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2015 Code4Lib Midwest Meeting

2015-07-16T12:51:39Z

HeidiDowding:

== Code4Lib Midwest 2015 Meeting ==

Mark your calendars -- The Ohio State University Libraries will be hosting the Code4Lib Midwest 2015 meeting in Columbus, OH.

===Location===
Code4Lib MidWest meeting will be hosted by [http://library.osu.edu The Ohio State University Libraries].
* '''When''' - July 23 and July 24, 2015
* '''Where''' - [http://library.osu.edu Thompson Library], room 165 at OSU
* '''Who''' - contact person: Terry Reese (reese.2179@osu.edu )

===Logistics===

'''Suggested Hotels'''

* [http://www.theblackwell.com/ '''The Blackwell Inn'''] (2110 Tuttle Park Place, Columbus, OH 43210 :: +1 (614) 247-4000)

-The Blackwell Inn is located on campus, roughly 0.2 miles from the Thompson Library.

* [http://www.varsityinn.com/ '''The Varsity Inn South'''] (1445 Olentangy River Road, Columbus, OH 43212 :: +1 (614) 291-2983)

-The Varsity Inn South is roughly 1.7 miles from the Thompson Library.

* [http://www.uhdcolumbus.com/ '''Columbus Hospitality District''']

-Given the size of the University and University community, the University has it's own hospitality district, with lists to hotels and vendors that work closely with the University.

'''Directions, restaurants, and more'''

=== Schedule ===

==== Tentative Thursday, July 23rd ====

8:30 - 9:00: Check-in 

9:00 - 9:20: Welcome and House Keeping 

9:20 - 9:40: 
Jeffrey Mudge and David Malone (Wheaton College) 
The print/analog library transition to thousands upon thousands of digital resources has brought with it the need to manage associated URLs. Part of the management is to address issues of resource transience and attempts to create persistence. The Handle System is a specification for assigning, managing, and resolving persistent identifiers for digital objects. This presentation will provide background on Handle as well as some user tools that Wheaton College has created to simplify the creation, management, and deletion of Handles. 

9:40 - 10:00: ActiveSierra 
Sean Crowe and James Van Mil 
While waiting for a useful API from III, we've modeled useful bits of the Sierra database for use in Rails apps and in vanilla ruby. We'd be able to present the SierraDNA and ActiveRecord/ActiveModel frameworks with some of the tools we're building
 

10:00 - 10:20: "Automagic" Text Mining 
Eric Lease Morgan (University of Notre Dame) 
This presentation will describe and demonstrate how to "automagically" provide text mining services against content from the HathiTrust, EEBO, and JSTOR. Given specific metadata reports from these services, collections can be automatically created, indexed, analyzed, reported upon, and visualized. The result is the ability to "read distantly" against given reader-defined topics. Eric advocates this sort of service can help refine the definition of curation in a digital library context. 

10:20 - 10:40: Break/Networking 

10:40 - 11:00: 
Brittany Adams (Wheaton College) 
Code4LIb has many full-fledged coders, but there are others who are new to the library coding environment and may have limited access to common tools and operating systems often found in the coder's toolbox. As someone new to coding, Brittany Adams will show how PowerShell, which is part of the Windows OS, can be applied to various metadata projects. PowerShell can serve as the entry point for those unwilling or unable to dive in the deep-end of the Linux pool. 

11:00 - 12:00: Lightning Talks 

12:00 - 1:00: Lunch 

1:00 - 1:20 : 
Victor Replogle 
Title: Ball State Libraries Data Warehouse and Dashboard
Description: Gathering and presenting upon library statistics – a success story. User-selectable widgets share highlights from various system uses; custom reporting pages allow in-depth exploration of services consumed.
Most recently our inter-library loan application (ILLiad) is having its data extracted and transformed to facilitate quick and accurate calculations such as fill rate (able to be segmented by user category, request type, etc).
The presentation will highlight the steps that brought together various disparate data sources into one location, challenges overcome, and open-ended sharing based on audience interest.
 
1:30 - 5:00: Hands on Workshop...tentative topic; supporting digital humanities. 

look at topics related to text mining, topic models, n-grams, visualization 

6:30 - ? Social 

==== Tentative Friday, July 24th ====

8:00 - 8:30: Checkin 
8:30 - 8:45: Housekeeping 
8:45 - 9:45: Lightning Talks #2 (or 3 presentations depending on presentations submitted) 
9:45 - 10:00: Break 
10:00 - 10:20: 
Paul Butler, Ball State University 
EZProxy – The Canary in the Coal Mine for Compromised User Credentials 
EZProxy is one of the most used, and exposed, applications that library IT supports. Libraries use EZProxy to restrict access to some of our most coveted resources. As such, EZProxy can be used as one of the frontlines in identifying compromised user credentials. In this presentation Paul Butler (Library Technologies Support Analyst at Ball State University) will discuss the techniques, EZProxy customizations, and custom code Ball State University Libraries uses to identify compromised user credentials.
 
10:20 - 10:40: 
Mike Shallcross (Bentley Historical Library) 
ArchivesSpace-Archivematica-DSpace Workflow Integration - : Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this project seeks to expedite the ingest, description, and overall curation of digital archives by facilitating the creation and reuse of descriptive and administrative metadata among emerging platforms and streamlining the deposit of fully processed content into a digital preservation repository. This presentation will provide an overview of project goals and objectives and an update on current development work. 
10:40 - 11:00: Presentation #7 
11:00 - 12:00: Lightning Talks #3 / Tech petting zoo? 
12:00 - 12:30: Closing 

===Social Media Goodness===

Twitter hash tag: [https://twitter.com/search?q=c4lmw&src=typd #c4lmw]

===Technical Details===

* We'll have a Projector station with hookups, as well as a community PC Laptop with Powerpoint.
* Both a wired and wireless mic
* Wifi

==Programming Sign-up==

Code4Lib Midwest programming depends on the folks attending the conference. Please consider giving a presentation or lightning talk, or submitting your ideas for the hackfest/workshop.

Share what you are working on! Add your name and a description below. Please also let us know how long you'll need, and whether you prefer Wednesday or Thursday (or if it doesn't matter)

===Presentations or Workshops===

'''ActiveSierra''' - Sean Crowe and James Van Mil: while waiting for a useful API from III, we've modeled useful bits of the Sierra database for use in Rails apps and in vanilla ruby. We'd be able to present the SierraDNA and ActiveRecord/ActiveModel frameworks with some of the tools we're building (~1 hour?). If folks have access to their home III database systems, we could also host a workshop/hackfest around these tools.

'''Hands-on With Automagic Text Mining''' - This workshop provides a venue for participants to create their own "automagically" created text mining reports from the HathiTrust, EEBO, and JSTOR. Participants will create a set of content from the HathiTrust and "feed" it to system which will harvest, index, analyze, visualize, and report on the content. The process will then be repeated with content from EEBO and JSTOR. Participants are expected to have their own laptops, complete with an SSH terminal application and SFTP client. Access to a remote Linux machine will be provided. Familiarity with the Bash Shell is a plus but not necessary . --Eric Lease Morgan (University of Notre Dame)

'''PowerShell''' - Brittany Adams (Wheaton College): Code4LIb has many full-fledged coders, but there are others who are new to the library coding environment and may have limited access to common tools and operating systems often found in the coder's toolbox. As someone new to coding, Brittany Adams will show how PowerShell, which is part of the Windows OS, can be applied to various metadata projects. PowerShell can serve as the entry point for those unwilling or unable to dive in the deep-end of the Linux pool.

'''Handle: getting a grasp on URL management''' - Jeffrey Mudge and David Malone (Wheaton College): The print/analog library transition to thousands upon thousands of digital resources has brought with it the need to manage associated URLs. Part of the management is to address issues of resource transience and attempts to create persistence. The Handle System is a specification for assigning, managing, and resolving persistent identifiers for digital objects. This presentation will provide background on Handle as well as some user tools that Wheaton College has created to simplify the creation, management, and deletion of Handles.

'''ArchivesSpace-Archivematica-DSpace Workflow Integration''' - Mike Shallcross (Bentley Historical Library): Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this project seeks to expedite the ingest, description, and overall curation of digital archives by facilitating the creation and reuse of descriptive and administrative metadata among emerging platforms and streamlining the deposit of fully processed content into a digital preservation repository. This presentation will provide an overview of project goals and objectives and an update on current development work. (20 min. should suffice; Friday works fine.)

'''Remediating Loss: emerging roles for librarians''' - Angela Galvan (Ohio State): Technology complicates grief and loss in unexpected ways which researchers are only beginning to understand. This presentation discusses thanatosensitive information management, and a growing need to frame the dead as a user group. This talk can form around the interests of attendees. (20 minutes, either day.)

'''Building a PHP code library for Interacting with an Linked Data-based Discovery API''' - Karen Coombs (OCLC): The WorldCat Discovery API has the typical abilities you’d expect for building your own local discovery world: search access to WorldCat bibliographic and article data, facets, a variety of search indexes, and links to holdings. Because an RDF-based model is fairly new to libraries, we decided we could increase the adoptability of the API by providing a code library that would streamline the development process. This presentation will discuss the process of creating object-oriented PHP code library which would make the semantically rich entities and data available in a fashion that was more familiar to programmers used to working in OO PHP.

===Lightning Talks===
Have something cool to share but you don't want to be in front of the room for more than 5 minutes? Lightning talks are for you. Sign up now or at the conference:

'''Linked Data Fragments''' - James Van Mil - a small group in the Hydra world has started some work to address the issue of low availability of SPARQL endpoints. I can talk about the Linked Data Fragments concept and the work we're doing to apply it

'''Custom Reports in Google Analytics''' - Amelia Mowry

'''ILLiad at Ohio State''' - Angela Galvan - In 2014, the OSU Health Sciences Library migrated its Borrowing operation to University Libraries. This effectively ended the practice of using DOCLINE, the National Library of Medicine's interlibrary services platform, to obtain materials for health sciences patrons. I'll talk about why we made this decision and the wider impact to our users.

==Registration==
Registration is free. List your name, affiliation, and email address here to register for the meeting. If you signed up and are unable to attend please remove your name or contact us, so that we can make room for others.

Contact Ryan Wick (ryanwick@gmail.com) with your preferred username to set up a Code4Lib wiki account, or ask Terry Reese (reese.2179@osu.edu) to add your name to this list if you prefer not to set up an account.:

# David Malone - Wheaton College (david.malone%wheaton.edu)
# Ralph LeVan - OCLC (levan@oclc.org)
# Britain Woodman - University of Michigan (britainwumichedu)
# Angela Galvan - Ohio State University (galvan.as@gmail.com)
# Carrie Preston - Ohio University (prestonc@ohio.edu)
# Laurie Lee Moses - Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College Chicago (lmoses@colum.edu)
# Sasha Griffin - Denison University (griffins@denison.edu)
# Daniel Weddington - Berea College (Daniel_Weddington@berea.edu)
# Ken Irwin - Wittenberg University (kirwin@wittenberg.edu)
# Jane Wu - Otterbein University (jwu@otterbein.edu)
# James Van Mil - University of Cincinnati (vanmiljf@ucmail.uc.edu)
# Nathan Tallman - University of Cincinnati (tallmann@ucmail.uc.edu)
# Sean Crowe - University of Cincinnati (crowesn@ucmail.uc.edu)
# Jeffrey Mudge - Wheaton College (jeffrey.mudge@wheaton.edu)
# Karen Coombs - OCLC (coombsk@oclc.org)
# Ann Schoenenberger - Kenton County Public Library (Ann.Schoenenberger@kentonlibrary.org)
# Eric Lease Morgan - University of Notre Dame (emorgan@nd.edu)
# Peter Murray (jester@dltj.org)
# Jon Shank - Northwestern University (j-shank@northwestern.edu)
# Amelia Lauren Mowry - Wayne State University (amelia.mowry@wayne.edu)
# Mark Baggett - University of Tennessee (mbagget1@utk.edu)
# Rebecca Karlis - Marygrove College (rkarlis6534@marygrove.edu)
# Heidi Dowding - Indiana University (heidowdi@indiana.edu)
# Victor Replogle - Ball State University (vreplogle@bsu.edu)
# Paul Butler - Ball State University (prbutler@bsu.edu)
# Brittany Adams - Wheaton College (brittany.adams@wheaton.edu)
# Tod Olson - University of Chicago (tod@uchicago.edu)
# Kara Reuter - Worthington Libraries (kreuter@worthingtonlibraries.org)
# Stefan Langer - Worthington Libraries (slanger@worthingtonlibraries.org)
# Remington Steed - Hekman Library, Calvin College (rjs7@calvin.edu)
# Dan Wells - Hekman Library, Calvin College (dbw2@calvin.edu)
# Bill McMillin - University of Cincinnati (mcmillwh@ucmail.uc.edu)
# Carolyn Hansen - University of Cincinnati (hansencn@ucmail.uc.edu)
# Beth Snapp - Ohio State (snapp.6@osu.edu)
# Sarah Reid - Ohio State (reid.419@osu.edu)
# Ousmane Kebe - Ohio State (kebe.4@osu.edu)
# Dwight Scott - Ohio State (scott.1379@osu.edu)
# Russell Schelby - Ohio State (schelby.1@osu.edu)
# Chris Bartos - Ohio State (bartos.25@osu.edu)
# Friday only Michelle Gerry - Ohio State (gerry.8@osu.edu)
# Sue Rahnema - Ohio State (rahnema.3@osu.edu)
# Mike Shallcross - Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan (shallcro@umich.edu)
The capacity of our venue requires us to cap participation at 50. Beyond that, please put your name, affiliation and email address on the wait list and we'll email you if a spot opens up for you.

===Waitlist===

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2015 Code4Lib Midwest Meeting

2015-06-17T15:21:24Z

HeidiDowding: /* Registration */

2015 Invited Speakers Nominations

2014-10-20T11:49:52Z

HeidiDowding: Updates

'''Nominations are now closed.''' Thanks to everyone who submitted one!

Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for [http://code4lib.org/conference/2015 Code4Lib 2015]. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

<pre>

== Nominee's Name ==

Description of no more than 250 words.

[[Link(s) with contact information for nominee]]

</pre>

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== Amelia C. Abreu ==

Amelia Abreu lives in Portland, OR and works as a UX researcher. She is a PhD candidate at University of Washington's School of Information, where her dissertation research looks at the social aspects of data collection. Much of her recent writing, such as for [http://modelviewculture.com/pieces/quantify-everything-a-dream-of-a-feminist-data-future Model View Culture] and [https://medium.com/@ameliaabreu/latest Medium], addresses the intersection between UX, data collection, communities, and gender. She has written about [https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/39750/275.pdf?sequence=4 small data], [https://medium.com/@ameliaabreu/that-data-on-your-wrist-3e71dc1b3637 watches], and the [https://medium.com/@ameliaabreu/minium-viable-responsibility-850595f84f32 minimum viable responsibility] of tech companies performing user research in the wake of the Facebook emotional contagion experiments. Before starting her PhD program, Amelia worked as an archivist, a librarian, and a writer.

[https://twitter.com/ameliaabreu Amelia Abreu]

== Chris Bourg ==

Chris Bourg is Assistant University Librarian (AUL) for Public Services for the Stanford University Libraries, serves on the Steering Committee for [http://www.taiga-forum.org/ Taiga Forum], and is a sociologist by training. Chris is an outspoken advocate for diversity in libraries and lead Stanford University Libraries to implement a policy of not supporting conferences that lack a code of conduct. She was an organizing member of the "#libs4ada" campaign which raised over $16,000 for the Ada Initiative. Chris has written extensively on a number of topics, including gender, the military, and leadership. She blogs at [http://chrisbourg.wordpress.com/ Feral Librarian].

[http://chrisbourg.wordpress.com/about/ Chris Bourg]

== danah boyd ==

danah boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, and a Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center. She has done groundbreaking work on youth culture, particularly as impacted by social media and the internet in general. She has been addressing gender issues and technology since her work as an undergraduate at Brown.

[http://www.danah.org/ danah boyd]

== Deborah Bryant==
Deborah Bryant lives in Portland and is Red Hat's Senior Director of [http://community.redhat.com/ Open Source and Standards]. She has worked extensively as an open source consultant for governments, and has earned an international reputation for expertise in the adoption and use of open source software and open development models in the public sector. In her previous role as Public Sector Communities Manager at [http://osuosl.org/ Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab] : she founded and produced the annual Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) from 2005 to 2011. Also in that role she consulted with U.S. local, state and federal agencies as well as international governments to assist them in their understanding of open source, community, and its implications for policy and planning, public procurement and sourcing, economic development and work force training strategies. In 2010 Deborah received an [http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/schedule/speaker/31114 O’Reilly Open Source Convention] Open Source Award in recognition of her contribution to open source communities and advocating its use in government.

[http://debbryant.com/biography/ Deb Bryant]

== Kimberly Bryant ==

Biomedical/Engineering professional and founder of [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ Black Girls Code], an organization dedicated to bringing more WOC to technology and computer science. She gave a [http://vimeo.com/68572290 keynote at LibTechConf] in 2012, if you want to see what type of work she has been doing with BGC. They are also working on launching a companion group, [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/black-boys-code.html Black Boys Code].

