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2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

2015-09-21T13:55:51Z

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Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for Code4Lib 2016 in Philadelphia. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

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== Nominee's Name ==

Description of no more than 250 words.

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

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==Mike Bostock==
Interactive Graphic Design for The New York Times and the author of D3.js, a popular open-source library for visualizing data using web standards.

Prior to The New York Times, Mike was a visualization scientist for Square and a computer science PhD student at Stanford University. Mike received the BSE degree in computer science in 2000 from Princeton University.
ere's his [https://twitter.com/mbostock Twitter]; and his [http://bost.ocks.org/mike/ site]

== danah boyd ==
dana boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder of [http://www.datasociety.net/ Data & Society Research Institute]. She's also a Visiting Professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a faculty affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Center. For over a decade, her research focused on how young people use social media, which resulted in two books: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (2009) and It's Complicated (2014). More recently, she has focused on the social and cultural dimensions of big data, especially privacy and publicity, data(mis)interpretation, and the civil rights implications of data analytics. She often works closely with librarians, and was the keynote speaker at the Reference and User Services Association President’s Program at ALA Annual in San Francisco in 2015. Read more at [http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ her blog], on [https://twitter.com/zephoria Twitter], or read her [http://www.danah.org/papers/#essays Essays].

== Mandy Brown ==
Mandy Brown builds systems to help writers and editors to work together. She co-founded and served as CEO of [http://editorially.com/ Editorially], a platform for collaborative writing and editing; Editorially was acquired by Vox Media where she is now director of platform. She is also co-founder and was editor-in-chief of [http://abookapart.com/ A Book Apart], was a contributing editor for [http://alistapart.com/ A List Apart], and edited many books, including [http://shapeofdesignbook.com/ The Shape of Design], by Frank Chimero. She previously served as communications director and product lead at [http://typekit.com/ Typekit] and as creative director at [http://wwnorton.com/ W. W. Norton & Company]. She blogs at [http://aworkinglibrary.com/ A Working Library] and has spoken at [http://2014.dconstruct.org/ dConstruct], [http://2012.buildconf.com/ Build], [http://confab2011.com/ Confab], [http://typotalks.com/sanfrancisco/ TYPO SF], and [http://2013.beyondtellerrand.com/ Beyond Tellerrand ]. Additionally, [http://aworkinglibrary.com/coffee/ she mentors and advises people from underrepresented groups in the tech industry]. She lives in Philadelphia.

== Kimberly Bryant ==
Kimberly Bryant is a Biotechnology/Engineering professional who founded [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ BlackGirlsCode] in 2011, to meet the needs of young women of color who are underrepresented in the currently exploding field of technology. Bryant received her first taste of computer programming when Fortran and Pascal were still the popular languages in the computing world and the 'Apple Macintosh' was the new kid on the block. Much has changed since those days and the mission of BlackGirlsCode is to introduce programming and technology to a new generation of coders (girls aged 7 - 17) who will become the leaders and creators of tomorrow.

== Maciej Cegłowski ==
Maciej Cegłowski, is a programmer, [http://idlewords.com/art/ painter], [http://www.idlewords.com/ essayist], [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-words-to-antarctica travel writer], and [http://idlewords.com/talks/ speaker]. He has been running Pinboard, a bookmarking site, since 2009. He has worked at Yahoo!, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, and has done contract work for Twitter and SixApart. He's funny on Twitter, whether he's representing [https://twitter.com/baconmeteor himself] or his company, [https://twitter.com/pinboard Pinboard].

== Aaron Straup Cope ==
Aaron Straup Cope is a software developer who believes that "promise of the Internet is to be a bridge for cross-pollinating peoples, ideas and communities"[1] and his work shows it. Currently at [https://mapzen.com/ Mapzen] he is building a [http://whosonfirst.mapzen.com/ Who's On First], a gazetteer of places "each with a stable identifier and some number of descriptive properties about that location." Previously he designed and developed the much lauded [http://collection.cooperhewitt.org collections website] for the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. His work consistently focuses on publishing data to the web with stable identifiers, while eschewing much of the formality and overhead of "Linked Data", a point he made quite clearly in his talk [http://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/proposal/omgwtftgn/ "OMGWTFTGN"] at Museums and the Web 2015, where he asked if releasing a 17GB RDF dataset is really the best way to get data used by... anyone. Read [http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/en/aaronstraupcope-resume-en.txt Aaron Straup Cope's resume] for more information.

== Brigitte Daniel ==
Brigitte Daniel is a digital access advocate with experience in telecommunications and social entrepreneurship.

In May 2006, she became the executive vice president of Wilco Electronic Systems, a small telecommunications firm founded in 1977 by her father that has primarily done installations for the Philadelphia Housing Authority.

In that role, she became a frequent speaker on digital divide and web literacy issues, particularly in the Philadelphia technology community. She was part of the 2011 class of Eisenhower Fellows. Read more from her on [https://twitter.com/brigittedaniel Twitter].

== Catherine Farman ==
Philadelphian Catherine Farman is a developer, a Technology & Innovation Fellow Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, and a self-described "responsive design fanatic, feminist, Chicana, Texpat, cat lady, and teacher at [https://www.girldevelopit.com/chapters/philadelphia Girls Develop It's Philadelphia Chapter]". She has worked at HappyCog, the studio founded by A List Apart's Jeffrey Zeldman. More information is available at [http://cfarman.com/ her website, cfarman.com], and on [https://twitter.com/cfarm Twitter]. Several of her recent speeches are listed on [http://lanyrd.com/profile/cfarm/past/speaking/ Lanyrd]. Also available is a video of her 2014 presentation at OSCON, "[https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/oscon-2014-complete/9781491910795/part96.html Lessons from Girl Develop It: Getting More Women Involved in Open Source]" (link goes to a video of the talk, which she co-presented with Corinne Warnshuis, Girls Develop It's executive director).

== Paul Ford ==
Paul Ford is a Brooklyn-based writer and web technologist. He often writes about [https://medium.com/message/how-paper-magazines-web-engineers-scaled-kim-kardashians-back-end-sfw-6367f8d37688 the web], [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6241967 archives] [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ programming], [http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html the nature of information], and [https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100 living in the information age]. Past projects include [https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf tilde.club] and the [http://www.ftrain.com/AWebSiteForHarpers.html semantic web-ified harpers.org] (back in 2003). His ~30,00-word article [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ What Is Code?] was the entire June 11, 2015 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Learn more at his [http://ftrain.com website], on [http://twitter.com/ftrain Twitter], or on [https://medium.com/@ftrain Medium], or watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSL5qVL3Mng his talk at XOXO 2014] or [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-06-12/-what-is-code-charlie-rose-06-12- his interview on Charlie Rose]. He was also interviewed at [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/an-interview-with-paul-ford-and-gina-trapani/ at In the Library with the Lead Pipe, along with Gina Trapani].

== Sorelle Friedler ==
"Algorithms are already being used to make decisions that affect people's lives and livelihoods, and this trend is only increasing," [https://www.haverford.edu/college-communications/news/sorelle-friedler-studies-programming-and-prejudice says Sorrelle Friedler]. "Often, one of the selling points of using an algorithm is that it will be less biased than the current human process. While it is possible to create algorithms that reduce bias, the use of an algorithm does not on its own guarantee that. It's important that computer scientists, as well as policymakers, understand the limitations and work to make algorithmic decisions fair."

Sorelle Friedler has been an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Haverford College since 2014 and was visiting at Haverford starting in 2012 (Haverford is just a few miles from Philadelphia). Her research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, computational geometry, data mining and machine learning, and the application of such algorithms to interdisciplinary data. She is a [http://www.datasociety.net/updates/featured/announcements/2015/03/introducing-2015-2016-fellows-class/ 2015-2016 Fellow at the Data & Society Research Institute] for her work on preventing discrimination in machine learning. Learn more about her work on her [http://ww3.haverford.edu/computerscience/faculty/sorelle/index.php Haverford Computer Science page].

== Brett Anitra Gilbert ==
"I’ve been doing research in Johannesburg, South Africa, to understand what the city needs to do to better support technology entrepreneurs," [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/news/faculty-insights-professor-brett-gilbert-looks-how-tech-clusters-emerge-cities says Rutgers Business School professor Brett Gilbert]. "The city is actively in the process of trying to see a tech cluster emerge, so my research is intended to help them understand what needs to happen in order to see a tech community thrive in Johannesburg. It's research I’m doing concurrently in Newark, New Jersey, because the city would like to see a technology community emerge here. The research is really comparing the process these two cities are going through. Most research on clusters focuses on clusters that already exist and on regions that are somewhat well established so you don’t see a lot that helps people understand what a city or region would need to do if they want to see one of these technology clusters emerge."

Dr. Gilbert's dissertation, "[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1371727 The Implications of Geographic Cluster Locations for New Venture Performance]" was awarded a Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship in 2004, and selected as a finalist for the Entrepreneurship Division's 2005 Heizer Award for outstanding dissertations in entrepreneurship. In addition to examining emerging technology communities in developing market contexts, she is also focusing on understanding emerging "clean energy" technologies. She has taught a variety of entrepreneurship courses on creativity and innovation, and the startup and management of new ventures. At RBS, Dr. Gilbert teaches the Technology Ventures course for undergraduates and graduates, and the Ph.D. seminar in entrepreneurship. Learn more on [https://twitter.com/ProfGilbert Twitter] and on [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/gilbert-brett her page at the Rutgers Business School website].

== Amelia Greenhall ==
Amelia Greenhall is the Chief Creative Officer of [http://magicvibes.co/ Magic Vibes Corporation]. Previously, she cofounded and served as Executive Director and board chair of [http://doubleunion.org/ Double Union], a non-profit feminist hacker/maker space in San Francisco with the mission of being a safe and comfortable space for women to work on their projects. She also cofounded the publication Model View Culture, and designed things for companies including [http://futureadvisor.com/ FutureAdvisor] and [http://www.ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/budge Habit Labs]. She is the publisher of the [http://openreviewquarterly.com/ Open Review Quarterly] literary journal, and the entries at [http://ameliagreenhall.com/blog her personal blog] are usually made available as episodes of [http://ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/amelia-explains-it-all Amelia Explains It All], a "podcast for men in tech."

== Kate Heddleston ==
Kate Heddleston is a software engineer who mostly works on Python projects. She has been a mentor for Hackbright Academy and PyLadies. She blogs and gives talks about how our engineering environments are killing diversity (see [https://kateheddleston.com/talk/ea142cd2-f026-4615-ab90-2170f06c739b her talk] and [https://kateheddleston.com/blog/how-our-engineering-environments-are-killing-diversity-introduction her blog series]), on [https://kateheddleston.com/talk/ef464595-b113-4c1b-9c5b-cc1f3681055c technical onboarding, training, and mentoring], and on the [https://kateheddleston.com/blog/a-modern-day-take-on-the-ethics-of-being-a-programmer ethics of being a programmer], among other topics. Here is her [https://kateheddleston.com/ website].

== Andrew Hoppin ==
Andrew Hoppin is the co-founder and president of [http://nucivic.com NuCivic]. He is a former NASA scientist who utilizes his theories of collaboration, open-source technologies in the creation of open civic platforms. As president of NuCivic, his mission is to improve the efficacy of civic organizations and governments, by providing accessible innovative knowledge management solutions. NuCivic's open data platform DKAN provides a platform for government organizations, libraries and civic organizations to implement data cataloging, publishing and visualizing.
Andrew was awarded the 2010 New York State Public Sector CIO of the Year by GovTech Magazine. He was named one of the top 50 government CIOs in the United States by Information Week magazine for his successful effort to deploy the first major New York State government website, NYSenate.gov, which won a “Best of New York” award for Project Excellence.

== Helen Horstmann-Allen ==
Pobox.com promised its customers a lifetime email address, and found a loyal following immediately. In addition to email addresses and accounts, their customers requested reliable email-based discussion forums, mailing lits, and newsletters, so they created Listbox.com. Philadelphian Helen Horstmann-Allen has been president of IC Group, the home of Pobox.com and Listbox.com, since 2000; prior to that, she was its director of operations, and she's been in charge of Pobox.com since 1997. She's in love with Philadelphia and food -- thus [http://phillyfoodie.com/ Philly Foodie] -- and can be found on [https://twitter.com/philliefoodie Twitter], too.

== Jess Klein ==
Open Web Designer at Bocoup

If you ask about her passions, Jess will draw you a venn diagram with the words community, freedom, and learning, and point to the sweet spot where all three overlap. She is dedicated to connecting people and ideas through new technologies and interactive experiences. Previous to her position at Bocoup, Jess worked at the Mozilla Foundation, where she served as Creative Lead for such projects as the X-Ray Goggles, Hackasaurus (which became part of the larger Webmaker platform), Thimble and the Hive. She also served as the Creative Director for Mozilla Open Badges, where she helped develop an ecosystem of tools for learners to earn, assess, issue and display digital micro-credentials. A Rockaway Beach native, Jess co-founded Rockaway Help in the wake of Hurricane Sandy to empower the community to find solutions for emergency response, preparedness and rebuilding through hyperlocal open news and the development of innovative community-designed technologies. She was named a White House Champion of Change for her civic hacktivism. More information is available at her [http://jessicaklein.com/ website].

== Kate Krauss ==

Kate Krauss is the Director of Communications and Public Policy for the Tor Project, a nonprofit organization that builds free, online privacy tools that allow users to defy shoe companies and intelligence agencies alike while they stay free and anonymous on the internet. As a human rights advocate, Kate lead several successful campaigns to free public health experts and human rights activists who were imprisoned in China. She became interested in internet freedom when she sought help from San Francisco hackers to aid a well-known Chinese health advocate whose huge, popular web site for people with hepatitis had been taken down by the Chinese government.

Prior to her work in online privacy, she served as Executive Director of the AIDS Policy Project, where she lead a successful effort to move $35 million into cure research at the US National Institutes of Health and wrote groundbreaking reports that showed for the first time how little the world was investing in the search for a cure for AIDS. Kate has been chosen twice as one of the Poz 100, one of the top 100 people working in AIDS in the world. She was a very early member of the renowned AIDS activist group ACT UP. She has also spoken at several hacker conferences, including Chaos Communications Congress, where she delivered a talk on how mass surveillance in China was converted into political repression.

(However--*has* a sense of humor!)

== Alison Macrina ==
Alison Macrina is the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project (LFP), an initiative that helps libraries fulfill the the promise of intellectual freedom by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools that help safeguard digital freedoms. She is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and multinational corporations. She cowrote the Radical Reference Collective’s zine, "[http://radicalreference.info/content/we-are-all-suspects-guide-people-navigating-expanded-powers-surveillance-21st-century We Are All Suspects]," which gives advice and tools for preventing surveillance, and has written or co-written articles for [http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/radical-librarianship-how-nin.html Boing Boing] and [http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/20/adobe_s_digital_editions_e_book_software_and_library_patron_privacy.html Slate]. LFP has been featured in [https://libraryfreedomproject.org/press/ numerous prominent publications], including [http://www.thenation.com/article/librarians-versus-nsa/ The Nation] magazine and NPR's [http://www.onthemedia.org/story/librarians-vs-patriot-act/ On the Media], and LFP's partners include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the Tor Project.

In February 2015, LFP won a ~$250,000 two-year grant through the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, which enabled her to work on LFP full-time. Prior to that, she was the technology librarian/IT manager at the Watertown (Massachusetts) Free Public Library.

== Uche Ogbuji ==
He is the CTO and founding partner of Zepheira, and has been a leader in the implementation of the LibHub Initiative. From [http://uche.ogbuji.net/ his website]: "Uche is a leading expert in data design and distributed systems. He has worked with XML, RDF and Web Services since the inception of those technologies. He has been technical lead on many open specifications and open source projects as well as on Zepheira's platform for library data transforms." He was also recently named [https://twitter.com/uogbuji/status/632936838622089217 poet laureate] of Balisage: The Markup Conference! More information is available at his [http://uche.ogbuji.net/ website.]

== Katrina Owen ==
Katrina Owen is the creator of [http://exercism.io/exercism exercism], a FLOSS project that supports students who are learning to code by giving them practice problems and real world feedback. Exercises are currently available in Clojure, CoffeeScript, C++, C#, Emacs Lisp, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Lisp Flavoured Erlang (LFE), Common Lisp, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, Perl 5, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, and Swift, and exercism developers are in the process of adding ECMAScript, Groovy, Nimrod, Perl 6, Pony, Racket, Standard ML, and VB.NET. Katrina Owen is herself a polyglot developer and Ruby Hero award winner who has spoken at numerous conferences; example talks include: [http://confreaks.tv/videos/lonestarruby2013-keynote-hacking-passion Hacking Passion]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWEEPt8VvmU Overkill]; [http://confreaks.tv/videos/bathruby2015-here-be-dragons Here Be Dragons]; and [http://confreaks.tv/videos/cascadiaruby2012-therapeutic-refactoring Therapeutic Refactoring]. She accidentally became a developer while pursuing a degree in molecular biology, and began nitpicking code in 2006 while volunteering at JavaRanch. When programming, her focus is on automation, workflow optimization, and refactoring. She is passionate about open source and contributes to several projects outside of exercism. Learn more on [https://github.com/kytrinyx GitHub] and [https://twitter.com/kytrinyx Twitter].

== Lauren Pressley ==
Lauren Pressley became the University of Washington Tacoma Library Director and Associate Dean of University Libraries in September of 2015. Her professional interests include formal and informal learning, design in library services, the evolving information environment, organizational change, and the future of libraries. She is the author of [https://unglue.it/work/76348/ So You Want to Be a Librarian] and [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3969 Wikis for Libraries], a co-chair of [https://www.librarypipeline.org/ Library Pipeline], and holds an elected position on the American Library Association Council. She has also served on the Library Information Technology Association board of directors and the [http://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon/ Horizon Project] advisory board.

Prior to joining UW, she was the Director of Learning Environments and Associate Professor at Virginia Tech University Libraries, where she led a team of thirty people who were responsible for enhancing situated learning by connecting services and spaces, including Reference, Circulation, Roving Services, Learning Spaces, Online Learning, academic programming, and community engagement. [http://www.slideshare.net/laurenpressley/presentations Several dozen of her presentations] are posted online.

== Aliya Rahman ==
Tech and social justice activist. Engineer. Read more at [http://www.techrepublic.com/article/aliya-rahman-former-code-for-progress-director-tech-and-social-justice-activist-martial-artist/ Tech Republic] and on [https://twitter.com/AliyaRahman Twitter]. From her [http://codeforprogress.org/app/program_director/ Code for Progress bio]:

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As Program Director, Aliya Rahman leads the recruitment, in-residence training, and job placement of Code for Progress fellows into full-time developer positions. Her work is informed by a background in legislative, electoral, and community organizing for racial and economic justice campaigns, and by a former life in public higher education conducting curriculum research and teaching computer programming and educational foundations/policy.

Aliya is the former Field Director of Equality Ohio, where she built a statewide field program focused on bridging gaps between racial justice organizers, LGBT rights groups, and labor. Prior to that, she worked for the Center for Community Change, first as their Ohio organizer in the passage of employment legislation supporting formerly incarcerated people, and later as a national circuit rider working with immigrant rights groups on voter engagement.

Aliya has developed Django applications, conducted tech trainings, or performed data analysis and targeting for every campaign, nonprofit, and university she has ever worked for - despite none of those tasks explicitly appearing on her job descriptions. Now based in Washington, DC, she is thoroughly enjoying life as a non-accidental techie, and is grateful to be part of an active ecosystem of women and people of color who believe tech has a pivotal role to play in creating social change.
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== Jenica Rogers ==
Jenica Rogers is Director of Libraries at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Her current professional interests include interrogating the ways our information economy is breaking down and reforming now that the internet changed everything, figuring out what the role of a library is in a reality in which warehousing books is sort of passé, and informing, mentoring, and supporting new library professionals as they hit the real world face first and at full speed. She has written at length about library issues on her blog, [http://www.attemptingelegance.com Attempting Elegance], represented SUNY Potsdam as the subject of [http://chronicle.com/article/As-Chemistry-Journals-Prices/134650/ an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about journal prices], and has given numerous invited keynote speeches at library conferences around the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2014, she was chosen to receive the American Library Association’s ALCTS HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions.

To get a sense of her presentation style, watch her deliver the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vy0Kv4eqeg plenary speech at the 2013 Charleston Conference] (in which she discusses her refusal to pay the extortionate fees being charged by a professional association for its journals) as well as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhMXClsue9w the Vision speech at NASIG's 2014 Annual Conference].

== Jenn Schiffer ==
[http://jennmoney.biz/ Jenn Schiffer] ([https://twitter.com/jennschiffer Twitter]), aka jennmoneydollars, is an open web engineer at [http://bocoup.com/ Bocoup] and lives in New Jersey (a relatively easy commute from Philadelphia). She's good at making art with code and great at telling jokes. She was previously a senior front-end developer for the National Basketball Association and, before that, taught and evaluated computer science education at Montclair State University, her alma mater (BS and MS in Computer Science). She also organizes JerseyScript, a developer meetup based in New Jersey, which is just one of several ways she's working to attract and retain more people in the web development community. She's made a lot of [http://jennmoney.biz/talks/ recent podcast appearances and presentations at conferences].

== Carl Stahmer ==
Polymath extraordinaire; doing digital humanities before it was cool; 20 years of experience in information architecture design and programming for the World Wide Web; Director of Digital Scholarship at the University Library, University of California, Davis; Technical Lead for the English Short Title Catalogue; Associate Director of the English Broadside Ballad Archive. Currently helping to lead the IMLS-funded BIBFLOW project at UC Davis. Read more on [http://www.carlstahmer.com/ his website] or [https://twitter.com/cstahmer Twitter].

== Cecily Walker ==
Cecily Walker is the Assistant Manager for Community Digital Initiatives & eLearning at Vancouver Public Library. In addition to her work on user experience and open data, she is an experienced speaker (keynoting DLF Forum this year) and has hosted a Twitter chat for first-generation library professionals (#L1S). Learn more at [http://cecily.info/ her website], and on [https://twitter.com/skeskali Twitter], [https://github.com/skeskali GitHub], and [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/about/editorial-board/cecily-walker/ In the Library with the Lead Pipe] (she is a member of the editorial board).

== Audrey Watters ==
Audrey Watters is an education writer with a focus on ed-tech. She is the author of [http://monsters.hackeducation.com/ The Monsters of Education Technology], a collection of her lectures, and she is currently working on two more books, [http://teachingmachin.es/ Teaching Machines] and [http://reclaim.hackeducation.com/ Claim Your Domain], both due out in 2015. She created [http://hackeducation.com/ Hack Education] in June 2010 shortly after she became a technology journalist because she was frustrated by the lack of coverage of education technology. Hack Education was always intended to be the sort of publication that she would want to read: smart and snarky, free of advertising and investor influence, and focused on tracking new technologies but not just because of some hyperbolic "revolution." Read more on [http://audreywatters.com/ her website], on [https://twitter.com/audreywatters Twitter], and on [https://github.com/audreywatters GitHub].

== Gabriel Weinberg ==
Gabriel Weinberg is the CEO and Founder of [https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo], "the search engine that doesn't track you," and the co-author of [http://tractionbook.com/ Traction], "the book that helps startups get customers." He is also an active [https://angel.co/yegg/syndicate/ angel investor], and he lives and works in the Philadelphia suburbs. Learn more on [http://ye.gg/app/twitter Twitter] and [http://ye.gg/app/medium Medium], read [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2010/marketing-search-an-interview-with-pete-bell-of-endeca-and-gabriel-weinberg-of-duckduckgo/ an interview with him (and Endeca co-founder Pete Bell) at In the Library with the Lead Pipe], or watch [https://vimeo.com/68099450 his speech at Gel 2013] or his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=59&v=TvfGJgzBeH0 appearance on Conversations with Great Minds].

== David Weinberger ==
David Weinberger, Ph.D., is one of the world's most respected thought leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society. His latest book, [http://www.toobigtoknow.com/ Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room], is a roadmap on taking advantage of networked knowledge now that it has replaced books and experts of old. He also is the author of [http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/ Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder], which charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended, as well as the critically acclaimed book [http://smallpieces.com/index.php Small Pieces Loosely Joined], a highly original and accessible reflection on the impact of the Internet on human behavior. He earned his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Toronto and taught philosophy for five years at New Jersey's Stockton State College. Since 2004, he has been a fellow at Harvard University's prestigious Berkman Center, gag writer for Woody Allen, NPR commentator for "All Things Considered" and "Here and Now," technology columnist for KMWorld and Darwin Magazine, blogging pioneer, and dot-com entrepreneur. [http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/david-weinberger This site has information on how to book him], and you can read more on [https://twitter.com/dweinberger Twitter] or on [http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ his blog].

== Brock Whitten ==
Making front-end development easier by the second. Co-creator of Surge, Harp, and Cordova/PhoneGap. Mozilla-WebFWD Alumni and advocate of a free and open web. A friend of the community. Read about Surge [https://surge.sh/tour here] and [https://medium.com/surge-sh/introducing-surge-the-cdn-for-front-end-developers-b4a50a61bcfc here].
Here is [http://sintaxi.com/ Brock's website]

== 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 gave a well-received talk at 2014 ALA, and could offer interesting tech and social insights at Code4Lib. Read more at [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods's website].

== Jeffrey Zeldman ==
HappyCog/A List Apart (Philly/NYC-based)

Dubbed “King of Web Standards” by Business Week, Jeffrey Zeldman founded and is chairman of Happy Cog™ and has published A List Apart Magazine “for people who make websites” since 1998. He has written two books, notably the foundational text, Designing With Web Standards,currently in a 3rd Edition coauthored with Ethan Marcotte. It has been translated into 15 languages and is credited with converting the web design industry from tag soup and Flash to semantics and accessibility.
[http://happycog.com/zeldman Zeldman's page] on HappyCog.com.

== Kortney Ryan Ziegler ==
Founder, Trans*H4CK

Kortney Ryan Ziegler is an award winning artist, writer, and blogger based in Oakland, California. Dr. Ziegler is the first person to hold the Ph.D. of African American Studies from Northwestern University.

Dr. Ziegler is the founder of [http://www.transhack.org/ Trans*H4CK]--the only tech event of its kind that brings visibility to trans* tech innovators and entrepreneurs.

He is also the director of the multiple award winning documentary, [http://www.stillblackfilm.org/ STILL BLACK: a portrait of black transmen], runs the GLAAD Media Award nominated blog, [http://blackademic.com/ blac (k) ademic], and in 2013, was named one of the Top 40 Under 40 LGBT activists by The Advocate Magazine and one of the most influential African Americans by TheRoot100. Dr. Ziegler gave the closing keynote at the 2014 Annual LITA Forum in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

[[Category:Code4Lib2016|Invited Speakers Nomination]]
[[Category:Code4Lib Keynotes]]

2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

2015-09-21T13:52:27Z

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Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for Code4Lib 2016 in Philadelphia. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

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== Nominee's Name ==

Description of no more than 250 words.

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

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==Mike Bostock==
Interactive Graphic Design for The New York Times and the author of D3.js, a popular open-source library for visualizing data using web standards.

Prior to The New York Times, Mike was a visualization scientist for Square and a computer science PhD student at Stanford University. Mike received the BSE degree in computer science in 2000 from Princeton University.
ere's his [https://twitter.com/mbostock Twitter]; and his [http://bost.ocks.org/mike/ site]

== danah boyd ==
dana boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder of [http://www.datasociety.net/ Data & Society Research Institute]. She's also a Visiting Professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a faculty affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Center. For over a decade, her research focused on how young people use social media, which resulted in two books: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (2009) and It's Complicated (2014). More recently, she has focused on the social and cultural dimensions of big data, especially privacy and publicity, data(mis)interpretation, and the civil rights implications of data analytics. She often works closely with librarians, and was the keynote speaker at the Reference and User Services Association President’s Program at ALA Annual in San Francisco in 2015. Read more at [http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ her blog], on [https://twitter.com/zephoria Twitter], or read her [http://www.danah.org/papers/#essays Essays].

== Mandy Brown ==
Mandy Brown builds systems to help writers and editors to work together. She co-founded and served as CEO of [http://editorially.com/ Editorially], a platform for collaborative writing and editing; Editorially was acquired by Vox Media where she is now director of platform. She is also co-founder and was editor-in-chief of [http://abookapart.com/ A Book Apart], was a contributing editor for [http://alistapart.com/ A List Apart], and edited many books, including [http://shapeofdesignbook.com/ The Shape of Design], by Frank Chimero. She previously served as communications director and product lead at [http://typekit.com/ Typekit] and as creative director at [http://wwnorton.com/ W. W. Norton & Company]. She blogs at [http://aworkinglibrary.com/ A Working Library] and has spoken at [http://2014.dconstruct.org/ dConstruct], [http://2012.buildconf.com/ Build], [http://confab2011.com/ Confab], [http://typotalks.com/sanfrancisco/ TYPO SF], and [http://2013.beyondtellerrand.com/ Beyond Tellerrand ]. Additionally, [http://aworkinglibrary.com/coffee/ she mentors and advises people from underrepresented groups in the tech industry]. She lives in Philadelphia.

== Kimberly Bryant ==
Kimberly Bryant is a Biotechnology/Engineering professional who founded [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ BlackGirlsCode] in 2011, to meet the needs of young women of color who are underrepresented in the currently exploding field of technology. Bryant received her first taste of computer programming when Fortran and Pascal were still the popular languages in the computing world and the 'Apple Macintosh' was the new kid on the block. Much has changed since those days and the mission of BlackGirlsCode is to introduce programming and technology to a new generation of coders (girls aged 7 - 17) who will become the leaders and creators of tomorrow.

== Maciej Cegłowski ==
Maciej Cegłowski, is a programmer, [http://idlewords.com/art/ painter], [http://www.idlewords.com/ essayist], [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-words-to-antarctica travel writer], and [http://idlewords.com/talks/ speaker]. He has been running Pinboard, a bookmarking site, since 2009. He has worked at Yahoo!, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, and has done contract work for Twitter and SixApart. He's funny on Twitter, whether he's representing [https://twitter.com/baconmeteor himself] or his company, [https://twitter.com/pinboard Pinboard].

== Aaron Straup Cope ==
Aaron Straup Cope is a software developer who believes that "promise of the Internet is to be a bridge for cross-pollinating peoples, ideas and communities"[1] and his work shows it. Currently at [https://mapzen.com/ Mapzen] he is building a [http://whosonfirst.mapzen.com/ Who's On First], a gazetteer of places "each with a stable identifier and some number of descriptive properties about that location." Previously he designed and developed the much lauded [http://collection.cooperhewitt.org collections website] for the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. His work consistently focuses on publishing data to the web with stable identifiers, while eschewing much of the formality and overhead of "Linked Data", a point he made quite clearly in his talk [http://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/proposal/omgwtftgn/ "OMGWTFTGN"] at Museums and the Web 2015, where he asked if releasing a 17GB RDF dataset is really the best way to get data used by... anyone. Read [http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/en/aaronstraupcope-resume-en.txt Aaron Straup Cope's resume] for more information.

== Brigitte Daniel ==
Brigitte Daniel is a digital access advocate with experience in telecommunications and social entrepreneurship.

In May 2006, she became the executive vice president of Wilco Electronic Systems, a small telecommunications firm founded in 1977 by her father that has primarily done installations for the Philadelphia Housing Authority.

In that role, she became a frequent speaker on digital divide and web literacy issues, particularly in the Philadelphia technology community. She was part of the 2011 class of Eisenhower Fellows. Read more from her on [https://twitter.com/brigittedaniel Twitter].

== Catherine Farman ==
Philadelphian Catherine Farman is a developer, a Technology & Innovation Fellow Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, and a self-described "responsive design fanatic, feminist, Chicana, Texpat, cat lady, and teacher at [https://www.girldevelopit.com/chapters/philadelphia Girls Develop It's Philadelphia Chapter]". She has worked at HappyCog, the studio founded by A List Apart's Jeffrey Zeldman. More information is available at [http://cfarman.com/ her website, cfarman.com], and on [https://twitter.com/cfarm Twitter]. Several of her recent speeches are listed on [http://lanyrd.com/profile/cfarm/past/speaking/ Lanyrd]. Also available is a video of her 2014 presentation at OSCON, "[https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/oscon-2014-complete/9781491910795/part96.html Lessons from Girl Develop It: Getting More Women Involved in Open Source]" (link goes to a video of the talk, which she co-presented with Corinne Warnshuis, Girls Develop It's executive director).

== Paul Ford ==
Paul Ford is a Brooklyn-based writer and web technologist. He often writes about [https://medium.com/message/how-paper-magazines-web-engineers-scaled-kim-kardashians-back-end-sfw-6367f8d37688 the web], [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6241967 archives] [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ programming], [http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html the nature of information], and [https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100 living in the information age]. Past projects include [https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf tilde.club] and the [http://www.ftrain.com/AWebSiteForHarpers.html semantic web-ified harpers.org] (back in 2003). His ~30,00-word article [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ What Is Code?] was the entire June 11, 2015 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Learn more at his [http://ftrain.com website], on [http://twitter.com/ftrain Twitter], or on [https://medium.com/@ftrain Medium], or watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSL5qVL3Mng his talk at XOXO 2014] or [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-06-12/-what-is-code-charlie-rose-06-12- his interview on Charlie Rose]. He was also interviewed at [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/an-interview-with-paul-ford-and-gina-trapani/ at In the Library with the Lead Pipe, along with Gina Trapani].

== Sorelle Friedler ==
"Algorithms are already being used to make decisions that affect people's lives and livelihoods, and this trend is only increasing," [https://www.haverford.edu/college-communications/news/sorelle-friedler-studies-programming-and-prejudice says Sorrelle Friedler]. "Often, one of the selling points of using an algorithm is that it will be less biased than the current human process. While it is possible to create algorithms that reduce bias, the use of an algorithm does not on its own guarantee that. It's important that computer scientists, as well as policymakers, understand the limitations and work to make algorithmic decisions fair."

Sorelle Friedler has been an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Haverford College since 2014 and was visiting at Haverford starting in 2012 (Haverford is just a few miles from Philadelphia). Her research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, computational geometry, data mining and machine learning, and the application of such algorithms to interdisciplinary data. She is a [http://www.datasociety.net/updates/featured/announcements/2015/03/introducing-2015-2016-fellows-class/ 2015-2016 Fellow at the Data & Society Research Institute] for her work on preventing discrimination in machine learning. Learn more about her work on her [http://ww3.haverford.edu/computerscience/faculty/sorelle/index.php Haverford Computer Science page].

== Brett Anitra Gilbert ==
"I’ve been doing research in Johannesburg, South Africa, to understand what the city needs to do to better support technology entrepreneurs," [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/news/faculty-insights-professor-brett-gilbert-looks-how-tech-clusters-emerge-cities says Rutgers Business School professor Brett Gilbert]. "The city is actively in the process of trying to see a tech cluster emerge, so my research is intended to help them understand what needs to happen in order to see a tech community thrive in Johannesburg. It's research I’m doing concurrently in Newark, New Jersey, because the city would like to see a technology community emerge here. The research is really comparing the process these two cities are going through. Most research on clusters focuses on clusters that already exist and on regions that are somewhat well established so you don’t see a lot that helps people understand what a city or region would need to do if they want to see one of these technology clusters emerge."

Dr. Gilbert's dissertation, "[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1371727 The Implications of Geographic Cluster Locations for New Venture Performance]" was awarded a Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship in 2004, and selected as a finalist for the Entrepreneurship Division's 2005 Heizer Award for outstanding dissertations in entrepreneurship. In addition to examining emerging technology communities in developing market contexts, she is also focusing on understanding emerging "clean energy" technologies. She has taught a variety of entrepreneurship courses on creativity and innovation, and the startup and management of new ventures. At RBS, Dr. Gilbert teaches the Technology Ventures course for undergraduates and graduates, and the Ph.D. seminar in entrepreneurship. Learn more on [https://twitter.com/ProfGilbert Twitter] and on [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/gilbert-brett her page at the Rutgers Business School website].

== Amelia Greenhall ==
Amelia Greenhall is the Chief Creative Officer of [http://magicvibes.co/ Magic Vibes Corporation]. Previously, she cofounded and served as Executive Director and board chair of [http://doubleunion.org/ Double Union], a non-profit feminist hacker/maker space in San Francisco with the mission of being a safe and comfortable space for women to work on their projects. She also cofounded the publication Model View Culture, and designed things for companies including [http://futureadvisor.com/ FutureAdvisor] and [http://www.ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/budge Habit Labs]. She is the publisher of the [http://openreviewquarterly.com/ Open Review Quarterly] literary journal, and the entries at [http://ameliagreenhall.com/blog her personal blog] are usually made available as episodes of [http://ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/amelia-explains-it-all Amelia Explains It All], a "podcast for men in tech."

== Kate Heddleston ==
Kate Heddleston is a software engineer who mostly works on Python projects. She has been a mentor for Hackbright Academy and PyLadies. She blogs and gives talks about how our engineering environments are killing diversity (see [https://kateheddleston.com/talk/ea142cd2-f026-4615-ab90-2170f06c739b her talk] and [https://kateheddleston.com/blog/how-our-engineering-environments-are-killing-diversity-introduction her blog series]), on [https://kateheddleston.com/talk/ef464595-b113-4c1b-9c5b-cc1f3681055c technical onboarding, training, and mentoring], and on the [https://kateheddleston.com/blog/a-modern-day-take-on-the-ethics-of-being-a-programmer ethics of being a programmer], among other topics. Here is her [https://kateheddleston.com/ website].

== Andrew Hoppin ==
Andrew Hoppin is the co-founder and president of [http://nucivic.com NuCivic]. He is a former NASA scientist who utilizes his theories of collaboration, open-source technologies in the creation of open civic platforms. As president of NuCivic, his mission is to improve the efficacy of civic organizations and governments, by providing accessible innovative knowledge management solutions. NuCivic's open data platform DKAN provides a platform for government organizations, libraries and civic organizations to implement data cataloging, publishing and visualizing.
Andrew was awarded the 2010 New York State Public Sector CIO of the Year by GovTech Magazine. He was named one of the top 50 government CIOs in the United States by Information Week magazine for his successful effort to deploy the first major New York State government website, NYSenate.gov, which won a “Best of New York” award for Project Excellence.

== Helen Horstmann-Allen ==
Pobox.com promised its customers a lifetime email address, and found a loyal following immediately. In addition to email addresses and accounts, their customers requested reliable email-based discussion forums, mailing lits, and newsletters, so they created Listbox.com. Philadelphian Helen Horstmann-Allen has been president of IC Group, the home of Pobox.com and Listbox.com, since 2000; prior to that, she was its director of operations, and she's been in charge of Pobox.com since 1997. She's in love with Philadelphia and food -- thus [http://phillyfoodie.com/ Philly Foodie] -- and can be found on [https://twitter.com/philliefoodie Twitter], too.

== Jess Klein ==
Open Web Designer at Bocoup

If you ask about her passions, Jess will draw you a venn diagram with the words community, freedom, and learning, and point to the sweet spot where all three overlap. She is dedicated to connecting people and ideas through new technologies and interactive experiences. Previous to her position at Bocoup, Jess worked at the Mozilla Foundation, where she served as Creative Lead for such projects as the X-Ray Goggles, Hackasaurus (which became part of the larger Webmaker platform), Thimble and the Hive. She also served as the Creative Director for Mozilla Open Badges, where she helped develop an ecosystem of tools for learners to earn, assess, issue and display digital micro-credentials. A Rockaway Beach native, Jess co-founded Rockaway Help in the wake of Hurricane Sandy to empower the community to find solutions for emergency response, preparedness and rebuilding through hyperlocal open news and the development of innovative community-designed technologies. She was named a White House Champion of Change for her civic hacktivism. More information is available at her [http://jessicaklein.com/ website].

== Kate Krauss ==

Kate Krauss is the Director of Communications and Public Policy for the Tor Project, a nonprofit organization that builds free, online privacy tools that allow users to defy shoe companies and intelligence agencies alike while they stay free and anonymous on the internet. As a human rights advocate, Kate lead several successful campaigns to free public health experts and human rights activists who were imprisoned in China. She became interested in internet freedom when she sought help from San Francisco hackers to aid a well-known Chinese health advocate whose huge, popular web site for people with hepatitis had been taken down by the Chinese government.

Prior to her work in online privacy, she served as Executive Director of the AIDS Policy Project, where she lead a successful effort to move $35 million into cure research at the US National Institutes of Health and wrote groundbreaking reports that showed for the first time how little the world was investing in the search for a cure for AIDS. Kate has been chosen twice as one of the Poz 100, one of the top 100 people working in AIDS in the world. She was a very early member of the renowned AIDS activist group ACT UP. She has also spoken at several hacker conferences, including Chaos Communications Congress, where she delivered a talk on how mass surveillance in China was converted into political repression.

(However--*has* a sense of humor!)

== Alison Macrina ==
Alison Macrina is the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project (LFP), an initiative that helps libraries fulfill the the promise of intellectual freedom by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools that help safeguard digital freedoms. She is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and multinational corporations. She cowrote the Radical Reference Collective’s zine, "[http://radicalreference.info/content/we-are-all-suspects-guide-people-navigating-expanded-powers-surveillance-21st-century We Are All Suspects]," which gives advice and tools for preventing surveillance, and has written or co-written articles for [http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/radical-librarianship-how-nin.html Boing Boing] and [http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/20/adobe_s_digital_editions_e_book_software_and_library_patron_privacy.html Slate]. LFP has been featured in [https://libraryfreedomproject.org/press/ numerous prominent publications], including [http://www.thenation.com/article/librarians-versus-nsa/ The Nation] magazine and NPR's [http://www.onthemedia.org/story/librarians-vs-patriot-act/ On the Media], and LFP's partners include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the Tor Project.

In February 2015, LFP won a ~$250,000 two-year grant through the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, which enabled her to work on LFP full-time. Prior to that, she was the technology librarian/IT manager at the Watertown (Massachusetts) Free Public Library.

== Uche Ogbuji ==
He is the CTO and founding partner of Zepheira, and has been a leader in the implementation of the LibHub Initiative. From [http://uche.ogbuji.net/ his website]: "Uche is a leading expert in data design and distributed systems. He has worked with XML, RDF and Web Services since the inception of those technologies. He has been technical lead on many open specifications and open source projects as well as on Zepheira's platform for library data transforms." He was also recently named [https://twitter.com/uogbuji/status/632936838622089217 poet laureate] of Balisage: The Markup Conference! More information is available at his [http://uche.ogbuji.net/ website.]

== Katrina Owen ==
Katrina Owen is the creator of [http://exercism.io/exercism exercism], a FLOSS project that supports students who are learning to code by giving them practice problems and real world feedback. Exercises are currently available in Clojure, CoffeeScript, C++, C#, Emacs Lisp, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Lisp Flavoured Erlang (LFE), Common Lisp, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, Perl 5, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, and Swift, and exercism developers are in the process of adding ECMAScript, Groovy, Nimrod, Perl 6, Pony, Racket, Standard ML, and VB.NET. Katrina Owen is herself a polyglot developer and Ruby Hero award winner who has spoken at numerous conferences; example talks include: [http://confreaks.tv/videos/lonestarruby2013-keynote-hacking-passion Hacking Passion]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWEEPt8VvmU Overkill]; [http://confreaks.tv/videos/bathruby2015-here-be-dragons Here Be Dragons]; and [http://confreaks.tv/videos/cascadiaruby2012-therapeutic-refactoring Therapeutic Refactoring]. She accidentally became a developer while pursuing a degree in molecular biology, and began nitpicking code in 2006 while volunteering at JavaRanch. When programming, her focus is on automation, workflow optimization, and refactoring. She is passionate about open source and contributes to several projects outside of exercism. Learn more on [https://github.com/kytrinyx GitHub] and [https://twitter.com/kytrinyx Twitter].

== Lauren Pressley ==
Lauren Pressley became the University of Washington Tacoma Library Director and Associate Dean of University Libraries on September 15, 2015. Her professional interests include formal and informal learning, design in library services, the evolving information environment, organizational change, and the future of libraries. She is the author of [https://unglue.it/work/76348/ So You Want to Be a Librarian] and [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3969 Wikis for Libraries], a co-chair of [https://www.librarypipeline.org/ Library Pipeline], and holds an elected position on the American Library Association Council. She has also served on the Library Information Technology Association board of directors and the [http://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon/ Horizon Project] advisory board.

Prior to joining UW, she was the Director of Learning Environments and Associate Professor at Virginia Tech University Libraries, where she led a team of thirty people who were responsible for enhancing situated learning by connecting services and spaces, including Reference, Circulation, Roving Services, Learning Spaces, Online Learning, academic programming, and community engagement. [http://www.slideshare.net/laurenpressley/presentations Several dozen of her presentations] are posted online.

== Aliya Rahman ==
Tech and social justice activist. Engineer. Read more at [http://www.techrepublic.com/article/aliya-rahman-former-code-for-progress-director-tech-and-social-justice-activist-martial-artist/ Tech Republic] and on [https://twitter.com/AliyaRahman Twitter]. From her [http://codeforprogress.org/app/program_director/ Code for Progress bio]:

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As Program Director, Aliya Rahman leads the recruitment, in-residence training, and job placement of Code for Progress fellows into full-time developer positions. Her work is informed by a background in legislative, electoral, and community organizing for racial and economic justice campaigns, and by a former life in public higher education conducting curriculum research and teaching computer programming and educational foundations/policy.

Aliya is the former Field Director of Equality Ohio, where she built a statewide field program focused on bridging gaps between racial justice organizers, LGBT rights groups, and labor. Prior to that, she worked for the Center for Community Change, first as their Ohio organizer in the passage of employment legislation supporting formerly incarcerated people, and later as a national circuit rider working with immigrant rights groups on voter engagement.

Aliya has developed Django applications, conducted tech trainings, or performed data analysis and targeting for every campaign, nonprofit, and university she has ever worked for - despite none of those tasks explicitly appearing on her job descriptions. Now based in Washington, DC, she is thoroughly enjoying life as a non-accidental techie, and is grateful to be part of an active ecosystem of women and people of color who believe tech has a pivotal role to play in creating social change.
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== Jenica Rogers ==
Jenica Rogers is Director of Libraries at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Her current professional interests include interrogating the ways our information economy is breaking down and reforming now that the internet changed everything, figuring out what the role of a library is in a reality in which warehousing books is sort of passé, and informing, mentoring, and supporting new library professionals as they hit the real world face first and at full speed. She has written at length about library issues on her blog, [http://www.attemptingelegance.com Attempting Elegance], represented SUNY Potsdam as the subject of [http://chronicle.com/article/As-Chemistry-Journals-Prices/134650/ an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about journal prices], and has given numerous invited keynote speeches at library conferences around the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2014, she was chosen to receive the American Library Association’s ALCTS HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions.

To get a sense of her presentation style, watch her deliver the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vy0Kv4eqeg plenary speech at the 2013 Charleston Conference] (in which she discusses her refusal to pay the extortionate fees being charged by a professional association for its journals) as well as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhMXClsue9w the Vision speech at NASIG's 2014 Annual Conference].

== Jenn Schiffer ==
[http://jennmoney.biz/ Jenn Schiffer] ([https://twitter.com/jennschiffer Twitter]), aka jennmoneydollars, is an open web engineer at [http://bocoup.com/ Bocoup] and lives in New Jersey (a relatively easy commute from Philadelphia). She's good at making art with code and great at telling jokes. She was previously a senior front-end developer for the National Basketball Association and, before that, taught and evaluated computer science education at Montclair State University, her alma mater (BS and MS in Computer Science). She also organizes JerseyScript, a developer meetup based in New Jersey, which is just one of several ways she's working to attract and retain more people in the web development community. She's made a lot of [http://jennmoney.biz/talks/ recent podcast appearances and presentations at conferences].

== Carl Stahmer ==
Polymath extraordinaire; doing digital humanities before it was cool; 20 years of experience in information architecture design and programming for the World Wide Web; Director of Digital Scholarship at the University Library, University of California, Davis; Technical Lead for the English Short Title Catalogue; Associate Director of the English Broadside Ballad Archive. Currently helping to lead the IMLS-funded BIBFLOW project at UC Davis. Read more on [http://www.carlstahmer.com/ his website] or [https://twitter.com/cstahmer Twitter].

== Cecily Walker ==
Cecily Walker is the Assistant Manager for Community Digital Initiatives & eLearning at Vancouver Public Library. In addition to her work on user experience and open data, she is an experienced speaker (keynoting DLF Forum this year) and has hosted a Twitter chat for first-generation library professionals (#L1S). Learn more at [http://cecily.info/ her website], and on [https://twitter.com/skeskali Twitter], [https://github.com/skeskali GitHub], and [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/about/editorial-board/cecily-walker/ In the Library with the Lead Pipe] (she is a member of the editorial board).

== Audrey Watters ==
Audrey Watters is an education writer with a focus on ed-tech. She is the author of [http://monsters.hackeducation.com/ The Monsters of Education Technology], a collection of her lectures, and she is currently working on two more books, [http://teachingmachin.es/ Teaching Machines] and [http://reclaim.hackeducation.com/ Claim Your Domain], both due out in 2015. She created [http://hackeducation.com/ Hack Education] in June 2010 shortly after she became a technology journalist because she was frustrated by the lack of coverage of education technology. Hack Education was always intended to be the sort of publication that she would want to read: smart and snarky, free of advertising and investor influence, and focused on tracking new technologies but not just because of some hyperbolic "revolution." Read more on [http://audreywatters.com/ her website], on [https://twitter.com/audreywatters Twitter], and on [https://github.com/audreywatters GitHub].

== Gabriel Weinberg ==
Gabriel Weinberg is the CEO and Founder of [https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo], "the search engine that doesn't track you," and the co-author of [http://tractionbook.com/ Traction], "the book that helps startups get customers." He is also an active [https://angel.co/yegg/syndicate/ angel investor], and he lives and works in the Philadelphia suburbs. Learn more on [http://ye.gg/app/twitter Twitter] and [http://ye.gg/app/medium Medium], read [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2010/marketing-search-an-interview-with-pete-bell-of-endeca-and-gabriel-weinberg-of-duckduckgo/ an interview with him (and Endeca co-founder Pete Bell) at In the Library with the Lead Pipe], or watch [https://vimeo.com/68099450 his speech at Gel 2013] or his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=59&v=TvfGJgzBeH0 appearance on Conversations with Great Minds].

== David Weinberger ==
David Weinberger, Ph.D., is one of the world's most respected thought leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society. His latest book, [http://www.toobigtoknow.com/ Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room], is a roadmap on taking advantage of networked knowledge now that it has replaced books and experts of old. He also is the author of [http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/ Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder], which charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended, as well as the critically acclaimed book [http://smallpieces.com/index.php Small Pieces Loosely Joined], a highly original and accessible reflection on the impact of the Internet on human behavior. He earned his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Toronto and taught philosophy for five years at New Jersey's Stockton State College. Since 2004, he has been a fellow at Harvard University's prestigious Berkman Center, gag writer for Woody Allen, NPR commentator for "All Things Considered" and "Here and Now," technology columnist for KMWorld and Darwin Magazine, blogging pioneer, and dot-com entrepreneur. [http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/david-weinberger This site has information on how to book him], and you can read more on [https://twitter.com/dweinberger Twitter] or on [http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ his blog].

== Brock Whitten ==
Making front-end development easier by the second. Co-creator of Surge, Harp, and Cordova/PhoneGap. Mozilla-WebFWD Alumni and advocate of a free and open web. A friend of the community. Read about Surge [https://surge.sh/tour here] and [https://medium.com/surge-sh/introducing-surge-the-cdn-for-front-end-developers-b4a50a61bcfc here].
Here is [http://sintaxi.com/ Brock's website]

== 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 gave a well-received talk at 2014 ALA, and could offer interesting tech and social insights at Code4Lib. Read more at [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods's website].

== Jeffrey Zeldman ==
HappyCog/A List Apart (Philly/NYC-based)

Dubbed “King of Web Standards” by Business Week, Jeffrey Zeldman founded and is chairman of Happy Cog™ and has published A List Apart Magazine “for people who make websites” since 1998. He has written two books, notably the foundational text, Designing With Web Standards,currently in a 3rd Edition coauthored with Ethan Marcotte. It has been translated into 15 languages and is credited with converting the web design industry from tag soup and Flash to semantics and accessibility.
[http://happycog.com/zeldman Zeldman's page] on HappyCog.com.

== Kortney Ryan Ziegler ==
Founder, Trans*H4CK

Kortney Ryan Ziegler is an award winning artist, writer, and blogger based in Oakland, California. Dr. Ziegler is the first person to hold the Ph.D. of African American Studies from Northwestern University.

Dr. Ziegler is the founder of [http://www.transhack.org/ Trans*H4CK]--the only tech event of its kind that brings visibility to trans* tech innovators and entrepreneurs.

He is also the director of the multiple award winning documentary, [http://www.stillblackfilm.org/ STILL BLACK: a portrait of black transmen], runs the GLAAD Media Award nominated blog, [http://blackademic.com/ blac (k) ademic], and in 2013, was named one of the Top 40 Under 40 LGBT activists by The Advocate Magazine and one of the most influential African Americans by TheRoot100. Dr. Ziegler gave the closing keynote at the 2014 Annual LITA Forum in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

[[Category:Code4Lib2016|Invited Speakers Nomination]]
[[Category:Code4Lib Keynotes]]

2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

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Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for Code4Lib 2016 in Philadelphia. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

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== Nominee's Name ==

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

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==Mike Bostock==
Interactive Graphic Design for The New York Times and the author of D3.js, a popular open-source library for visualizing data using web standards.

Prior to The New York Times, Mike was a visualization scientist for Square and a computer science PhD student at Stanford University. Mike received the BSE degree in computer science in 2000 from Princeton University.
ere's his [https://twitter.com/mbostock Twitter]; and his [http://bost.ocks.org/mike/ site]

== danah boyd ==
dana boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder of [http://www.datasociety.net/ Data & Society Research Institute]. She's also a Visiting Professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a faculty affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Center. For over a decade, her research focused on how young people use social media, which resulted in two books: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (2009) and It's Complicated (2014). More recently, she has focused on the social and cultural dimensions of big data, especially privacy and publicity, data(mis)interpretation, and the civil rights implications of data analytics. She often works closely with librarians, and was the keynote speaker at the Reference and User Services Association President’s Program at ALA Annual in San Francisco in 2015. Read more at [http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ her blog], on [https://twitter.com/zephoria Twitter], or read her [http://www.danah.org/papers/#essays Essays].

== Mandy Brown ==
Mandy Brown builds systems to help writers and editors to work together. She co-founded and served as CEO of [http://editorially.com/ Editorially], a platform for collaborative writing and editing; Editorially was acquired by Vox Media where she is now director of platform. She is also co-founder and was editor-in-chief of [http://abookapart.com/ A Book Apart], was a contributing editor for [http://alistapart.com/ A List Apart], and edited many books, including [http://shapeofdesignbook.com/ The Shape of Design], by Frank Chimero. She previously served as communications director and product lead at [http://typekit.com/ Typekit] and as creative director at [http://wwnorton.com/ W. W. Norton & Company]. She blogs at [http://aworkinglibrary.com/ A Working Library] and has spoken at [http://2014.dconstruct.org/ dConstruct], [http://2012.buildconf.com/ Build], [http://confab2011.com/ Confab], [http://typotalks.com/sanfrancisco/ TYPO SF], and [http://2013.beyondtellerrand.com/ Beyond Tellerrand ]. Additionally, [http://aworkinglibrary.com/coffee/ she mentors and advises people from underrepresented groups in the tech industry]. She lives in Philadelphia.

== Kimberly Bryant ==
Kimberly Bryant is a Biotechnology/Engineering professional who founded [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ BlackGirlsCode] in 2011, to meet the needs of young women of color who are underrepresented in the currently exploding field of technology. Bryant received her first taste of computer programming when Fortran and Pascal were still the popular languages in the computing world and the 'Apple Macintosh' was the new kid on the block. Much has changed since those days and the mission of BlackGirlsCode is to introduce programming and technology to a new generation of coders (girls aged 7 - 17) who will become the leaders and creators of tomorrow.

== Maciej Cegłowski ==
Maciej Cegłowski, is a programmer, [http://idlewords.com/art/ painter], [http://www.idlewords.com/ essayist], [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-words-to-antarctica travel writer], and [http://idlewords.com/talks/ speaker]. He has been running Pinboard, a bookmarking site, since 2009. He has worked at Yahoo!, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, and has done contract work for Twitter and SixApart. He's funny on Twitter, whether he's representing [https://twitter.com/baconmeteor himself] or his company, [https://twitter.com/pinboard Pinboard].

== Aaron Straup Cope ==
Aaron Straup Cope is a software developer who believes that "promise of the Internet is to be a bridge for cross-pollinating peoples, ideas and communities"[1] and his work shows it. Currently at [https://mapzen.com/ Mapzen] he is building a [http://whosonfirst.mapzen.com/ Who's On First], a gazetteer of places "each with a stable identifier and some number of descriptive properties about that location." Previously he designed and developed the much lauded [http://collection.cooperhewitt.org collections website] for the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. His work consistently focuses on publishing data to the web with stable identifiers, while eschewing much of the formality and overhead of "Linked Data", a point he made quite clearly in his talk [http://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/proposal/omgwtftgn/ "OMGWTFTGN"] at Museums and the Web 2015, where he asked if releasing a 17GB RDF dataset is really the best way to get data used by... anyone. Read [http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/en/aaronstraupcope-resume-en.txt Aaron Straup Cope's resume] for more information.

== Brigitte Daniel ==
Brigitte Daniel is a digital access advocate with experience in telecommunications and social entrepreneurship.

In May 2006, she became the executive vice president of Wilco Electronic Systems, a small telecommunications firm founded in 1977 by her father that has primarily done installations for the Philadelphia Housing Authority.

In that role, she became a frequent speaker on digital divide and web literacy issues, particularly in the Philadelphia technology community. She was part of the 2011 class of Eisenhower Fellows. Read more from her on [https://twitter.com/brigittedaniel Twitter].

== Catherine Farman ==
Philadelphian Catherine Farman is a developer, a Technology & Innovation Fellow Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, and a self-described "responsive design fanatic, feminist, Chicana, Texpat, cat lady, and teacher at [https://www.girldevelopit.com/chapters/philadelphia Girls Develop It's Philadelphia Chapter]". She has worked at HappyCog, the studio founded by A List Apart's Jeffrey Zeldman. More information is available at [http://cfarman.com/ her website, cfarman.com], and on [https://twitter.com/cfarm Twitter]. Several of her recent speeches are listed on [http://lanyrd.com/profile/cfarm/past/speaking/ Lanyrd]. Also available is a video of her 2014 presentation at OSCON, "[https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/oscon-2014-complete/9781491910795/part96.html Lessons from Girl Develop It: Getting More Women Involved in Open Source]" (link goes to a video of the talk, which she co-presented with Corinne Warnshuis, Girls Develop It's executive director).

== Paul Ford ==
Paul Ford is a Brooklyn-based writer and web technologist. He often writes about [https://medium.com/message/how-paper-magazines-web-engineers-scaled-kim-kardashians-back-end-sfw-6367f8d37688 the web], [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6241967 archives] [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ programming], [http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html the nature of information], and [https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100 living in the information age]. Past projects include [https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf tilde.club] and the [http://www.ftrain.com/AWebSiteForHarpers.html semantic web-ified harpers.org] (back in 2003). His ~30,00-word article [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ What Is Code?] was the entire June 11, 2015 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Learn more at his [http://ftrain.com website], on [http://twitter.com/ftrain Twitter], or on [https://medium.com/@ftrain Medium], or watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSL5qVL3Mng his talk at XOXO 2014] or [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-06-12/-what-is-code-charlie-rose-06-12- his interview on Charlie Rose]. He was also interviewed at [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/an-interview-with-paul-ford-and-gina-trapani/ at In the Library with the Lead Pipe, along with Gina Trapani].

== Sorelle Friedler ==
"Algorithms are already being used to make decisions that affect people's lives and livelihoods, and this trend is only increasing," [https://www.haverford.edu/college-communications/news/sorelle-friedler-studies-programming-and-prejudice says Sorrelle Friedler]. "Often, one of the selling points of using an algorithm is that it will be less biased than the current human process. While it is possible to create algorithms that reduce bias, the use of an algorithm does not on its own guarantee that. It's important that computer scientists, as well as policymakers, understand the limitations and work to make algorithmic decisions fair."

Sorelle Friedler has been an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Haverford College since 2014 and was visiting at Haverford starting in 2012 (Haverford is just a few miles from Philadelphia). Her research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, computational geometry, data mining and machine learning, and the application of such algorithms to interdisciplinary data. She is a [http://www.datasociety.net/updates/featured/announcements/2015/03/introducing-2015-2016-fellows-class/ 2015-2016 Fellow at the Data & Society Research Institute] for her work on preventing discrimination in machine learning. Learn more about her work on her [http://ww3.haverford.edu/computerscience/faculty/sorelle/index.php Haverford Computer Science page].

== Brett Anitra Gilbert ==
"I’ve been doing research in Johannesburg, South Africa, to understand what the city needs to do to better support technology entrepreneurs," [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/news/faculty-insights-professor-brett-gilbert-looks-how-tech-clusters-emerge-cities says Rutgers Business School professor Brett Gilbert]. "The city is actively in the process of trying to see a tech cluster emerge, so my research is intended to help them understand what needs to happen in order to see a tech community thrive in Johannesburg. It's research I’m doing concurrently in Newark, New Jersey, because the city would like to see a technology community emerge here. The research is really comparing the process these two cities are going through. Most research on clusters focuses on clusters that already exist and on regions that are somewhat well established so you don’t see a lot that helps people understand what a city or region would need to do if they want to see one of these technology clusters emerge."

Dr. Gilbert's dissertation, "[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1371727 The Implications of Geographic Cluster Locations for New Venture Performance]" was awarded a Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship in 2004, and selected as a finalist for the Entrepreneurship Division's 2005 Heizer Award for outstanding dissertations in entrepreneurship. In addition to examining emerging technology communities in developing market contexts, she is also focusing on understanding emerging "clean energy" technologies. She has taught a variety of entrepreneurship courses on creativity and innovation, and the startup and management of new ventures. At RBS, Dr. Gilbert teaches the Technology Ventures course for undergraduates and graduates, and the Ph.D. seminar in entrepreneurship. Learn more on [https://twitter.com/ProfGilbert Twitter] and on [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/gilbert-brett her page at the Rutgers Business School website].

== Amelia Greenhall ==
Amelia Greenhall is the Chief Creative Officer of [http://magicvibes.co/ Magic Vibes Corporation]. Previously, she cofounded and served as Executive Director and board chair of [http://doubleunion.org/ Double Union], a non-profit feminist hacker/maker space in San Francisco with the mission of being a safe and comfortable space for women to work on their projects. She also cofounded the publication Model View Culture, and designed things for companies including [http://futureadvisor.com/ FutureAdvisor] and [http://www.ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/budge Habit Labs]. She is the publisher of the [http://openreviewquarterly.com/ Open Review Quarterly] literary journal, and the entries at [http://ameliagreenhall.com/blog her personal blog] are usually made available as episodes of [http://ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/amelia-explains-it-all Amelia Explains It All], a "podcast for men in tech."

== Kate Heddleston ==
Kate Heddleston is a software engineer who mostly works on Python projects. She has been a mentor for Hackbright Academy and PyLadies. She blogs and gives talks about how our engineering environments are killing diversity (see [https://kateheddleston.com/talk/ea142cd2-f026-4615-ab90-2170f06c739b her talk] and [https://kateheddleston.com/blog/how-our-engineering-environments-are-killing-diversity-introduction her blog series]), on [https://kateheddleston.com/talk/ef464595-b113-4c1b-9c5b-cc1f3681055c technical onboarding, training, and mentoring], and on the [https://kateheddleston.com/blog/a-modern-day-take-on-the-ethics-of-being-a-programmer ethics of being a programmer], among other topics. Here is her [https://kateheddleston.com/ website].

== Andrew Hoppin ==
Andrew Hoppin is the co-founder and president of [http://nucivic.com NuCivic]. He is a former NASA scientist who utilizes his theories of collaboration, open-source technologies in the creation of open civic platforms. As president of NuCivic, his mission is to improve the efficacy of civic organizations and governments, by providing accessible innovative knowledge management solutions. NuCivic's open data platform DKAN provides a platform for government organizations, libraries and civic organizations to implement data cataloging, publishing and visualizing.
Andrew was awarded the 2010 New York State Public Sector CIO of the Year by GovTech Magazine. He was named one of the top 50 government CIOs in the United States by Information Week magazine for his successful effort to deploy the first major New York State government website, NYSenate.gov, which won a “Best of New York” award for Project Excellence.

== Helen Horstmann-Allen ==
Pobox.com promised its customers a lifetime email address, and found a loyal following immediately. In addition to email addresses and accounts, their customers requested reliable email-based discussion forums, mailing lits, and newsletters, so they created Listbox.com. Philadelphian Helen Horstmann-Allen has been president of IC Group, the home of Pobox.com and Listbox.com, since 2000; prior to that, she was its director of operations, and she's been in charge of Pobox.com since 1997. She's in love with Philadelphia and food -- thus [http://phillyfoodie.com/ Philly Foodie] -- and can be found on [https://twitter.com/philliefoodie Twitter], too.

== Jess Klein ==
Open Web Designer at Bocoup

If you ask about her passions, Jess will draw you a venn diagram with the words community, freedom, and learning, and point to the sweet spot where all three overlap. She is dedicated to connecting people and ideas through new technologies and interactive experiences. Previous to her position at Bocoup, Jess worked at the Mozilla Foundation, where she served as Creative Lead for such projects as the X-Ray Goggles, Hackasaurus (which became part of the larger Webmaker platform), Thimble and the Hive. She also served as the Creative Director for Mozilla Open Badges, where she helped develop an ecosystem of tools for learners to earn, assess, issue and display digital micro-credentials. A Rockaway Beach native, Jess co-founded Rockaway Help in the wake of Hurricane Sandy to empower the community to find solutions for emergency response, preparedness and rebuilding through hyperlocal open news and the development of innovative community-designed technologies. She was named a White House Champion of Change for her civic hacktivism. More information is available at her [http://jessicaklein.com/ website].

== Kate Krauss ==

Kate Krauss is the Director of Communications and Public Policy for the Tor Project, a nonprofit organization that builds free, online privacy tools that allow users to defy shoe companies and intelligence agencies alike while they stay free and anonymous on the internet. As a human rights advocate, Kate lead several successful campaigns to free public health experts and human rights activists who were imprisoned in China. She became interested in internet freedom when she sought help from San Francisco hackers to aid a well-known Chinese health advocate whose huge, popular web site for people with hepatitis had been taken down by the Chinese government.

Prior to her work in online privacy, she served as Executive Director of the AIDS Policy Project, where she lead a successful effort to move $35 million into cure research at the US National Institutes of Health and wrote groundbreaking reports that showed for the first time how little the world was investing in the search for a cure for AIDS. Kate has been chosen twice as one of the Poz 100, one of the top 100 people working in AIDS in the world. She was a very early member of the renowned AIDS activist group ACT UP. She has also spoken at several hacker conferences, including Chaos Communications Congress, where she delivered a talk on how mass surveillance in China was converted into political repression.

(However--*has* a sense of humor!)

== Alison Macrina ==
Alison Macrina is the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project (LFP), an initiative that helps libraries fulfill the the promise of intellectual freedom by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools that help safeguard digital freedoms. She is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and multinational corporations. She cowrote the Radical Reference Collective’s zine, "[http://radicalreference.info/content/we-are-all-suspects-guide-people-navigating-expanded-powers-surveillance-21st-century We Are All Suspects]," which gives advice and tools for preventing surveillance, and has written or co-written articles for [http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/radical-librarianship-how-nin.html Boing Boing] and [http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/20/adobe_s_digital_editions_e_book_software_and_library_patron_privacy.html Slate]. LFP has been featured in [https://libraryfreedomproject.org/press/ numerous prominent publications], including [http://www.thenation.com/article/librarians-versus-nsa/ The Nation] magazine and NPR's [http://www.onthemedia.org/story/librarians-vs-patriot-act/ On the Media], and LFP's partners include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the Tor Project.

In February 2015, LFP won a ~$250,000 two-year grant through the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, which enabled her to work on LFP full-time. Prior to that, she was the technology librarian/IT manager at the Watertown (Massachusetts) Free Public Library.

== Uche Ogbuji ==
CTO and founding partner at Zepheira; has helped lead implementation of the LibHub Initiative. From [http://uche.ogbuji.net/ his website]: "Uche is a leading expert in data design and distributed systems. He has worked with XML, RDF and Web Services since the inception of those technologies. He has been technical lead on many open specifications and open source projects as well as on Zepheira's platform for library data transforms." Also recently named [https://twitter.com/uogbuji/status/632936838622089217 poet laureate] of Balisage: The Markup Conference!

