[LAC-19] Keynando & Keyping

[Nette Worthey]

https://learn-ventriloquism.com/ <https://learn-ventriloquism.com/>.

Just saying…

> On Nov 10, 2018, at 12:59 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
> 
> 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>
>> <mailto: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> <mailto: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/ <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 <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 <http://www.pamelaz.com/cv.html>) -- Local artist
>>>        - Laetitia Sonami (http://sonami.net/bio/ <http://sonami.net/bio/>) -- Local artist
>>>        - Marije Baalman (https://marijebaalman.eu/ <https://marijebaalman.eu/>)
>>>        - Natasha Barett (https://www.natashabarrett.org/ <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
>> Lecturer and Researcher
>> Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
>> Stanford University
>> https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~rmichon
>> 
>> 
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