[http://www.blackgirlscode.com/about-bgc.html Kimberly Bryant]

== Amber Case ==
Amber Case is the Director of [http://pdx.esri.com/ Esri's R&D Center], Portland, where she works on next generation location-based technology. Previously, she co-founded Geoloqi. In 2012, she was named one of National Geographic's Emerging Explorers and made Inc Magazine's 30 under 30 with Geoloqi co-founder Aaron Parecki. Case has spoken at [http://www.ted.com/speakers/amber_case TED on technology and humans] and regularly speaks around the world. Case is a proponent of data ownership, and uses her domain as her own personal data store and identity provider. Case founded [http://www.indiewebcamp.com/ IndieWebCamp] with Tantek Çelik and Aaron Parecki in 2010. Case is interested in furthering the ideas of Calm Technology, wearable computing, and the future of the interface. You can follow her on Twitter [http://www.twitter.com/caseorganic @caseorganic].

[http://caseorganic.com/about Amber Case]

== Trevor A. Dawes ==

Associate University Librarian, Washington University Libraries

(Taken from his WUSTL web page) Trevor A. Dawes is an Associate University Librarian at Washington University in St. Louis, where he’s responsible for research services (librarians with subject liaison responsibilities, the departmental libraries/librarians, and library outreach), as well as scholarly communications, collections and acquisitions, and preservation. He was previously the Circulation Services Director at the Princeton University Library, and prior to that held several positions at the Columbia University Libraries in NYC. He has worked with staff in developing and providing training for various public service operations; has authored, co-authored, or edited several books and articles on a variety of topics; and has either planned or presented at various local, national and international conferences. His new co-edited volume on the role of access services in the success of an academic library will be published by ACRL in the summer 2013. Since 2006, Dawes has been an instructor in the MSLIS program at the iSchool at Drexel University. Dawes earned his MLS from Rutgers University, and has two additional Master's Degrees from Teachers College, Columbia University. He is an active member of the American Library Association and is the 2013-2014 President of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL).

[http://library.wustl.edu/about/dawes.html Trevor A. Dawes]

==Selena Deckelmann==

Selena Deckelmann is a [http://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/ major contributor to PostgreSQL] and a data architect at Mozilla. She’s been involved with free and open source software since 1995 and began running conferences for PostgreSQL in 2007. In 2012, she founded [http://www.meetup.com/PyLadies-PDX/ PyLadiesPDX], a portland chapter of [http://pyladies.com/ PyLadies]. She founded [http://opensourcebridge.org/ Open Source Bridge], [http://postgresopen.org/ Postgres Open] and speaks internationally about open source, databases and community. You can find her on twitter ([http://twitter.com/selenamarie @selenamarie]) and on [http://chesnok.com/daily her blog]. She also [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehgO7pwkad4 keeps chickens] and gives a lot of [http://www.chesnok.com/daily/conferences/ technical talks].

She was an advisor for two years to the [http://adainitiative.org/ Ada Initiative], an organization dedicated to increasing the participation of women in open source and technology communities. She's a [http://www.whitecells.org/daily/speaking/index/ very experienced speaker], you can view an example of a recent talk here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ7qm6yglfE Ignite Portland talk on election rigging in Nigeria].

[http://www.chesnok.com/daily/about/ Selena Deckelmann]

== Sally Deffor ==

Sally Deffor works part-time as the Project Coordinator for the [http://personal-data.okfn.org/ Open Data & Privacy project]. She is a former Google Policy Fellow who supported the development of some initiatives on Creative Commons, Open Access and OSS at the Kofi Annan ICT Centre. She has also worked as a communications specialist with the Tax Justice Network (Africa) and the USAID/ICFG (Ghana). She currently lives in Preston (UK) where she is finishing a PhD at UCLan, looking at the digital practices of online news-making. She also spends some time volunteering in her local community. You can find her on Twitter at [https://twitter.com/SDeffor @SDeffor].

[http://www.flossie.org/content/sally-deffor Sally Deffor]

== Cory Doctorow ==

Cory is a blogger and co-editor of Boing Boing. He writes often and eloquently on intellectual property, privacy, and digital rights management, among other things. He has really smart things to say about general purpose computing (or lack thereof). He's also a speculative fiction writer.

[http://craphound.com Cory Doctorow]

==Limor Fried==

Open source hardware hacker. Founded [https://www.adafruit.com/ Adafruit Industries]. Adafruit designs and sells open source electronic kits as well as provides a space online to learn about making, wearables, and microcomputers. Fried was awarded the Pioneer Award by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 2009, the Most Influential Women in Technology award by ''Fast Company'' in 2011, and was named "Entrepreneur of the Year" in 2012 by ''Entrepreneur'' magazine. You can read more about her on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limor_Fried her Wikipedia article]. [http://www.ladyada.net/ Limor Fried]

== Rebecca Garcia ==

Rebecca is the Co-founder of [http://www.coderdojonyc.org CoderDojo NYC], a non-profit teaching youth to code. In 2013 she was awarded as a [http://whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/08/12/next-generation-creators-tech U.S. White House ‘Champion of Change’ for Tech Inclusion] for her work to bring STEM education to underrepresented groups, especially youth and women.

Previously she was a Developer at Do Something, the largest non-profit for youth and social change, and CTO of Greatist, a health, fitness and wellness media startup. Currently she is a Developer Evangelist at Squarespace, empowering people to build their ideas on the web.

[http://about.me/rebecca.garcia Rebecca Garcia]

==Sarah Jeong==

(from [http://sarahjeong.net/about/ here]:) Freshly-minted Harvard Law J.D. and writer. Co-author of [http://five.usefularticl.es/ Five Useful Articles] (ed: a weekly newsletter about intellectual property). I care about justice, the free flow of information, and using the free flow of information to enact justice. Other people would summarize this as “interested in feminism, antiracism, and also technology, copyright, and privacy for some reason.”

[http://sarahjeong.net/about/ Sarah Jeong]

==Charles D. Knutson==

Dr. Charles D. Knutson is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department of Brigham Young University and Director of the BYU SEQuOIA Lab where he conducts empirical research in software engineering, focusing on the dynamics of open source software construction. He is the Founder and Chairman of Kinpoint, Inc. a genealogy software company, Founder and Chairman of the non-profit Internet Safety Project, and host of the Internet Safety Podcast. He is the author of 130 publications and has delivered nearly 120 presentations around the world on topics including data communications, software engineering, Internet safety, and family history. Dr. Knutson holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Oregon State University and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Brigham Young University. He was the recipient of the 2013 BYU Technology Transfer Award. Dr. Knutson is the Founder and Managing Partner of Ironwood Experts, where he has served as an expert witness in patent litigation cases for clients including Apple, Amazon, Comcast, Expedia, Novell, Microsoft, and Vizio.

[http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~knutson/ Charles D. Knutson]

==Christie Koehler==

Portland-based experienced open culture advocate, community organizer, computer programmer, writer and speaker. Co-chair of the annual Open Source Bridge conference, a co-founder and President of the Stumptown Syndicate, a technology education non-profit, and run both Code N Splode and Women Who Hack, user groups for women in technology. In 2012, she was recognized with an O’Reilly Open Source Award.

Last keynoted at the Wikiconference USA and wrote a book on Community Event planning.

from here: [http://christiekoehler.com/ Christie's website]

==Mark Matienzo==

(contributed by kayiwa:) Mark is the director of Technology at DPLA. He is however much more than that. He has worked tirelessly as an archivist and technologist solving many problems in the library domain. While his leadership style shows up through service, it is time to actually listen to him for more than his oft moving 5 minute Lightning Talks.

(My stock bio:) "Mx (Mark) A. Matienzo is the Director of Technology for the [http://dp.la/ Digital Public Library of America]. Prior to joining DPLA, Matienzo worked as an archivist and technologist specializing in born-digital materials and metadata management, at institutions including the Yale University Library, The New York Public Library, and the American Institute of Physics, and on award-winning projects such as the [http://archivesspace.org ArchivesSpace] open source archival management system and [http://www.digitalcurationservices.org/aims/ AIMS - Born Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship]. Matienzo received a MSI from the University of Michigan School of Information and a BA in Philosophy from the College of Wooster, and was the first awardee (2012) of the Emerging Leader Award of the Society of American Archivists."

[http://matienzo.org/ Mark Matienzo]

==Bethany Nowviskie==

From her web site: "Nowviskie is Director of Digital Research & Scholarship (including the Scholars' Lab) at the University of Virginia Library, Special Advisor to UVa's Provost, a CLIR Distinguished Presidential Fellow, and immediate Past President of the ACH. Her muse, according to Willard McCarty, "is one angry B."...Last year's major events included: chairing the Digital Humanities conference, a keynote on the Scholars' Lab in Tokyo, an invited talk on digital materiality at the MLA Convention's Presidential Forum; various Neatline workshops, and a stint as a Lansdowne Visiting Scholar at UVic in Canada. I continue to teach at UVa's Rare Book School, and will give a only small number of talks this academic year, on a "New Deal" for the humanities and the imperatives of DH in the Anthropocene." [http://nowviskie.org/ Bethany Nowviskie]

== Jennifer O'Neal ==

Jennifer R. O'Neal is the Corrigan Solari University Historian and Archivist at the [http://library.uoregon.edu/speccoll/index.html University of Oregon Special Collections and Archives], where she manages the University Archives collections, oversees the department’s instruction program, and serves as an advisor on tribal community projects. From 2008 to 2012, she served as the Head Archivist for the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, and has held prior positions at the U.S. Department of State, Princeton University, University of Arizona, and Utah State University. She serves on various groups in the Society of American Archivists, including the Native American Archives Roundtable and the Cultural Heritage Working Group. In 2006 she participated in drafting the best practices for the respectful care and use of Native American archival materials, which produced the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials. She currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums. Most recently, she served as an instructor for the Oregon Tribal Archives Institute at Oregon State University. Her research interests include international indigenous activism, cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, intellectual property rights, digital humanities, and indigenous use of new media and technology. She is also a member of the The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde in Oregon.

[http://library.uoregon.edu/dc/directory/profile.php?profile=joneal Jennifer O'Neal]

== Bess Sadler ==
Bess Sadler is the manager of a software engineering team at Stanford University Library. She writes open source software and spends a lot of time on Free and Open Source Software projects like [http://projectblacklight.org/ Project Blacklight] and [http://www.projecthydra.org/ Project Hydra], both of which she cofounded. Bess Sadler was a [http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2010/03/people/movers-shakers-2010/bess-sadler-movers-shakers-2010-tech-leaders/#_ 2010 Library Journal Mover and Shaker]. She also served as the co-chair of [http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-foss Electronic Information for Libraries—Free and Open Source Software] in 2008-2009. You can read a few Ada Lovelace Day posts about Bess Sadler [http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/2009/03/24/bess-sadler-library-geek/ here] and [http://www.eifl.net/news/ada-lovelace-day-bess-sadler here]. She maintains a [http://www.ibiblio.org/bess/ blog] and is [https://twitter.com/eosadler @eosadler] on Twitter.

[https://www.linkedin.com/pub/bess-sadler/4/336/5b6 Bess Sadler]

==Dorothea Salo==

Academic librarian and library-school instructor whose interests include metadata and linked data, scholarly communication, research-data management, and digital preservation. Recent talks include [https://speakerdeck.com/dsalo/dont-make-me-think Don't Make Me Think] at Digital Frontiers 2014 and [https://speakerdeck.com/dsalo/the-purple-squirrel-and-other-damaging-technology-myths-slides-only The Purple Squirrel (and other damaging technology myths)] at the Conference on Law School Computing.

[http://dsalo.info/ Dorothea Salo]

==Rob Sanderson==

Rob Sanderson is the Technical Collaboration Facilitator at Stanford, and has played a leadership role in the development and publication of the [http://iiif.io/ IIIF Image and Presentation APIs], [http://www.openannotation.org/spec/core/ W3C Open Annotation], and [http://iiif.io/model/shared-canvas/1.0/index.html Shared Canvas] specs. This standards-based work is a critical prerequisite to developing next generation open source, cross-institutional tools for interacting with linked data and digitized content. Rob can convey (in a cool British [sic, edit: kiwi] accent) how to get better results when it comes to technical collaboration in libraries. [http://web.stanford.edu/~azaroth/ Rob Sanderson]

==Jer Thorp==

(from [http://www.thelavinagency.com/speaker-jer-thorp.htm here]:) [http://blog.blprnt.com Jer Thorp] is a data artist whose work focuses on adding narrative meaning to huge amounts of data. In other words, he makes data more human. Through cutting edge data visualization techniques, Thorp helps people and corporations take control of the information that surrounds them, using technology and data as a new way to tell stories. Originally from Vancouver, Jer lives in New York City, where he teaches in NYU’s ITP program. To investigate the results of Big Data, Thorp helped launch [The Office for Creative Research http://o-c-r.org/abstract/] with his peers. From 2010-2012, he was the Data Artist in Residence at The New York Times. Thorp's software-based art has been featured all over the world. His art brings big data sets to life, combining state-of-the-art science with a natural interest in the human condition. His “Cascade” project at The New York Times visualizes the sharing of content through social media, offering tremendous insight into the way we use digital networks to share, influence, and connect with others. He was also a major contributor to the 9/11 memorial project in New York City, where he wrote a program that organized the names of victims not by alphabetical order, but by relationships—putting coworkers next to coworkers, and brothers next to brothers. Thorp’s award-winning software-based work has been exhibited in Europe, Asia, North America, South America, including in the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan.

[http://www.thelavinagency.com/speaker-jer-thorp.html Jer Thorp]

==Zeynep Tufekci==

Zeynep Tufekci writes insightful and critical observations about the interactions between technology and society, media, Internet, social issues, big data, statistical and predictive analytics, and participatory politics at [https://medium.com/@zeynep/latest Medium], [http://www.theatlantic.com/zeynep-tufekci/ The Atlantic], [http://dmlcentral.net/blog/5240 Digital Media and Learning Central], and [http://technosociology.org/ Technosociology]. Twitter at @zeynep.

She is Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill at at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) with an affiliate appointment in the Department of Sociology. Previously, she was assistant professor of sociology at UMBC, a fellow at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University, and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Currently a faculty associate at the Berkman Center. [http://technosociology.org/ Technosociology]

== Kim Christen Withey ==

From [http://www.kimchristen.com/about.html her website]: "I am an Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Digital Technology and Culture program in the Department of English and Director of Digital Projects at the Plateau Center, Native American Programs at Washington State University. My work explores the intersections of cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, intellectual property rights, the ethics of openness, and the use of digital technologies in and by indigenous communities globally. I have worked in Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia over the last decade with Warumungu community members on a range of projects including a book, an interactive [http://www.vectorsjournal.org/issues/3/digitaldynamics/ website], and a community archive. My collaborations with the Warumungu focused on alliance-making in cross-cultural projects. I am currently working on several digital humanities projects that explore ethical issues of openness and access in relation to indigenous cultural protocols and digital archives. I am the Director of both the [http://plateauportal.wsulibs.wsu.edu/html/ppp/index.php Plateau Peoples' Web Portal], a collaboratively curated site of Plateau cultural materials and [http://mukurtu.org/ Mukurtu CMS]: a free and open source content management system and digital archive built around the particular needs of indigenous peoples globally."

[http://www.kimchristen.com/ Kim Christen Withey]

==Kam Woods==
Research Associate & Adjunct Faculty at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kam is currently developing modified open source digital forensics tools for digital archivists. He works with
archivists, librarians, forensics researchers, and other development groups to identify core needs in analyzing
and preparing digital content for preservation -- specifically needs that can be addressed using existing
high-performance forensic technologies (with a little tweaking). He is also interested in developing datasets
and teaching technologies to support education and professional training in digital archiving. He can give a great talk (I know from 2014 ALA) & I'll bet would have some great tech & social insides for Code4Lib. [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods]

==Andromeda Yelton==

Andromeda was last year's runner up in the keynote speaker voting. Formerly a developer with Unglue.it, she recently left full-time work there to help librarians learn to code. As such, she's helped run a preconference at ALA Annual teaching Python and taught a jQuery workshop at a Code4Lib DC event. She gave a great keynote at Online Northwest 2014 entitled "[http://andromedayelton.com/talks/onw14/ Five Conversations about Code]". Andromed is a member of the LITA Board of Directors and advisor for Ada Initiative.

[http://andromedayelton.com/about/ Andromeda Yelton]

== Kortney Ziegler ==

Dr. Kortney Ryan Ziegler is an Oakland based award winning artist, director, writer, and the first person to hold the Ph.D. of African American Studies from Northwestern University. Dr. Ziegler is also the founder of [http://transhack.org/ Trans*H4CK]--the only tech event of its kind that spotlights trans* created tech and trans* led startups, and the feature-length documentary [http://www.stillblackfilm.org/ STILL BLACK: A Portrait of Black Transmen].

[http://drkrz.flavors.me/ Kortney Ziegler]

== Shauna Gordon-McKeon ==

Shauna Gordon-McKeon is a writer, speaker, teacher, and programmer who works actively in the free and open source software (FOSS), open science and medicine, and open government/civic tech communities. She works on the Open Science Collaboration, and OpenHatch.org and is an active member of Ada Community. [http://www.shaunagm.net/ Click for more info about Shauna, a link to her blog, and her portfolio].

[http://drkrz.flavors.me/ Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

[[Category:Code4Lib2015]]

2015 Invited Speakers Nominations

2014-10-20T11:31:06Z

HeidiDowding: updated link

'''Nominations are now closed.''' Thanks to everyone who submitted one!

Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for [http://code4lib.org/conference/2015 Code4Lib 2015]. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

<pre>

== Nominee's Name ==

Description of no more than 250 words.

