Charles H. Moore, the inventor of FORTH. We have done the inventor of C, of BASIC, why not FORTH? <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=link> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 9:20 PM Evan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Here's my annual request for suggestions of people who could keynote at VCF East.
- The person must have general appeal to our audience. It can't be someone who did something very narrow.
- Nobody should reach out to speakers on VCF's behalf: just looking for suggestions right now; official communication must come from VCF officers.
- We're looking for people who personally did awesome things -- not someone who worked in sales/marketing, and not someone who is a modern-day author/historian (like me!) about what other people did. (Exceptions can be made, but generally we're looking for the first-person angle.)
- They don't have to be a celebrity, but they must have a resume that is keynote-worthy.
- We want new people: we've done the usual suspects too much.
- Obviously we prefer people who live within a couple of hundred miles of InfoAge.
- It would be great to have women or people of color!
-- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation