On Jan 4, 2019, at 9:19 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.
I’m going to throw the name Walt Jung who I have recently stumbled across and seems quite lucid on the topic of op-amp. I can’t tell if what he did was narrow (focusing on op-amps) or general op-amps are fundamental argument. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Jung <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Jung> I find his writing quite comprehensible. Ben
- 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!