[[Link(s) with contact information for nominee]]

</pre>

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== Amelia C. Abreu ==

Amelia Abreu lives in Portland, OR and works as a UX researcher. She is a PhD candidate at University of Washington's School of Information, where her dissertation research looks at the social aspects of data collection. Much of her recent writing, such as for [http://modelviewculture.com/pieces/quantify-everything-a-dream-of-a-feminist-data-future Model View Culture] and [https://medium.com/@ameliaabreu/latest Medium], addresses the intersection between UX, data collection, communities, and gender. She has written about [https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/39750/275.pdf?sequence=4 small data], [https://medium.com/@ameliaabreu/that-data-on-your-wrist-3e71dc1b3637 watches], and the [https://medium.com/@ameliaabreu/minium-viable-responsibility-850595f84f32 minimum viable responsibility] of tech companies performing user research in the wake of the Facebook emotional contagion experiments. Before starting her PhD program, Amelia worked as an archivist, a librarian, and a writer.

[https://twitter.com/ameliaabreu Amelia Abreu]

== Chris Bourg ==

Chris Bourg is Assistant University Librarian (AUL) for Public Services for the Stanford University Libraries, serves on the Steering Committee for [http://www.taiga-forum.org/ Taiga Forum], and is a sociologist by training. Chris is an outspoken advocate for diversity in libraries and lead Stanford University Libraries to implement a policy of not supporting conferences that lack a code of conduct. She was an organizing member of the "#libs4ada" campaign which raised over $16,000 for the Ada Initiative. Chris has written extensively on a number of topics, including gender, the military, and leadership. She blogs at [http://chrisbourg.wordpress.com/ Feral Librarian].

[http://chrisbourg.wordpress.com/about/ Chris Bourg]

== danah boyd ==

danah boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, and a Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center. She has done groundbreaking work on youth culture, particularly as impacted by social media and the internet in general. She has been addressing gender issues and technology since her work as an undergraduate at Brown.

[http://www.danah.org/ danah boyd]

== Deborah Bryant==
Deborah Bryant lives in Portland and is Red Hat's Senior Director of [http://community.redhat.com/ Open Source and Standards]. She has worked extensively as an open source consultant for governments, and has earned an international reputation for expertise in the adoption and use of open source software and open development models in the public sector. In her previous role as Public Sector Communities Manager at [http://osuosl.org/ Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab] : she founded and produced the annual Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) from 2005 to 2011. Also in that role she consulted with U.S. local, state and federal agencies as well as international governments to assist them in their understanding of open source, community, and its implications for policy and planning, public procurement and sourcing, economic development and work force training strategies. In 2010 Deborah received an [http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/schedule/speaker/31114 O’Reilly Open Source Convention] Open Source Award in recognition of her contribution to open source communities and advocating its use in government.

[http://debbryant.com/biography/ Deb Bryant]

== Kimberly Bryant ==

Biomedical/Engineering professional and founder of [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ Black Girls Code], an organization dedicated to bringing more WOC to technology and computer science. She gave a [http://vimeo.com/68572290 keynote at LibTechConf] in 2012, if you want to see what type of work she has been doing with BGC. They are also working on launching a companion group, [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/black-boys-code.html Black Boys Code].

[http://www.blackgirlscode.com/about-bgc.html Kimberly Bryant]

== Amber Case ==
Portland-based, working on next generation location-based technology. Data ownership. Frequent speaker. Calm Technology, wearable computing, and the future of the interface. Previously she has keynoted the Digital Strategies for Heritage Conference, Rotterdam, Netherlands and given TED and SXSW talks on Cyborg Anthropology, a topic she's currently editing a book about.

[http://caseorganic.com/about Amber Case]

== Trevor A. Dawes ==

Associate University Librarian, Washington University Libraries

(Taken from his WUSTL web page) Trevor A. Dawes is an Associate University Librarian at Washington University in St. Louis, where he’s responsible for research services (librarians with subject liaison responsibilities, the departmental libraries/librarians, and library outreach), as well as scholarly communications, collections and acquisitions, and preservation. He was previously the Circulation Services Director at the Princeton University Library, and prior to that held several positions at the Columbia University Libraries in NYC. He has worked with staff in developing and providing training for various public service operations; has authored, co-authored, or edited several books and articles on a variety of topics; and has either planned or presented at various local, national and international conferences. His new co-edited volume on the role of access services in the success of an academic library will be published by ACRL in the summer 2013. Since 2006, Dawes has been an instructor in the MSLIS program at the iSchool at Drexel University. Dawes earned his MLS from Rutgers University, and has two additional Master's Degrees from Teachers College, Columbia University. He is an active member of the American Library Association and is the 2013-2014 President of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL).

[http://library.wustl.edu/about/dawes.html Trevor A. Dawes]

==Selena Deckelmann==

Selena Deckelmann is a [http://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/ major contributor to PostgreSQL] and a data architect at Mozilla. She’s been involved with free and open source software since 1995 and began running conferences for PostgreSQL in 2007. In 2012, she founded [http://www.meetup.com/PyLadies-PDX/ PyLadiesPDX], a portland chapter of [http://pyladies.com/ PyLadies]. She founded [http://opensourcebridge.org/ Open Source Bridge], [http://postgresopen.org/ Postgres Open] and speaks internationally about open source, databases and community. You can find her on twitter ([http://twitter.com/selenamarie @selenamarie]) and on [http://chesnok.com/daily her blog]. She also [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehgO7pwkad4 keeps chickens] and gives a lot of [http://www.chesnok.com/daily/conferences/ technical talks].

She was an advisor for two years to the [http://adainitiative.org/ Ada Initiative], an organization dedicated to increasing the participation of women in open source and technology communities. She's a [http://www.whitecells.org/daily/speaking/index/ very experienced speaker], you can view an example of a recent talk here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ7qm6yglfE Ignite Portland talk on election rigging in Nigeria].

[http://www.chesnok.com/daily/about/ Selena Deckelmann]

== Sally Deffor ==

Sally Deffor works part-time as the Project Coordinator for the [http://personal-data.okfn.org/ Open Data & Privacy project]. She is a former Google Policy Fellow who supported the development of some initiatives on Creative Commons, Open Access and OSS at the Kofi Annan ICT Centre. She has also worked as a communications specialist with the Tax Justice Network (Africa) and the USAID/ICFG (Ghana). She currently lives in Preston (UK) where she is finishing a PhD at UCLan, looking at the digital practices of online news-making. She also spends some time volunteering in her local community. You can find her on Twitter at [https://twitter.com/SDeffor @SDeffor].

[http://www.flossie.org/content/sally-deffor Sally Deffor]

== Cory Doctorow ==

Cory is a blogger and co-editor of Boing Boing. He writes often and eloquently on intellectual property, privacy, and digital rights management, among other things. He has really smart things to say about general purpose computing (or lack thereof). He's also a speculative fiction writer.

[http://craphound.com Cory Doctorow]

==Limor Fried==

Open source hardware hacker. Founded [https://www.adafruit.com/ Adafruit Industries]. Adafruit designs and sells open source electronic kits as well as provides a space online to learn about making, wearables, and microcomputers. Fried was awarded the Pioneer Award by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 2009, the Most Influential Women in Technology award by ''Fast Company'' in 2011, and was named "Entrepreneur of the Year" in 2012 by ''Entrepreneur'' magazine. You can read more about her on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limor_Fried her Wikipedia article]. [http://www.ladyada.net/ Limor Fried]

== Rebecca Garcia ==

Rebecca is the Co-founder of [http://www.coderdojonyc.org CoderDojo NYC], a non-profit teaching youth to code. In 2013 she was awarded as a [http://whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/08/12/next-generation-creators-tech U.S. White House ‘Champion of Change’ for Tech Inclusion] for her work to bring STEM education to underrepresented groups, especially youth and women.

Previously she was a Developer at Do Something, the largest non-profit for youth and social change, and CTO of Greatist, a health, fitness and wellness media startup. Currently she is a Developer Evangelist at Squarespace, empowering people to build their ideas on the web.

[http://about.me/rebecca.garcia Rebecca Garcia]

==Sarah Jeong==

(from [http://sarahjeong.net/about/ here]:) Freshly-minted Harvard Law J.D. and writer. Co-author of [http://five.usefularticl.es/ Five Useful Articles] (ed: a weekly newsletter about intellectual property). I care about justice, the free flow of information, and using the free flow of information to enact justice. Other people would summarize this as “interested in feminism, antiracism, and also technology, copyright, and privacy for some reason.”

[http://sarahjeong.net/about/ Sarah Jeong]

==Charles D. Knutson==

Dr. Charles D. Knutson is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department of Brigham Young University and Director of the BYU SEQuOIA Lab where he conducts empirical research in software engineering, focusing on the dynamics of open source software construction. He is the Founder and Chairman of Kinpoint, Inc. a genealogy software company, Founder and Chairman of the non-profit Internet Safety Project, and host of the Internet Safety Podcast. He is the author of 130 publications and has delivered nearly 120 presentations around the world on topics including data communications, software engineering, Internet safety, and family history. Dr. Knutson holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Oregon State University and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Brigham Young University. He was the recipient of the 2013 BYU Technology Transfer Award. Dr. Knutson is the Founder and Managing Partner of Ironwood Experts, where he has served as an expert witness in patent litigation cases for clients including Apple, Amazon, Comcast, Expedia, Novell, Microsoft, and Vizio.

[http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~knutson/ Charles D. Knutson]

==Christie Koehler==

Portland-based experienced open culture advocate, community organizer, computer programmer, writer and speaker. Co-chair of the annual Open Source Bridge conference, a co-founder and President of the Stumptown Syndicate, a technology education non-profit, and run both Code N Splode and Women Who Hack, user groups for women in technology. In 2012, she was recognized with an O’Reilly Open Source Award.

Last keynoted at the Wikiconference USA and wrote a book on Community Event planning.

from here: [http://christiekoehler.com/ Christie's website]

==Mark Matienzo==

(contributed by kayiwa:) Mark is the director of Technology at DPLA. He is however much more than that. He has worked tirelessly as an archivist and technologist solving many problems in the library domain. While his leadership style shows up through service, it is time to actually listen to him for more than his oft moving 5 minute Lightning Talks.

(My stock bio:) "Mx (Mark) A. Matienzo is the Director of Technology for the [http://dp.la/ Digital Public Library of America]. Prior to joining DPLA, Matienzo worked as an archivist and technologist specializing in born-digital materials and metadata management, at institutions including the Yale University Library, The New York Public Library, and the American Institute of Physics, and on award-winning projects such as the [http://archivesspace.org ArchivesSpace] open source archival management system and [http://www.digitalcurationservices.org/aims/ AIMS - Born Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship]. Matienzo received a MSI from the University of Michigan School of Information and a BA in Philosophy from the College of Wooster, and was the first awardee (2012) of the Emerging Leader Award of the Society of American Archivists."

[http://matienzo.org/ Mark Matienzo]

==Bethany Nowviskie==

From her web site: "Nowviskie is Director of Digital Research & Scholarship (including the Scholars' Lab) at the University of Virginia Library, Special Advisor to UVa's Provost, a CLIR Distinguished Presidential Fellow, and immediate Past President of the ACH. Her muse, according to Willard McCarty, "is one angry B."...Last year's major events included: chairing the Digital Humanities conference, a keynote on the Scholars' Lab in Tokyo, an invited talk on digital materiality at the MLA Convention's Presidential Forum; various Neatline workshops, and a stint as a Lansdowne Visiting Scholar at UVic in Canada. I continue to teach at UVa's Rare Book School, and will give a only small number of talks this academic year, on a "New Deal" for the humanities and the imperatives of DH in the Anthropocene." [http://nowviskie.org/ Bethany Nowviskie]

== Jennifer O'Neal ==

Jennifer R. O'Neal is the Corrigan Solari University Historian and Archivist at the [http://library.uoregon.edu/speccoll/index.html University of Oregon Special Collections and Archives], where she manages the University Archives collections, oversees the department’s instruction program, and serves as an advisor on tribal community projects. From 2008 to 2012, she served as the Head Archivist for the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, and has held prior positions at the U.S. Department of State, Princeton University, University of Arizona, and Utah State University. She serves on various groups in the Society of American Archivists, including the Native American Archives Roundtable and the Cultural Heritage Working Group. In 2006 she participated in drafting the best practices for the respectful care and use of Native American archival materials, which produced the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials. She currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums. Most recently, she served as an instructor for the Oregon Tribal Archives Institute at Oregon State University. Her research interests include international indigenous activism, cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, intellectual property rights, digital humanities, and indigenous use of new media and technology. She is also a member of the The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde in Oregon.

[http://library.uoregon.edu/dc/directory/profile.php?profile=joneal Jennifer O'Neal]

== Bess Sadler ==
Bess Sadler is the manager of a software engineering team at Stanford University Library. She writes open source software and spends a lot of time on Free and Open Source Software projects like [http://projectblacklight.org/ Project Blacklight] and [http://www.projecthydra.org/ Project Hydra], both of which she cofounded. Bess Sadler was a [http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2010/03/people/movers-shakers-2010/bess-sadler-movers-shakers-2010-tech-leaders/#_ 2010 Library Journal Mover and Shaker]. She also served as the co-chair of [http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-foss Electronic Information for Libraries—Free and Open Source Software] in 2008-2009. You can read a few Ada Lovelace Day posts about Bess Sadler [http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/2009/03/24/bess-sadler-library-geek/ here] and [http://www.eifl.net/news/ada-lovelace-day-bess-sadler here]. She maintains a [http://www.ibiblio.org/bess/ blog] and is [https://twitter.com/eosadler @eosadler] on Twitter.

[https://www.linkedin.com/pub/bess-sadler/4/336/5b6 Bess Sadler]

==Dorothea Salo==

Academic librarian and library-school instructor whose interests include metadata and linked data, scholarly communication, research-data management, and digital preservation. Recent talks include [https://speakerdeck.com/dsalo/dont-make-me-think Don't Make Me Think] at Digital Frontiers 2014 and [https://speakerdeck.com/dsalo/the-purple-squirrel-and-other-damaging-technology-myths-slides-only The Purple Squirrel (and other damaging technology myths)] at the Conference on Law School Computing.

[http://dsalo.info/ Dorothea Salo]

==Rob Sanderson==

Rob Sanderson is the Technical Collaboration Facilitator at Stanford, and has played a leadership role in the development and publication of the [http://iiif.io/ IIIF Image and Presentation APIs], [http://www.openannotation.org/spec/core/ W3C Open Annotation], and [http://iiif.io/model/shared-canvas/1.0/index.html Shared Canvas] specs. This standards-based work is a critical prerequisite to developing next generation open source, cross-institutional tools for interacting with linked data and digitized content. Rob can convey (in a cool British [sic, edit: kiwi] accent) how to get better results when it comes to technical collaboration in libraries. [http://web.stanford.edu/~azaroth/ Rob Sanderson]

==Jer Thorp==

(from [http://www.thelavinagency.com/speaker-jer-thorp.htm here]:) [http://blog.blprnt.com Jer Thorp] is a data artist whose work focuses on adding narrative meaning to huge amounts of data. In other words, he makes data more human. Through cutting edge data visualization techniques, Thorp helps people and corporations take control of the information that surrounds them, using technology and data as a new way to tell stories. Originally from Vancouver, Jer lives in New York City, where he teaches in NYU’s ITP program. To investigate the results of Big Data, Thorp helped launch [The Office for Creative Research http://o-c-r.org/abstract/] with his peers. From 2010-2012, he was the Data Artist in Residence at The New York Times. Thorp's software-based art has been featured all over the world. His art brings big data sets to life, combining state-of-the-art science with a natural interest in the human condition. His “Cascade” project at The New York Times visualizes the sharing of content through social media, offering tremendous insight into the way we use digital networks to share, influence, and connect with others. He was also a major contributor to the 9/11 memorial project in New York City, where he wrote a program that organized the names of victims not by alphabetical order, but by relationships—putting coworkers next to coworkers, and brothers next to brothers. Thorp’s award-winning software-based work has been exhibited in Europe, Asia, North America, South America, including in the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan.

[http://www.thelavinagency.com/speaker-jer-thorp.html Jer Thorp]

==Zeynep Tufekci==

Zeynep Tufekci writes insightful and critical observations about the interactions between technology and society, media, Internet, social issues, big data, statistical and predictive analytics, and participatory politics at [https://medium.com/@zeynep/latest Medium], [http://www.theatlantic.com/zeynep-tufekci/ The Atlantic], [http://dmlcentral.net/blog/5240 Digital Media and Learning Central], and [http://technosociology.org/ Technosociology]. Twitter at @zeynep.

She is Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill at at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) with an affiliate appointment in the Department of Sociology. Previously, she was assistant professor of sociology at UMBC, a fellow at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University, and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Currently a faculty associate at the Berkman Center. [http://technosociology.org/ Technosociology]

== Kim Christen Withey ==

From [http://www.kimchristen.com/about.html her website]: "I am an Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Digital Technology and Culture program in the Department of English and Director of Digital Projects at the Plateau Center, Native American Programs at Washington State University. My work explores the intersections of cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, intellectual property rights, the ethics of openness, and the use of digital technologies in and by indigenous communities globally. I have worked in Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia over the last decade with Warumungu community members on a range of projects including a book, an interactive [http://www.vectorsjournal.org/issues/3/digitaldynamics/ website], and a community archive. My collaborations with the Warumungu focused on alliance-making in cross-cultural projects. I am currently working on several digital humanities projects that explore ethical issues of openness and access in relation to indigenous cultural protocols and digital archives. I am the Director of both the [http://plateauportal.wsulibs.wsu.edu/html/ppp/index.php Plateau Peoples' Web Portal], a collaboratively curated site of Plateau cultural materials and [http://mukurtu.org/ Mukurtu CMS]: a free and open source content management system and digital archive built around the particular needs of indigenous peoples globally."