== Katrina Owen ==
Katrina Owen is the creator of [http://exercism.io/exercism exercism], a FLOSS project that supports students who are learning to code by giving them practice problems and real world feedback. Exercises are currently available in Clojure, CoffeeScript, C++, C#, Emacs Lisp, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Lisp Flavoured Erlang (LFE), Common Lisp, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, Perl 5, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, and Swift, and exercism developers are in the process of adding ECMAScript, Groovy, Nimrod, Perl 6, Pony, Racket, Standard ML, and VB.NET. Katrina Owen is herself a polyglot developer and Ruby Hero award winner who has spoken at numerous conferences; example talks include: [http://confreaks.tv/videos/lonestarruby2013-keynote-hacking-passion Hacking Passion]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWEEPt8VvmU Overkill]; [http://confreaks.tv/videos/bathruby2015-here-be-dragons Here Be Dragons]; and [http://confreaks.tv/videos/cascadiaruby2012-therapeutic-refactoring Therapeutic Refactoring]. She accidentally became a developer while pursuing a degree in molecular biology, and began nitpicking code in 2006 while volunteering at JavaRanch. When programming, her focus is on automation, workflow optimization, and refactoring. She is passionate about open source and contributes to several projects outside of exercism. Learn more on [https://github.com/kytrinyx GitHub] and [https://twitter.com/kytrinyx Twitter].

== Lauren Pressley ==
Lauren Pressley became the University of Washington Tacoma Library Director and Associate Dean of University Libraries on September 15, 2015. Her professional interests include formal and informal learning, design in library services, the evolving information environment, organizational change, and the future of libraries. She is the author of [https://unglue.it/work/76348/ So You Want to Be a Librarian] and [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3969 Wikis for Libraries], a co-chair of [https://www.librarypipeline.org/ Library Pipeline], and holds an elected position on the American Library Association Council. She has also served on the Library Information Technology Association board of directors and the [http://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon/ Horizon Project] advisory board.

Prior to joining UW, she was the Director of Learning Environments and Associate Professor at Virginia Tech University Libraries, where she led a team of thirty people who were responsible for enhancing situated learning by connecting services and spaces, including Reference, Circulation, Roving Services, Learning Spaces, Online Learning, academic programming, and community engagement. [http://www.slideshare.net/laurenpressley/presentations Several dozen of her presentations] are posted online.

== Aliya Rahman ==
Tech and social justice activist. Engineer. Read more at [http://www.techrepublic.com/article/aliya-rahman-former-code-for-progress-director-tech-and-social-justice-activist-martial-artist/ Tech Republic] and on [https://twitter.com/AliyaRahman Twitter]. From her [http://codeforprogress.org/app/program_director/ Code for Progress bio]:

<blockquote>
As Program Director, Aliya Rahman leads the recruitment, in-residence training, and job placement of Code for Progress fellows into full-time developer positions. Her work is informed by a background in legislative, electoral, and community organizing for racial and economic justice campaigns, and by a former life in public higher education conducting curriculum research and teaching computer programming and educational foundations/policy.

Aliya is the former Field Director of Equality Ohio, where she built a statewide field program focused on bridging gaps between racial justice organizers, LGBT rights groups, and labor. Prior to that, she worked for the Center for Community Change, first as their Ohio organizer in the passage of employment legislation supporting formerly incarcerated people, and later as a national circuit rider working with immigrant rights groups on voter engagement.

Aliya has developed Django applications, conducted tech trainings, or performed data analysis and targeting for every campaign, nonprofit, and university she has ever worked for - despite none of those tasks explicitly appearing on her job descriptions. Now based in Washington, DC, she is thoroughly enjoying life as a non-accidental techie, and is grateful to be part of an active ecosystem of women and people of color who believe tech has a pivotal role to play in creating social change.
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== Jenica Rogers ==
Jenica Rogers is Director of Libraries at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Her current professional interests include interrogating the ways our information economy is breaking down and reforming now that the internet changed everything, figuring out what the role of a library is in a reality in which warehousing books is sort of passé, and informing, mentoring, and supporting new library professionals as they hit the real world face first and at full speed. She has written at length about library issues on her blog, [http://www.attemptingelegance.com Attempting Elegance], represented SUNY Potsdam as the subject of [http://chronicle.com/article/As-Chemistry-Journals-Prices/134650/ an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about journal prices], and has given numerous invited keynote speeches at library conferences around the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2014, she was chosen to receive the American Library Association’s ALCTS HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions.

To get a sense of her presentation style, watch her deliver the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vy0Kv4eqeg plenary speech at the 2013 Charleston Conference] (in which she discusses her refusal to pay the extortionate fees being charged by a professional association for its journals) as well as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhMXClsue9w the Vision speech at NASIG's 2014 Annual Conference].

== Jenn Schiffer ==
[http://jennmoney.biz/ Jenn Schiffer] ([https://twitter.com/jennschiffer Twitter]), aka jennmoneydollars, is an open web engineer at [http://bocoup.com/ Bocoup] and lives in New Jersey (a relatively easy commute from Philadelphia). She's good at making art with code and great at telling jokes. She was previously a senior front-end developer for the National Basketball Association and, before that, taught and evaluated computer science education at Montclair State University, her alma mater (BS and MS in Computer Science). She also organizes JerseyScript, a developer meetup based in New Jersey, which is just one of several ways she's working to attract and retain more people in the web development community. She's made a lot of [http://jennmoney.biz/talks/ recent podcast appearances and presentations at conferences].

== Carl Stahmer ==
Polymath extraordinaire; doing digital humanities before it was cool; 20 years of experience in information architecture design and programming for the World Wide Web; Director of Digital Scholarship at the University Library, University of California, Davis; Technical Lead for the English Short Title Catalogue; Associate Director of the English Broadside Ballad Archive. Currently helping to lead the IMLS-funded BIBFLOW project at UC Davis. Read more on [http://www.carlstahmer.com/ his website] or [https://twitter.com/cstahmer Twitter].

== Cecily Walker ==
Cecily Walker is the Assistant Manager for Community Digital Initiatives & eLearning at Vancouver Public Library. In addition to her work on user experience and open data, she is an experienced speaker (keynoting DLF Forum this year) and has hosted a Twitter chat for first-generation library professionals (#L1S). Learn more at [http://cecily.info/ her website], and on [https://twitter.com/skeskali Twitter], [https://github.com/skeskali GitHub], and [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/about/editorial-board/cecily-walker/ In the Library with the Lead Pipe] (she is a member of the editorial board).

== Audrey Watters ==
Audrey Watters is an education writer with a focus on ed-tech. She is the author of [http://monsters.hackeducation.com/ The Monsters of Education Technology], a collection of her lectures, and she is currently working on two more books, [http://teachingmachin.es/ Teaching Machines] and [http://reclaim.hackeducation.com/ Claim Your Domain], both due out in 2015. She created [http://hackeducation.com/ Hack Education] in June 2010 shortly after she became a technology journalist because she was frustrated by the lack of coverage of education technology. Hack Education was always intended to be the sort of publication that she would want to read: smart and snarky, free of advertising and investor influence, and focused on tracking new technologies but not just because of some hyperbolic "revolution." Read more on [http://audreywatters.com/ her website], on [https://twitter.com/audreywatters Twitter], and on [https://github.com/audreywatters GitHub].

== Gabriel Weinberg ==
Gabriel Weinberg is the CEO and Founder of [https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo], "the search engine that doesn't track you," and the co-author of [http://tractionbook.com/ Traction], "the book that helps startups get customers." He is also an active [https://angel.co/yegg/syndicate/ angel investor], and he lives and works in the Philadelphia suburbs. Learn more on [http://ye.gg/app/twitter Twitter] and [http://ye.gg/app/medium Medium], read [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2010/marketing-search-an-interview-with-pete-bell-of-endeca-and-gabriel-weinberg-of-duckduckgo/ an interview with him (and Endeca co-founder Pete Bell) at In the Library with the Lead Pipe], or watch [https://vimeo.com/68099450 his speech at Gel 2013] or his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=59&v=TvfGJgzBeH0 appearance on Conversations with Great Minds].

== David Weinberger ==
David Weinberger, Ph.D., is one of the world's most respected thought leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society. His latest book, [http://www.toobigtoknow.com/ Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room], is a roadmap on taking advantage of networked knowledge now that it has replaced books and experts of old. He also is the author of [http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/ Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder], which charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended, as well as the critically acclaimed book [http://smallpieces.com/index.php Small Pieces Loosely Joined], a highly original and accessible reflection on the impact of the Internet on human behavior. He earned his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Toronto and taught philosophy for five years at New Jersey's Stockton State College. Since 2004, he has been a fellow at Harvard University's prestigious Berkman Center, gag writer for Woody Allen, NPR commentator for "All Things Considered" and "Here and Now," technology columnist for KMWorld and Darwin Magazine, blogging pioneer, and dot-com entrepreneur. [http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/david-weinberger This site has information on how to book him], and you can read more on [https://twitter.com/dweinberger Twitter] or on [http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ his blog].

== Brock Whitten ==
Making front-end development easier by the second. Co-creator of Surge, Harp, and Cordova/PhoneGap. Mozilla-WebFWD Alumni and advocate of a free and open web. A friend of the community. Read about Surge [https://surge.sh/tour here] and [https://medium.com/surge-sh/introducing-surge-the-cdn-for-front-end-developers-b4a50a61bcfc here].
Here is [http://sintaxi.com/ Brock's website]

== 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 gave a well-received talk at 2014 ALA, and could offer interesting tech and social insights at Code4Lib. Read more at [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods's website].

== Jeffrey Zeldman ==
HappyCog/A List Apart (Philly/NYC-based)

Dubbed “King of Web Standards” by Business Week, Jeffrey Zeldman founded and is chairman of Happy Cog™ and has published A List Apart Magazine “for people who make websites” since 1998. He has written two books, notably the foundational text, Designing With Web Standards,currently in a 3rd Edition coauthored with Ethan Marcotte. It has been translated into 15 languages and is credited with converting the web design industry from tag soup and Flash to semantics and accessibility.
[http://happycog.com/zeldman Zeldman's page] on HappyCog.com.

== Kortney Ryan Ziegler ==
Founder, Trans*H4CK

Kortney Ryan Ziegler is an award winning artist, writer, and blogger based in Oakland, California. Dr. Ziegler is the first person to hold the Ph.D. of African American Studies from Northwestern University.

Dr. Ziegler is the founder of [http://www.transhack.org/ Trans*H4CK]--the only tech event of its kind that brings visibility to trans* tech innovators and entrepreneurs.

He is also the director of the multiple award winning documentary, [http://www.stillblackfilm.org/ STILL BLACK: a portrait of black transmen], runs the GLAAD Media Award nominated blog, [http://blackademic.com/ blac (k) ademic], and in 2013, was named one of the Top 40 Under 40 LGBT activists by The Advocate Magazine and one of the most influential African Americans by TheRoot100. Dr. Ziegler gave the closing keynote at the 2014 Annual LITA Forum in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

[[Category:Code4Lib2016|Invited Speakers Nomination]]
[[Category:Code4Lib Keynotes]]

2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

2015-09-21T13:46:31Z

JohnMignault: /* Andrew Hoppin */

Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for Code4Lib 2016 in Philadelphia. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

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== Nominee's Name ==

Description of no more than 250 words.

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

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==Mike Bostock==
Interactive Graphic Design for The New York Times and the author of D3.js, a popular open-source library for visualizing data using web standards.

Prior to The New York Times, Mike was a visualization scientist for Square and a computer science PhD student at Stanford University. Mike received the BSE degree in computer science in 2000 from Princeton University.
ere's his [https://twitter.com/mbostock Twitter]; and his [http://bost.ocks.org/mike/ site]

== danah boyd ==
dana boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder of [http://www.datasociety.net/ Data & Society Research Institute]. She's also a Visiting Professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a faculty affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Center. For over a decade, her research focused on how young people use social media, which resulted in two books: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (2009) and It's Complicated (2014). More recently, she has focused on the social and cultural dimensions of big data, especially privacy and publicity, data(mis)interpretation, and the civil rights implications of data analytics. She often works closely with librarians, and was the keynote speaker at the Reference and User Services Association President’s Program at ALA Annual in San Francisco in 2015. Read more at [http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ her blog], on [https://twitter.com/zephoria Twitter], or read her [http://www.danah.org/papers/#essays Essays].

== Mandy Brown ==
Mandy Brown builds systems to help writers and editors to work together. She co-founded and served as CEO of [http://editorially.com/ Editorially], a platform for collaborative writing and editing; Editorially was acquired by Vox Media where she is now director of platform. She is also co-founder and was editor-in-chief of [http://abookapart.com/ A Book Apart], was a contributing editor for [http://alistapart.com/ A List Apart], and edited many books, including [http://shapeofdesignbook.com/ The Shape of Design], by Frank Chimero. She previously served as communications director and product lead at [http://typekit.com/ Typekit] and as creative director at [http://wwnorton.com/ W. W. Norton & Company]. She blogs at [http://aworkinglibrary.com/ A Working Library] and has spoken at [http://2014.dconstruct.org/ dConstruct], [http://2012.buildconf.com/ Build], [http://confab2011.com/ Confab], [http://typotalks.com/sanfrancisco/ TYPO SF], and [http://2013.beyondtellerrand.com/ Beyond Tellerrand ]. Additionally, [http://aworkinglibrary.com/coffee/ she mentors and advises people from underrepresented groups in the tech industry]. She lives in Philadelphia.

== Kimberly Bryant ==
Kimberly Bryant is a Biotechnology/Engineering professional who founded [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ BlackGirlsCode] in 2011, to meet the needs of young women of color who are underrepresented in the currently exploding field of technology. Bryant received her first taste of computer programming when Fortran and Pascal were still the popular languages in the computing world and the 'Apple Macintosh' was the new kid on the block. Much has changed since those days and the mission of BlackGirlsCode is to introduce programming and technology to a new generation of coders (girls aged 7 - 17) who will become the leaders and creators of tomorrow.

== Maciej Cegłowski ==
Maciej Cegłowski, is a programmer, [http://idlewords.com/art/ painter], [http://www.idlewords.com/ essayist], [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-words-to-antarctica travel writer], and [http://idlewords.com/talks/ speaker]. He has been running Pinboard, a bookmarking site, since 2009. He has worked at Yahoo!, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, and has done contract work for Twitter and SixApart. He's funny on Twitter, whether he's representing [https://twitter.com/baconmeteor himself] or his company, [https://twitter.com/pinboard Pinboard].

== Aaron Straup Cope ==
Aaron Straup Cope is a software developer who believes that "promise of the Internet is to be a bridge for cross-pollinating peoples, ideas and communities"[1] and his work shows it. Currently at [https://mapzen.com/ Mapzen] he is building a [http://whosonfirst.mapzen.com/ Who's On First], a gazetteer of places "each with a stable identifier and some number of descriptive properties about that location." Previously he designed and developed the much lauded [http://collection.cooperhewitt.org collections website] for the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. His work consistently focuses on publishing data to the web with stable identifiers, while eschewing much of the formality and overhead of "Linked Data", a point he made quite clearly in his talk [http://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/proposal/omgwtftgn/ "OMGWTFTGN"] at Museums and the Web 2015, where he asked if releasing a 17GB RDF dataset is really the best way to get data used by... anyone. Read [http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/en/aaronstraupcope-resume-en.txt Aaron Straup Cope's resume] for more information.

== Brigitte Daniel ==
Brigitte Daniel is a digital access advocate with experience in telecommunications and social entrepreneurship.

In May 2006, she became the executive vice president of Wilco Electronic Systems, a small telecommunications firm founded in 1977 by her father that has primarily done installations for the Philadelphia Housing Authority.

In that role, she became a frequent speaker on digital divide and web literacy issues, particularly in the Philadelphia technology community. She was part of the 2011 class of Eisenhower Fellows. Read more from her on [https://twitter.com/brigittedaniel Twitter].

== Catherine Farman ==
Philadelphian Catherine Farman is a developer, a Technology & Innovation Fellow Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, and a self-described "responsive design fanatic, feminist, Chicana, Texpat, cat lady, and teacher at [https://www.girldevelopit.com/chapters/philadelphia Girls Develop It's Philadelphia Chapter]". She has worked at HappyCog, the studio founded by A List Apart's Jeffrey Zeldman. More information is available at [http://cfarman.com/ her website, cfarman.com], and on [https://twitter.com/cfarm Twitter]. Several of her recent speeches are listed on [http://lanyrd.com/profile/cfarm/past/speaking/ Lanyrd]. Also available is a video of her 2014 presentation at OSCON, "[https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/oscon-2014-complete/9781491910795/part96.html Lessons from Girl Develop It: Getting More Women Involved in Open Source]" (link goes to a video of the talk, which she co-presented with Corinne Warnshuis, Girls Develop It's executive director).

== Paul Ford ==
Paul Ford is a Brooklyn-based writer and web technologist. He often writes about [https://medium.com/message/how-paper-magazines-web-engineers-scaled-kim-kardashians-back-end-sfw-6367f8d37688 the web], [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6241967 archives] [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ programming], [http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html the nature of information], and [https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100 living in the information age]. Past projects include [https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf tilde.club] and the [http://www.ftrain.com/AWebSiteForHarpers.html semantic web-ified harpers.org] (back in 2003). His ~30,00-word article [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ What Is Code?] was the entire June 11, 2015 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Learn more at his [http://ftrain.com website], on [http://twitter.com/ftrain Twitter], or on [https://medium.com/@ftrain Medium], or watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSL5qVL3Mng his talk at XOXO 2014] or [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-06-12/-what-is-code-charlie-rose-06-12- his interview on Charlie Rose]. He was also interviewed at [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/an-interview-with-paul-ford-and-gina-trapani/ at In the Library with the Lead Pipe, along with Gina Trapani].

== Sorelle Friedler ==
"Algorithms are already being used to make decisions that affect people's lives and livelihoods, and this trend is only increasing," [https://www.haverford.edu/college-communications/news/sorelle-friedler-studies-programming-and-prejudice says Sorrelle Friedler]. "Often, one of the selling points of using an algorithm is that it will be less biased than the current human process. While it is possible to create algorithms that reduce bias, the use of an algorithm does not on its own guarantee that. It's important that computer scientists, as well as policymakers, understand the limitations and work to make algorithmic decisions fair."

Sorelle Friedler has been an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Haverford College since 2014 and was visiting at Haverford starting in 2012 (Haverford is just a few miles from Philadelphia). Her research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, computational geometry, data mining and machine learning, and the application of such algorithms to interdisciplinary data. She is a [http://www.datasociety.net/updates/featured/announcements/2015/03/introducing-2015-2016-fellows-class/ 2015-2016 Fellow at the Data & Society Research Institute] for her work on preventing discrimination in machine learning. Learn more about her work on her [http://ww3.haverford.edu/computerscience/faculty/sorelle/index.php Haverford Computer Science page].

== Brett Anitra Gilbert ==
"I’ve been doing research in Johannesburg, South Africa, to understand what the city needs to do to better support technology entrepreneurs," [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/news/faculty-insights-professor-brett-gilbert-looks-how-tech-clusters-emerge-cities says Rutgers Business School professor Brett Gilbert]. "The city is actively in the process of trying to see a tech cluster emerge, so my research is intended to help them understand what needs to happen in order to see a tech community thrive in Johannesburg. It's research I’m doing concurrently in Newark, New Jersey, because the city would like to see a technology community emerge here. The research is really comparing the process these two cities are going through. Most research on clusters focuses on clusters that already exist and on regions that are somewhat well established so you don’t see a lot that helps people understand what a city or region would need to do if they want to see one of these technology clusters emerge."

Dr. Gilbert's dissertation, "[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1371727 The Implications of Geographic Cluster Locations for New Venture Performance]" was awarded a Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship in 2004, and selected as a finalist for the Entrepreneurship Division's 2005 Heizer Award for outstanding dissertations in entrepreneurship. In addition to examining emerging technology communities in developing market contexts, she is also focusing on understanding emerging "clean energy" technologies. She has taught a variety of entrepreneurship courses on creativity and innovation, and the startup and management of new ventures. At RBS, Dr. Gilbert teaches the Technology Ventures course for undergraduates and graduates, and the Ph.D. seminar in entrepreneurship. Learn more on [https://twitter.com/ProfGilbert Twitter] and on [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/gilbert-brett her page at the Rutgers Business School website].

== Amelia Greenhall ==
Amelia Greenhall is the Chief Creative Officer of [http://magicvibes.co/ Magic Vibes Corporation]. Previously, she cofounded and served as Executive Director and board chair of [http://doubleunion.org/ Double Union], a non-profit feminist hacker/maker space in San Francisco with the mission of being a safe and comfortable space for women to work on their projects. She also cofounded the publication Model View Culture, and designed things for companies including [http://futureadvisor.com/ FutureAdvisor] and [http://www.ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/budge Habit Labs]. She is the publisher of the [http://openreviewquarterly.com/ Open Review Quarterly] literary journal, and the entries at [http://ameliagreenhall.com/blog her personal blog] are usually made available as episodes of [http://ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/amelia-explains-it-all Amelia Explains It All], a "podcast for men in tech."

== Kate Heddleston ==
Kate Heddleston is a software engineer who mostly works on Python projects. She has been a mentor for Hackbright Academy and PyLadies. She blogs and gives talks about how our engineering environments are killing diversity (see [https://kateheddleston.com/talk/ea142cd2-f026-4615-ab90-2170f06c739b her talk] and [https://kateheddleston.com/blog/how-our-engineering-environments-are-killing-diversity-introduction her blog series]), on [https://kateheddleston.com/talk/ef464595-b113-4c1b-9c5b-cc1f3681055c technical onboarding, training, and mentoring], and on the [https://kateheddleston.com/blog/a-modern-day-take-on-the-ethics-of-being-a-programmer ethics of being a programmer], among other topics. Here is her [https://kateheddleston.com/ website].

== Andrew Hoppin ==
Andrew Hoppin is the co-founder and president of [http://nucivic.com NuCivic]. He is a former NASA scientist who utilizes his theories of collaboration, open-source technologies in the creation of open civic platforms. As president of NuCivic, his mission is to improve the efficacy of civic organizations and governments, by providing accessible innovative knowledge management solutions. NuCivic's open data platform DKAN provides a platform for government organizations, libraries and civic organizations to implement data cataloging, publishing and visualizing.
Andrew was awarded the 2010 New York State Public Sector CIO of the Year by GovTech Magazine. He was named one of the top 50 government CIOs in the United States by Information Week magazine for his successful effort to deploy the first major New York State government website, NYSenate.gov, which won a “Best of New York” award for Project Excellence.

== Helen Horstmann-Allen ==
Pobox.com promised its customers a lifetime email address, and found a loyal following immediately. In addition to email addresses and accounts, their customers requested reliable email-based discussion forums, mailing lits, and newsletters, so they created Listbox.com. Philadelphian Helen Horstmann-Allen has been president of IC Group, the home of Pobox.com and Listbox.com, since 2000; prior to that, she was its director of operations, and she's been in charge of Pobox.com since 1997. She's in love with Philadelphia and food -- thus [http://phillyfoodie.com/ Philly Foodie] -- and can be found on [https://twitter.com/philliefoodie Twitter], too.

