[LAC-19] Keynando & Keyping

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On 11/09/2018 07:34 AM, Romain Michon wrote:
> Keynando... I love it ;).

Well, sure, I could a paint rosy picture of the future of audio in 
Linux, or I could do a retrospective, or, more appropriately, start 
relating disconnected anecdotes about how much better I had it when 
audio on Linux was just starting (and entering into a loop where I start 
repeating the same anecdotes :-) Or I could start relating disconnected 
anecdotes, hmmm, have I said that before?

But only if I get a budget to learn ventriloquism, so that I can deliver 
the keynote by speaking with a squeaky voice through Ping, or rather 
have Ping deliver the keynote through my squeaky voice. We'll talk about 
it some more and decide what to do (Ping and me).

We feel honored, but are willing for forgo the honor should someone more 
(or less) deserving appear (I already did a lac keynote in 2005, about 
the "state of the kernel"...).

-- Fernando


> On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 4:21 PM Matt Wright <matt at ccrma.stanford.edu
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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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> Romain Michon
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