[http://www.kimchristen.com/ Kim Christen Withey]

==Kam Woods==
Research Associate & Adjunct Faculty at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kam is currently developing modified open source digital forensics tools for digital archivists. He works with
archivists, librarians, forensics researchers, and other development groups to identify core needs in analyzing
and preparing digital content for preservation -- specifically needs that can be addressed using existing
high-performance forensic technologies (with a little tweaking). He is also interested in developing datasets
and teaching technologies to support education and professional training in digital archiving. He can give a great talk (I know from 2014 ALA) & I'll bet would have some great tech & social insides for Code4Lib. [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods]

==Andromeda Yelton==

Andromeda was last year's runner up in the keynote speaker voting. Formerly a developer with Unglue.it, she recently left full-time work there to help librarians learn to code. As such, she's helped run a preconference at ALA Annual teaching Python and taught a jQuery workshop at a Code4Lib DC event. She gave a great keynote at Online Northwest 2014 entitled "[http://andromedayelton.com/talks/onw14/ Five Conversations about Code]". Andromed is a member of the LITA Board of Directors and advisor for Ada Initiative.

[http://andromedayelton.com/about/ Andromeda Yelton]

== Kortney Ziegler ==

Dr. Kortney Ryan Ziegler is an Oakland based award winning artist, director, writer, and the first person to hold the Ph.D. of African American Studies from Northwestern University. Dr. Ziegler is also the founder of [http://transhack.org/ Trans*H4CK]--the only tech event of its kind that spotlights trans* created tech and trans* led startups, and the feature-length documentary [http://www.stillblackfilm.org/ STILL BLACK: A Portrait of Black Transmen].

[http://drkrz.flavors.me/ Kortney Ziegler]

== Shauna Gordon-McKeon ==

Shauna Gordon-McKeon is a writer, speaker, teacher, and programmer who works actively in the free and open source software (FOSS), open science and medicine, and open government/civic tech communities. She works on the Open Science Collaboration, and OpenHatch.org and is an active member of Ada Community. [http://www.shaunagm.net/ Click for more info about Shauna, a link to her blog, and her portfolio].

[http://drkrz.flavors.me/ Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

[[Category:Code4Lib2015]]

2015 Invited Speakers Nominations

2014-10-20T11:28:08Z

HeidiDowding:

'''Nominations are now closed.''' Thanks to everyone who submitted one!

Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for [http://code4lib.org/conference/2015 Code4Lib 2015]. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

<pre>

== Nominee's Name ==

Description of no more than 250 words.

[[Link(s) with contact information for nominee]]

</pre>

__TOC__

== Amelia C. Abreu ==

Amelia Abreu lives in Portland, OR and works as a UX researcher. She is a PhD candidate at University of Washington's School of Information, where her dissertation research looks at the social aspects of data collection. Much of her recent writing, such as for [http://modelviewculture.com/pieces/quantify-everything-a-dream-of-a-feminist-data-future Model View Culture] and [https://medium.com/@ameliaabreu/latest Medium], addresses the intersection between UX, data collection, communities, and gender. She has written about [https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/39750/275.pdf?sequence=4 small data], [https://medium.com/@ameliaabreu/that-data-on-your-wrist-3e71dc1b3637 watches], and the [https://medium.com/@ameliaabreu/minium-viable-responsibility-850595f84f32 minimum viable responsibility] of tech companies performing user research in the wake of the Facebook emotional contagion experiments. Before starting her PhD program, Amelia worked as an archivist, a librarian, and a writer.

[https://twitter.com/ameliaabreu Amelia Abreu]

== Chris Bourg ==

Chris Bourg is Assistant University Librarian (AUL) for Public Services for the Stanford University Libraries, serves on the Steering Committee for [http://www.taiga-forum.org/ Taiga Forum], and is a sociologist by training. Chris is an outspoken advocate for diversity in libraries and lead Stanford University Libraries to implement a policy of not supporting conferences that lack a code of conduct. She was an organizing member of the "#libs4ada" campaign which raised over $16,000 for the Ada Initiative. Chris has written extensively on a number of topics, including gender, the military, and leadership. She blogs at [http://chrisbourg.wordpress.com/ Feral Librarian].

[http://chrisbourg.wordpress.com/about/ Chris Bourg]

== danah boyd ==

danah boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, and a Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center. She has done groundbreaking work on youth culture, particularly as impacted by social media and the internet in general. She has been addressing gender issues and technology since her work as an undergraduate at Brown.

[http://www.danah.org/ danah boyd]

== Deborah Bryant==
Deborah Bryant lives in Portland and is Red Hat's Senior Director of [http://community.redhat.com/ Open Source and Standards]. She has worked extensively as an open source consultant for governments, and has earned an international reputation for expertise in the adoption and use of open source software and open development models in the public sector. In her previous role as Public Sector Communities Manager at [http://osuosl.org/ Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab] : she founded and produced the annual Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) from 2005 to 2011. Also in that role she consulted with U.S. local, state and federal agencies as well as international governments to assist them in their understanding of open source, community, and its implications for policy and planning, public procurement and sourcing, economic development and work force training strategies. In 2010 Deborah received an [http://http//goscon.org O’Reilly Open Source Convention] Open Source Award in recognition of her contribution to open source communities and advocating its use in government.

[http://debbryant.com/biography/ Deb Bryant]

== Kimberly Bryant ==

Biomedical/Engineering professional and founder of [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ Black Girls Code], an organization dedicated to bringing more WOC to technology and computer science. She gave a [http://vimeo.com/68572290 keynote at LibTechConf] in 2012, if you want to see what type of work she has been doing with BGC. They are also working on launching a companion group, [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/black-boys-code.html Black Boys Code].

[http://www.blackgirlscode.com/about-bgc.html Kimberly Bryant]

== Amber Case ==
Portland-based, working on next generation location-based technology. Data ownership. Frequent speaker. Calm Technology, wearable computing, and the future of the interface. Previously she has keynoted the Digital Strategies for Heritage Conference, Rotterdam, Netherlands and given TED and SXSW talks on Cyborg Anthropology, a topic she's currently editing a book about.

[http://caseorganic.com/about Amber Case]

== Trevor A. Dawes ==

Associate University Librarian, Washington University Libraries

(Taken from his WUSTL web page) Trevor A. Dawes is an Associate University Librarian at Washington University in St. Louis, where he’s responsible for research services (librarians with subject liaison responsibilities, the departmental libraries/librarians, and library outreach), as well as scholarly communications, collections and acquisitions, and preservation. He was previously the Circulation Services Director at the Princeton University Library, and prior to that held several positions at the Columbia University Libraries in NYC. He has worked with staff in developing and providing training for various public service operations; has authored, co-authored, or edited several books and articles on a variety of topics; and has either planned or presented at various local, national and international conferences. His new co-edited volume on the role of access services in the success of an academic library will be published by ACRL in the summer 2013. Since 2006, Dawes has been an instructor in the MSLIS program at the iSchool at Drexel University. Dawes earned his MLS from Rutgers University, and has two additional Master's Degrees from Teachers College, Columbia University. He is an active member of the American Library Association and is the 2013-2014 President of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL).

[http://library.wustl.edu/about/dawes.html Trevor A. Dawes]

==Selena Deckelmann==

Selena Deckelmann is a [http://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/ major contributor to PostgreSQL] and a data architect at Mozilla. She’s been involved with free and open source software since 1995 and began running conferences for PostgreSQL in 2007. In 2012, she founded [http://www.meetup.com/PyLadies-PDX/ PyLadiesPDX], a portland chapter of [http://pyladies.com/ PyLadies]. She founded [http://opensourcebridge.org/ Open Source Bridge], [http://postgresopen.org/ Postgres Open] and speaks internationally about open source, databases and community. You can find her on twitter ([http://twitter.com/selenamarie @selenamarie]) and on [http://chesnok.com/daily her blog]. She also [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehgO7pwkad4 keeps chickens] and gives a lot of [http://www.chesnok.com/daily/conferences/ technical talks].

She was an advisor for two years to the [http://adainitiative.org/ Ada Initiative], an organization dedicated to increasing the participation of women in open source and technology communities. She's a [http://www.whitecells.org/daily/speaking/index/ very experienced speaker], you can view an example of a recent talk here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ7qm6yglfE Ignite Portland talk on election rigging in Nigeria].

[http://www.chesnok.com/daily/about/ Selena Deckelmann]

== Sally Deffor ==

Sally Deffor works part-time as the Project Coordinator for the [http://personal-data.okfn.org/ Open Data & Privacy project]. She is a former Google Policy Fellow who supported the development of some initiatives on Creative Commons, Open Access and OSS at the Kofi Annan ICT Centre. She has also worked as a communications specialist with the Tax Justice Network (Africa) and the USAID/ICFG (Ghana). She currently lives in Preston (UK) where she is finishing a PhD at UCLan, looking at the digital practices of online news-making. She also spends some time volunteering in her local community. You can find her on Twitter at [https://twitter.com/SDeffor @SDeffor].

[http://www.flossie.org/content/sally-deffor Sally Deffor]

== Cory Doctorow ==

Cory is a blogger and co-editor of Boing Boing. He writes often and eloquently on intellectual property, privacy, and digital rights management, among other things. He has really smart things to say about general purpose computing (or lack thereof). He's also a speculative fiction writer.

[http://craphound.com Cory Doctorow]

==Limor Fried==

Open source hardware hacker. Founded [https://www.adafruit.com/ Adafruit Industries]. Adafruit designs and sells open source electronic kits as well as provides a space online to learn about making, wearables, and microcomputers. Fried was awarded the Pioneer Award by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 2009, the Most Influential Women in Technology award by ''Fast Company'' in 2011, and was named "Entrepreneur of the Year" in 2012 by ''Entrepreneur'' magazine. You can read more about her on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limor_Fried her Wikipedia article]. [http://www.ladyada.net/ Limor Fried]

== Rebecca Garcia ==

Rebecca is the Co-founder of [http://www.coderdojonyc.org CoderDojo NYC], a non-profit teaching youth to code. In 2013 she was awarded as a [http://whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/08/12/next-generation-creators-tech U.S. White House ‘Champion of Change’ for Tech Inclusion] for her work to bring STEM education to underrepresented groups, especially youth and women.

Previously she was a Developer at Do Something, the largest non-profit for youth and social change, and CTO of Greatist, a health, fitness and wellness media startup. Currently she is a Developer Evangelist at Squarespace, empowering people to build their ideas on the web.

[http://about.me/rebecca.garcia Rebecca Garcia]

==Sarah Jeong==

(from [http://sarahjeong.net/about/ here]:) Freshly-minted Harvard Law J.D. and writer. Co-author of [http://five.usefularticl.es/ Five Useful Articles] (ed: a weekly newsletter about intellectual property). I care about justice, the free flow of information, and using the free flow of information to enact justice. Other people would summarize this as “interested in feminism, antiracism, and also technology, copyright, and privacy for some reason.”

[http://sarahjeong.net/about/ Sarah Jeong]

==Charles D. Knutson==

Dr. Charles D. Knutson is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department of Brigham Young University and Director of the BYU SEQuOIA Lab where he conducts empirical research in software engineering, focusing on the dynamics of open source software construction. He is the Founder and Chairman of Kinpoint, Inc. a genealogy software company, Founder and Chairman of the non-profit Internet Safety Project, and host of the Internet Safety Podcast. He is the author of 130 publications and has delivered nearly 120 presentations around the world on topics including data communications, software engineering, Internet safety, and family history. Dr. Knutson holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Oregon State University and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Brigham Young University. He was the recipient of the 2013 BYU Technology Transfer Award. Dr. Knutson is the Founder and Managing Partner of Ironwood Experts, where he has served as an expert witness in patent litigation cases for clients including Apple, Amazon, Comcast, Expedia, Novell, Microsoft, and Vizio.

[http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~knutson/ Charles D. Knutson]

==Christie Koehler==

Portland-based experienced open culture advocate, community organizer, computer programmer, writer and speaker. Co-chair of the annual Open Source Bridge conference, a co-founder and President of the Stumptown Syndicate, a technology education non-profit, and run both Code N Splode and Women Who Hack, user groups for women in technology. In 2012, she was recognized with an O’Reilly Open Source Award.

Last keynoted at the Wikiconference USA and wrote a book on Community Event planning.

from here: [http://christiekoehler.com/ Christie's website]

==Mark Matienzo==

(contributed by kayiwa:) Mark is the director of Technology at DPLA. He is however much more than that. He has worked tirelessly as an archivist and technologist solving many problems in the library domain. While his leadership style shows up through service, it is time to actually listen to him for more than his oft moving 5 minute Lightning Talks.

(My stock bio:) "Mx (Mark) A. Matienzo is the Director of Technology for the [http://dp.la/ Digital Public Library of America]. Prior to joining DPLA, Matienzo worked as an archivist and technologist specializing in born-digital materials and metadata management, at institutions including the Yale University Library, The New York Public Library, and the American Institute of Physics, and on award-winning projects such as the [http://archivesspace.org ArchivesSpace] open source archival management system and [http://www.digitalcurationservices.org/aims/ AIMS - Born Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship]. Matienzo received a MSI from the University of Michigan School of Information and a BA in Philosophy from the College of Wooster, and was the first awardee (2012) of the Emerging Leader Award of the Society of American Archivists."

[http://matienzo.org/ Mark Matienzo]

==Bethany Nowviskie==

From her web site: "Nowviskie is Director of Digital Research & Scholarship (including the Scholars' Lab) at the University of Virginia Library, Special Advisor to UVa's Provost, a CLIR Distinguished Presidential Fellow, and immediate Past President of the ACH. Her muse, according to Willard McCarty, "is one angry B."...Last year's major events included: chairing the Digital Humanities conference, a keynote on the Scholars' Lab in Tokyo, an invited talk on digital materiality at the MLA Convention's Presidential Forum; various Neatline workshops, and a stint as a Lansdowne Visiting Scholar at UVic in Canada. I continue to teach at UVa's Rare Book School, and will give a only small number of talks this academic year, on a "New Deal" for the humanities and the imperatives of DH in the Anthropocene." [http://nowviskie.org/ Bethany Nowviskie]

== Jennifer O'Neal ==

Jennifer R. O'Neal is the Corrigan Solari University Historian and Archivist at the [http://library.uoregon.edu/speccoll/index.html University of Oregon Special Collections and Archives], where she manages the University Archives collections, oversees the department’s instruction program, and serves as an advisor on tribal community projects. From 2008 to 2012, she served as the Head Archivist for the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, and has held prior positions at the U.S. Department of State, Princeton University, University of Arizona, and Utah State University. She serves on various groups in the Society of American Archivists, including the Native American Archives Roundtable and the Cultural Heritage Working Group. In 2006 she participated in drafting the best practices for the respectful care and use of Native American archival materials, which produced the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials. She currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums. Most recently, she served as an instructor for the Oregon Tribal Archives Institute at Oregon State University. Her research interests include international indigenous activism, cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, intellectual property rights, digital humanities, and indigenous use of new media and technology. She is also a member of the The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde in Oregon.

[http://library.uoregon.edu/dc/directory/profile.php?profile=joneal Jennifer O'Neal]

== Bess Sadler ==
Bess Sadler is the manager of a software engineering team at Stanford University Library. She writes open source software and spends a lot of time on Free and Open Source Software projects like [http://projectblacklight.org/ Project Blacklight] and [http://www.projecthydra.org/ Project Hydra], both of which she cofounded. Bess Sadler was a [http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2010/03/people/movers-shakers-2010/bess-sadler-movers-shakers-2010-tech-leaders/#_ 2010 Library Journal Mover and Shaker]. She also served as the co-chair of [http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-foss Electronic Information for Libraries—Free and Open Source Software] in 2008-2009. You can read a few Ada Lovelace Day posts about Bess Sadler [http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/2009/03/24/bess-sadler-library-geek/ here] and [http://www.eifl.net/news/ada-lovelace-day-bess-sadler here]. She maintains a [http://www.ibiblio.org/bess/ blog] and is [https://twitter.com/eosadler @eosadler] on Twitter.

[https://www.linkedin.com/pub/bess-sadler/4/336/5b6 Bess Sadler]

==Dorothea Salo==

Academic librarian and library-school instructor whose interests include metadata and linked data, scholarly communication, research-data management, and digital preservation. Recent talks include [https://speakerdeck.com/dsalo/dont-make-me-think Don't Make Me Think] at Digital Frontiers 2014 and [https://speakerdeck.com/dsalo/the-purple-squirrel-and-other-damaging-technology-myths-slides-only The Purple Squirrel (and other damaging technology myths)] at the Conference on Law School Computing.

