Great suggestions, everyone!
I second Malamud, Lucia, and Holovaty.  Perhaps we could get Holovaty to 
provide the entertainment as well as the key note (holy guitar chops)!  
I also want to suggest Aaron Swartz, co-founder of Reddit and creator of 
Open Library. 

Here's his site:
http://www.aaronsw.com/

-Shaun Ellis


Edward M. Corrado wrote:

>On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Gabriel Sean Farrell <[log in to unmask]>
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>>On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 07:09:25PM -0400, Ed Summers wrote:
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>>>Carl Malamud: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Malamud
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>>>Long time advocate for Internet technologies for the public good. Most
>>>recently involved with making public domain data sets available to the
>>>public w/ public.resource.org.
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>>I second Malamud.  I also nominate:
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>>Joseph Lucia  http://library.villanova.edu/services/director/index.html
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>>University Librarian at Villanova University who has been active around
>>the call for developers in libraries [0].
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>I second Joe Lucia. You can watch  apresentation he did at the VALE-OLS
>symposium at:
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>http://valenj.org/newvale/ols/symposium2008/program-schedule.shtml (he is
>part of the "B" section).
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>Edward
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>>Adrian Holovaty http://www.holovaty.com/
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>>Co-creator of Django, the Python web framework.  Currently working on
>>EveryBlock, an ambitious mash-up of data into an attractive interface.
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>>[0]
>>http://acrlog.org/2007/11/27/how-libraries-might-once-again-become-technology-leaders/
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