Re: Minutes of GUADEC team meeting 2017-01-16

Germán Poo-Caamaño <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Jan 2017 16:15:41 -0300

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On Tue, 2017-01-17 at 18:43 +0000, Sam Thursfield wrote:
> These minutes also available at:
> https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2017/Meetings/20170116
> 
> Core team meeting 2017-01-16, at https://meet.jit.si/guadec2017
> 
> [...]
> === Keynotes ===
> 
> We need to start contacting potential keynote speakers.
> 
> What are the goals with having keynote speakers?
> 
>  * Bring different perspectives to the community
>  * Attract sponsors and attendees by having big names giving talks,
> e.g.
>    Richard Stallman's keynote in 2009
>  * Special cases for "must see" talks that, were they scheduled
>    normally, would leave someone else on the other track talking to
> an
>    empty room
> 
> We pay travel and accommodation costs for keynote speakers, but not
> clear if we would pay speaking fees.
> [...]

As far I know, we have never paid speaking fees.

Kat may know better for recent years.

-- 
Germán Poo-Caamaño
http://calcifer.org/

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