[http://dsalo.info/ Dorothea Salo]

==Rob Sanderson==

Rob Sanderson is the Technical Collaboration Facilitator at Stanford, and has played a leadership role in the development and publication of the [http://iiif.io/ IIIF Image and Presentation APIs], [http://www.openannotation.org/spec/core/ W3C Open Annotation], and [http://iiif.io/model/shared-canvas/1.0/index.html Shared Canvas] specs. This standards-based work is a critical prerequisite to developing next generation open source, cross-institutional tools for interacting with linked data and digitized content. Rob can convey (in a cool British [sic, edit: kiwi] accent) how to get better results when it comes to technical collaboration in libraries. [http://web.stanford.edu/~azaroth/ Rob Sanderson]

==Jer Thorp==

(from [http://www.thelavinagency.com/speaker-jer-thorp.htm here]:) [http://blog.blprnt.com Jer Thorp] is a data artist whose work focuses on adding narrative meaning to huge amounts of data. In other words, he makes data more human. Through cutting edge data visualization techniques, Thorp helps people and corporations take control of the information that surrounds them, using technology and data as a new way to tell stories. Originally from Vancouver, Jer lives in New York City, where he teaches in NYU’s ITP program. To investigate the results of Big Data, Thorp helped launch [The Office for Creative Research http://o-c-r.org/abstract/] with his peers. From 2010-2012, he was the Data Artist in Residence at The New York Times. Thorp's software-based art has been featured all over the world. His art brings big data sets to life, combining state-of-the-art science with a natural interest in the human condition. His “Cascade” project at The New York Times visualizes the sharing of content through social media, offering tremendous insight into the way we use digital networks to share, influence, and connect with others. He was also a major contributor to the 9/11 memorial project in New York City, where he wrote a program that organized the names of victims not by alphabetical order, but by relationships—putting coworkers next to coworkers, and brothers next to brothers. Thorp’s award-winning software-based work has been exhibited in Europe, Asia, North America, South America, including in the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan.

[http://www.thelavinagency.com/speaker-jer-thorp.html Jer Thorp]

==Zeynep Tufekci==

Zeynep Tufekci writes insightful and critical observations about the interactions between technology and society, media, Internet, social issues, big data, statistical and predictive analytics, and participatory politics at [https://medium.com/@zeynep/latest Medium], [http://www.theatlantic.com/zeynep-tufekci/ The Atlantic], [http://dmlcentral.net/blog/5240 Digital Media and Learning Central], and [http://technosociology.org/ Technosociology]. Twitter at @zeynep.

She is Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill at at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) with an affiliate appointment in the Department of Sociology. Previously, she was assistant professor of sociology at UMBC, a fellow at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University, and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Currently a faculty associate at the Berkman Center. [http://technosociology.org/ Technosociology]

== Kim Christen Withey ==

From [http://www.kimchristen.com/about.html her website]: "I am an Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Digital Technology and Culture program in the Department of English and Director of Digital Projects at the Plateau Center, Native American Programs at Washington State University. My work explores the intersections of cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, intellectual property rights, the ethics of openness, and the use of digital technologies in and by indigenous communities globally. I have worked in Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia over the last decade with Warumungu community members on a range of projects including a book, an interactive [http://www.vectorsjournal.org/issues/3/digitaldynamics/ website], and a community archive. My collaborations with the Warumungu focused on alliance-making in cross-cultural projects. I am currently working on several digital humanities projects that explore ethical issues of openness and access in relation to indigenous cultural protocols and digital archives. I am the Director of both the [http://plateauportal.wsulibs.wsu.edu/html/ppp/index.php Plateau Peoples' Web Portal], a collaboratively curated site of Plateau cultural materials and [http://mukurtu.org/ Mukurtu CMS]: a free and open source content management system and digital archive built around the particular needs of indigenous peoples globally."

[http://www.kimchristen.com/ Kim Christen Withey]

==Kam Woods==
Research Associate & Adjunct Faculty at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kam is currently developing modified open source digital forensics tools for digital archivists. He works with
archivists, librarians, forensics researchers, and other development groups to identify core needs in analyzing
and preparing digital content for preservation -- specifically needs that can be addressed using existing
high-performance forensic technologies (with a little tweaking). He is also interested in developing datasets
and teaching technologies to support education and professional training in digital archiving. He can give a great talk (I know from 2014 ALA) & I'll bet would have some great tech & social insides for Code4Lib. [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods]

==Andromeda Yelton==

Andromeda was last year's runner up in the keynote speaker voting. Formerly a developer with Unglue.it, she recently left full-time work there to help librarians learn to code. As such, she's helped run a preconference at ALA Annual teaching Python and taught a jQuery workshop at a Code4Lib DC event. She gave a great keynote at Online Northwest 2014 entitled "[http://andromedayelton.com/talks/onw14/ Five Conversations about Code]". Andromed is a member of the LITA Board of Directors and advisor for Ada Initiative.

[http://andromedayelton.com/about/ Andromeda Yelton]

== Kortney Ziegler ==

Dr. Kortney Ryan Ziegler is an Oakland based award winning artist, director, writer, and the first person to hold the Ph.D. of African American Studies from Northwestern University. Dr. Ziegler is also the founder of [http://transhack.org/ Trans*H4CK]--the only tech event of its kind that spotlights trans* created tech and trans* led startups, and the feature-length documentary [http://www.stillblackfilm.org/ STILL BLACK: A Portrait of Black Transmen].

[http://drkrz.flavors.me/ Kortney Ziegler]

== Shauna Gordon-McKeon ==

Shauna Gordon-McKeon is a writer, speaker, teacher, and programmer who works actively in the free and open source software (FOSS), open science and medicine, and open government/civic tech communities. She works on the Open Science Collaboration, and OpenHatch.org and is an active member of Ada Community. [http://www.shaunagm.net/ Click for more info about Shauna, a link to her blog, and her portfolio].

[http://drkrz.flavors.me/ Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

[[Category:Code4Lib2015]]

2015 Invited Speakers Nominations

2014-10-20T11:20:12Z

HeidiDowding:

'''Nominations are now closed.''' Thanks to everyone who submitted one!

Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for [http://code4lib.org/conference/2015 Code4Lib 2015]. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

<pre>

== Nominee's Name ==

Description of no more than 250 words.

[[Link(s) with contact information for nominee]]

</pre>

__TOC__

== Amelia C. Abreu ==

Amelia Abreu lives in Portland, OR and works as a UX researcher. She is a PhD candidate at University of Washington's School of Information, where her dissertation research looks at the social aspects of data collection. Much of her recent writing, such as for [http://modelviewculture.com/pieces/quantify-everything-a-dream-of-a-feminist-data-future Model View Culture] and [https://medium.com/@ameliaabreu/latest Medium], addresses the intersection between UX, data collection, communities, and gender. She has written about [https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/39750/275.pdf?sequence=4 small data], [https://medium.com/@ameliaabreu/that-data-on-your-wrist-3e71dc1b3637 watches], and the [https://medium.com/@ameliaabreu/minium-viable-responsibility-850595f84f32 minimum viable responsibility] of tech companies performing user research in the wake of the Facebook emotional contagion experiments. Before starting her PhD program, Amelia worked as an archivist, a librarian, and a writer.

[https://twitter.com/ameliaabreu Amelia Abreu]

== Chris Bourg ==

Chris Bourg is Assistant University Librarian (AUL) for Public Services for the Stanford University Libraries, serves on the Steering Committee for [http://www.taiga-forum.org/ Taiga Forum], and is a sociologist by training. Chris is an outspoken advocate for diversity in libraries and lead Stanford University Libraries to implement a policy of not supporting conferences that lack a code of conduct. She was an organizing member of the "#libs4ada" campaign which raised over $16,000 for the Ada Initiative. Chris has written extensively on a number of topics, including gender, the military, and leadership. She blogs at [http://chrisbourg.wordpress.com/ Feral Librarian].

[http://chrisbourg.wordpress.com/about/ Chris Bourg]

== danah boyd ==

danah boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, and a Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center. She has done groundbreaking work on youth culture, particularly as impacted by social media and the internet in general. She has been addressing gender issues and technology since her work as an undergraduate at Brown.

[http://www.danah.org/ danah boyd]

== Deborah Bryant==
Deborah Bryant's lives in Portland and is Red Hat's Senior Director Open Source and Standards. Her experience is broad and deep ([https://www.linkedin.com/in/opengovernment%20 LinkedIn] and [http://debbryant.com bio]. Her work with open source adoption in government would make her qualified to give us advice on how to push things within the institutions that we work in.

[http://debbryant.com/about/ Deb Bryant]

== Kimberly Bryant ==

Biomedical/Engineering professional and founder of [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ Black Girls Code], an organization dedicated to bringing more WOC to technology and computer science. She gave a [http://vimeo.com/68572290 keynote at LibTechConf] in 2012, if you want to see what type of work she has been doing with BGC. They are also working on launching a companion group, [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/black-boys-code.html Black Boys Code].

[http://www.blackgirlscode.com/about-bgc.html Kimberly Bryant]

== Amber Case ==
Portland-based, working on next generation location-based technology. Data ownership. Frequent speaker. Calm Technology, wearable computing, and the future of the interface. Previously she has keynoted the Digital Strategies for Heritage Conference, Rotterdam, Netherlands and given TED and SXSW talks on Cyborg Anthropology, a topic she's currently editing a book about.

[http://caseorganic.com/about Amber Case]

== Trevor A. Dawes ==

Associate University Librarian, Washington University Libraries

(Taken from his WUSTL web page) Trevor A. Dawes is an Associate University Librarian at Washington University in St. Louis, where he’s responsible for research services (librarians with subject liaison responsibilities, the departmental libraries/librarians, and library outreach), as well as scholarly communications, collections and acquisitions, and preservation. He was previously the Circulation Services Director at the Princeton University Library, and prior to that held several positions at the Columbia University Libraries in NYC. He has worked with staff in developing and providing training for various public service operations; has authored, co-authored, or edited several books and articles on a variety of topics; and has either planned or presented at various local, national and international conferences. His new co-edited volume on the role of access services in the success of an academic library will be published by ACRL in the summer 2013. Since 2006, Dawes has been an instructor in the MSLIS program at the iSchool at Drexel University. Dawes earned his MLS from Rutgers University, and has two additional Master's Degrees from Teachers College, Columbia University. He is an active member of the American Library Association and is the 2013-2014 President of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL).

[http://library.wustl.edu/about/dawes.html Trevor A. Dawes]

==Selena Deckelmann==

Selena Deckelmann is a [http://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/ major contributor to PostgreSQL] and a data architect at Mozilla. She’s been involved with free and open source software since 1995 and began running conferences for PostgreSQL in 2007. In 2012, she founded [http://www.meetup.com/PyLadies-PDX/ PyLadiesPDX], a portland chapter of [http://pyladies.com/ PyLadies]. She founded [http://opensourcebridge.org/ Open Source Bridge], [http://postgresopen.org/ Postgres Open] and speaks internationally about open source, databases and community. You can find her on twitter ([http://twitter.com/selenamarie @selenamarie]) and on [http://chesnok.com/daily her blog]. She also [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehgO7pwkad4 keeps chickens] and gives a lot of [http://www.chesnok.com/daily/conferences/ technical talks].

She was an advisor for two years to the [http://adainitiative.org/ Ada Initiative], an organization dedicated to increasing the participation of women in open source and technology communities. She's a [http://www.whitecells.org/daily/speaking/index/ very experienced speaker], you can view an example of a recent talk here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ7qm6yglfE Ignite Portland talk on election rigging in Nigeria].

[http://www.chesnok.com/daily/about/ Selena Deckelmann]

== Sally Deffor ==

Sally Deffor works part-time as the Project Coordinator for the [http://personal-data.okfn.org/ Open Data & Privacy project]. She is a former Google Policy Fellow who supported the development of some initiatives on Creative Commons, Open Access and OSS at the Kofi Annan ICT Centre. She has also worked as a communications specialist with the Tax Justice Network (Africa) and the USAID/ICFG (Ghana). She currently lives in Preston (UK) where she is finishing a PhD at UCLan, looking at the digital practices of online news-making. She also spends some time volunteering in her local community. You can find her on Twitter at [https://twitter.com/SDeffor @SDeffor].

[http://www.flossie.org/content/sally-deffor Sally Deffor]

== Cory Doctorow ==

Cory is a blogger and co-editor of Boing Boing. He writes often and eloquently on intellectual property, privacy, and digital rights management, among other things. He has really smart things to say about general purpose computing (or lack thereof). He's also a speculative fiction writer.

[http://craphound.com Cory Doctorow]

==Limor Fried==

Open source hardware hacker. Founded [https://www.adafruit.com/ Adafruit Industries]. Adafruit designs and sells open source electronic kits as well as provides a space online to learn about making, wearables, and microcomputers. Fried was awarded the Pioneer Award by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 2009, the Most Influential Women in Technology award by ''Fast Company'' in 2011, and was named "Entrepreneur of the Year" in 2012 by ''Entrepreneur'' magazine. You can read more about her on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limor_Fried her Wikipedia article]. [http://www.ladyada.net/ Limor Fried]

== Rebecca Garcia ==

Rebecca is the Co-founder of [http://www.coderdojonyc.org CoderDojo NYC], a non-profit teaching youth to code. In 2013 she was awarded as a [http://whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/08/12/next-generation-creators-tech U.S. White House ‘Champion of Change’ for Tech Inclusion] for her work to bring STEM education to underrepresented groups, especially youth and women.

Previously she was a Developer at Do Something, the largest non-profit for youth and social change, and CTO of Greatist, a health, fitness and wellness media startup. Currently she is a Developer Evangelist at Squarespace, empowering people to build their ideas on the web.

[http://about.me/rebecca.garcia Rebecca Garcia]

==Sarah Jeong==

(from [http://sarahjeong.net/about/ here]:) Freshly-minted Harvard Law J.D. and writer. Co-author of [http://five.usefularticl.es/ Five Useful Articles] (ed: a weekly newsletter about intellectual property). I care about justice, the free flow of information, and using the free flow of information to enact justice. Other people would summarize this as “interested in feminism, antiracism, and also technology, copyright, and privacy for some reason.”

[http://sarahjeong.net/about/ Sarah Jeong]

==Charles D. Knutson==

Dr. Charles D. Knutson is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department of Brigham Young University and Director of the BYU SEQuOIA Lab where he conducts empirical research in software engineering, focusing on the dynamics of open source software construction. He is the Founder and Chairman of Kinpoint, Inc. a genealogy software company, Founder and Chairman of the non-profit Internet Safety Project, and host of the Internet Safety Podcast. He is the author of 130 publications and has delivered nearly 120 presentations around the world on topics including data communications, software engineering, Internet safety, and family history. Dr. Knutson holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Oregon State University and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Brigham Young University. He was the recipient of the 2013 BYU Technology Transfer Award. Dr. Knutson is the Founder and Managing Partner of Ironwood Experts, where he has served as an expert witness in patent litigation cases for clients including Apple, Amazon, Comcast, Expedia, Novell, Microsoft, and Vizio.

[http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~knutson/ Charles D. Knutson]

==Christie Koehler==

Portland-based experienced open culture advocate, community organizer, computer programmer, writer and speaker. Co-chair of the annual Open Source Bridge conference, a co-founder and President of the Stumptown Syndicate, a technology education non-profit, and run both Code N Splode and Women Who Hack, user groups for women in technology. In 2012, she was recognized with an O’Reilly Open Source Award.

Last keynoted at the Wikiconference USA and wrote a book on Community Event planning.

from here: [http://christiekoehler.com/ Christie's website]

==Mark Matienzo==

(contributed by kayiwa:) Mark is the director of Technology at DPLA. He is however much more than that. He has worked tirelessly as an archivist and technologist solving many problems in the library domain. While his leadership style shows up through service, it is time to actually listen to him for more than his oft moving 5 minute Lightning Talks.

(My stock bio:) "Mx (Mark) A. Matienzo is the Director of Technology for the [http://dp.la/ Digital Public Library of America]. Prior to joining DPLA, Matienzo worked as an archivist and technologist specializing in born-digital materials and metadata management, at institutions including the Yale University Library, The New York Public Library, and the American Institute of Physics, and on award-winning projects such as the [http://archivesspace.org ArchivesSpace] open source archival management system and [http://www.digitalcurationservices.org/aims/ AIMS - Born Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship]. Matienzo received a MSI from the University of Michigan School of Information and a BA in Philosophy from the College of Wooster, and was the first awardee (2012) of the Emerging Leader Award of the Society of American Archivists."

[http://matienzo.org/ Mark Matienzo]

==Bethany Nowviskie==

From her web site: "Nowviskie is Director of Digital Research & Scholarship (including the Scholars' Lab) at the University of Virginia Library, Special Advisor to UVa's Provost, a CLIR Distinguished Presidential Fellow, and immediate Past President of the ACH. Her muse, according to Willard McCarty, "is one angry B."...Last year's major events included: chairing the Digital Humanities conference, a keynote on the Scholars' Lab in Tokyo, an invited talk on digital materiality at the MLA Convention's Presidential Forum; various Neatline workshops, and a stint as a Lansdowne Visiting Scholar at UVic in Canada. I continue to teach at UVa's Rare Book School, and will give a only small number of talks this academic year, on a "New Deal" for the humanities and the imperatives of DH in the Anthropocene." [http://nowviskie.org/ Bethany Nowviskie]

== Jennifer O'Neal ==

Jennifer R. O'Neal is the Corrigan Solari University Historian and Archivist at the [http://library.uoregon.edu/speccoll/index.html University of Oregon Special Collections and Archives], where she manages the University Archives collections, oversees the department’s instruction program, and serves as an advisor on tribal community projects. From 2008 to 2012, she served as the Head Archivist for the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, and has held prior positions at the U.S. Department of State, Princeton University, University of Arizona, and Utah State University. She serves on various groups in the Society of American Archivists, including the Native American Archives Roundtable and the Cultural Heritage Working Group. In 2006 she participated in drafting the best practices for the respectful care and use of Native American archival materials, which produced the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials. She currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums. Most recently, she served as an instructor for the Oregon Tribal Archives Institute at Oregon State University. Her research interests include international indigenous activism, cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, intellectual property rights, digital humanities, and indigenous use of new media and technology. She is also a member of the The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde in Oregon.