== Jess Klein ==
Open Web Designer at Bocoup

If you ask about her passions, Jess will draw you a venn diagram with the words community, freedom, and learning, and point to the sweet spot where all three overlap. She is dedicated to connecting people and ideas through new technologies and interactive experiences. Before Bocoup, Jess worked at the Mozilla Foundation, where she served as Creative Lead for such projects as the X-Ray Goggles, Hackasaurus (which became part of the larger Webmaker platform), Thimble and the Hive. She also served as the Creative Director for Mozilla Open Badges, where she helped develop an ecosystem of tools for learners to earn, assess, issue and display digital micro-credentials. A Rockaway Beach native, Jess co-founded Rockaway Help in the wake of Hurricane Sandy to empower the community to find solutions for emergency response, preparedness and rebuilding through hyperlocal open news and the development of innovative community-designed technologies. She was named a White House Champion of Change for her civic hacktivism. Here is her [http://jessicaklein.com/ website].

== Kate Krauss ==

Kate Krauss is the Director of Communications and Public Policy for the Tor Project, a nonprofit organization that builds free, online privacy tools that allow users to defy shoe companies and intelligence agencies alike while they stay free and anonymous on the internet. As a human rights advocate, Kate lead several successful campaigns to free public health experts and human rights activists who were imprisoned in China. She became interested in internet freedom when she sought help from San Francisco hackers to aid a well-known Chinese health advocate whose huge, popular web site for people with hepatitis had been taken down by the Chinese government.

Prior to her work in online privacy, she served as Executive Director of the AIDS Policy Project, where she lead a successful effort to move $35 million into cure research at the US National Institutes of Health and wrote groundbreaking reports that showed for the first time how little the world was investing in the search for a cure for AIDS. Kate has been chosen twice as one of the Poz 100, one of the top 100 people working in AIDS in the world. She was a very early member of the renowned AIDS activist group ACT UP. She has also spoken at several hacker conferences, including Chaos Communications Congress, where she delivered a talk on how mass surveillance in China was converted into political repression.

(However--*has* a sense of humor!)

== Alison Macrina ==
Alison Macrina is the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project (LFP), an initiative that helps libraries fulfill the the promise of intellectual freedom by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools that help safeguard digital freedoms. She is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and multinational corporations. She cowrote the Radical Reference Collective’s zine, "[http://radicalreference.info/content/we-are-all-suspects-guide-people-navigating-expanded-powers-surveillance-21st-century We Are All Suspects]," which gives advice and tools for preventing surveillance, and has written or co-written articles for [http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/radical-librarianship-how-nin.html Boing Boing] and [http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/20/adobe_s_digital_editions_e_book_software_and_library_patron_privacy.html Slate]. LFP has been featured in [https://libraryfreedomproject.org/press/ numerous prominent publications], including [http://www.thenation.com/article/librarians-versus-nsa/ The Nation] magazine and NPR's [http://www.onthemedia.org/story/librarians-vs-patriot-act/ On the Media], and LFP's partners include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the Tor Project.

In February 2015, LFP won a ~$250,000 two-year grant through the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, which enabled her to work on LFP full-time. Prior to that, she was the technology librarian/IT manager at the Watertown (Massachusetts) Free Public Library.

== Uche Ogbuji ==
CTO and founding partner at Zepheira; has helped lead implementation of the LibHub Initiative. From [http://uche.ogbuji.net/ his website]: "Uche is a leading expert in data design and distributed systems. He has worked with XML, RDF and Web Services since the inception of those technologies. He has been technical lead on many open specifications and open source projects as well as on Zepheira's platform for library data transforms." Also recently named [https://twitter.com/uogbuji/status/632936838622089217 poet laureate] of Balisage: The Markup Conference!

== Katrina Owen ==
Katrina Owen is the creator of [http://exercism.io/exercism exercism], a FLOSS project that supports students who are learning to code by giving them practice problems and real world feedback. Exercises are currently available in Clojure, CoffeeScript, C++, C#, Emacs Lisp, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Lisp Flavoured Erlang (LFE), Common Lisp, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, Perl 5, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, and Swift, and exercism developers are in the process of adding ECMAScript, Groovy, Nimrod, Perl 6, Pony, Racket, Standard ML, and VB.NET. Katrina Owen is herself a polyglot developer and Ruby Hero award winner who has spoken at numerous conferences; example talks include: [http://confreaks.tv/videos/lonestarruby2013-keynote-hacking-passion Hacking Passion]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWEEPt8VvmU Overkill]; [http://confreaks.tv/videos/bathruby2015-here-be-dragons Here Be Dragons]; and [http://confreaks.tv/videos/cascadiaruby2012-therapeutic-refactoring Therapeutic Refactoring]. She accidentally became a developer while pursuing a degree in molecular biology, and began nitpicking code in 2006 while volunteering at JavaRanch. When programming, her focus is on automation, workflow optimization, and refactoring. She is passionate about open source and contributes to several projects outside of exercism. Learn more on [https://github.com/kytrinyx GitHub] and [https://twitter.com/kytrinyx Twitter].

== Lauren Pressley ==
Lauren Pressley became the University of Washington Tacoma Library Director and Associate Dean of University Libraries on September 15, 2015. Her professional interests include formal and informal learning, design in library services, the evolving information environment, organizational change, and the future of libraries. She is the author of [https://unglue.it/work/76348/ So You Want to Be a Librarian] and [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3969 Wikis for Libraries], a co-chair of [https://www.librarypipeline.org/ Library Pipeline], and holds an elected position on the American Library Association Council. She has also served on the Library Information Technology Association board of directors and the [http://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon/ Horizon Project] advisory board.

Prior to joining UW, she was the Director of Learning Environments and Associate Professor at Virginia Tech University Libraries, where she led a team of thirty people who were responsible for enhancing situated learning by connecting services and spaces, including Reference, Circulation, Roving Services, Learning Spaces, Online Learning, academic programming, and community engagement. [http://www.slideshare.net/laurenpressley/presentations Several dozen of her presentations] are posted online.

== Aliya Rahman ==
Tech and social justice activist. Engineer. Read more at [http://www.techrepublic.com/article/aliya-rahman-former-code-for-progress-director-tech-and-social-justice-activist-martial-artist/ Tech Republic] and on [https://twitter.com/AliyaRahman Twitter]. From her [http://codeforprogress.org/app/program_director/ Code for Progress bio]:

<blockquote>
As Program Director, Aliya Rahman leads the recruitment, in-residence training, and job placement of Code for Progress fellows into full-time developer positions. Her work is informed by a background in legislative, electoral, and community organizing for racial and economic justice campaigns, and by a former life in public higher education conducting curriculum research and teaching computer programming and educational foundations/policy.

Aliya is the former Field Director of Equality Ohio, where she built a statewide field program focused on bridging gaps between racial justice organizers, LGBT rights groups, and labor. Prior to that, she worked for the Center for Community Change, first as their Ohio organizer in the passage of employment legislation supporting formerly incarcerated people, and later as a national circuit rider working with immigrant rights groups on voter engagement.

Aliya has developed Django applications, conducted tech trainings, or performed data analysis and targeting for every campaign, nonprofit, and university she has ever worked for - despite none of those tasks explicitly appearing on her job descriptions. Now based in Washington, DC, she is thoroughly enjoying life as a non-accidental techie, and is grateful to be part of an active ecosystem of women and people of color who believe tech has a pivotal role to play in creating social change.
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== Jenica Rogers ==
Jenica Rogers is Director of Libraries at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Her current professional interests include interrogating the ways our information economy is breaking down and reforming now that the internet changed everything, figuring out what the role of a library is in a reality in which warehousing books is sort of passé, and informing, mentoring, and supporting new library professionals as they hit the real world face first and at full speed. She has written at length about library issues on her blog, [http://www.attemptingelegance.com Attempting Elegance], represented SUNY Potsdam as the subject of [http://chronicle.com/article/As-Chemistry-Journals-Prices/134650/ an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about journal prices], and has given numerous invited keynote speeches at library conferences around the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2014, she was chosen to receive the American Library Association’s ALCTS HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions.

To get a sense of her presentation style, watch her deliver the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vy0Kv4eqeg plenary speech at the 2013 Charleston Conference] (in which she discusses her refusal to pay the extortionate fees being charged by a professional association for its journals) as well as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhMXClsue9w the Vision speech at NASIG's 2014 Annual Conference].

== Jenn Schiffer ==
[http://jennmoney.biz/ Jenn Schiffer] ([https://twitter.com/jennschiffer Twitter]), aka jennmoneydollars, is an open web engineer at [http://bocoup.com/ Bocoup] and lives in New Jersey (a relatively easy commute from Philadelphia). She's good at making art with code and great at telling jokes. She was previously a senior front-end developer for the National Basketball Association and, before that, taught and evaluated computer science education at Montclair State University, her alma mater (BS and MS in Computer Science). She also organizes JerseyScript, a developer meetup based in New Jersey, which is just one of several ways she's working to attract and retain more people in the web development community. She's made a lot of [http://jennmoney.biz/talks/ recent podcast appearances and presentations at conferences].

== Carl Stahmer ==
Polymath extraordinaire; doing digital humanities before it was cool; 20 years of experience in information architecture design and programming for the World Wide Web; Director of Digital Scholarship at the University Library, University of California, Davis; Technical Lead for the English Short Title Catalogue; Associate Director of the English Broadside Ballad Archive. Currently helping to lead the IMLS-funded BIBFLOW project at UC Davis. Read more on [http://www.carlstahmer.com/ his website] or [https://twitter.com/cstahmer Twitter].

== Cecily Walker ==
Cecily Walker is the Assistant Manager for Community Digital Initiatives & eLearning at Vancouver Public Library. In addition to her work on user experience and open data, she is an experienced speaker (keynoting DLF Forum this year) and has hosted a Twitter chat for first-generation library professionals (#L1S). Learn more at [http://cecily.info/ her website], and on [https://twitter.com/skeskali Twitter], [https://github.com/skeskali GitHub], and [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/about/editorial-board/cecily-walker/ In the Library with the Lead Pipe] (she is a member of the editorial board).

== Audrey Watters ==
Audrey Watters is an education writer with a focus on ed-tech. She is the author of [http://monsters.hackeducation.com/ The Monsters of Education Technology], a collection of her lectures, and she is currently working on two more books, [http://teachingmachin.es/ Teaching Machines] and [http://reclaim.hackeducation.com/ Claim Your Domain], both due out in 2015. She created [http://hackeducation.com/ Hack Education] in June 2010 shortly after she became a technology journalist because she was frustrated by the lack of coverage of education technology. Hack Education was always intended to be the sort of publication that she would want to read: smart and snarky, free of advertising and investor influence, and focused on tracking new technologies but not just because of some hyperbolic "revolution." Read more on [http://audreywatters.com/ her website], on [https://twitter.com/audreywatters Twitter], and on [https://github.com/audreywatters GitHub].

== Gabriel Weinberg ==
Gabriel Weinberg is the CEO and Founder of [https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo], "the search engine that doesn't track you," and the co-author of [http://tractionbook.com/ Traction], "the book that helps startups get customers." He is also an active [https://angel.co/yegg/syndicate/ angel investor], and he lives and works in the Philadelphia suburbs. Learn more on [http://ye.gg/app/twitter Twitter] and [http://ye.gg/app/medium Medium], read [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2010/marketing-search-an-interview-with-pete-bell-of-endeca-and-gabriel-weinberg-of-duckduckgo/ an interview with him (and Endeca co-founder Pete Bell) at In the Library with the Lead Pipe], or watch [https://vimeo.com/68099450 his speech at Gel 2013] or his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=59&v=TvfGJgzBeH0 appearance on Conversations with Great Minds].

== David Weinberger ==
David Weinberger, Ph.D., is one of the world's most respected thought leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society. His latest book, [http://www.toobigtoknow.com/ Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room], is a roadmap on taking advantage of networked knowledge now that it has replaced books and experts of old. He also is the author of [http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/ Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder], which charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended, as well as the critically acclaimed book [http://smallpieces.com/index.php Small Pieces Loosely Joined], a highly original and accessible reflection on the impact of the Internet on human behavior. He earned his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Toronto and taught philosophy for five years at New Jersey's Stockton State College. Since 2004, he has been a fellow at Harvard University's prestigious Berkman Center, gag writer for Woody Allen, NPR commentator for "All Things Considered" and "Here and Now," technology columnist for KMWorld and Darwin Magazine, blogging pioneer, and dot-com entrepreneur. [http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/david-weinberger This site has information on how to book him], and you can read more on [https://twitter.com/dweinberger Twitter] or on [http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ his blog].

== Brock Whitten ==
Making front-end development easier by the second. Co-creator of Surge, Harp, and Cordova/PhoneGap. Mozilla-WebFWD Alumni and advocate of a free and open web. A friend of the community. Read about Surge [https://surge.sh/tour here] and [https://medium.com/surge-sh/introducing-surge-the-cdn-for-front-end-developers-b4a50a61bcfc here].
Here is [http://sintaxi.com/ Brock's website]

== 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 gave a well-received talk at 2014 ALA, and could offer interesting tech and social insights at Code4Lib. Read more at [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods's website].

== Jeffrey Zeldman ==
HappyCog/A List Apart (Philly/NYC-based)

Dubbed “King of Web Standards” by Business Week, Jeffrey Zeldman founded and is chairman of Happy Cog™ and has published A List Apart Magazine “for people who make websites” since 1998. He has written two books, notably the foundational text, Designing With Web Standards,currently in a 3rd Edition coauthored with Ethan Marcotte. It has been translated into 15 languages and is credited with converting the web design industry from tag soup and Flash to semantics and accessibility.
[http://happycog.com/zeldman Zeldman's page] on HappyCog.com.

== Kortney Ryan Ziegler ==
Founder, Trans*H4CK

Kortney Ryan Ziegler is an award winning artist, writer, and blogger based in Oakland, California. Dr. Ziegler is the first person to hold the Ph.D. of African American Studies from Northwestern University.

Dr. Ziegler is the founder of [http://www.transhack.org/ Trans*H4CK]--the only tech event of its kind that brings visibility to trans* tech innovators and entrepreneurs.

He is also the director of the multiple award winning documentary, [http://www.stillblackfilm.org/ STILL BLACK: a portrait of black transmen], runs the GLAAD Media Award nominated blog, [http://blackademic.com/ blac (k) ademic], and in 2013, was named one of the Top 40 Under 40 LGBT activists by The Advocate Magazine and one of the most influential African Americans by TheRoot100. Dr. Ziegler gave the closing keynote at the 2014 Annual LITA Forum in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

[[Category:Code4Lib2016|Invited Speakers Nomination]]
[[Category:Code4Lib Keynotes]]

2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

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Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for Code4Lib 2016 in Philadelphia. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

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== Nominee's Name ==

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==Mike Bostock==
Interactive Graphic Design for The New York Times and the author of D3.js, a popular open-source library for visualizing data using web standards.

Prior to The New York Times, Mike was a visualization scientist for Square and a computer science PhD student at Stanford University. Mike received the BSE degree in computer science in 2000 from Princeton University.
ere's his [https://twitter.com/mbostock Twitter]; and his [http://bost.ocks.org/mike/ site]

== danah boyd ==
dana boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder of [http://www.datasociety.net/ Data & Society Research Institute]. She's also a Visiting Professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a faculty affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Center. For over a decade, her research focused on how young people use social media, which resulted in two books: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (2009) and It's Complicated (2014). More recently, she has focused on the social and cultural dimensions of big data, especially privacy and publicity, data(mis)interpretation, and the civil rights implications of data analytics. She often works closely with librarians, and was the keynote speaker at the Reference and User Services Association President’s Program at ALA Annual in San Francisco in 2015. Read more at [http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ her blog], on [https://twitter.com/zephoria Twitter], or read her [http://www.danah.org/papers/#essays Essays].

== Mandy Brown ==
Mandy Brown builds systems to help writers and editors to work together. She co-founded and served as CEO of [http://editorially.com/ Editorially], a platform for collaborative writing and editing; Editorially was acquired by Vox Media where she is now director of platform. She is also co-founder and was editor-in-chief of [http://abookapart.com/ A Book Apart], was a contributing editor for [http://alistapart.com/ A List Apart], and edited many books, including [http://shapeofdesignbook.com/ The Shape of Design], by Frank Chimero. She previously served as communications director and product lead at [http://typekit.com/ Typekit] and as creative director at [http://wwnorton.com/ W. W. Norton & Company]. She blogs at [http://aworkinglibrary.com/ A Working Library] and has spoken at [http://2014.dconstruct.org/ dConstruct], [http://2012.buildconf.com/ Build], [http://confab2011.com/ Confab], [http://typotalks.com/sanfrancisco/ TYPO SF], and [http://2013.beyondtellerrand.com/ Beyond Tellerrand ]. Additionally, [http://aworkinglibrary.com/coffee/ she mentors and advises people from underrepresented groups in the tech industry]. She lives in Philadelphia.

== Kimberly Bryant ==
Kimberly Bryant is a Biotechnology/Engineering professional who founded [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ BlackGirlsCode] in 2011, to meet the needs of young women of color who are underrepresented in the currently exploding field of technology. Bryant received her first taste of computer programming when Fortran and Pascal were still the popular languages in the computing world and the 'Apple Macintosh' was the new kid on the block. Much has changed since those days and the mission of BlackGirlsCode is to introduce programming and technology to a new generation of coders (girls aged 7 - 17) who will become the leaders and creators of tomorrow.

== Maciej Cegłowski ==
Maciej Cegłowski, is a programmer, [http://idlewords.com/art/ painter], [http://www.idlewords.com/ essayist], [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-words-to-antarctica travel writer], and [http://idlewords.com/talks/ speaker]. He has been running Pinboard, a bookmarking site, since 2009. He has worked at Yahoo!, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, and has done contract work for Twitter and SixApart. He's funny on Twitter, whether he's representing [https://twitter.com/baconmeteor himself] or his company, [https://twitter.com/pinboard Pinboard].

== Aaron Straup Cope ==
Aaron Straup Cope is a software developer who believes that "promise of the Internet is to be a bridge for cross-pollinating peoples, ideas and communities"[1] and his work shows it. Currently at [https://mapzen.com/ Mapzen] he is building a [http://whosonfirst.mapzen.com/ Who's On First], a gazetteer of places "each with a stable identifier and some number of descriptive properties about that location." Previously he designed and developed the much lauded [http://collection.cooperhewitt.org collections website] for the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. His work consistently focuses on publishing data to the web with stable identifiers, while eschewing much of the formality and overhead of "Linked Data", a point he made quite clearly in his talk [http://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/proposal/omgwtftgn/ "OMGWTFTGN"] at Museums and the Web 2015, where he asked if releasing a 17GB RDF dataset is really the best way to get data used by... anyone. Read [http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/en/aaronstraupcope-resume-en.txt Aaron Straup Cope's resume] for more information.

== Brigitte Daniel ==
Brigitte Daniel is a digital access advocate with experience in telecommunications and social entrepreneurship.

In May 2006, she became the executive vice president of Wilco Electronic Systems, a small telecommunications firm founded in 1977 by her father that has primarily done installations for the Philadelphia Housing Authority.

In that role, she became a frequent speaker on digital divide and web literacy issues, particularly in the Philadelphia technology community. She was part of the 2011 class of Eisenhower Fellows. Read more from her on [https://twitter.com/brigittedaniel Twitter].

== Catherine Farman ==
Philadelphian Catherine Farman is a developer, a Technology & Innovation Fellow Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, and a self-described "responsive design fanatic, feminist, Chicana, Texpat, cat lady, and teacher at [https://www.girldevelopit.com/chapters/philadelphia Girls Develop It's Philadelphia Chapter]". She has worked at HappyCog, the studio founded by A List Apart's Jeffrey Zeldman. More information is available at [http://cfarman.com/ her website, cfarman.com], and on [https://twitter.com/cfarm Twitter]. Several of her recent speeches are listed on [http://lanyrd.com/profile/cfarm/past/speaking/ Lanyrd]. Also available is a video of her 2014 presentation at OSCON, "[https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/oscon-2014-complete/9781491910795/part96.html Lessons from Girl Develop It: Getting More Women Involved in Open Source]" (link goes to a video of the talk, which she co-presented with Corinne Warnshuis, Girls Develop It's executive director).

== Paul Ford ==
Paul Ford is a Brooklyn-based writer and web technologist. He often writes about [https://medium.com/message/how-paper-magazines-web-engineers-scaled-kim-kardashians-back-end-sfw-6367f8d37688 the web], [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6241967 archives] [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ programming], [http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html the nature of information], and [https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100 living in the information age]. Past projects include [https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf tilde.club] and the [http://www.ftrain.com/AWebSiteForHarpers.html semantic web-ified harpers.org] (back in 2003). His ~30,00-word article [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ What Is Code?] was the entire June 11, 2015 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Learn more at his [http://ftrain.com website], on [http://twitter.com/ftrain Twitter], or on [https://medium.com/@ftrain Medium], or watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSL5qVL3Mng his talk at XOXO 2014] or [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-06-12/-what-is-code-charlie-rose-06-12- his interview on Charlie Rose]. He was also interviewed at [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/an-interview-with-paul-ford-and-gina-trapani/ at In the Library with the Lead Pipe, along with Gina Trapani].

== Sorelle Friedler ==
"Algorithms are already being used to make decisions that affect people's lives and livelihoods, and this trend is only increasing," [https://www.haverford.edu/college-communications/news/sorelle-friedler-studies-programming-and-prejudice says Sorrelle Friedler]. "Often, one of the selling points of using an algorithm is that it will be less biased than the current human process. While it is possible to create algorithms that reduce bias, the use of an algorithm does not on its own guarantee that. It's important that computer scientists, as well as policymakers, understand the limitations and work to make algorithmic decisions fair."

Sorelle Friedler has been an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Haverford College since 2014 and was visiting at Haverford starting in 2012 (Haverford is just a few miles from Philadelphia). Her research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, computational geometry, data mining and machine learning, and the application of such algorithms to interdisciplinary data. She is a [http://www.datasociety.net/updates/featured/announcements/2015/03/introducing-2015-2016-fellows-class/ 2015-2016 Fellow at the Data & Society Research Institute] for her work on preventing discrimination in machine learning. Learn more about her work on her [http://ww3.haverford.edu/computerscience/faculty/sorelle/index.php Haverford Computer Science page].

== Brett Anitra Gilbert ==
"I’ve been doing research in Johannesburg, South Africa, to understand what the city needs to do to better support technology entrepreneurs," [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/news/faculty-insights-professor-brett-gilbert-looks-how-tech-clusters-emerge-cities says Rutgers Business School professor Brett Gilbert]. "The city is actively in the process of trying to see a tech cluster emerge, so my research is intended to help them understand what needs to happen in order to see a tech community thrive in Johannesburg. It's research I’m doing concurrently in Newark, New Jersey, because the city would like to see a technology community emerge here. The research is really comparing the process these two cities are going through. Most research on clusters focuses on clusters that already exist and on regions that are somewhat well established so you don’t see a lot that helps people understand what a city or region would need to do if they want to see one of these technology clusters emerge."

Dr. Gilbert's dissertation, "[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1371727 The Implications of Geographic Cluster Locations for New Venture Performance]" was awarded a Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship in 2004, and selected as a finalist for the Entrepreneurship Division's 2005 Heizer Award for outstanding dissertations in entrepreneurship. In addition to examining emerging technology communities in developing market contexts, she is also focusing on understanding emerging "clean energy" technologies. She has taught a variety of entrepreneurship courses on creativity and innovation, and the startup and management of new ventures. At RBS, Dr. Gilbert teaches the Technology Ventures course for undergraduates and graduates, and the Ph.D. seminar in entrepreneurship. Learn more on [https://twitter.com/ProfGilbert Twitter] and on [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/gilbert-brett her page at the Rutgers Business School website].

