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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]> >wrote: > > > >>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]. >> >> > > > >I second Joe Lucia. You can watch apresentation he did at the VALE-OLS >symposium at: > >http://valenj.org/newvale/ols/symposium2008/program-schedule.shtml (he is >part of the "B" section). > >Edward > > > > > > >> >>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/ >> >> >> > > > -- Shaun Ellis Web Applications Programmer Rutgers University Libraries [log in to unmask] 732/445-5896