[http://library.uoregon.edu/dc/directory/profile.php?profile=joneal Jennifer O'Neal]

== Bess Sadler ==
Bess Sadler is the manager of a software engineering team at Stanford University Library. She writes open source software and spends a lot of time on Free and Open Source Software projects like [http://projectblacklight.org/ Project Blacklight] and [http://www.projecthydra.org/ Project Hydra], both of which she cofounded. Bess Sadler was a [http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2010/03/people/movers-shakers-2010/bess-sadler-movers-shakers-2010-tech-leaders/#_ 2010 Library Journal Mover and Shaker]. She also served as the co-chair of [http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-foss Electronic Information for Libraries—Free and Open Source Software] in 2008-2009. You can read a few Ada Lovelace Day posts about Bess Sadler [http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/2009/03/24/bess-sadler-library-geek/ here] and [http://www.eifl.net/news/ada-lovelace-day-bess-sadler here]. She maintains a [http://www.ibiblio.org/bess/ blog] and is [https://twitter.com/eosadler @eosadler] on Twitter.

[https://www.linkedin.com/pub/bess-sadler/4/336/5b6 Bess Sadler]

==Dorothea Salo==

Academic librarian and library-school instructor whose interests include metadata and linked data, scholarly communication, research-data management, and digital preservation. Recent talks include [https://speakerdeck.com/dsalo/dont-make-me-think Don't Make Me Think] at Digital Frontiers 2014 and [https://speakerdeck.com/dsalo/the-purple-squirrel-and-other-damaging-technology-myths-slides-only The Purple Squirrel (and other damaging technology myths)] at the Conference on Law School Computing.

[http://dsalo.info/ Dorothea Salo]

==Rob Sanderson==

Rob Sanderson is the Technical Collaboration Facilitator at Stanford, and has played a leadership role in the development and publication of the [http://iiif.io/ IIIF Image and Presentation APIs], [http://www.openannotation.org/spec/core/ W3C Open Annotation], and [http://iiif.io/model/shared-canvas/1.0/index.html Shared Canvas] specs. This standards-based work is a critical prerequisite to developing next generation open source, cross-institutional tools for interacting with linked data and digitized content. Rob can convey (in a cool British [sic, edit: kiwi] accent) how to get better results when it comes to technical collaboration in libraries. [http://web.stanford.edu/~azaroth/ Rob Sanderson]

==Jer Thorp==

(from [http://www.thelavinagency.com/speaker-jer-thorp.htm here]:) [http://blog.blprnt.com Jer Thorp] is a data artist whose work focuses on adding narrative meaning to huge amounts of data. In other words, he makes data more human. Through cutting edge data visualization techniques, Thorp helps people and corporations take control of the information that surrounds them, using technology and data as a new way to tell stories. Originally from Vancouver, Jer lives in New York City, where he teaches in NYU’s ITP program. To investigate the results of Big Data, Thorp helped launch [The Office for Creative Research http://o-c-r.org/abstract/] with his peers. From 2010-2012, he was the Data Artist in Residence at The New York Times. Thorp's software-based art has been featured all over the world. His art brings big data sets to life, combining state-of-the-art science with a natural interest in the human condition. His “Cascade” project at The New York Times visualizes the sharing of content through social media, offering tremendous insight into the way we use digital networks to share, influence, and connect with others. He was also a major contributor to the 9/11 memorial project in New York City, where he wrote a program that organized the names of victims not by alphabetical order, but by relationships—putting coworkers next to coworkers, and brothers next to brothers. Thorp’s award-winning software-based work has been exhibited in Europe, Asia, North America, South America, including in the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan.

[http://www.thelavinagency.com/speaker-jer-thorp.html Jer Thorp]

==Zeynep Tufekci==

Zeynep Tufekci writes insightful and critical observations about the interactions between technology and society, media, Internet, social issues, big data, statistical and predictive analytics, and participatory politics at [https://medium.com/@zeynep/latest Medium], [http://www.theatlantic.com/zeynep-tufekci/ The Atlantic], [http://dmlcentral.net/blog/5240 Digital Media and Learning Central], and [http://technosociology.org/ Technosociology]. Twitter at @zeynep.

She is Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill at at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) with an affiliate appointment in the Department of Sociology. Previously, she was assistant professor of sociology at UMBC, a fellow at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University, and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Currently a faculty associate at the Berkman Center. [http://technosociology.org/ Technosociology]

== Kim Christen Withey ==

From [http://www.kimchristen.com/about.html her website]: "I am an Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Digital Technology and Culture program in the Department of English and Director of Digital Projects at the Plateau Center, Native American Programs at Washington State University. My work explores the intersections of cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, intellectual property rights, the ethics of openness, and the use of digital technologies in and by indigenous communities globally. I have worked in Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia over the last decade with Warumungu community members on a range of projects including a book, an interactive [http://www.vectorsjournal.org/issues/3/digitaldynamics/ website], and a community archive. My collaborations with the Warumungu focused on alliance-making in cross-cultural projects. I am currently working on several digital humanities projects that explore ethical issues of openness and access in relation to indigenous cultural protocols and digital archives. I am the Director of both the [http://plateauportal.wsulibs.wsu.edu/html/ppp/index.php Plateau Peoples' Web Portal], a collaboratively curated site of Plateau cultural materials and [http://mukurtu.org/ Mukurtu CMS]: a free and open source content management system and digital archive built around the particular needs of indigenous peoples globally."

[http://www.kimchristen.com/ Kim Christen Withey]

==Kam Woods==
Research Associate & Adjunct Faculty at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kam is currently developing modified open source digital forensics tools for digital archivists. He works with
archivists, librarians, forensics researchers, and other development groups to identify core needs in analyzing
and preparing digital content for preservation -- specifically needs that can be addressed using existing
high-performance forensic technologies (with a little tweaking). He is also interested in developing datasets
and teaching technologies to support education and professional training in digital archiving. He can give a great talk (I know from 2014 ALA) & I'll bet would have some great tech & social insides for Code4Lib. [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods]

==Andromeda Yelton==

Andromeda was last year's runner up in the keynote speaker voting. Formerly a developer with Unglue.it, she recently left full-time work there to help librarians learn to code. As such, she's helped run a preconference at ALA Annual teaching Python and taught a jQuery workshop at a Code4Lib DC event. She gave a great keynote at Online Northwest 2014 entitled "[http://andromedayelton.com/talks/onw14/ Five Conversations about Code]". Andromed is a member of the LITA Board of Directors and advisor for Ada Initiative.

[http://andromedayelton.com/about/ Andromeda Yelton]

== Kortney Ziegler ==

Dr. Kortney Ryan Ziegler is an Oakland based award winning artist, director, writer, and the first person to hold the Ph.D. of African American Studies from Northwestern University. Dr. Ziegler is also the founder of [http://transhack.org/ Trans*H4CK]--the only tech event of its kind that spotlights trans* created tech and trans* led startups, and the feature-length documentary [http://www.stillblackfilm.org/ STILL BLACK: A Portrait of Black Transmen].

[http://drkrz.flavors.me/ Kortney Ziegler]

== Shauna Gordon-McKeon ==

Shauna Gordon-McKeon is a writer, speaker, teacher, and programmer who works actively in the free and open source software (FOSS), open science and medicine, and open government/civic tech communities. She works on the Open Science Collaboration, and OpenHatch.org and is an active member of Ada Community. [http://www.shaunagm.net/ Click for more info about Shauna, a link to her blog, and her portfolio].

[http://drkrz.flavors.me/ Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

[[Category:Code4Lib2015]]

2015 Invited Speakers Nominations

2014-10-20T10:29:41Z

HeidiDowding:

'''Nominations are now closed.''' Thanks to everyone who submitted one!

Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for [http://code4lib.org/conference/2015 Code4Lib 2015]. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

<pre>

== Nominee's Name ==

Description of no more than 250 words.

[[Link(s) with contact information for nominee]]

</pre>

__TOC__

== Amelia C. Abreu ==

Amelia Abreu lives in Portland, OR and works as a UX researcher. She is a PhD candidate at University of Washington's School of Information, where her dissertation research looks at the social aspects of data collection. Much of her recent writing, such as for [http://modelviewculture.com/pieces/quantify-everything-a-dream-of-a-feminist-data-future Model View Culture] and [https://medium.com/@ameliaabreu/latest Medium], addresses the intersection between UX, data collection, communities, and gender. She has written about [https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/39750/275.pdf?sequence=4 small data], [https://medium.com/@ameliaabreu/that-data-on-your-wrist-3e71dc1b3637 watches], and the [https://medium.com/@ameliaabreu/minium-viable-responsibility-850595f84f32 minimum viable responsibility] of tech companies performing user research in the wake of the Facebook emotional contagion experiments. Before starting her PhD program, Amelia worked as an archivist, a librarian, and a writer.

[https://twitter.com/ameliaabreu Amelia Abreu]

== Chris Bourg ==

Chris Bourg is Assistant University Librarian (AUL) for Public Services for the Stanford University Libraries, serves on the Steering Committee for [http://www.taiga-forum.org/ Taiga Forum], and is a sociologist by training. Chris is an outspoken advocate for diversity in libraries and lead Stanford University Libraries to implement a policy of not supporting conferences that lack a code of conduct. She was an organizing member of the "#libs4ada" campaign which raised over $16,000 for the Ada Initiative. Chris has written extensively on a number of topics, including gender, the military, and leadership. She blogs at [http://chrisbourg.wordpress.com/ Feral Librarian].

[http://chrisbourg.wordpress.com/about/ Chris Bourg]

== danah boyd ==

danah boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, and a Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center. She has done groundbreaking work on youth culture, particularly as impacted by social media and the internet in general. She has been addressing gender issues and technology since her work as an undergraduate at Brown.

[http://www.danah.org/ danah boyd]

== Deborah Bryant==
Deborah Bryant's lives in Portland and is Red Hat's Senior Director Open Source and Standards. Her experience is broad and deep ([https://www.linkedin.com/in/opengovernment%20 LinkedIn] and [http://debbryant.com bio]. Her work with open source adoption in government would make her qualified to give us advice on how to push things within the institutions that we work in.

[http://debbryant.com/about/ Deb Bryant]

== Kimberly Bryant ==

Biomedical/Engineering professional and founder of [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ Black Girls Code], an organization dedicated to bringing more WOC to technology and computer science. She gave a [http://vimeo.com/68572290 keynote at LibTechConf] in 2012, if you want to see what type of work she has been doing with BGC. They are also working on launching a companion group, [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/black-boys-code.html Black Boys Code].

[http://www.blackgirlscode.com/about-bgc.html Kimberly Bryant]

== Amber Case ==
Portland-based, working on next generation location-based technology. Data ownership. Frequent speaker. Calm Technology, wearable computing, and the future of the interface. Previously she has keynoted the Digital Strategies for Heritage Conference, Rotterdam, Netherlands and given TED and SXSW talks on Cyborg Anthropology, a topic she's currently editing a book about.

[http://caseorganic.com/about Amber Case]

== Trevor A. Dawes ==

Associate University Librarian, Washington University Libraries

(Taken from his WUSTL web page) Trevor A. Dawes is an Associate University Librarian at Washington University in St. Louis, where he’s responsible for research services (librarians with subject liaison responsibilities, the departmental libraries/librarians, and library outreach), as well as scholarly communications, collections and acquisitions, and preservation. He was previously the Circulation Services Director at the Princeton University Library, and prior to that held several positions at the Columbia University Libraries in NYC. He has worked with staff in developing and providing training for various public service operations; has authored, co-authored, or edited several books and articles on a variety of topics; and has either planned or presented at various local, national and international conferences. His new co-edited volume on the role of access services in the success of an academic library will be published by ACRL in the summer 2013. Since 2006, Dawes has been an instructor in the MSLIS program at the iSchool at Drexel University. Dawes earned his MLS from Rutgers University, and has two additional Master's Degrees from Teachers College, Columbia University. He is an active member of the American Library Association and is the 2013-2014 President of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL).

[http://library.wustl.edu/about/dawes.html Trevor A. Dawes]

==Selena Deckelmann==

Selena Deckelmann is a [http://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/ major contributor to PostgreSQL] and a data architect at Mozilla. She’s been involved with free and open source software since 1995 and began running conferences for PostgreSQL in 2007. In 2012, she founded [http://www.meetup.com/PyLadies-PDX/ PyLadiesPDX], a portland chapter of [http://pyladies.com/ PyLadies]. She founded [http://opensourcebridge.org/ Open Source Bridge], [http://postgresopen.org/ Postgres Open] and speaks internationally about open source, databases and community. You can find her on twitter ([http://twitter.com/selenamarie @selenamarie]) and on [http://chesnok.com/daily her blog]. She also [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehgO7pwkad4 keeps chickens] and gives a lot of [http://www.chesnok.com/daily/conferences/ technical talks].

She was an advisor for two years to the [http://adainitiative.org/ Ada Initiative], an organization dedicated to increasing the participation of women in open source and technology communities. She's a [http://www.whitecells.org/daily/speaking/index/ very experienced speaker], you can view an example of a recent talk here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ7qm6yglfE Ignite Portland talk on election rigging in Nigeria].

[http://www.chesnok.com/daily/about/ Selena Deckelmann]

== Sally Deffor ==

Sally Deffor works part-time as the Project Coordinator for the [http://personal-data.okfn.org/ Open Data & Privacy project]. She is a former Google Policy Fellow who supported the development of some initiatives on Creative Commons, Open Access and OSS at the Kofi Annan ICT Centre. She has also worked as a communications specialist with the Tax Justice Network (Africa) and the USAID/ICFG (Ghana). She currently lives in Preston (UK) where she is finishing a PhD at UCLan, looking at the digital practices of online news-making. She also spends some time volunteering in her local community. You can find her on Twitter at [https://twitter.com/SDeffor @SDeffor].

[http://www.flossie.org/content/sally-deffor Sally Deffor]

== Cory Doctorow ==

Cory is a blogger and co-editor of Boing Boing. He writes often and eloquently on intellectual property, privacy, and digital rights management, among other things. He has really smart things to say about general purpose computing (or lack thereof). He's also a speculative fiction writer.

[http://craphound.com Cory Doctorow]

==Limor Fried==

Open source hardware hacker. Founded [https://www.adafruit.com/ Adafruit Industries]. Adafruit designs and sells open source electronic kits as well as provides a space online to learn about making, wearables, and microcomputers. Fried was awarded the Pioneer Award by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 2009, the Most Influential Women in Technology award by ''Fast Company'' in 2011, and was named "Entrepreneur of the Year" in 2012 by ''Entrepreneur'' magazine. You can read more about her on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limor_Fried her Wikipedia article]. [http://www.ladyada.net/ Limor Fried]

== Rebecca Garcia ==

Rebecca is the Co-founder of [http://www.coderdojonyc.org CoderDojo NYC], a non-profit teaching youth to code. In 2013 she was awarded as a [http://whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/08/12/next-generation-creators-tech U.S. White House ‘Champion of Change’ for Tech Inclusion] for her work to bring STEM education to underrepresented groups, especially youth and women.

Previously she was a Developer at Do Something, the largest non-profit for youth and social change, and CTO of Greatist, a health, fitness and wellness media startup. Currently she is a Developer Evangelist at Squarespace, empowering people to build their ideas on the web.

[http://about.me/rebecca.garcia Rebecca Garcia]

==Sarah Jeong==

(from [http://sarahjeong.net/about/ here]:) Freshly-minted Harvard Law J.D. and writer. Co-author of [http://five.usefularticl.es/ Five Useful Articles] (ed: a weekly newsletter about intellectual property). I care about justice, the free flow of information, and using the free flow of information to enact justice. Other people would summarize this as “interested in feminism, antiracism, and also technology, copyright, and privacy for some reason.”

[http://sarahjeong.net/about/ Sarah Jeong]

==Charles D. Knutson==

Dr. Charles D. Knutson is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department of Brigham Young University and Director of the BYU SEQuOIA Lab where he conducts empirical research in software engineering, focusing on the dynamics of open source software construction. He is the Founder and Chairman of Kinpoint, Inc. a genealogy software company, Founder and Chairman of the non-profit Internet Safety Project, and host of the Internet Safety Podcast. He is the author of 130 publications and has delivered nearly 120 presentations around the world on topics including data communications, software engineering, Internet safety, and family history. Dr. Knutson holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Oregon State University and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Brigham Young University. He was the recipient of the 2013 BYU Technology Transfer Award. Dr. Knutson is the Founder and Managing Partner of Ironwood Experts, where he has served as an expert witness in patent litigation cases for clients including Apple, Amazon, Comcast, Expedia, Novell, Microsoft, and Vizio.

[http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~knutson/ Charles D. Knutson]

==Christie Koehler==

Portland-based experienced open culture advocate, community organizer, computer programmer, writer and speaker. Co-chair of the annual Open Source Bridge conference, a co-founder and President of the Stumptown Syndicate, a technology education non-profit, and run both Code N Splode and Women Who Hack, user groups for women in technology. In 2012, she was recognized with an O’Reilly Open Source Award.

