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On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 07:09:25PM -0400, Ed Summers wrote: > Carl Malamud: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Malamud > > 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. I second Malamud. I also nominate: Joseph Lucia http://library.villanova.edu/services/director/index.html University Librarian at Villanova University who has been active around the call for developers in libraries [0]. Adrian Holovaty http://www.holovaty.com/ Co-creator of Django, the Python web framework. Currently working on EveryBlock, an ambitious mash-up of data into an attractive interface. [0] http://acrlog.org/2007/11/27/how-libraries-might-once-again-become-technology-leaders/