== Amelia Greenhall ==
Amelia Greenhall is the Chief Creative Officer of [http://magicvibes.co/ Magic Vibes Corporation]. Previously, she cofounded and served as Executive Director and board chair of [http://doubleunion.org/ Double Union], a non-profit feminist hacker/maker space in San Francisco with the mission of being a safe and comfortable space for women to work on their projects. She also cofounded the publication Model View Culture, and designed things for companies including [http://futureadvisor.com/ FutureAdvisor] and [http://www.ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/budge Habit Labs]. She is the publisher of the [http://openreviewquarterly.com/ Open Review Quarterly] literary journal, and the entries at [http://ameliagreenhall.com/blog her personal blog] are usually made available as episodes of [http://ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/amelia-explains-it-all Amelia Explains It All], a "podcast for men in tech."

== Kate Heddleston ==
Kate Heddleston is a software engineer who mostly works on Python projects. She has been a mentor for Hackbright Academy and PyLadies. She blogs and gives talks about how our engineering environments are killing diversity (see [https://kateheddleston.com/talk/ea142cd2-f026-4615-ab90-2170f06c739b her talk] and [https://kateheddleston.com/blog/how-our-engineering-environments-are-killing-diversity-introduction her blog series]), on [https://kateheddleston.com/talk/ef464595-b113-4c1b-9c5b-cc1f3681055c technical onboarding, training, and mentoring], and on the [https://kateheddleston.com/blog/a-modern-day-take-on-the-ethics-of-being-a-programmer ethics of being a programmer], among other topics. Here is her [https://kateheddleston.com/ website].

== Andrew Hoppin ==
Andrew Hoppin is the co-founder and president of [http://nucivic.com NuCivic], a technology innovator, and open source advocate. An Ex-NASA scientist who brings his theories of collaboration, open-source technologies to create open civic platforms. As president of NuCivic, his mission is to improve the efficacy of civic organizations and governments, by making innovative knowledge management solutions accessible. Namely Nucivic's DKAN open data platform DKAN provides an open source solution for government organizations, libraries and civic organizations for data cataloging, publishing and visualizing.
Andrew was awarded the 2010 New York State Public Sector CIO of the Year by GovTech Magazine, and was named one of the top 50 government CIOs in the United States by Information Week magazine, for his successful effort to deploy the first major New York State government website, NYSenate.gov, which won “Best of New York” awards for Project Excellence.

== Helen Horstmann-Allen ==
Pobox.com promised its customers a lifetime email address, and found a loyal following immediately. In addition to email addresses and accounts, their customers requested reliable email-based discussion forums, mailing lits, and newsletters, so they created Listbox.com. Philadelphian Helen Horstmann-Allen has been president of IC Group, the home of Pobox.com and Listbox.com, since 2000; prior to that, she was its director of operations, and she's been in charge of Pobox.com since 1997. She's in love with Philadelphia and food -- thus [http://phillyfoodie.com/ Philly Foodie] -- and can be found on [https://twitter.com/philliefoodie Twitter], too.

== Jess Klein ==
Open Web Designer at Bocoup

If you ask about her passions, Jess will draw you a venn diagram with the words community, freedom, and learning, and point to the sweet spot where all three overlap. She is dedicated to connecting people and ideas through new technologies and interactive experiences. Before Bocoup, Jess worked at the Mozilla Foundation, where she served as Creative Lead for such projects as the X-Ray Goggles, Hackasaurus (which became part of the larger Webmaker platform), Thimble and the Hive. She also served as the Creative Director for Mozilla Open Badges, where she helped develop an ecosystem of tools for learners to earn, assess, issue and display digital micro-credentials. A Rockaway Beach native, Jess co-founded Rockaway Help in the wake of Hurricane Sandy to empower the community to find solutions for emergency response, preparedness and rebuilding through hyperlocal open news and the development of innovative community-designed technologies. She was named a White House Champion of Change for her civic hacktivism. Here is her [http://jessicaklein.com/ website].

== Kate Krauss ==

Kate Krauss is the Director of Communications and Public Policy for the Tor Project, a nonprofit organization that builds free, online privacy tools that allow users to defy shoe companies and intelligence agencies alike while they stay free and anonymous on the internet. As a human rights advocate, Kate lead several successful campaigns to free public health experts and human rights activists who were imprisoned in China. She became interested in internet freedom when she sought help from San Francisco hackers to aid a well-known Chinese health advocate whose huge, popular web site for people with hepatitis had been taken down by the Chinese government.

Prior to her work in online privacy, she served as Executive Director of the AIDS Policy Project, where she lead a successful effort to move $35 million into cure research at the US National Institutes of Health and wrote groundbreaking reports that showed for the first time how little the world was investing in the search for a cure for AIDS. Kate has been chosen twice as one of the Poz 100, one of the top 100 people working in AIDS in the world. She was a very early member of the renowned AIDS activist group ACT UP. She has also spoken at several hacker conferences, including Chaos Communications Congress, where she delivered a talk on how mass surveillance in China was converted into political repression.

(However--*has* a sense of humor!)

== Alison Macrina ==
Alison Macrina is the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project (LFP), an initiative that helps libraries fulfill the the promise of intellectual freedom by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools that help safeguard digital freedoms. She is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and multinational corporations. She cowrote the Radical Reference Collective’s zine, "[http://radicalreference.info/content/we-are-all-suspects-guide-people-navigating-expanded-powers-surveillance-21st-century We Are All Suspects]," which gives advice and tools for preventing surveillance, and has written or co-written articles for [http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/radical-librarianship-how-nin.html Boing Boing] and [http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/20/adobe_s_digital_editions_e_book_software_and_library_patron_privacy.html Slate]. LFP has been featured in [https://libraryfreedomproject.org/press/ numerous prominent publications], including [http://www.thenation.com/article/librarians-versus-nsa/ The Nation] magazine and NPR's [http://www.onthemedia.org/story/librarians-vs-patriot-act/ On the Media], and LFP's partners include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the Tor Project.

In February 2015, LFP won a ~$250,000 two-year grant through the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, which enabled her to work on LFP full-time. Prior to that, she was the technology librarian/IT manager at the Watertown (Massachusetts) Free Public Library.

== Uche Ogbuji ==
CTO and founding partner at Zepheira; has helped lead implementation of the LibHub Initiative. From [http://uche.ogbuji.net/ his website]: "Uche is a leading expert in data design and distributed systems. He has worked with XML, RDF and Web Services since the inception of those technologies. He has been technical lead on many open specifications and open source projects as well as on Zepheira's platform for library data transforms." Also recently named [https://twitter.com/uogbuji/status/632936838622089217 poet laureate] of Balisage: The Markup Conference!

== Katrina Owen ==
Katrina Owen is the creator of [http://exercism.io/exercism exercism], a FLOSS project that supports students who are learning to code by giving them practice problems and real world feedback. Exercises are currently available in Clojure, CoffeeScript, C++, C#, Emacs Lisp, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Lisp Flavoured Erlang (LFE), Common Lisp, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, Perl 5, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, and Swift, and exercism developers are in the process of adding ECMAScript, Groovy, Nimrod, Perl 6, Pony, Racket, Standard ML, and VB.NET. Katrina Owen is herself a polyglot developer and Ruby Hero award winner who has spoken at numerous conferences; example talks include: [http://confreaks.tv/videos/lonestarruby2013-keynote-hacking-passion Hacking Passion]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWEEPt8VvmU Overkill]; [http://confreaks.tv/videos/bathruby2015-here-be-dragons Here Be Dragons]; and [http://confreaks.tv/videos/cascadiaruby2012-therapeutic-refactoring Therapeutic Refactoring]. She accidentally became a developer while pursuing a degree in molecular biology, and began nitpicking code in 2006 while volunteering at JavaRanch. When programming, her focus is on automation, workflow optimization, and refactoring. She is passionate about open source and contributes to several projects outside of exercism. Learn more on [https://github.com/kytrinyx GitHub] and [https://twitter.com/kytrinyx Twitter].

== Lauren Pressley ==
Lauren Pressley became the University of Washington Tacoma Library Director and Associate Dean of University Libraries on September 15, 2015. Her professional interests include formal and informal learning, design in library services, the evolving information environment, organizational change, and the future of libraries. She is the author of [https://unglue.it/work/76348/ So You Want to Be a Librarian] and [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3969 Wikis for Libraries], a co-chair of [https://www.librarypipeline.org/ Library Pipeline], and holds an elected position on the American Library Association Council. She has also served on the Library Information Technology Association board of directors and the [http://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon/ Horizon Project] advisory board.

Prior to joining UW, she was the Director of Learning Environments and Associate Professor at Virginia Tech University Libraries, where she led a team of thirty people who were responsible for enhancing situated learning by connecting services and spaces, including Reference, Circulation, Roving Services, Learning Spaces, Online Learning, academic programming, and community engagement. [http://www.slideshare.net/laurenpressley/presentations Several dozen of her presentations] are posted online.

== Aliya Rahman ==
Tech and social justice activist. Engineer. Read more at [http://www.techrepublic.com/article/aliya-rahman-former-code-for-progress-director-tech-and-social-justice-activist-martial-artist/ Tech Republic] and on [https://twitter.com/AliyaRahman Twitter]. From her [http://codeforprogress.org/app/program_director/ Code for Progress bio]:

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As Program Director, Aliya Rahman leads the recruitment, in-residence training, and job placement of Code for Progress fellows into full-time developer positions. Her work is informed by a background in legislative, electoral, and community organizing for racial and economic justice campaigns, and by a former life in public higher education conducting curriculum research and teaching computer programming and educational foundations/policy.

Aliya is the former Field Director of Equality Ohio, where she built a statewide field program focused on bridging gaps between racial justice organizers, LGBT rights groups, and labor. Prior to that, she worked for the Center for Community Change, first as their Ohio organizer in the passage of employment legislation supporting formerly incarcerated people, and later as a national circuit rider working with immigrant rights groups on voter engagement.

Aliya has developed Django applications, conducted tech trainings, or performed data analysis and targeting for every campaign, nonprofit, and university she has ever worked for - despite none of those tasks explicitly appearing on her job descriptions. Now based in Washington, DC, she is thoroughly enjoying life as a non-accidental techie, and is grateful to be part of an active ecosystem of women and people of color who believe tech has a pivotal role to play in creating social change.
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== Jenica Rogers ==
Jenica Rogers is Director of Libraries at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Her current professional interests include interrogating the ways our information economy is breaking down and reforming now that the internet changed everything, figuring out what the role of a library is in a reality in which warehousing books is sort of passé, and informing, mentoring, and supporting new library professionals as they hit the real world face first and at full speed. She has written at length about library issues on her blog, [http://www.attemptingelegance.com Attempting Elegance], represented SUNY Potsdam as the subject of [http://chronicle.com/article/As-Chemistry-Journals-Prices/134650/ an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about journal prices], and has given numerous invited keynote speeches at library conferences around the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2014, she was chosen to receive the American Library Association’s ALCTS HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions.

To get a sense of her presentation style, watch her deliver the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vy0Kv4eqeg plenary speech at the 2013 Charleston Conference] (in which she discusses her refusal to pay the extortionate fees being charged by a professional association for its journals) as well as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhMXClsue9w the Vision speech at NASIG's 2014 Annual Conference].

== Jenn Schiffer ==
[http://jennmoney.biz/ Jenn Schiffer] ([https://twitter.com/jennschiffer Twitter]), aka jennmoneydollars, is an open web engineer at [http://bocoup.com/ Bocoup] and lives in New Jersey (a relatively easy commute from Philadelphia). She's good at making art with code and great at telling jokes. She was previously a senior front-end developer for the National Basketball Association and, before that, taught and evaluated computer science education at Montclair State University, her alma mater (BS and MS in Computer Science). She also organizes JerseyScript, a developer meetup based in New Jersey, which is just one of several ways she's working to attract and retain more people in the web development community. She's made a lot of [http://jennmoney.biz/talks/ recent podcast appearances and presentations at conferences].

== Carl Stahmer ==
Polymath extraordinaire; doing digital humanities before it was cool; 20 years of experience in information architecture design and programming for the World Wide Web; Director of Digital Scholarship at the University Library, University of California, Davis; Technical Lead for the English Short Title Catalogue; Associate Director of the English Broadside Ballad Archive. Currently helping to lead the IMLS-funded BIBFLOW project at UC Davis. Read more on [http://www.carlstahmer.com/ his website] or [https://twitter.com/cstahmer Twitter].

== Cecily Walker ==
Cecily Walker is the Assistant Manager for Community Digital Initiatives & eLearning at Vancouver Public Library. In addition to her work on user experience and open data, she is an experienced speaker (keynoting DLF Forum this year) and has hosted a Twitter chat for first-generation library professionals (#L1S). Learn more at [http://cecily.info/ her website], and on [https://twitter.com/skeskali Twitter], [https://github.com/skeskali GitHub], and [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/about/editorial-board/cecily-walker/ In the Library with the Lead Pipe] (she is a member of the editorial board).

== Audrey Watters ==
Audrey Watters is an education writer with a focus on ed-tech. She is the author of [http://monsters.hackeducation.com/ The Monsters of Education Technology], a collection of her lectures, and she is currently working on two more books, [http://teachingmachin.es/ Teaching Machines] and [http://reclaim.hackeducation.com/ Claim Your Domain], both due out in 2015. She created [http://hackeducation.com/ Hack Education] in June 2010 shortly after she became a technology journalist because she was frustrated by the lack of coverage of education technology. Hack Education was always intended to be the sort of publication that she would want to read: smart and snarky, free of advertising and investor influence, and focused on tracking new technologies but not just because of some hyperbolic "revolution." Read more on [http://audreywatters.com/ her website], on [https://twitter.com/audreywatters Twitter], and on [https://github.com/audreywatters GitHub].

== Gabriel Weinberg ==
Gabriel Weinberg is the CEO and Founder of [https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo], "the search engine that doesn't track you," and the co-author of [http://tractionbook.com/ Traction], "the book that helps startups get customers." He is also an active [https://angel.co/yegg/syndicate/ angel investor], and he lives and works in the Philadelphia suburbs. Learn more on [http://ye.gg/app/twitter Twitter] and [http://ye.gg/app/medium Medium], read [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2010/marketing-search-an-interview-with-pete-bell-of-endeca-and-gabriel-weinberg-of-duckduckgo/ an interview with him (and Endeca co-founder Pete Bell) at In the Library with the Lead Pipe], or watch [https://vimeo.com/68099450 his speech at Gel 2013] or his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=59&v=TvfGJgzBeH0 appearance on Conversations with Great Minds].

== David Weinberger ==
David Weinberger, Ph.D., is one of the world's most respected thought leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society. His latest book, [http://www.toobigtoknow.com/ Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room], is a roadmap on taking advantage of networked knowledge now that it has replaced books and experts of old. He also is the author of [http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/ Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder], which charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended, as well as the critically acclaimed book [http://smallpieces.com/index.php Small Pieces Loosely Joined], a highly original and accessible reflection on the impact of the Internet on human behavior. He earned his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Toronto and taught philosophy for five years at New Jersey's Stockton State College. Since 2004, he has been a fellow at Harvard University's prestigious Berkman Center, gag writer for Woody Allen, NPR commentator for "All Things Considered" and "Here and Now," technology columnist for KMWorld and Darwin Magazine, blogging pioneer, and dot-com entrepreneur. [http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/david-weinberger This site has information on how to book him], and you can read more on [https://twitter.com/dweinberger Twitter] or on [http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ his blog].

== Brock Whitten ==
Making front-end development easier by the second. Co-creator of Surge, Harp, and Cordova/PhoneGap. Mozilla-WebFWD Alumni and advocate of a free and open web. A friend of the community. Read about Surge [https://surge.sh/tour here] and [https://medium.com/surge-sh/introducing-surge-the-cdn-for-front-end-developers-b4a50a61bcfc here].
Here is [http://sintaxi.com/ Brock's website]

== 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 gave a well-received talk at 2014 ALA, and could offer interesting tech and social insights at Code4Lib. Read more at [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods's website].

== Jeffrey Zeldman ==
HappyCog/A List Apart (Philly/NYC-based)

Dubbed “King of Web Standards” by Business Week, Jeffrey Zeldman founded and is chairman of Happy Cog™ and has published A List Apart Magazine “for people who make websites” since 1998. He has written two books, notably the foundational text, Designing With Web Standards,currently in a 3rd Edition coauthored with Ethan Marcotte. It has been translated into 15 languages and is credited with converting the web design industry from tag soup and Flash to semantics and accessibility.
[http://happycog.com/zeldman Zeldman's page] on HappyCog.com.

== Kortney Ryan Ziegler ==
Founder, Trans*H4CK

Kortney Ryan Ziegler is an award winning artist, writer, and blogger based in Oakland, California. Dr. Ziegler is the first person to hold the Ph.D. of African American Studies from Northwestern University.

Dr. Ziegler is the founder of [http://www.transhack.org/ Trans*H4CK]--the only tech event of its kind that brings visibility to trans* tech innovators and entrepreneurs.

He is also the director of the multiple award winning documentary, [http://www.stillblackfilm.org/ STILL BLACK: a portrait of black transmen], runs the GLAAD Media Award nominated blog, [http://blackademic.com/ blac (k) ademic], and in 2013, was named one of the Top 40 Under 40 LGBT activists by The Advocate Magazine and one of the most influential African Americans by TheRoot100. Dr. Ziegler gave the closing keynote at the 2014 Annual LITA Forum in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

[[Category:Code4Lib2016|Invited Speakers Nomination]]
[[Category:Code4Lib Keynotes]]

2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

2015-09-21T13:32:22Z

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Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for Code4Lib 2016 in Philadelphia. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

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== Nominee's Name ==

Description of no more than 250 words.

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

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==Mike Bostock==
Interactive Graphic Design for The New York Times and the author of D3.js, a popular open-source library for visualizing data using web standards.

Prior to The New York Times, Mike was a visualization scientist for Square and a computer science PhD student at Stanford University. Mike received the BSE degree in computer science in 2000 from Princeton University.
ere's his [https://twitter.com/mbostock Twitter]; and his [http://bost.ocks.org/mike/ site]

== danah boyd ==
dana boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder of [http://www.datasociety.net/ Data & Society Research Institute]. She's also a Visiting Professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a faculty affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Center. For over a decade, her research focused on how young people use social media, which resulted in two books: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (2009) and It's Complicated (2014). More recently, she has focused on the social and cultural dimensions of big data, especially privacy and publicity, data(mis)interpretation, and the civil rights implications of data analytics. She often works closely with librarians, and was the keynote speaker at the Reference and User Services Association President’s Program at ALA Annual in San Francisco in 2015. Read more at [http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ her blog], on [https://twitter.com/zephoria Twitter], or read her [http://www.danah.org/papers/#essays Essays].

== Mandy Brown ==
Mandy Brown builds systems to help writers and editors to work together. She co-founded and served as CEO of [http://editorially.com/ Editorially], a platform for collaborative writing and editing; Editorially was acquired by Vox Media where she is now director of platform. She is also co-founder and was editor-in-chief of [http://abookapart.com/ A Book Apart], was a contributing editor for [http://alistapart.com/ A List Apart], and edited many books, including [http://shapeofdesignbook.com/ The Shape of Design], by Frank Chimero. She previously served as communications director and product lead at [http://typekit.com/ Typekit] and as creative director at [http://wwnorton.com/ W. W. Norton & Company]. She blogs at [http://aworkinglibrary.com/ A Working Library] and has spoken at [http://2014.dconstruct.org/ dConstruct], [http://2012.buildconf.com/ Build], [http://confab2011.com/ Confab], [http://typotalks.com/sanfrancisco/ TYPO SF], and [http://2013.beyondtellerrand.com/ Beyond Tellerrand ]. Additionally, [http://aworkinglibrary.com/coffee/ she mentors and advises people from underrepresented groups in the tech industry]. She lives in Philadelphia.

== Kimberly Bryant ==
Kimberly Bryant is a Biotechnology/Engineering professional who founded [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ BlackGirlsCode] in 2011, to meet the needs of young women of color who are underrepresented in the currently exploding field of technology. Bryant received her first taste of computer programming when Fortran and Pascal were still the popular languages in the computing world and the 'Apple Macintosh' was the new kid on the block. Much has changed since those days and the mission of BlackGirlsCode is to introduce programming and technology to a new generation of coders (girls aged 7 - 17) who will become the leaders and creators of tomorrow.

== Maciej Cegłowski ==
Maciej Cegłowski, is a programmer, [http://idlewords.com/art/ painter], [http://www.idlewords.com/ essayist], [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-words-to-antarctica travel writer], and [http://idlewords.com/talks/ speaker]. He has been running Pinboard, a bookmarking site, since 2009. He has worked at Yahoo!, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, and has done contract work for Twitter and SixApart. He's funny on Twitter, whether he's representing [https://twitter.com/baconmeteor himself] or his company, [https://twitter.com/pinboard Pinboard].

== Aaron Straup Cope ==
Aaron Straup Cope is a software developer who believes that "promise of the Internet is to be a bridge for cross-pollinating peoples, ideas and communities"[1] and his work shows it. Currently at [https://mapzen.com/ Mapzen] he is building a [http://whosonfirst.mapzen.com/ Who's On First], a gazetteer of places "each with a stable identifier and some number of descriptive properties about that location." Previously he designed and developed the much lauded [http://collection.cooperhewitt.org collections website] for the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. His work consistently focuses on publishing data to the web with stable identifiers, while eschewing much of the formality and overhead of "Linked Data", a point he made quite clearly in his talk [http://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/proposal/omgwtftgn/ "OMGWTFTGN"] at Museums and the Web 2015, where he asked if releasing a 17GB RDF dataset is really the best way to get data used by... anyone. Read [http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/en/aaronstraupcope-resume-en.txt Aaron Straup Cope's resume] for more information.

== Brigitte Daniel ==
Brigitte Daniel is a digital access advocate with experience in telecommunications and social entrepreneurship.

In May 2006, she became the executive vice president of Wilco Electronic Systems, a small telecommunications firm founded in 1977 by her father that has primarily done installations for the Philadelphia Housing Authority.

In that role, she became a frequent speaker on digital divide and web literacy issues, particularly in the Philadelphia technology community. She was part of the 2011 class of Eisenhower Fellows. Read more from her on [https://twitter.com/brigittedaniel Twitter].

== Catherine Farman ==
Philadelphian Catherine Farman is a developer, a Technology & Innovation Fellow Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, and a self-described "responsive design fanatic, feminist, Chicana, Texpat, cat lady, and teacher at [https://www.girldevelopit.com/chapters/philadelphia Girls Develop It's Philadelphia Chapter]"; she recently left HappyCog (the prestigious studio founded by A List Apart's Jeffrey Zeldman). More information on Catherine Farman is available at [http://cfarman.com/ her website, cfarman.com], and on [https://twitter.com/cfarm Twitter], and several of her recent speeches are listed on [http://lanyrd.com/profile/cfarm/past/speaking/ Lanyrd], though absent from that list is her 2014 presentation at OSCON, "[https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/oscon-2014-complete/9781491910795/part96.html Lessons from Girl Develop It: Getting More Women Involved in Open Source]" (link goes to a video of the talk, which she co-presented with Corinne Warnshuis, Girls Develop It's excutive director).

