[volunteers] Additional speakers/topics ideas

[Rick Moen]

This is the first of several posts where I'll be recapping some 
questions and information left over from this mailing list's prior
non-public incarnation, for purposes of collective knowledge.  However, 
this _particular_ post is for Mark Weisler's particular benefit (wearing
his Speaker Coordinator hat):

1.  As Darlene says, Akkana Peck, one of GIMP's maintainers, is local
and an SVLUG member.  He can be reached at akkana at cvs.gnome.org for
certain, and probably at akkana at shallowsky.com.  

2.  Bryan O'Sullivan has been known to do good talks on Mercurial - the
distributed source code management (SCM) system written in Python.  
I'm frequently torn between Bazaar-NG (bzr), Mercurial, and git for 
generally usage.  All have their merits.  Try:  bos at serpentine.com .

Both of those excellent ideas have been suggested in the past by
Aniruddha Mulay (ani_mulay at yahoo.com) on the former Speakers mailing
list.   I was in the middle of inviting him onto _this_ mailing list,
when I realised he's already a member!  Thank you, Aniruddha.



3.  Marilyn Davis, Ph.D of CSC-Extension Corporate Training would
like to speak on "Why Python"?  marilyn at deliberate.com  650 965-7121
http://lists.svlug.org/lists/private/volunteers-old/2006q2/001045.html

IIRC, she's one of the current primary leaders of BayPIGgies, the Bay
Area Python group.


4,5  Aniruddha also suggested Van Jacobson on "Network Channels" and
kernel hacker David Miller, both in the Bay Area:
http://lists.svlug.org/lists/private/volunteers-old/2006q2/001036.html


6.  Val Henson said she'd like to "talk about the results of a recently
published study on women and open source from Cambridge University"
along with a "quick summary of how to choose and tune a Linux file system":
http://lists.svlug.org/lists/private/volunteers-old/2006q2/001057.html
She spoke to SVLUG last year and was good; this would be a follow-up.