[Eg-oversight-board] Keynote speakers

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

A big +1 from me!


On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:
> > I'd like to see keynote speakers who have some relationship to
> > Evergreen. On that front, I recommend George Oates - she is the lead
> > for OpenLibrary, deeply understands open source and open data, and is
> > a great speaker.
> >
> > And of course Evergreen and OpenLibrary have a close relationship:
> > OpenLibrary is the default added content provider for Evergreen, and
> > Evergreen 2.2 will include the ability to read or borrow OpenLibrary
> > books.
> >
> > More about George at http://abitofgeorge.com/
>
> And if that link doesn't work for you for some reason, and you're not
> immediately bowled over by a Google search for "George Oates", check
> out
> http://smithsonianlibraries.si.edu/smithsonianlibraries/2011/03/save-the-date-march-15-george-oates-a-conversation-with-nancy-gwinn.html
> for a recent bio of George when she was speaking at the Smithsonian.
> Two great quotes from that page:
>
>  * "[Prior to becoming lead of OpenLibrary], she served as the Senior
> Program Manager for Flickr, where, she developed the successful Flickr
> Commons environment that provided a ground-breaking platform for
> cultural heritage organizations to crowdsource and community-build
> around their photographic collections."
>
>  * "She has been appointed a Research Associate for Smithsonian
> Institution Libraries in 2011."
> (
> http://smithsonianlibraries.si.edu/smithsonianlibraries/2011/01/george-oates.html
> )
>
> See also http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/05/minimum-viable-record.html
>
> She's also a heck of a designer. Maybe she would be interested in
> participating in the Hackfest to help us apply some more design
> sensibility to the TPAC... :)
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