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Please tell us who you'd like us to interview in the future?

Linus Torvalds (Unlikely, I know)
Kevin Rose
Patrick Volkerding
Ian Murdock again, possibly?
Mark Shuttleworth

Any other suggestions?

How about Judd Vinet, creator of Arch Linux and the pacman package manager?

Judland wrote:How about Judd Vinet, creator of Arch Linux and the pacman package manager?

I sent him an email. If we have him on he'll be our 1000th Canadian guest!
Brad Templeton from the EFF is our guest this week. Guess what, he's Canadian! So when is our honorary Canadian citizen induction ceremony?

Paul Ferris from the Batch Login Project. I saw him speak at the Ohio Linuxfest and found it quite interesting. I think he lives in Cleveland and seems pretty cool.

The Batch Login Project is a tool for sysadmins to allow them to automate tasks that need to be done across large numbers of machines in various environments. Sounds like something Dann and Linc would be interested in since they do that kind of stuff for a living. Hearing him talk about it was a lot more interesting than the short description on the web site, and I didn't get all the details even then.

There's a contact link at the bottom of the page that will put you in touch with Paul.

Should I petition to change the national motto to something like:

Canada - home of the free; Land of open source.

Pat, I think you guys should just move the show up here and get it over with.

Have you guys interviewed Ryan Quinn from Symphony OS? I searched the index and although I saw Symphony mentioned, I don't think you've talked to Ryan. He's another guy I saw at Ohio Linuxfest, and I think he's in Ohio.

Symphony seems like a pretty cool project, and Ryan was a great speaker. It's a very usability oriented distro with a radical GUI that allows applications to be written in HTML, Perl/CGI, Java, Flash, etc.

LUGRadio interviewed Ryan at the end of last season, but there are a lot of unanswered questions, and it's really a fast-moving project.

I'd like to see some guys from Novell, maybe Greg Mancusi Ungaro would be cool to have on the show and talk about how the OpenSUSE project, and the recent weird-ass stuff Novell has been up to. Or how about the Gael Duvall from Mandriva? He's been into Linux for a long time

Patrick Volkerding, Bob Young, Theo de Raadt, some FreeBSD people (Maybe a second interview with Scott Long now that FreeBSD 6.0 is out or core team developer Murray Stokely who appeared on The Screen Savers a few times).

Oh here's a good one: Kris Moore from PC-BSD!

Thanks for all your suggestions. I've contacted some of the people we haven't contacted before. I'm sure we can line more up.
Please continue to post more suggestions.

So far I've booked Greg Mancusi Ungaro and Paul Ferris. Kris Moore just has to give me a date. I've emailed Linus and Pat V. on several occassions with no response.
Thanks again for the suggestions.

think of are maybe the guys that have created plone.

http://www.plone.org/

Patrick wrote:So far I've booked Greg Mancusi Ungaro and Paul Ferris. Kris Moore just has to give me a date. I've emailed Linus and Pat V. on several occassions with no response.
Thanks again for the suggestions.

Nice work Pat!!

It's pretty ironic that Richard Stallman could find time to come on and Linus can't, pretty weird when you think about both people's contributions to the community:

Richard Stallman: The GPL, Emacs, GNOME...
Linus Torvalds: The Linux kernel.

I look forward to the interview with Greg, if you wanna ask him a controversial question, ask him how many of the original SUSE hackers that are still working at Novell, a remarkable number of long time SUSE people has already said their good byes, which I find very sad.

Anyway, I have one more suggestion for ya:

Michael Steil from Xbox-Linux.org, would be interesting to hear what they are planning for the Xbox 360, and how to embaress Micro$oft once again!

Patrick wrote:So far I've booked Greg Mancusi Ungaro and Paul Ferris. Kris Moore just has to give me a date. I've emailed Linus and Pat V. on several occassions with no response.
Thanks again for the suggestions.

w00t!!!11!

You are teh man!!!

Now I can forgive you for never posting the picture of your 20 pound mushroom on your blog.

Tsuroerusu wrote:It's pretty ironic that Richard Stallman could find time to come on and Linus can't, pretty weird when you think about both people's contributions to the community:

Richard Stallman: The GPL, Emacs, GNOME...
Linus Torvalds: The Linux kernel.

I think Linus has a job.
I'm also pretty sure RMS didn't contribute to Gnome, although it's a GNU project. He wrote the original GCC, though, which is pretty important.

Gomer_X wrote:Now I can forgive you for never posting the picture of your 20 pound mushroom on your blog.

I went out there and it was all dried out. I should took the picture right away. It was a mutant. This past October was one of the wettest on record for PA. There were so many mushrooms sprouting all over the place! I'm sure Ohio was the same as you're right next to us.