== Paul Ford ==
Paul Ford is a Brooklyn-based writer and web technologist. He often writes about [https://medium.com/message/how-paper-magazines-web-engineers-scaled-kim-kardashians-back-end-sfw-6367f8d37688 the web], [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6241967 archives] [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ programming], [http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html the nature of information], and [https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100 living in the information age]. Past projects include [https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf tilde.club] and the [http://www.ftrain.com/AWebSiteForHarpers.html semantic web-ified harpers.org] (back in 2003). His ~30,00-word article [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ What Is Code?] was the entire June 11, 2015 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Learn more at his [http://ftrain.com website], on [http://twitter.com/ftrain Twitter], or on [https://medium.com/@ftrain Medium], or watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSL5qVL3Mng his talk at XOXO 2014] or [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-06-12/-what-is-code-charlie-rose-06-12- his interview on Charlie Rose]. He was also interviewed at [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/an-interview-with-paul-ford-and-gina-trapani/ at In the Library with the Lead Pipe, along with Gina Trapani].

== Sorelle Friedler ==
"Algorithms are already being used to make decisions that affect people's lives and livelihoods, and this trend is only increasing," [https://www.haverford.edu/college-communications/news/sorelle-friedler-studies-programming-and-prejudice says Sorrelle Friedler]. "Often, one of the selling points of using an algorithm is that it will be less biased than the current human process. While it is possible to create algorithms that reduce bias, the use of an algorithm does not on its own guarantee that. It's important that computer scientists, as well as policymakers, understand the limitations and work to make algorithmic decisions fair."

Sorelle Friedler has been an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Haverford College since 2014 and was visiting at Haverford starting in 2012 (Haverford is just a few miles from Philadelphia). Her research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, computational geometry, data mining and machine learning, and the application of such algorithms to interdisciplinary data. She is a [http://www.datasociety.net/updates/featured/announcements/2015/03/introducing-2015-2016-fellows-class/ 2015-2016 Fellow at the Data & Society Research Institute] for her work on preventing discrimination in machine learning. Learn more about her work on her [http://ww3.haverford.edu/computerscience/faculty/sorelle/index.php Haverford Computer Science page].

== Brett Anitra Gilbert ==
"I’ve been doing research in Johannesburg, South Africa, to understand what the city needs to do to better support technology entrepreneurs," [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/news/faculty-insights-professor-brett-gilbert-looks-how-tech-clusters-emerge-cities says Rutgers Business School professor Brett Gilbert]. "The city is actively in the process of trying to see a tech cluster emerge, so my research is intended to help them understand what needs to happen in order to see a tech community thrive in Johannesburg. It's research I’m doing concurrently in Newark, New Jersey, because the city would like to see a technology community emerge here. The research is really comparing the process these two cities are going through. Most research on clusters focuses on clusters that already exist and on regions that are somewhat well established so you don’t see a lot that helps people understand what a city or region would need to do if they want to see one of these technology clusters emerge."

Dr. Gilbert's dissertation, "[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1371727 The Implications of Geographic Cluster Locations for New Venture Performance]" was awarded a Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship in 2004, and selected as a finalist for the Entrepreneurship Division's 2005 Heizer Award for outstanding dissertations in entrepreneurship. In addition to examining emerging technology communities in developing market contexts, she is also focusing on understanding emerging "clean energy" technologies. She has taught a variety of entrepreneurship courses on creativity and innovation, and the startup and management of new ventures. At RBS, Dr. Gilbert teaches the Technology Ventures course for undergraduates and graduates, and the Ph.D. seminar in entrepreneurship. Learn more on [https://twitter.com/ProfGilbert Twitter] and on [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/gilbert-brett her page at the Rutgers Business School website].

== Amelia Greenhall ==
Amelia Greenhall is the Chief Creative Officer of [http://magicvibes.co/ Magic Vibes Corporation]. Previously, she cofounded and served as Executive Director and board chair of [http://doubleunion.org/ Double Union], a non-profit feminist hacker/maker space in San Francisco with the mission of being a safe and comfortable space for women to work on their projects. She also cofounded the publication Model View Culture, and designed things for companies including [http://futureadvisor.com/ FutureAdvisor] and [http://www.ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/budge Habit Labs]. She is the publisher of the [http://openreviewquarterly.com/ Open Review Quarterly] literary journal, and the entries at [http://ameliagreenhall.com/blog her personal blog] are usually made available as episodes of [http://ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/amelia-explains-it-all Amelia Explains It All], a "podcast for men in tech."

== Kate Heddleston ==
Kate Heddleston is a software engineer who mostly works on Python projects. She has been a mentor for Hackbright Academy and PyLadies. She blogs and gives talks about how our engineering environments are killing diversity (see [https://kateheddleston.com/talk/ea142cd2-f026-4615-ab90-2170f06c739b her talk] and [https://kateheddleston.com/blog/how-our-engineering-environments-are-killing-diversity-introduction her blog series]), on [https://kateheddleston.com/talk/ef464595-b113-4c1b-9c5b-cc1f3681055c technical onboarding, training, and mentoring], and on the [https://kateheddleston.com/blog/a-modern-day-take-on-the-ethics-of-being-a-programmer ethics of being a programmer], among other topics. Here is her [https://kateheddleston.com/ website].

== Andrew Hoppin ==
Andrew Hoppin is the co-founder and president of [http://nucivic.com NuCivic], a technology innovator, and open source advocate. An Ex-NASA scientist who brings his theories of collaboration, open-source technologies to create open civic platforms. As president of NuCivic, his mission is to improve the efficacy of civic organizations and governments, by making innovative knowledge management solutions accessible. Namely Nucivic's DKAN open data platform DKAN provides an open source solution for government organizations, libraries and civic organizations for data cataloging, publishing and visualizing.
Andrew was awarded the 2010 New York State Public Sector CIO of the Year by GovTech Magazine, and was named one of the top 50 government CIOs in the United States by Information Week magazine, for his successful effort to deploy the first major New York State government website, NYSenate.gov, which won “Best of New York” awards for Project Excellence.

== Helen Horstmann-Allen ==
Pobox.com promised its customers a lifetime email address, and found a loyal following immediately. In addition to email addresses and accounts, their customers requested reliable email-based discussion forums, mailing lits, and newsletters, so they created Listbox.com. Philadelphian Helen Horstmann-Allen has been president of IC Group, the home of Pobox.com and Listbox.com, since 2000; prior to that, she was its director of operations, and she's been in charge of Pobox.com since 1997. She's in love with Philadelphia and food -- thus [http://phillyfoodie.com/ Philly Foodie] -- and can be found on [https://twitter.com/philliefoodie Twitter], too.

== Jess Klein ==
Open Web Designer at Bocoup

If you ask about her passions, Jess will draw you a venn diagram with the words community, freedom, and learning, and point to the sweet spot where all three overlap. She is dedicated to connecting people and ideas through new technologies and interactive experiences. Before Bocoup, Jess worked at the Mozilla Foundation, where she served as Creative Lead for such projects as the X-Ray Goggles, Hackasaurus (which became part of the larger Webmaker platform), Thimble and the Hive. She also served as the Creative Director for Mozilla Open Badges, where she helped develop an ecosystem of tools for learners to earn, assess, issue and display digital micro-credentials. A Rockaway Beach native, Jess co-founded Rockaway Help in the wake of Hurricane Sandy to empower the community to find solutions for emergency response, preparedness and rebuilding through hyperlocal open news and the development of innovative community-designed technologies. She was named a White House Champion of Change for her civic hacktivism. Here is her [http://jessicaklein.com/ website].

== Kate Krauss ==

Kate Krauss is the Director of Communications and Public Policy for the Tor Project, a nonprofit organization that builds free, online privacy tools that allow users to defy shoe companies and intelligence agencies alike while they stay free and anonymous on the internet. As a human rights advocate, Kate lead several successful campaigns to free public health experts and human rights activists who were imprisoned in China. She became interested in internet freedom when she sought help from San Francisco hackers to aid a well-known Chinese health advocate whose huge, popular web site for people with hepatitis had been taken down by the Chinese government.

Prior to her work in online privacy, she served as Executive Director of the AIDS Policy Project, where she lead a successful effort to move $35 million into cure research at the US National Institutes of Health and wrote groundbreaking reports that showed for the first time how little the world was investing in the search for a cure for AIDS. Kate has been chosen twice as one of the Poz 100, one of the top 100 people working in AIDS in the world. She was a very early member of the renowned AIDS activist group ACT UP. She has also spoken at several hacker conferences, including Chaos Communications Congress, where she delivered a talk on how mass surveillance in China was converted into political repression.

(However--*has* a sense of humor!)

== Alison Macrina ==
Alison Macrina is the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project (LFP), an initiative that helps libraries fulfill the the promise of intellectual freedom by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools that help safeguard digital freedoms. She is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and multinational corporations. She cowrote the Radical Reference Collective’s zine, "[http://radicalreference.info/content/we-are-all-suspects-guide-people-navigating-expanded-powers-surveillance-21st-century We Are All Suspects]," which gives advice and tools for preventing surveillance, and has written or co-written articles for [http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/radical-librarianship-how-nin.html Boing Boing] and [http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/20/adobe_s_digital_editions_e_book_software_and_library_patron_privacy.html Slate]. LFP has been featured in [https://libraryfreedomproject.org/press/ numerous prominent publications], including [http://www.thenation.com/article/librarians-versus-nsa/ The Nation] magazine and NPR's [http://www.onthemedia.org/story/librarians-vs-patriot-act/ On the Media], and LFP's partners include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the Tor Project.

In February 2015, LFP won a ~$250,000 two-year grant through the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, which enabled her to work on LFP full-time. Prior to that, she was the technology librarian/IT manager at the Watertown (Massachusetts) Free Public Library.

== Uche Ogbuji ==
CTO and founding partner at Zepheira; has helped lead implementation of the LibHub Initiative. From [http://uche.ogbuji.net/ his website]: "Uche is a leading expert in data design and distributed systems. He has worked with XML, RDF and Web Services since the inception of those technologies. He has been technical lead on many open specifications and open source projects as well as on Zepheira's platform for library data transforms." Also recently named [https://twitter.com/uogbuji/status/632936838622089217 poet laureate] of Balisage: The Markup Conference!

== Katrina Owen ==
Katrina Owen is the creator of [http://exercism.io/exercism exercism], a FLOSS project that supports students who are learning to code by giving them practice problems and real world feedback. Exercises are currently available in Clojure, CoffeeScript, C++, C#, Emacs Lisp, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Lisp Flavoured Erlang (LFE), Common Lisp, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, Perl 5, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, and Swift, and exercism developers are in the process of adding ECMAScript, Groovy, Nimrod, Perl 6, Pony, Racket, Standard ML, and VB.NET. Katrina Owen is herself a polyglot developer and Ruby Hero award winner who has spoken at numerous conferences; example talks include: [http://confreaks.tv/videos/lonestarruby2013-keynote-hacking-passion Hacking Passion]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWEEPt8VvmU Overkill]; [http://confreaks.tv/videos/bathruby2015-here-be-dragons Here Be Dragons]; and [http://confreaks.tv/videos/cascadiaruby2012-therapeutic-refactoring Therapeutic Refactoring]. She accidentally became a developer while pursuing a degree in molecular biology, and began nitpicking code in 2006 while volunteering at JavaRanch. When programming, her focus is on automation, workflow optimization, and refactoring. She is passionate about open source and contributes to several projects outside of exercism. Learn more on [https://github.com/kytrinyx GitHub] and [https://twitter.com/kytrinyx Twitter].

== Lauren Pressley ==
Lauren Pressley became the University of Washington Tacoma Library Director and Associate Dean of University Libraries on September 15, 2015. Her professional interests include formal and informal learning, design in library services, the evolving information environment, organizational change, and the future of libraries. She is the author of [https://unglue.it/work/76348/ So You Want to Be a Librarian] and [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3969 Wikis for Libraries], a co-chair of [https://www.librarypipeline.org/ Library Pipeline], and holds an elected position on the American Library Association Council. She has also served on the Library Information Technology Association board of directors and the [http://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon/ Horizon Project] advisory board.

Prior to joining UW, she was the Director of Learning Environments and Associate Professor at Virginia Tech University Libraries, where she led a team of thirty people who were responsible for enhancing situated learning by connecting services and spaces, including Reference, Circulation, Roving Services, Learning Spaces, Online Learning, academic programming, and community engagement. [http://www.slideshare.net/laurenpressley/presentations Several dozen of her presentations] are posted online.

== Aliya Rahman ==
Tech and social justice activist. Engineer. Read more at [http://www.techrepublic.com/article/aliya-rahman-former-code-for-progress-director-tech-and-social-justice-activist-martial-artist/ Tech Republic] and on [https://twitter.com/AliyaRahman Twitter]. From her [http://codeforprogress.org/app/program_director/ Code for Progress bio]:

<blockquote>
As Program Director, Aliya Rahman leads the recruitment, in-residence training, and job placement of Code for Progress fellows into full-time developer positions. Her work is informed by a background in legislative, electoral, and community organizing for racial and economic justice campaigns, and by a former life in public higher education conducting curriculum research and teaching computer programming and educational foundations/policy.

Aliya is the former Field Director of Equality Ohio, where she built a statewide field program focused on bridging gaps between racial justice organizers, LGBT rights groups, and labor. Prior to that, she worked for the Center for Community Change, first as their Ohio organizer in the passage of employment legislation supporting formerly incarcerated people, and later as a national circuit rider working with immigrant rights groups on voter engagement.

Aliya has developed Django applications, conducted tech trainings, or performed data analysis and targeting for every campaign, nonprofit, and university she has ever worked for - despite none of those tasks explicitly appearing on her job descriptions. Now based in Washington, DC, she is thoroughly enjoying life as a non-accidental techie, and is grateful to be part of an active ecosystem of women and people of color who believe tech has a pivotal role to play in creating social change.
</blockquote>

== Jenica Rogers ==
Jenica Rogers is Director of Libraries at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Her current professional interests include interrogating the ways our information economy is breaking down and reforming now that the internet changed everything, figuring out what the role of a library is in a reality in which warehousing books is sort of passé, and informing, mentoring, and supporting new library professionals as they hit the real world face first and at full speed. She has written at length about library issues on her blog, [http://www.attemptingelegance.com Attempting Elegance], represented SUNY Potsdam as the subject of [http://chronicle.com/article/As-Chemistry-Journals-Prices/134650/ an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about journal prices], and has given numerous invited keynote speeches at library conferences around the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2014, she was chosen to receive the American Library Association’s ALCTS HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions.

To get a sense of her presentation style, watch her deliver the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vy0Kv4eqeg plenary speech at the 2013 Charleston Conference] (in which she discusses her refusal to pay the extortionate fees being charged by a professional association for its journals) as well as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhMXClsue9w the Vision speech at NASIG's 2014 Annual Conference].

== Jenn Schiffer ==
[http://jennmoney.biz/ Jenn Schiffer] ([https://twitter.com/jennschiffer Twitter]), aka jennmoneydollars, is an open web engineer at [http://bocoup.com/ Bocoup] and lives in New Jersey (a relatively easy commute from Philadelphia). She's good at making art with code and great at telling jokes. She was previously a senior front-end developer for the National Basketball Association and, before that, taught and evaluated computer science education at Montclair State University, her alma mater (BS and MS in Computer Science). She also organizes JerseyScript, a developer meetup based in New Jersey, which is just one of several ways she's working to attract and retain more people in the web development community. She's made a lot of [http://jennmoney.biz/talks/ recent podcast appearances and presentations at conferences].

== Carl Stahmer ==
Polymath extraordinaire; doing digital humanities before it was cool; 20 years of experience in information architecture design and programming for the World Wide Web; Director of Digital Scholarship at the University Library, University of California, Davis; Technical Lead for the English Short Title Catalogue; Associate Director of the English Broadside Ballad Archive. Currently helping to lead the IMLS-funded BIBFLOW project at UC Davis. Read more on [http://www.carlstahmer.com/ his website] or [https://twitter.com/cstahmer Twitter].

== Cecily Walker ==
Cecily Walker is the Assistant Manager for Community Digital Initiatives & eLearning at Vancouver Public Library. In addition to her work on user experience and open data, she is an experienced speaker (keynoting DLF Forum this year) and has hosted a Twitter chat for first-generation library professionals (#L1S). Learn more at [http://cecily.info/ her website], and on [https://twitter.com/skeskali Twitter], [https://github.com/skeskali GitHub], and [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/about/editorial-board/cecily-walker/ In the Library with the Lead Pipe] (she is a member of the editorial board).

== Audrey Watters ==
Audrey Watters is an education writer with a focus on ed-tech. She is the author of [http://monsters.hackeducation.com/ The Monsters of Education Technology], a collection of her lectures, and she is currently working on two more books, [http://teachingmachin.es/ Teaching Machines] and [http://reclaim.hackeducation.com/ Claim Your Domain], both due out in 2015. She created [http://hackeducation.com/ Hack Education] in June 2010 shortly after she became a technology journalist because she was frustrated by the lack of coverage of education technology. Hack Education was always intended to be the sort of publication that she would want to read: smart and snarky, free of advertising and investor influence, and focused on tracking new technologies but not just because of some hyperbolic "revolution." Read more on [http://audreywatters.com/ her website], on [https://twitter.com/audreywatters Twitter], and on [https://github.com/audreywatters GitHub].

== Gabriel Weinberg ==
Gabriel Weinberg is the CEO and Founder of [https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo], "the search engine that doesn't track you," and the co-author of [http://tractionbook.com/ Traction], "the book that helps startups get customers." He is also an active [https://angel.co/yegg/syndicate/ angel investor], and he lives and works in the Philadelphia suburbs. Learn more on [http://ye.gg/app/twitter Twitter] and [http://ye.gg/app/medium Medium], read [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2010/marketing-search-an-interview-with-pete-bell-of-endeca-and-gabriel-weinberg-of-duckduckgo/ an interview with him (and Endeca co-founder Pete Bell) at In the Library with the Lead Pipe], or watch [https://vimeo.com/68099450 his speech at Gel 2013] or his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=59&v=TvfGJgzBeH0 appearance on Conversations with Great Minds].

== David Weinberger ==
David Weinberger, Ph.D., is one of the world's most respected thought leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society. His latest book, [http://www.toobigtoknow.com/ Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room], is a roadmap on taking advantage of networked knowledge now that it has replaced books and experts of old. He also is the author of [http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/ Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder], which charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended, as well as the critically acclaimed book [http://smallpieces.com/index.php Small Pieces Loosely Joined], a highly original and accessible reflection on the impact of the Internet on human behavior. He earned his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Toronto and taught philosophy for five years at New Jersey's Stockton State College. Since 2004, he has been a fellow at Harvard University's prestigious Berkman Center, gag writer for Woody Allen, NPR commentator for "All Things Considered" and "Here and Now," technology columnist for KMWorld and Darwin Magazine, blogging pioneer, and dot-com entrepreneur. [http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/david-weinberger This site has information on how to book him], and you can read more on [https://twitter.com/dweinberger Twitter] or on [http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ his blog].

== Brock Whitten ==
Making front-end development easier by the second. Co-creator of Surge, Harp, and Cordova/PhoneGap. Mozilla-WebFWD Alumni and advocate of a free and open web. A friend of the community. Read about Surge [https://surge.sh/tour here] and [https://medium.com/surge-sh/introducing-surge-the-cdn-for-front-end-developers-b4a50a61bcfc here].
Here is [http://sintaxi.com/ Brock's website]

== 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 gave a well-received talk at 2014 ALA, and could offer interesting tech and social insights at Code4Lib. Read more at [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods's website].

== Jeffrey Zeldman ==
HappyCog/A List Apart (Philly/NYC-based)

Dubbed “King of Web Standards” by Business Week, Jeffrey Zeldman founded and is chairman of Happy Cog™ and has published A List Apart Magazine “for people who make websites” since 1998. He has written two books, notably the foundational text, Designing With Web Standards,currently in a 3rd Edition coauthored with Ethan Marcotte. It has been translated into 15 languages and is credited with converting the web design industry from tag soup and Flash to semantics and accessibility.
[http://happycog.com/zeldman Zeldman's page] on HappyCog.com.

== Kortney Ryan Ziegler ==
Founder, Trans*H4CK

Kortney Ryan Ziegler is an award winning artist, writer, and blogger based in Oakland, California. Dr. Ziegler is the first person to hold the Ph.D. of African American Studies from Northwestern University.

Dr. Ziegler is the founder of [http://www.transhack.org/ Trans*H4CK]--the only tech event of its kind that brings visibility to trans* tech innovators and entrepreneurs.

He is also the director of the multiple award winning documentary, [http://www.stillblackfilm.org/ STILL BLACK: a portrait of black transmen], runs the GLAAD Media Award nominated blog, [http://blackademic.com/ blac (k) ademic], and in 2013, was named one of the Top 40 Under 40 LGBT activists by The Advocate Magazine and one of the most influential African Americans by TheRoot100. Dr. Ziegler gave the closing keynote at the 2014 Annual LITA Forum in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

[[Category:Code4Lib2016|Invited Speakers Nomination]]
[[Category:Code4Lib Keynotes]]

2016 Conference Committees

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JohnMignault:

= Code4Lib 2016 Committees =

''Many hands make for light work.''

Hosting a conference is incredibly complex, and it cannot be done without the help of the entire community. If you are interested in being an awesome person and applying your skills to a particular part of the Code4Lib 2016 conference, create an account on this wiki and sign-up for one or more of the groups below (please provide a contact). Each committee must have a Primary Contact (chair), Secondary Contact (co-chair), and Documentarian (secretary). The role of the Documentarian is to transcribe key information to future conference committees, such as timelines, costs, process, etc. 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 (LPC) to each committee.

== Location and Dates ==

* Location: TBD, Philadelphia, PA
* Dates: TBD
** Pre-conferences -
** Main meeting -
** Post conference activities?

== Local Planning Committee ==
This committee is charged with running the show such as overall timeline, budgeting, coordinating of locations and logistics, wrangler of committees, and communicating with the community.

* David Lacy (Villanova) - Primary Contact (v)
* Chad Nelson - Secondary Contact (v)
* Anna Headley (Chemical Heritage Foundation) - Documentarian (v)
* [[User:Sdellis|Shaun Ellis]] (Princeton) (v)
* Katherine Lynch (Temple) (v)
* Stephen Ng (Temple)
* Brett Bonfield (Collingswood Public)
* Lauren Gala (UPenn)
* David Uspal (Villanova) (v)
* Chris Clement (Drexel)

== Website Working Group ==
This group will focus on content strategy (in collaboration with the Documentation Committee) and feature implementations to improve the overall user experience for users (i.e., on-site and remote attendees, speakers, potential sponsors, post-conference users).

