I nominate Andy Lester, author of ack "a grep replacement" and itinerant speaker on "Technical Debt" and employment in the tech world. He's a Perl guru working in the publishing indsutry. Andy's "Technical Debt" lecture would be a good fit, IMO, for the code4lib group. Technical Debt Talk: http://www.media-landscape.com/yapc/2006-06-26.AndyLester/ Employment Stuff: http://theworkinggeek.com/ He spoke at OSCON year on a couple of topics: http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009/public/schedule/speaker/6552 find him at twitter at: http://twitter.com/PetDance Cheers, -Chad