[LAC-19] Keynando

[Chris Chafe]

LoL(ezcano)
 +2!

On Fri, 2018-11-09 at 16:34 +0100, Romain Michon wrote:
> Keynando... I love it ;).
> 
> On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 4:21 PM Matt Wright <matt at ccrma.stanford.edu>
> wrote:
> > +1
> > 
> > Sent from a handheld typo device with autocorrect
> > On Nov 9, 2018, at 1:21 AM, Romain Michon <
> > rmichon at ccrma.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi everyone,
> > > I haven't heard back from anyone on this:
> > > 
> > > > Keynote
> > > > 
> > > > First, as you know, we contacted Leslie Garcia to ask her to be
> > > > the keynote speaker for LAC about three weeks ago. Since we
> > > > didn't get any reply from her, we sent her another e-mail
> > > > earlier this week using the same address and a different one,
> > > > just to be sure. We still haven't heard back from her! This
> > > > means that we need a backup plan... As a reminder, here's the
> > > > original shortlist that we had:
> > > > 
> > > > - Leslie Garcia (http://lessnullvoid.cc/content/) -- Chris
> > > > believes that the Stanford Arts Institute could help us bring
> > > > her on campus
> > > > - Nancy Mauro-Flude (http://sister0.org/?whosthatgirl) --
> > > > Perhaps the Stanford Arts Institute could help us bring her as
> > > > well (she lives in Singapore)
> > > > - Pamela Z (http://www.pamelaz.com/cv.html) -- Local artist
> > > > - Laetitia Sonami (http://sonami.net/bio/) -- Local artist
> > > > - Marije Baalman (https://marijebaalman.eu/) 
> > > > - Natasha Barett (https://www.natashabarrett.org/)
> > > > 
> > > > Should we try to contact Nancy Mauro-Flude? Her flight will be
> > > > more expensive since she lives in Singapore. This also means
> > > > that we'd have to ask the Stanford Art Institute again if they
> > > > would be willing to give us some funding for her to come, etc.
> > > > Any thoughts on that? Any other suggestions?
> > > 
> > > I think we need to take action now... Still no news from Leslie
> > > Garcia despite the various rounds of e-mails that I sent her on
> > > different addresses. Should we ask Nancy Mauro-Flude? Yes? No? I
> > > talked about this situation to Yann, Albert Graef, etc. and
> > > here's a crazy (and may be slightly conservative in this context)
> > > idea: what if..... Nando was the keynote speaker (I'm sure he
> > > probably jumped on his seat reading this haha)? All the people I
> > > asked think it's a good idea. :) I think it would solve many
> > > problems. So unless someone wants to take the lead on this and
> > > keep looking for another keynote speaker, I would advocate this
> > > solution.
> > > 
> > > Thoughts?
> > > 
> > > Romain
> > > 
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