Talking about talks

[Christopher Browne]

We've been talking at board meetings over the last couple months about
ideas about talks to have forthcome; we have had the good fortune of having
some rather good speakers with excellent topics emerging from various
directions.

But there are areas where we have had some ideas that aren't pointing us at
contacts to people that can usefully speak on the topics, and we're hoping
that there might be some ideas to be gleaned from people on the mailing
list.

To that end, I'm throwing a few of our ideas over to the list to see if a
broader set of listeners have contacts around town that we weren't aware of.

As a starting point, there have been aspirational thoughts to the effect of
"wouldn't it be nice to hear what's going on with X11?"

That could readily be extended to related systems such as Wayland, Unity,
Gnome, KDE.  It is not evident that any of the developers involved with
these systems are in the Toronto area, but perhaps someone knows someone.

Red Hat does have a Toronto office, and I seem to recall one of the
developers involved with Gnumeric having moved into the region a few years
ago.  (I could probably find more about such if I poked into my archives a
bit more, though I'm more interested in hearing if others have other
contacts).
-- 
When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the
question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
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