<p dir="ltr">Cause we need a conference. Duh!</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Danny Perez-Caballero" <<a href="mailto:danny@allthingsopen.org">danny@allthingsopen.org</a>><br>Date: Jan 16, 2014 12:32 PM<br>Subject: Large Open Source/Open Tech/Open Web conference in downtown Atlanta<br>
To: <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>><br>Cc: <br><br type="attribution"><div dir="ltr">Hey Jim,<br><br>My name is Danny Perez-Caballero. I'm an organizer for Great Wide Open (<a href="http://greatwideopen.org/" target="_blank">http://greatwideopen.org/</a>), a large Open Source/Open Tech/Open Web conference we're hosting in downtown Atlanta, GA on April 2 & 3. It will feature some of the best and most well know technologists in the world as well as the largest companies. We expect 750-1000+ attendees. Earlier today, we spoke with Aaron Ruscetta to reach out to people in Atlanta who we think would be interested in our conference, and possibly help us make the conference better for Atlanta. He suggested that we contact you. To give you an idea of the type of conference we are creating, this is a portion of the speakers we have confirmed so far:<br>
<br><div>-Chris Aniszczyk – Twitter, Open Source Manager and Eclipse Foundation</div><div>Board member</div><div>-Ross Mason - Founder & VP, Mulesoft; Creator, Mule</div><div>-Clay Johnson - Author, The Information Diet; Director, Sunlight Labs;</div>
<div>Co-founder, Blue State Digital</div><div>-Ines Sombra – Engine Yard, Lead Data Engineer</div><div>-Andy Hunt – Pragmatic Bookshelf, Co-founder, Pragmatic Programmer,</div><div>author; Technologist</div><div>-Leigh Heyman – Executive Office of the President, Director of New Media</div>
<div>Technologies</div><div>-David Meyer – Brocade, CTO & Chief Scientist, OpenDaylight Technical</div><div>Committee Chair, well known technology visionary while at Cisco</div><div>-Trek Glowacki – EmberJS/Groupon, Core Team/Senior Engineer </div>
<div>-Christopher Clark – Sparkfun Electronics, Director of IT </div><div>-Steve Klabnik – Balanced, Developer, well known author and prolific open</div><div>source contributor</div><div>-Joe Stagner – Zend Technologies, Director Developer Strategies</div>
<div>-Jonathan Leblanc – PayPal, Emmy Award Winning Engineer, O'Reilly author</div><div>-Jim Jagielski – Outercurve Foundation, President; Co-founder Apache</div><div>Software Foundation</div><div>-Charlie Greenbacker – Altamira, Director of Data Science; CLAVIN, Founder</div>
<div>-Andrew Oliver – Open Software Integrators, President </div><div>-Dave Stokes – Oracle, MySQL Community Manager</div><div>-Jason Hibbets – OpenSource.com, Director<br><br>Although this is our first year in Atlanta, we have been presenting world-class conferences in Columbia, SC and Raleigh, NC. If you have any suggestions, or would be interested, feel free to email me at <a href="mailto:danny@allthingsopen.org" target="_blank">danny@allthingsopen.org</a>. Thank you for your time and assistance.<br>
<br>Thanks,<br>Danny Perez-Caballero<br><a href="mailto:danny@allthingsopen.org" target="_blank">danny@allthingsopen.org</a></div></div>
</div>