See 4. MAEMO.ORG: WHAT NEXT? at http://maemo.org/community/wiki/linuxtag2008/

We are looking for the last invited speaker to Linuxtag, someone to provide a view on the future of the maemo community (as a whole, not just the maemo.org website).

Invited means that Nokia covers travel, accommodation and registration to the event. Speaker means 5-10 minuts of presentation in a shared session with other speakers and lots of questions and comments coming from the rest of participants.

Proposal: let's invite an ITT ambassador. There would be a discussion in this thread and someone would summarize it in Berlin. This "someone" would be selected here as well, by you.

Some conditions/recommendations:

- Due to budget restrictions needs to be based in Europe.
- Popular contributor to ITT.
- Open source enthusiast.

We need the name asap! It is up to you how you choose it. He or she needs to confirm here, otherwise we keep having recommendations on people that can't attend.

Then you have several weeks to discuss, until end of May.

Thank you - we hope you like the proposal.

I vote GeneralAntilles. He seems to know what he's talking about (or is he already going?).

- Due to budget restrictions needs to be based in Europe.

But I don't think he's going based on what I heard on IRC. It would be good if he was though

I would say Milhouse or Jaffa, except apparently their removal from the other sections means they could not confirm according to one comment. I was really hoping for fanoush but he seems to be a hard sell (). There are plenty of people not based in Europe I could propose but that's already out. So... right now I'm stuck. But not giving up. I will continue thinking on this...

Hey, what about Karel?

Yeah, Jaffa and milhouse (the two candidates I was really pushing) seem to be unavailable (well, Jaffa is for sure, but I'm not sure about milhouse—he seems to have just been deleted from the wiki) and everybody else has either already confirmed their unavailability or based elsewhere.

/me is out of recommendations.

Vocal critics are one thing, but I fear he might drag the whole convention into a very severe clinical depression.

Family commitments on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday; unfortunately.

Mrs. Jaffa looked for trains, planes and automobiles but the logistics just wouldn't fit. I've got some thoughts on the topic (which I'd've tried to formalise into a few slides/discussion) which I'll try and get a coherent email or blog post about.

Hopefully, maemo, LinuxTag and me will be around next year :-)

Too bad. Sounds like a cool opportunity... so long as you don't have a fear of public speaking.

Well, the choice of the ambassador is going to take some time, we should start the discussion.....NOW. We should start to formulate about how/when/why/where is iTT with respect to Maemo (or Tablet or Nokia).

I will start first, I wish our ambassador is able to propel the iTT into becoming an official function for either the maemo or the Nokia tablet, i.e, we will be able to demand/request/seek explanation/complaints/suggestions from Nokia/maemo. The current situation is like ma$terbation, we can scream our guts out, the next tablet is still not going the way this community thinks it should be, and the maemo.org intermittent 'down' etc.

bun

I nominate the bunster.

fanoush is based in Europe (Prague, I think) and seems to know one hell of a lot.