Re: Keynote Speaker(s)?

Please no sage on the stage. This initial workshop will largely consist of
experts. As I've said before I desire a participative event.

-- Christopher Allen

On Wednesday, May 11, 2016, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote:

> Hi, folks–
>
> We got an offer from Ripple to have Stefan Thomas as a keynote speaker at
> the workshop.
>
> Here's a short bio:
> [[
> Stefan Thomas is the CTO of Ripple. Stefan is also the producer of the
> popular “What is Bitcoin?” video and the founder of the largest website for
> novice Bitcoin users, WeUseCoins.com. He created a set of open-source
> Bitcoin libraries called BitcoinJS, which today are maintained and used by
> Bitcoin businesses of all sizes including BitPay, BlockChain.info,
> Bitaddress, Coinpunk and others.
> ]]
>
> And here's his Keynote at Bitcoin London 2013:
>   https://youtu.be/hVOpXGlGwXs
>   https://youtu.be/0lpeZ01H_Bk
>   https://youtu.be/COUYwcDMqzk
>
> For a fair process, I'd like to know if anyone else has suggestions for
> speakers.
>
> We should also decide what the goal of any keynote speaker would be, what
> topics we would like to see addressed, when they would speak (perhaps an
> opening and closing keynote?), and how long the presenter would have.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks–
> Doug
>
>