder of the non-profit GNOME Foundation, which is based on open source principles to encourage the development of a computing platform, comprised of free software, for use by the general public.

Stormy joined HP ten years ago as a software engineer in the Unix Development Lab after graduating from Rice University with a B.A. in Computer Science.

Stormy is constantly seeking new adventures. She has lived north of the Arctic Circle, traveled around the world solo and, most impressively, taught classes to twenty-two eight year olds.

Paula le Dieu

Formerly executive director of Creative Commons international and former head of the BBC's Creative Archive, Paula currently continues her work on the digital commons with Magic Lantern Productions.
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Ari Jaaksi

Ari is the head of Nokia's OSSO, covering their internet tablets and the Maemo framework.

Robert Love

A world renowned author, Robert almost failed his OS course because he spent so much time writing the book which would be used as the textbook for the course two years later. Currently he is working on making the desktop rock from the metal up with Novell's desktop team.

Alex Graveley

Alex is the author of Gimmie, a first step towards making people, documents and applications into the first class objects we deal with on the desktop. This is some of the coolest stuff happening with GNOME.

Havoc Pennington

Previously the lead desktop architect at Red Hat. He was one of the earliest GNOME developers starting in 1998, and was the chair of the GNOME Foundation board for the first two years of its existence. Havoc also founded the freedesktop.org project in 2000. Now a lead developer for the Mugshot project and Open Source's Oracle of the Linux Desktop, Havoc still gives regular time to feather intelligent prose that reins in GNOME hackers with a mix of software design and historical perspective that is hard to capture. http://ometer.com/

Bryan Clark

Bryan used to make monkey noises for the Red Hat Desktop team as one of it's Interaction Designers. Designing core elements of the desktop with projects like Evince, NetworkManager, and Sabayon Bryan then collaborated on designs with the OLPC project shortly before he began dancing for the Mugshot crew. A cowboy for change Bryan is excited about returning to his desktop roots with the Online Desktop project. http://clarkbw.net/

Jono Bacon

Community manager for Ubuntu, one of the LUG Radio Live gang, leader of the Jokosher poroject, Jono is a tireless advocate for free software and a dedicated metal head. This year, he recorded an album in 24 hours (give or take) on his own (almost) and raised over £1000 for charity in the process.

Doc Searls

Doc Searls is a writer, speaker and consultant on topics that arise where technology and business meet.

He is the Senior Editor of Linux Journal, the premier Linux monthly and one of the world's leading technology magazines. He also runs the new Doc Searls' IT Garage, an online journal published by Linux Journal's parent company, SSC.

He is co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual, a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Borders Books and Amazon.com bestseller. (It was Amazon's #1 sales & marketing bestseller for thirteen months and sells around the world in nine languages.)

He also writes Doc Searls Weblog. J.D. Lasica, author of Darknet, and proprietor of ourmedia calls Doc "one of the deep thinkers in the blog movement." Doc's blog is consistently listed among the top few blogs, out of millions — by Technorati, Blogstreet and others.

In August, 2005, Doc recieved the fist annual Google O'Reilly Open Source Award for Best Communicator.

In 2006, Doc was named a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Information Technology and Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Fellow with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.