Last keynoted at the Wikiconference USA and wrote a book on Community Event planning.

from here: [http://christiekoehler.com/ Christie's website]

==Mark Matienzo==

(contributed by kayiwa:) Mark is the director of Technology at DPLA. He is however much more than that. He has worked tirelessly as an archivist and technologist solving many problems in the library domain. While his leadership style shows up through service, it is time to actually listen to him for more than his oft moving 5 minute Lightning Talks.

(My stock bio:) "Mx (Mark) A. Matienzo is the Director of Technology for the [http://dp.la/ Digital Public Library of America]. Prior to joining DPLA, Matienzo worked as an archivist and technologist specializing in born-digital materials and metadata management, at institutions including the Yale University Library, The New York Public Library, and the American Institute of Physics, and on award-winning projects such as the [http://archivesspace.org ArchivesSpace] open source archival management system and [http://www.digitalcurationservices.org/aims/ AIMS - Born Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship]. Matienzo received a MSI from the University of Michigan School of Information and a BA in Philosophy from the College of Wooster, and was the first awardee (2012) of the Emerging Leader Award of the Society of American Archivists."

[http://matienzo.org/ Mark Matienzo]

==Bethany Nowviskie==

From her web site: "Nowviskie is Director of Digital Research & Scholarship (including the Scholars' Lab) at the University of Virginia Library, Special Advisor to UVa's Provost, a CLIR Distinguished Presidential Fellow, and immediate Past President of the ACH. Her muse, according to Willard McCarty, "is one angry B."...Last year's major events included: chairing the Digital Humanities conference, a keynote on the Scholars' Lab in Tokyo, an invited talk on digital materiality at the MLA Convention's Presidential Forum; various Neatline workshops, and a stint as a Lansdowne Visiting Scholar at UVic in Canada. I continue to teach at UVa's Rare Book School, and will give a only small number of talks this academic year, on a "New Deal" for the humanities and the imperatives of DH in the Anthropocene." [http://nowviskie.org/ Bethany Nowviskie]

== Jennifer O'Neal ==

Jennifer R. O'Neal is the Corrigan Solari University Historian and Archivist at the [http://library.uoregon.edu/speccoll/index.html University of Oregon Special Collections and Archives], where she manages the University Archives collections, oversees the department’s instruction program, and serves as an advisor on tribal community projects. From 2008 to 2012, she served as the Head Archivist for the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, and has held prior positions at the U.S. Department of State, Princeton University, University of Arizona, and Utah State University. She serves on various groups in the Society of American Archivists, including the Native American Archives Roundtable and the Cultural Heritage Working Group. In 2006 she participated in drafting the best practices for the respectful care and use of Native American archival materials, which produced the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials. She currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums. Most recently, she served as an instructor for the Oregon Tribal Archives Institute at Oregon State University. Her research interests include international indigenous activism, cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, intellectual property rights, digital humanities, and indigenous use of new media and technology. She is also a member of the The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde in Oregon.

[http://library.uoregon.edu/dc/directory/profile.php?profile=joneal Jennifer O'Neal]

== Bess Sadler ==
Bess Sadler is the manager of a software engineering team at Stanford University Library. She writes open source software and spends a lot of time on Free and Open Source Software projects like [http://projectblacklight.org/ Project Blacklight] and [http://www.projecthydra.org/ Project Hydra], both of which she cofounded. She was the co-chair of [http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-foss Electronic Information for Libraries—Free and Open Source Software] in 2008-2009. She is [https://twitter.com/eosadler @eosadler] on twitter. You can read a few Ada Lovelace Day posts about Bess Sadler [http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/2009/03/24/bess-sadler-library-geek/ here] and [http://www.eifl.net/news/ada-lovelace-day-bess-sadler here].

==Dorothea Salo==

Academic librarian and library-school instructor whose interests include metadata and linked data, scholarly communication, research-data management, and digital preservation. Recent talks include [https://speakerdeck.com/dsalo/dont-make-me-think Don't Make Me Think] at Digital Frontiers 2014 and [https://speakerdeck.com/dsalo/the-purple-squirrel-and-other-damaging-technology-myths-slides-only The Purple Squirrel (and other damaging technology myths)] at the Conference on Law School Computing.

[http://dsalo.info/ Dorothea Salo]

==Rob Sanderson==

Rob Sanderson is the Technical Collaboration Facilitator at Stanford, and has played a leadership role in the development and publication of the [http://iiif.io/ IIIF Image and Presentation APIs], [http://www.openannotation.org/spec/core/ W3C Open Annotation], and [http://iiif.io/model/shared-canvas/1.0/index.html Shared Canvas] specs. This standards-based work is a critical prerequisite to developing next generation open source, cross-institutional tools for interacting with linked data and digitized content. Rob can convey (in a cool British [sic, edit: kiwi] accent) how to get better results when it comes to technical collaboration in libraries. [http://web.stanford.edu/~azaroth/ Rob Sanderson]

==Jer Thorp==

(from [http://www.thelavinagency.com/speaker-jer-thorp.htm here]:) [http://blog.blprnt.com Jer Thorp] is a data artist whose work focuses on adding narrative meaning to huge amounts of data. In other words, he makes data more human. Through cutting edge data visualization techniques, Thorp helps people and corporations take control of the information that surrounds them, using technology and data as a new way to tell stories. Originally from Vancouver, Jer lives in New York City, where he teaches in NYU’s ITP program. To investigate the results of Big Data, Thorp helped launch [The Office for Creative Research http://o-c-r.org/abstract/] with his peers. From 2010-2012, he was the Data Artist in Residence at The New York Times. Thorp's software-based art has been featured all over the world. His art brings big data sets to life, combining state-of-the-art science with a natural interest in the human condition. His “Cascade” project at The New York Times visualizes the sharing of content through social media, offering tremendous insight into the way we use digital networks to share, influence, and connect with others. He was also a major contributor to the 9/11 memorial project in New York City, where he wrote a program that organized the names of victims not by alphabetical order, but by relationships—putting coworkers next to coworkers, and brothers next to brothers. Thorp’s award-winning software-based work has been exhibited in Europe, Asia, North America, South America, including in the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan.

[http://www.thelavinagency.com/speaker-jer-thorp.html Jer Thorp]

==Zeynep Tufekci==

Zeynep Tufekci writes insightful and critical observations about the interactions between technology and society, media, Internet, social issues, big data, statistical and predictive analytics, and participatory politics at [https://medium.com/@zeynep/latest Medium], [http://www.theatlantic.com/zeynep-tufekci/ The Atlantic], [http://dmlcentral.net/blog/5240 Digital Media and Learning Central], and [http://technosociology.org/ Technosociology]. Twitter at @zeynep.

She is Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill at at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) with an affiliate appointment in the Department of Sociology. Previously, she was assistant professor of sociology at UMBC, a fellow at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University, and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Currently a faculty associate at the Berkman Center. [http://technosociology.org/ Technosociology]

== Kim Christen Withey ==

From [http://www.kimchristen.com/about.html her website]: "I am an Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Digital Technology and Culture program in the Department of English and Director of Digital Projects at the Plateau Center, Native American Programs at Washington State University. My work explores the intersections of cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, intellectual property rights, the ethics of openness, and the use of digital technologies in and by indigenous communities globally. I have worked in Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia over the last decade with Warumungu community members on a range of projects including a book, an interactive [http://www.vectorsjournal.org/issues/3/digitaldynamics/ website], and a community archive. My collaborations with the Warumungu focused on alliance-making in cross-cultural projects. I am currently working on several digital humanities projects that explore ethical issues of openness and access in relation to indigenous cultural protocols and digital archives. I am the Director of both the [http://plateauportal.wsulibs.wsu.edu/html/ppp/index.php Plateau Peoples' Web Portal], a collaboratively curated site of Plateau cultural materials and [http://mukurtu.org/ Mukurtu CMS]: a free and open source content management system and digital archive built around the particular needs of indigenous peoples globally."

[http://www.kimchristen.com/ Kim Christen Withey]

==Kam Woods==
Research Associate & Adjunct Faculty at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kam is currently developing modified open source digital forensics tools for digital archivists. He works with
archivists, librarians, forensics researchers, and other development groups to identify core needs in analyzing
and preparing digital content for preservation -- specifically needs that can be addressed using existing
high-performance forensic technologies (with a little tweaking). He is also interested in developing datasets
and teaching technologies to support education and professional training in digital archiving. He can give a great talk (I know from 2014 ALA) & I'll bet would have some great tech & social insides for Code4Lib. [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods]

==Andromeda Yelton==

Andromeda was last year's runner up in the keynote speaker voting. Formerly a developer with Unglue.it, she recently left full-time work there to help librarians learn to code. As such, she's helped run a preconference at ALA Annual teaching Python and taught a jQuery workshop at a Code4Lib DC event. She gave a great keynote at Online Northwest 2014 entitled "[http://andromedayelton.com/talks/onw14/ Five Conversations about Code]". Andromed is a member of the LITA Board of Directors and advisor for Ada Initiative.

[http://andromedayelton.com/about/ Andromeda Yelton]

== Kortney Ziegler ==

Dr. Kortney Ryan Ziegler is an Oakland based award winning artist, director, writer, and the first person to hold the Ph.D. of African American Studies from Northwestern University. Dr. Ziegler is also the founder of [http://transhack.org/ Trans*H4CK]--the only tech event of its kind that spotlights trans* created tech and trans* led startups, and the feature-length documentary [http://www.stillblackfilm.org/ STILL BLACK: A Portrait of Black Transmen].

[http://drkrz.flavors.me/ Kortney Ziegler]

== Shauna Gordon-McKeon ==

Shauna Gordon-McKeon is a writer, speaker, teacher, and programmer who works actively in the free and open source software (FOSS), open science and medicine, and open government/civic tech communities. She works on the Open Science Collaboration, and OpenHatch.org and is an active member of Ada Community. [http://www.shaunagm.net/ Click for more info about Shauna, a link to her blog, and her portfolio].

[http://drkrz.flavors.me/ Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

[[Category:Code4Lib2015]]

2015 Conference Committees

2014-08-13T13:00:01Z

HeidiDowding: /* Keynote Speakers Committee */

= Code4Lib 2015 Committees =

If you are interested in helping out with a particular part of the Code4Lib 2015 conference, create an account on this wiki and sign-up for one or more of the groups below (called 'committees' for lack of a better term). Each committee should select a committee lead that will coordinate the activities of the committee and its work with the hosting site. Discussions of a non-sensitive nature should take place on the Code4LibCon mailing list for transparency and future reference. Please feel free to improve the summary statements for each of the committees. When adding your name, please indicate 'v' if you are a veteran on the committee so that we ensure committees are not made up entirely of newbies.

We will assign a local contact to each committee.

== Location and Dates==

Location: Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon
Dates: Pre-conferences -
Main meeting -
Post conference activities? -

== Book Give-Away Committee ==

This committee solicits books and other prizes to be given away in raffles during the conference. This committee is responsible for identifying some means of performing the actual raffle (aka, a random picker app or other tool for selecting winners). Drawing names out of a hat could be low-tech entertaining.

Need about 2 months to get books shipped to the conference location.

* [[User:JasonMichel|Jason Paul Michel]]

== Keynote Speakers Committee ==

This committee plans who to invite for the keynote speakers. They gather possibilities (including soliciting from the community), organize voting, and work with the speakers to arrange their travel.

* [[User:Phette23|Eric Phetteplace]]
* Heidi Dowding

== Onsite Volunteer Committee ==

This committee solicits volunteers to do whatever tasks are needed in person at the conference. Could be a help to the program committee to solicit MCs, timers, mike runners (if needed), IRC volunteers, registration helpers (if needed), etc.
* Whitni Watkins
* Dre

== Pre-conference Committee ==

This committee plans the pre-conference day. It keeps strong lines of communications open with the Program Committee. It also helps shepherd events on the day itself.
* [[User:ChristinaHarlow|Christina]]

== Program Committee ==

This committee plans the structure of the program, arranges the voting on presentations, etc. This includes soliciting regular talks. These folks will also manage the flow of the program at the conference -- introducing speakers or soliciting other volunteers to MC.

* mx matienzo
* cbeer
* Tod Olson
* [[User:Cynthia|Arty]]
* [[User:Ssimpkin|Sarah Simpkin]]
* Ranti Junus

== Scholarships Committee ==

This committee works with funding institutions to arrange the scholarships offered. They solicit submissions and select winners of the scholarship(s). They also work with the winners to plan their travel and arrangements.

* Sarah Shealy - v
* Ruth Kitchin Tillman
* Francis Kayiwa
* Bohyun Kim
* Mairelys Lemus-Rojas

== Social Activities Committee ==

The committee plans, proposes, and organizes the evening activities.

* Becky Yoose - v(committee member 4 life)
* Sarah Shealy
* Bohyun Kim
* Whitni Watkins

== Sponsorships Committee ==

This committee organizes the sponsorship activities. Usually it includes people within the Code4Lib community who think their institution or company might be interested in sponsoring the conference. These folks may not be the decision makers at the sponsors, but they are Code4Lib's contacts.

* Roy Tennant, OCLC, firstnamelastname@gmail.com

== Streaming Video Committee ==

*[[User:highermath|Cary Gordon]] has equipment, experience and domain knowledge to share.
*[[User:RileyChilds|Riley Childs]] has Knowledge and the YouTube Account credentials (he will consult but conf attendance is iffy)

== T-Shirt Committee ==

This committee organizes the t-shirt contest, collecting submissions, and putting out the call for votes. This committee is also responsible for helping the local planning committee identify a vendor that will fit within the budget constraints for the conference. User sizes and preferences will be obtained as part of the registration process.
*[[User:ChristinaHarlow|Christina]]
*[[User:jgo|Joshua Gomez]]

== Voting Activities Committee ==

This committee organizes the voting process and works with the other committees that involve voting (keynote, program, T-shirt) to ensure a relatively smooth process.

== Whatever Committee ==

This committee does whatever the organizers can't talk anyone else into doing.

* Francis Kayiwa
* Becky Yoose (will do things for mortgage payment assistance)
* [[User:ChristinaHarlow|Christina]]
* [[User:Ssimpkin|Sarah Simpkin]]
* Ranti Junus
* Whitni Watkins
* Sarah Park

== Wifi / Electrical / IRC ==

This committee is responsible for working with local planners to ensure that wifi will be able to support the needs of the code4lib community.

* [[User:highermath|Cary Gordon]], cgordon@chillco.com
* [[User:RileyChilds|Riley Childs]] is able to assist with Wireless planning and IRC stuffs, rchilds@cucawarriors.com (he will consult but conf attendance is iffy)

= Documentation =
To help with documention, no need to sign up, just start editing.
* [[How To Plan A Code4LibCon]]

== Documentation Interest Group ==
Promote ongoing documentation efforts.

[[Category: Code4Lib2015]]

2014 preconference proposals

2013-11-25T18:46:01Z

HeidiDowding: /* Afternoon */

==Code4Lib 2014 Pre-Conference Proposals==

Proposals will be accepted through December 6th, 2013.

Please fill out your proposal in the following format. If you are interested in attending a proposed pre-conference add your name to the list for that proposal.

Pitch Format:

----

===NAME===
'''"Full-Day|Half-Day" [PREFERRED TIME]'''

Description

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

----

===Drupal4lib Sub-con Barcamp===
=====Full Day=====

* Contact [[User:highermath|Cary Gordon]], cgordon@chillco.com

This will be a full day of self-selected barcamp style sessions. Anyone who wants to present can write down the topic on an index card and, after the keynote, we will vote to choose what we want to see. Attendees can also pick a topic and attempt to talk someone else into presenting on it.

This event is open to the library community. There will be a nominal fee (t/b/d) for non-Code4LibCon attendees (subject to organizer approval).

[[resources to help you learn drupal]]

====Interested in Attending:====

=====All Day=====
Renna Tuten

=====Morning=====

=====Afternoon=====

===Open Refine Hackfest===
'''"Half-Day"'''
* Contact [[User:bibliotechy|Chad Nelson]], chadbnelson@gmail.com

[http://openrefine.org/ Open Refine] is a powerful open source tool for wrangling messy data that can also be used to help in the creation of Linked Data via the [https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/Reconciliation-Service-API Reconciliation API]. It is possible to write reconciliation services against API's, like the [http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2013/04/reconciling-author-names-using-open.html VIAF service] or, even just against local authority files for helping maintain authority control

The session would first introduce Open Refine, then walk through building a reconciliation service, and the rest of the session would be a hackfest where we build new reconciliation services for public consumption or local use.

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

----

===Responsive Design Hackfest===
'''"Half-Day [Afternoon]"'''
* Contact Jim Hahn, University of Illinois, jimfhahn@gmail.com
* Contact David Ward, University of Illinois, dh-ward@illinois.edu

This structured hackfest will give attendees an opportunity to explore methods to create responsive mobile apps using the Bootstrap framework [http://getbootstrap.com/]and a set of APIs for accessing library data. We will start with an API template for creating space-based mobile tools that draw from work coming out of the IMLS funded Student/Library Collaborative grant [http://www.library.illinois.edu/nlg_student_apps]. Available APIs will include a room reservation template and codebase for implementing at any campus and the set of Minrva catalog APIs generating JSONP [http://minrvaproject.org/services.php].

Hosts will give a brief report of a study on student hacking projects and interests in mobile library apps that are the basis for the templates utilized in this Hackathon. By the end of the pre-conference attendees will have a sample responsive mobile web app in Bootstrap 3 to bring back to their campus which can plug into their site-based content.

