On 10/04/2012 12:20 PM, Deryck Chan wrote:
Dear Wikimaniacs,
Hello from the Wikimania 2013 Hong Kong local team! We are beginning the process of inviting external keynote speakers, and would like the wider Wikimania community to review our shortlist before we make formal invitations.
Feel free to suggest additional names for the list. We have more than two names at the moment, so do reply if you have preferences among the list too!
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Thank you, Deryck!
A few additional suggestions:
Finn Brunton, an academic who thinks a lot about privacy, spam, trust, and similar topics: http://finnb.net/cv.html
Jennifer 8 Lee, US journalist of Chinese heritage who has worked on the Knight Foundation's News Challenge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_8_Lee
Audrey Tang, a Taiwanese programmer who's well-known in the Perl community and who worked on the new parser for MediaWiki (the underpinnings of the new visual editor): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang
Just for completeness, I'm including this link to the suggested names from the previous Wikimania, even though you've probably already thought about them: https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule/Keynote (includes Irina Bokova of UNESCO, academic Clay Shirky, anthopologist Biella Coleman, etc.)