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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
732/445-5896