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

=== Intro to Blacklight ===
'''"Half-Day [Morning]"'''
* Contact: Chris Beer, Stanford University, cabeer@stanford.edu
* TA: Bess Sadler, Stanford University, bess@stanford.edu

This session will be walk-through of the architecture of Blacklight, the community, and an introduction to building a Blacklight-based application. Each participant will have the opportunity to build a simple Blacklight application, and make basic customizations, while using a test-driven approach.

For more information about Blacklight see our wiki ( http://projectblacklight.org/ ) and our GitHub repo ( https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight ). We will also send out some brief instructions beforehand for those that would like to setup their environments to follow along and get Blacklight up and running on their local machines.

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

#Megan Kudzia
#Bret Davidson

===Blacklight Hackfest===
'''"Half-Day [Afternoon]"'''
* Contact Chris Beer, Stanford University, cabeer@stanford.edu

This afternoon hackfest is both a follow-on to the Intro to Blacklight morning session to continue building Blacklight-based applications, and also an opportunity for existing Blacklight contributors and members of the Blacklight community to exchange common patterns and approaches into reusable gems or incorporate customizations into Blacklight itself.

For more information about Blacklight see our wiki ( http://projectblacklight.org/ ) and our GitHub repo ( https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight ).

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

===RailsBridge: Intro to programming in Ruby on Rails===
'''"Half-Day" [morning]'''
* Contact Justin Coyne, Data Curation Experts, justin@curationexperts.com

Interested in learning how to program? Want to build your own web application? Never written a line of code before and are a little intimidated? There's no need to be! RailsBridge is a friendly place to get together and learn how to write some code.

RailsBridge is a great workshop that opens the doors to projects like Blacklight and Hydra.

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

1. Ayla Stein

2. Heidi Dowding

===Managing Projects: Or I'm in charge, now what?===
'''Full-Day'''

Contact:
* [[User:rosy1280|Rosalyn Metz]], rosalynmetz@gmail.com
* [[User:yoosebj|Becky Yoose]], yoosebec@grinnell.edu

This will be a full day session on project management. We'll cover
* '''Kicking off the Project''' -- project lifecycle, project constraints, scoping/goals, stakeholders, assessment
* '''Planning the Project''' -- project charters, work breakdown structures, responsibilities, estimating time, creating budgets
* '''Executing the Project''' -- status meeting, status reports, issue management
* '''Finishing the Project''' -- achieving the goal, post mortems, project v. product
This is a revival of rosy1280's LITA Forum Pre-Conference, but better (because iteration is good)

'''Interested in Attending'''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

===Fail4Lib 2014===
'''Half Day [TBD, probably afternoon]'''

Contacts:
* Andreas Orphanides, akorphan (at) ncsu.edu
* Jason Casden, jmcasden (at) ncsu.edu

The task of design (and the work that we do as library coders) is intimately tied to failure. Failures, both big and small, motivate us to create and improve. Failures are also occasionally the result of our work. Understanding and embracing failure, encouraging enlightened risk-taking, and seeking out opportunities to fail and learn are essential to success in our field. At Fail4Lib, we'll talk about our own experiences with projects gone wrong, explore some famous design failures in the real world, and talk about how we can come to terms with the reality of failure, to make it part of our creative process -- rather than something to be feared.

The schedule may include the following:

* Case studies. We'll look at some classic failures from the literature: What can we learn from the mistakes of others?
* Confessionals, for those willing to share. Talk about your own experiences with rough starts, labor pains, and doomed projects in your own work: What can we learn from our own (and each others') failures?
* Group therapy. Let's talk about how to deal with risk management, failed projects, experimental endeavors, and more: How can we make ourselves, our colleagues, and our organizations more fault tolerant? How do we make sure we fail as productively as possible?

''Interested in attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

#Bret Davidson

===CLLAM @ code4lib===
'''(Computational Linguistics for Libraries, Archives and Museums)'''

'''Full Day'''

Contacts:
* Douglas W. Oard (primary), oard (at) umd.edu
* Corey Harper, corey (dot) harper (at) nyu.edu
* Robert Sanderson, azaroth42 (at) gmail.com
* Robert Warren, rwarren (at) math.carleton.ca

We will hack at the intersection of diverse content from Libraries, Archives and Museums and bleeding edge tools from computational linguistics for slicing and dicing that content. Did you just acquire the email archives of a startup company? Maybe you can automatically build an org chart. Have you got metadata in a slew of languages? Perhaps you can search it all using one query. Is name authority control for e-resources getting too costly? Let’s see if entity linking techniques can help. These are just a few teasers.

There’ll be plenty of content and tools supplied, but please bring your own [data] too -- you’ll hack with it in new ways throughout the day. We’ll get started with some lightning talks on what we’ve brought,then we’ll break up into groups to experiment and work on the ideas that appeal. Three guaranteed outcomes: you’ll walk away with new ideas, new tools, and new people you’ll have met.

''Interested in attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

# Devon Smith
# Kevin S. Clarke

=== GeoHydra: Managing geospatial content ===

'''Half-day [Afternoon]'''

* Contact: Darren Hardy, Stanford University, drh@stanford.edu
* Moderator: Bess Sadler, Stanford University, bess@stanford.edu

Do you have digitized maps, GIS datasets like Shapefiles, aerial photography,
etc., all of which you want to integrate into your digital repository? In this
workshop, we will discuss how Hydra can provide discovery, delivery, and
management services for geospatial assets, as well as solicit questions about
your own GIS projects. We aim to help answer the following questions you might have about putting geospatial data into your Hydra-based digital library:

* What are the types of geospatial data?
* How to dive into Hydra?
* How to model geospatial holdings with Hydra?
* How to discover and view geospatial data?
* How to build a geospatial data infrastructure?
* What are common approaches and problems?

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

===Technology, Librarianship, and Gender: Moving the conversation forward===
'''Full Day'''

Contact: Lisa Rabey lisa @ biblyotheke dot net | [http://twitter.com/pnkrcklibrarian @pnkrcklibrarian]

'''Description'''

Librarianship is largely made up of women, yet women are significantly underrepresented in tech positions, on any level, within libraries themselves. Why? What are we doing to encourage women to become more involved in STEM within librarianship? What kind of message are we sending when library technology keynotes remain almost resolutely male? How are we changing the face of technology, not only within libraries, but with the field itself? How are we training our staff and colleagues in the areas of fairness and removal of bias? Our vendors?

Lots of tough questions.

While the conversation has been going on via various blogs and articles within the last few years, it was given a public face at [http://infotoday.com/il2013/day.asp?day=Monday#session_D105 Internet Librarian 2013] where a panel of 7 (four women, three men) gave personal experiences on the above and then opened up the conversation to the audience. As eye opening and enriching the conversation was, a 45 minute panel was not enough. One thing remains clear: We need to keep the conversation moving forward and start making some radical changes in the way we think, act, and how we need to harness this to start making real changes within librarianship itself.

Topics to include: Fairness, bias, impostor syndrome, code of conducts, sexual harassment, training opportunities, support systems, mentoring, ally support, and more

Those attending should expect: Begin with opening up the conversation of experiences and talking about what is most needed, spending remaining time putting together live, usable solutions to start implementing as well as pushing the conversation forward at local levels

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

1. Kate Kosturski

=====All Day=====

=====Morning=====

=====Afternoon=====
1. Ayla Stein

2. Heidi Dowding
----

[[:Category:Code4Lib2014]]

2014 preconference proposals

2013-11-25T18:45:43Z

HeidiDowding: /* RailsBridge: Intro to programming in Ruby on Rails */

2014 preconference proposals

2013-11-25T18:45:06Z

HeidiDowding: /* RailsBridge: Intro to programming in Ruby on Rails */

==Code4Lib 2014 Pre-Conference Proposals==

Proposals will be accepted through December 6th, 2013.

Please fill out your proposal in the following format. If you are interested in attending a proposed pre-conference add your name to the list for that proposal.

Pitch Format:

----

===NAME===
'''"Full-Day|Half-Day" [PREFERRED TIME]'''

Description

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

----

===Drupal4lib Sub-con Barcamp===
=====Full Day=====

* Contact [[User:highermath|Cary Gordon]], cgordon@chillco.com

This will be a full day of self-selected barcamp style sessions. Anyone who wants to present can write down the topic on an index card and, after the keynote, we will vote to choose what we want to see. Attendees can also pick a topic and attempt to talk someone else into presenting on it.

This event is open to the library community. There will be a nominal fee (t/b/d) for non-Code4LibCon attendees (subject to organizer approval).

[[resources to help you learn drupal]]

====Interested in Attending:====

=====All Day=====
Renna Tuten

=====Morning=====

=====Afternoon=====

===Open Refine Hackfest===
'''"Half-Day"'''
* Contact [[User:bibliotechy|Chad Nelson]], chadbnelson@gmail.com

[http://openrefine.org/ Open Refine] is a powerful open source tool for wrangling messy data that can also be used to help in the creation of Linked Data via the [https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/Reconciliation-Service-API Reconciliation API]. It is possible to write reconciliation services against API's, like the [http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2013/04/reconciling-author-names-using-open.html VIAF service] or, even just against local authority files for helping maintain authority control

The session would first introduce Open Refine, then walk through building a reconciliation service, and the rest of the session would be a hackfest where we build new reconciliation services for public consumption or local use.

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

----

===Responsive Design Hackfest===
'''"Half-Day [Afternoon]"'''
* Contact Jim Hahn, University of Illinois, jimfhahn@gmail.com
* Contact David Ward, University of Illinois, dh-ward@illinois.edu

This structured hackfest will give attendees an opportunity to explore methods to create responsive mobile apps using the Bootstrap framework [http://getbootstrap.com/]and a set of APIs for accessing library data. We will start with an API template for creating space-based mobile tools that draw from work coming out of the IMLS funded Student/Library Collaborative grant [http://www.library.illinois.edu/nlg_student_apps]. Available APIs will include a room reservation template and codebase for implementing at any campus and the set of Minrva catalog APIs generating JSONP [http://minrvaproject.org/services.php].

Hosts will give a brief report of a study on student hacking projects and interests in mobile library apps that are the basis for the templates utilized in this Hackathon. By the end of the pre-conference attendees will have a sample responsive mobile web app in Bootstrap 3 to bring back to their campus which can plug into their site-based content.

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=== Intro to Blacklight ===
'''"Half-Day [Morning]"'''
* Contact: Chris Beer, Stanford University, cabeer@stanford.edu
* TA: Bess Sadler, Stanford University, bess@stanford.edu

This session will be walk-through of the architecture of Blacklight, the community, and an introduction to building a Blacklight-based application. Each participant will have the opportunity to build a simple Blacklight application, and make basic customizations, while using a test-driven approach.

For more information about Blacklight see our wiki ( http://projectblacklight.org/ ) and our GitHub repo ( https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight ). We will also send out some brief instructions beforehand for those that would like to setup their environments to follow along and get Blacklight up and running on their local machines.

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#Megan Kudzia
#Bret Davidson

===Blacklight Hackfest===
'''"Half-Day [Afternoon]"'''
* Contact Chris Beer, Stanford University, cabeer@stanford.edu

This afternoon hackfest is both a follow-on to the Intro to Blacklight morning session to continue building Blacklight-based applications, and also an opportunity for existing Blacklight contributors and members of the Blacklight community to exchange common patterns and approaches into reusable gems or incorporate customizations into Blacklight itself.

For more information about Blacklight see our wiki ( http://projectblacklight.org/ ) and our GitHub repo ( https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight ).

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===RailsBridge: Intro to programming in Ruby on Rails===
'''"Half-Day" [morning]'''
* Contact Justin Coyne, Data Curation Experts, justin@curationexperts.com

Interested in learning how to program? Want to build your own web application? Never written a line of code before and are a little intimidated? There's no need to be! RailsBridge is a friendly place to get together and learn how to write some code.

RailsBridge is a great workshop that opens the doors to projects like Blacklight and Hydra.

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1. Ayla Stein
2. Heidi Dowding

===Managing Projects: Or I'm in charge, now what?===
'''Full-Day'''

Contact:
* [[User:rosy1280|Rosalyn Metz]], rosalynmetz@gmail.com
* [[User:yoosebj|Becky Yoose]], yoosebec@grinnell.edu

This will be a full day session on project management. We'll cover
* '''Kicking off the Project''' -- project lifecycle, project constraints, scoping/goals, stakeholders, assessment
* '''Planning the Project''' -- project charters, work breakdown structures, responsibilities, estimating time, creating budgets
* '''Executing the Project''' -- status meeting, status reports, issue management
* '''Finishing the Project''' -- achieving the goal, post mortems, project v. product
This is a revival of rosy1280's LITA Forum Pre-Conference, but better (because iteration is good)

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===Fail4Lib 2014===
'''Half Day [TBD, probably afternoon]'''

Contacts:
* Andreas Orphanides, akorphan (at) ncsu.edu
* Jason Casden, jmcasden (at) ncsu.edu

The task of design (and the work that we do as library coders) is intimately tied to failure. Failures, both big and small, motivate us to create and improve. Failures are also occasionally the result of our work. Understanding and embracing failure, encouraging enlightened risk-taking, and seeking out opportunities to fail and learn are essential to success in our field. At Fail4Lib, we'll talk about our own experiences with projects gone wrong, explore some famous design failures in the real world, and talk about how we can come to terms with the reality of failure, to make it part of our creative process -- rather than something to be feared.

The schedule may include the following:

* Case studies. We'll look at some classic failures from the literature: What can we learn from the mistakes of others?
* Confessionals, for those willing to share. Talk about your own experiences with rough starts, labor pains, and doomed projects in your own work: What can we learn from our own (and each others') failures?
* Group therapy. Let's talk about how to deal with risk management, failed projects, experimental endeavors, and more: How can we make ourselves, our colleagues, and our organizations more fault tolerant? How do we make sure we fail as productively as possible?

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#Bret Davidson

===CLLAM @ code4lib===
'''(Computational Linguistics for Libraries, Archives and Museums)'''

'''Full Day'''

Contacts:
* Douglas W. Oard (primary), oard (at) umd.edu
* Corey Harper, corey (dot) harper (at) nyu.edu
* Robert Sanderson, azaroth42 (at) gmail.com
* Robert Warren, rwarren (at) math.carleton.ca

We will hack at the intersection of diverse content from Libraries, Archives and Museums and bleeding edge tools from computational linguistics for slicing and dicing that content. Did you just acquire the email archives of a startup company? Maybe you can automatically build an org chart. Have you got metadata in a slew of languages? Perhaps you can search it all using one query. Is name authority control for e-resources getting too costly? Let’s see if entity linking techniques can help. These are just a few teasers.

There’ll be plenty of content and tools supplied, but please bring your own [data] too -- you’ll hack with it in new ways throughout the day. We’ll get started with some lightning talks on what we’ve brought,then we’ll break up into groups to experiment and work on the ideas that appeal. Three guaranteed outcomes: you’ll walk away with new ideas, new tools, and new people you’ll have met.

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# Devon Smith
# Kevin S. Clarke

=== GeoHydra: Managing geospatial content ===

'''Half-day [Afternoon]'''

* Contact: Darren Hardy, Stanford University, drh@stanford.edu
* Moderator: Bess Sadler, Stanford University, bess@stanford.edu

Do you have digitized maps, GIS datasets like Shapefiles, aerial photography,
etc., all of which you want to integrate into your digital repository? In this
workshop, we will discuss how Hydra can provide discovery, delivery, and
management services for geospatial assets, as well as solicit questions about
your own GIS projects. We aim to help answer the following questions you might have about putting geospatial data into your Hydra-based digital library:

* What are the types of geospatial data?
* How to dive into Hydra?
* How to model geospatial holdings with Hydra?
* How to discover and view geospatial data?
* How to build a geospatial data infrastructure?
* What are common approaches and problems?

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===Technology, Librarianship, and Gender: Moving the conversation forward===
'''Full Day'''

Contact: Lisa Rabey lisa @ biblyotheke dot net | [http://twitter.com/pnkrcklibrarian @pnkrcklibrarian]

'''Description'''

Librarianship is largely made up of women, yet women are significantly underrepresented in tech positions, on any level, within libraries themselves. Why? What are we doing to encourage women to become more involved in STEM within librarianship? What kind of message are we sending when library technology keynotes remain almost resolutely male? How are we changing the face of technology, not only within libraries, but with the field itself? How are we training our staff and colleagues in the areas of fairness and removal of bias? Our vendors?

Lots of tough questions.

While the conversation has been going on via various blogs and articles within the last few years, it was given a public face at [http://infotoday.com/il2013/day.asp?day=Monday#session_D105 Internet Librarian 2013] where a panel of 7 (four women, three men) gave personal experiences on the above and then opened up the conversation to the audience. As eye opening and enriching the conversation was, a 45 minute panel was not enough. One thing remains clear: We need to keep the conversation moving forward and start making some radical changes in the way we think, act, and how we need to harness this to start making real changes within librarianship itself.

Topics to include: Fairness, bias, impostor syndrome, code of conducts, sexual harassment, training opportunities, support systems, mentoring, ally support, and more

Those attending should expect: Begin with opening up the conversation of experiences and talking about what is most needed, spending remaining time putting together live, usable solutions to start implementing as well as pushing the conversation forward at local levels

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1. Kate Kosturski

=====All Day=====

=====Morning=====

=====Afternoon=====
1. Ayla Stein

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