[[Website Working Group Documents|Website Working Group Documents]]

* [[User:Cdmo|Charlie Morris]] (Penn State) - Primary Contact
* [[User:jtidal|Junior Tidal]] (New York City College of Technology) - Secondary Contact
* [[User:BillMcMillin|Bill McMillin]] (Pratt Institute) - Documentarian
* [[User:Sdellis|Shaun Ellis]] (Princeton) - LPC Contact (v)
* [[User:Phette23|Eric Phetteplace]] (Cal College of the Arts)
* [[User:Sarahshealy| Sarah Shealy]] (Greenville (SC) County Public Library)
* [[User:JennC| Jennifer Colt]] (Cornell University Library)
* [[User:LaurenAjamie| Lauren Ajamie]] (University of Notre Dame Library)
* [[User:MichaelSchofield| Michael Schofield]] ( @schoeyfield )
* [[User:LukeAeschleman| Luke Aeschleman]] (UNC - Chapel Hill | Health Sciences Library)
* [[User:Wickr|Ryan Wick]]
* [[User:cbeer|Chris Beer]]
* [[User:ksattler| Kelly Sattler]] (Michigan State University Libraries)

== Sponsorship Committee ==
This group will focus on making sure all who want to support the conference have the opportunity to do so. Sponsorship Committee work involves working with the LPC to close budget gaps and talking to potential sponsors to find the level that is right for them.

* [[User:Sdellis|Shaun Ellis]] (Princeton) (v)
* David Uspal (Villanova) - LPC Contact (v)
* Morgan McKeehan
* Ray Schwartz
* Sharon Whitfield (Rowan University)
* Brett Bonfield (Collingswood Public) (v)

== Keynote Committee ==
This group will: gather nominations from Code4Lib community; contact nominees to confirm their willingness and availability; collect bios from the available nominees and add them to the Diebold-o-Tron; support the voting process; work with the community's top nominees to schedule their keynotes; and collaborate with other committees and the community to ensure everything is communicated appropriately and logistical matters are given suitable attention.

* Brett Bonfield (Collingswood Public)
* John Mignault (ESDN/METRO)

== Additional Committees... Coming Soon! ==
* Book Give-Away
* Childcare
* Onsite Volunteer
* Preconference
* Program
* Scholarship
* Social Activities
* Streaming Video
* T-Shirt
* Voting
* Whatever
* Wifi/Electrical
* IRC
* Reception?

2015 Prepared Talk Proposals

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JohnMignault: /* REPOX: Metadata Blender */

Code4lib 2015 is a loosely-structured conference that provides people working at the intersection of libraries/archives/museums/cultural heritage and technology with a chance to share ideas, be inspired, and forge collaborations. For more information about the Code4lib community, please visit http://code4lib.org/about/.
The conference will be held at the Portland Hilton & Executive Tower in Portland, Oregon, from February 9-12, 2015.

'''Proposals for Prepared Talks:'''

We encourage everyone to propose a talk.

Prepared talks are 20 minutes (including setup and questions), and should focus on one or more of the following areas:
* Projects you've worked on which incorporate innovative implementation of existing technologies and/or development of new software
* Tools and technologies – How to get the most out of existing tools, standards and protocols (and ideas on how to make them better)
* Technical issues - Big issues in library technology that should be addressed or better understood
* Relevant non-technical issues – Concerns of interest to the Code4Lib community which are not strictly technical in nature, e.g. collaboration, diversity, organizational challenges, etc.

Proposals can be submitted through Friday, November 7, 2014 at 5pm PST (GMT−8). Voting will start on November 11, 2014 and continue through November 25, 2014. The URL to submit votes will be announced on the Code4Lib website and mailing list and will require an active code4lib.org account to participate. The final list of presentations will be announced in early- to mid-December.

'''Proposals for Prepared Talks:'''

Log in to the Code4lib wiki and edit this wiki page using the prescribed format. If you are not already registered, follow the instructions to do so.
Provide a title and brief (500 words or fewer) description of your proposed talk.
If you so choose, you may also indicate when, if ever, you have presented at a prior Code4Lib conference. This information is completely optional, but it may assist voters in opening the conference to new presenters.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

<pre>

== Talk Title: ==

* Speaker's name, email address, and (optional) affiliation
* Second speaker's name, email address, and affiliation, if second speaker

Abstract of no more than 500 words.

</pre>

'''Talk Proposals'''

== Our $50,000 Problem: Why Library School? ==
* Jennie Rose Halperin, jhalperin@mozilla.com, Mozilla Corporation

57 library schools in the United States are churning out approximately 100 graduates per year, many with debt upwards of $50,000. According to ONet, [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2011/is-the-united-states-training-too-many-librarians-or-too-few-part-1/ 84% of library jobs in the US require an MLS.] The library profession is [http://dpeaflcio.org/programs-publications/issue-fact-sheets/library-workers-facts-figures/) 92% white and 82% female and entry-level librarians can expect to make $32,500 per year.]

Contrasted with developers, who are almost [http://www.ncwit.org/blog/did-you-know-demographics-technical-women 90% male] and can expect to make [http://www.forbes.com/sites/jennagoudreau/2011/06/01/best-entry-level-jobs/ $70,000 in an entry-level position,] these numbers are dismal.

According to a recent survey, the top skill that outgoing library students want to know is “programming” and yet many MLS programs still consider Microsoft Word an essential technology skill.

What is going on here? Why do we accept this fate, where mostly female debt-burdened professionals continue to be thrown onto the work force without the education their expensive degrees promised?

As a community we need to come together to stop this cycle. We need to provide better support and mentorship to diversify and keep the profession relevant and help librarianship move into the future it deserves.

This talk will walk through the challenges of navigating a hostile employment environment as well as present models for better development and future state imagining.

== No cataloging software? Need more than Dublin Core? No problem!: Experiences with CollectiveAccess ==
* [[User:SeanHendricks|Sean Q. Hendricks]], sqhendr@clemson.edu, Clemson University
* Rachel Wittmann, rwittma@clemson.edu, Clemson University

Clemson University Libraries has implemented the open-source software CollectiveAccess for customized digital collection needs. CollectiveAccess is an open-source project with the goal of providing a flexible way to manage and publish museum and archival collections. There are several applications associated with the projects; most used are: Providence (for cataloging and entering metadata) and Pawtucket (for displaying objects in a collection for the public). It has many profiles readily available for installing with existing library standards, such as Dublin Core, and there is a robust syntax for creating your own profiles to fit custom tailored metadata schemas. Plus, the user interface allows you to modify the metadata profile quickly and easily.

In this talk, we will discuss:
* Our experiences with installing Providence and creating an installation profile that satisfies the needs of many of the Clemson Libraries digital archiving processes.
* The stumbling blocks experienced in that process and how they were resolved.
* The available plugins sourcing widely used authorities, such as Library of Congress thesauri and GeoNames.org, and how they have been used by our projects.
* A brief overview of the export and import functions and also current workflow practices within Providence.
* Future plans & the role of CollectiveAccess at Clemson University Libraries

== Getting ContentDM and Wordpress to Play Together ==
* [[User:SeanHendricks|Sean Q. Hendricks]], sqhendr@clemson.edu, Clemson University

Clemson University Libraries has a very strong program for digitizing and archiving photographs, and the Digital Imaging team processes many hundreds of photographs every month. These images are managed using different methods, including ContentDM, a digital collection manager.

ContentDM provides various methods for searching and displaying photographs, along with their metadata. However, recent initiatives have resulted in the need to leverage those collections into exhibits displayed on other library-related websites, such as our Special Collections unit. The Clemson Libraries has invested heavily in Wordpress as our content management system of choice, and it seemed most efficient not to have to export and import images into our Wordpress sites in order to provide exhibited images.

Fortunately, ContentDM has provided an API to many of their functions, allowing the extraction of metadata and even rescaled images through URLs. This project has been developing a plugin for Wordpress that integrates with ContentDM through shortcodes that Wordpress editors can easily include in their content. These shortcodes allow editors to choose how many images, which images from which collections, thumbnail sizes, etc. to display in different gallery styles. Plans are for it to allow integration with different plugins such as Fancybox and Masonry.

In this presentation, I will demonstrate the current state of the plugin and discuss future plans.

==Refinery — An open source locally deployable web platform for the analysis of large document collections==

* [[User:DaeilKim|Daeil Kim]], The New York Times, daeil.kim@nytimes.com

Refinery is an open source web platform for the analysis of large unstructured document collections. It extracts meaningful semantic themes within documents also known as "topics" which can be thought of as word clouds composed of terms that highly co-occur with one another. Once this semantic index is formed, one can extract relevant documents related to these topics and further refine their contents through a summarization process that allows users to search for phrases that are relevant to them within the corpus. The goal of Refinery is to make this whole process easier and to provide some of the latest scalable versions of these learning algorithms in an intuitive web-based interface. Refinery is also meant to be run locally, thus bypassing the need for securing document collections over the internet. The talk will go through some of the technologies involved and a demo of the app.

For more info check out http://www.docrefinery.org.

==Drupal 8 — Evolution & Revolution==

* [[User:Highermath|Cary Gordon]], The Cherry Hill Company, cgordon@chillco.com

Drupal 8 is in beta and nearing release. Among its many features, it notably has become more developer friendly through its adoption of the Symfony PHP framework along with Symfony's outstanding set of libraries (like Guzzle) and tools (like Composer). And, in implementing the Twig theming system, it is can begin to escape PHPtemplate. These moves also make it easier to create headless systems that uses Angular.js and other systems for presentation, or even forgo presentation entirely.

From the site-builder's perspective, Drupal 8 provides a much smother experience and makes it easier to build and implement site recipes.

==Using GameSalad to Build a Gamified Information Literacy Mobile App for Higher Education==

* [[User:StanBogdanov|Stanislav 'Stan' Bogdanov]], stan@stanrb.com, Adelphi University and [http://bogliollc.com Boglio LLC]

GameSalad is a popular tool for developing mobile and desktop games with little actual programming. In this presentation, Stan Bogdanov breaks down the development process he followed while building [https://github.com/stanrb/mobiLit mobiLit], a mobile app with the goal of being the first open-source gamified information literacy app to be used as part of a college-level information literacy curriculum. He will go through the basics of using GameSalad to create an app that can be easily customized by non-programmers and the instructional principles used to teach the material in a mobile medium. Stan will also go through two qualitative design studies he did on the app and discuss their results and the lessons learned from building mobiLit. The session will conclude with an overview of the next steps for the [https://github.com/stanrb/mobiLit mobiLit project].

==The Impossible Search: Pulling data from multiple unknown sources==

* Riley Childs, no official affiliation (currently a Senior in High School at Charlotte United Christian Academy), rchilds (AT) cucawarriors.com

It's easy to search data you know the structure of, but what if you need to pull in data from sources that don't have a standard structure. The ability to search community events along with your standard catalog search results is an example, but often the only way to pull these events is through XML, JSON, (Insert structured format here), or even just raw html. But how do you get that structure? That simple question is what makes this impossible. The process to define and process this structure takes a lot of manual labor, especially if the data you are pulling is just HTML, and then every time you add data to the index you have to run all the data through a script to pull in data in a format Solr or an other index can use. This talk will focus on Solr, but the principles explained will apply to many other indexes.

==What! You're Not Using Docker?==

* [[User:Highermath|Cary Gordon]], The Cherry Hill Company, cgordon@chillco.com

Boring part: Docker[1] is a container system that provides benefits similar to virtualization with only a fraction of the overhead. Scintillating part: Docker can host between four to six times the number of service instances than systems such as Xen or VMWare on a given piece of hardware. But thats not all! Docker also makes it simple(r) to create transportable instances, so you can spin up development servers on your laptop.

*[1]https://www.docker.com/

== Video Accessibility, WebVTT, and Timed Text Track Tricks ==

* Jason Ronallo, jronallo@gmail.com, NCSU Libraries

Video on the Web presents new challenges and opportunities. How do you make your video more accessible to those with various disabilities and needs? I'll show you how. This presentation will focus on how to write and deliver captions, subtitles, audio descriptions, and timed metadata tracks for Web video using the WebVTT W3C standard. Encoding timed text tracks in this way opens up opportunities for new functionality on your websites beyond accessibility. The presentation will show some examples of the potential for using timed text tracks in creative ways. I'll cover all the HTML and JavaScript you will need to know as well as some of the CSS and other bits you could probably do without but are too fun to pass up.

== Categorizing Records with Random Forests ==

* Geoffrey Boushey, geoffrey.boushey@ucsf.edu, UCSF Library
Academic libraries are increasingly responsible for providing ingest, search, discovery, and analysis for data sets. Emerging techniques from data science and machine learning can provide librarians and developers with an opportunity to generate new insights and services from these document collections. This presentation will provide a brief overview of common machine learning classification techniques, then dive into a more detailed example using a random forest to assign keywords to research data sets. The talk will emphasize the insight that can be gained from machine learning rather than the inner workings of the algorithms. The overall goal of this presentation is to provide librarians and developers with the context to recognize an opportunity to apply machine learning categorization techniques at their home campuses and organizations.

== Data Science in Libraries ==

* Devon Smith, smithde@oclc.org, OCLC

Data Science is increasing in buzz and hype. I'll go over what it is, what it isn't, and how it fits in libraries.

== PDF metadata extraction for academic literature ==

* Kevin Savage, kevin.savage at mendeley.com, Mendeley
* Joyce Stack, joyce.stack at mendeley.com, Mendeley

Mendeley recently added a, "document from file," endpoint to its API which attempts to extract metadata such as title and authors directly from PDF files. This talk will describe at a high level the machine learning methods we used including how we measured and tuned our model. We will then delve more deeply into our stack, the tools we used, some of the things that didn't work and why PDFs are the worst thing ever to compute over.

== Giving Users What They Want: Record Grouping in VuFind ==

* Mark Noble, mark@marmot.org, [//www.marmot.org Marmot Library Network]

In 2013, Marmot did extensive usability studies with patrons to determine what was difficult in the catalog. Many patrons had problems sifting through all of the various formats and editions of a title. In 2014 we developed a method for [//mercury.marmot.org/Union/Search?lookfor=divergent grouping records] so only a single work is shown in search results and all formats and editions are listed under that work. We will discuss our definition of a 'work' based on FRBR principles; combining meta data from MARC records with metadata from other sources like OverDrive; the technical details of Record Grouping; the design decisions made during implementation; and the reaction from users and staff.

== Topic Space: a mobile augmented reality recommendation app ==

* Jim Hahn, jimhahn@illinois.edu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Topic Space module (http://minrvaproject.org/modules_topicspace.php ) was developed with an IMLS Sparks! Grant to investigate augmented reality technologies for in-library recommendations. The funding allowed for sustained university community collaboration by the University Library, the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, as well as graduate student programmers sourced from the Department of Computer Science. Collaborators designed app functionality and identified relevant open source libraries that could power optical character recognition (OCR) functionality from within the mobile phone.

Topic space allows a user to take a picture of an item's call number in the book stacks. The module will show the user other books that are relevant but that are not shelved nearby. It can also show users books that are normally shelved here but that are currently checked out. Recommendations are based on Library of Congress subject headings and ILS circulation data which indicate recommendation candidates based on total check-outs.

Research questions included development of back end (server-side) pattern matching algorithms for recommendations, and a rapid formative evaluation of interface design that would provide optimal user experience for navigation of the book stacks as a context to recommendations.

Along with the Topic Space native app, grant collaborators prototyped web based recommendations which could serve as a new way of providing readers advisory and “more like this” recommendations from discovery interfaces accessed through desktop browsers. Outcomes of the grant include the availability of the [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.illinois.ugl.minrva Topic Spaces module within Minrva app on the Android Play store] and an experimental [http://backbonejs.org/ Backbone.js] based [http://minrva-dev.library.illinois.edu Topic Space web app].

== Leveling Up Your Git Workflow ==

* Megan Kudzia, moneill@albion.edu, Albion College Library
* Kate Sears, eks11@albion.edu, Albion College Library

Have you started experimenting with Git on your own, but now you need to include others in your projects? Learn from our mistakes! Transitioning from a one-person git workflow and repo structure, to a structure that includes multiple people (including student workers), is not for the faint of heart. We'll talk about why we decided to work this way, our path to developing a git culture amongst ourselves, conceptual and technical difficulties we've faced, what we learned, and where we are now. Also with pretty pictures (aka workflow drawings).

== Drone Loaning Program: Because Laptops are so last century ==

* Uche Enwesi, uenwesi@umd.edu, University of Maryland Libraries
* Francis Kayiwa, fkayiwa@umd.edu, University of Maryland Libraries

At Univ. Maryland we are in the very early stages of looking into allowing our student body get their hands on a drone. Yes that's right we will let students take out a drone for n amount of hours to work on projects of their choosing. The talk will talk about the logistics of getting a program of this sort from concept to "Is the drone available?". If people sign waivers we will also promise not to crash the drone into code4lib attendees.

== Got Git? Getting More Out of Your GitHub Repositories ==

* Terry Brady, twb27@georgetown.edu, Georgetown University Library

This presentation will discuss how librarians, developers, and system administrators at Georgetown University are maximizing their use of the public and private GitHub repositories.

In additional to all of the great benefits of using Git for code management, the GitHub interface provides a powerful set of tools to showcase a project and to keep your users informed of developments to your project. These tools can assist with marketing and outreach - turning your code repository into a focus of conversation!

* [http://georgetown-university-libraries.github.io/File-Analyzer/ Style-able Project Pages]
* [https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/File-Analyzer/wiki Project Wikis]
* [https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/Georgetown-University-Libraries-Code/releases Project Release Notes/Portfolios]
* [https://rawgit.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/Georgetown-University-Libraries-Code/master/samples/GoogleSpreadsheetFilter.html Web Resources That Can Be Directly Requested]
* Gists for code sharing
* Private Repositories and Organizational Groups
* Pull Request Conversation Tracking
* Customized Issue management

== Quick Wins for Every Department in the Library - File Analyzer! ==

* Terry Brady, twb27@georgetown.edu, Georgetown University Library

The Georgetown University Library has customized workflows for nearly every department in our library with a single code base.
* Analyzing Marc Records for the Cataloging department
* Transferring ILS invoices for the University Account System for the Acquisitions department
* Delivering patron fines to the Bursar’s office for the Access Service department
* Summarizing student worker timesheet data for the Finance department
* Validating COUNTER compliant reports for the Electronic Resources department
* Generating ingest packages for the Digital Services department
* Validating checksums for the Preservation department

Learn how you can customize the [http://georgetown-university-libraries.github.io/File-Analyzer/ File Analyzer] to become a hero in your library!

==The Geospatial World is Moving from Maps *on* the Web to Maps *of* the web. Libraries can too==

* [[User:Copystar|Mita Williams]], mita@uwindsor.ca, User Experience Librarian, University of Windsor

The transition from paper maps to digital ones changed much more than the maps themselves; it changed the very foundation of how we work and how we find each other. Now maps are transforming again. The Geospatial World is moving from GIS systems that are institutionally-focused, expensive, feature-burdened, and binds data into a complicated and demanding user-hostile interface. From this transition from digital to web-based digital geospatial tools has come growth and development in new forms of map-based investigative journalism, activism, scholarship, and business ventures. This talk will highlight the conditions and strategies that made these changes possible as a means to draw a path by which librarians through our own work may follow, dragons notwithstanding.

== Building Your Own Federated Search ==

* Rich Trott, Richard.Trott@ucsf.edu, UC San Francisco

Advances in modern browsers have created some interesting possibilities for federated search. This presentation will cover common techniques and pitfalls in building a federated search. We will discuss what principles guided our decisions when implementing our own federated search. We will show tools we've built and our findings from building and using experimental prototypes.

Your higher education institution likely offers dozens of online resources for educators, students, researchers, and the public. And each of these online resources likely has its own search tool. But users can't be expected to search in dozens of different interfaces to find what they're looking for. A typical solution for this issue is federated search.

== Indexing Linked Data with LDPath ==

* Chris Beer, cabeer@stanford.edu, Stanford University Libraries

LDPath [1] is a simple query language for indexing linked open data, with support for caching, content negotiation, and integration with non-RDF endpoints. This talk will demonstrate the features and potential of the language and framework to index a resource with links into id.loc.gov, viaf.org, geonames.org, etc to build an application-ready document.

[1] http://marmotta.apache.org/ldpath/language.html

== Show Me the Money: Integrating an LMS with Payment Providers ==

* Josh Weisman, Josh.Weisman@exlibrisgroup.com, Development Director-Resources Management, Ex Libris Group

In order to provide an easy and convenient way for patrons to pay fines, we are exploring ways to integrate the library management system with online payment providers such as PayPal. With many LMS systems being designed and developed for the cloud, we should be able to provide the frictionless user experience our patrons have come to expect from online transactions. In this session we'll discuss strategies for integration and review a sample application which uses REST APIs from a library management system to integrate with PayPal.

== Shibboleth Federated Authentication for Library Applications: ==

* Scott Fisher, scott.fisher@ucop.edu, California Digital Library
* Ken Weiss, ken.weiss@ucop.edu, California Digital Library

Shibboleth is the most widely-used method to provide single-sign-on authentication to academic applications where users come from many different institutions. Shibboleth, the InCommon education and research trust framework, and the SAML protocol comprise a very powerful - but very complicated - solution to this very complicated problem. Scott and Ken have implemented Shibboleth for multiple library applications. They will share their understanding of the good, the bad, and the underlying spaghetti that makes it all work. Ken will discuss some of the technical aspects of the solution, touching on optimal and non-optimal use cases, administrative challenges, and authorization concerns. Scott will describe the implementation pattern for multi-institution single-sign-on that the California Digital Library has evolved, using the recently released Dash application (http://dash.cdlib.org) as an example.

==Scientific Data: A Needs Assessment Journey==

*[[User:VickySteeves| Vicky Steeves]], vsteeves@amnh.org, American Museum of Natural History

While surveying digital research and collections data in the research science divisions at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC (as a part of my [http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/ National Digital Stewardship Residency] project), I have come across the big data hogs (genome sequencing and CT scanning) and the little pieces of data (images, publications), all equally important to not only scientific discovery, but as nodes in the history of science.

In this session, I will discuss the development of my needs assessment surveys for scientific datasets and the interview process with Museum curators and researchers as background, seguing into an explanation of the results. I will then combine my findings into preliminary selection criteria to choose tools for digital preservation and management unique to scientific datasets. This will brooke a discussion on emerging standards, tools, and technologies in big data, specific to research science.

I will conclude with preliminary findings on emerging technology that can be used to answer concerns surrounding the management and digital preservation of these data. I am hoping the Q&A session can be used to both answer questions about my project, and function as a way for you (the larger tech-savy library community) to discuss the tools I’ve touched on in this talk.

== Feminist Human Computer Interaction (HCI) in Library Software ==

* Bess Sadler, bess@stanford.edu, Stanford University Libraries

Libraries are not neutral repositories of knowledge. Library classification systems and search technologies tend to reflect the inequalities, biases, ethnocentrism, and power imbalances of the societies in which they are built [1]. How might we better resist these tendencies in the library software we create? This talk will examine some qualities of feminist HCI (pluralism, self-disclosure, participation, ecology, advocacy, and embodiment) [2] through the lens of library software.

[1] Olson, Hope A. (2002). The Power to Name: Locating the Limits of Subject Representation in Libraries. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

[2] Bardzell, Shaowen. Feminist HCI: Taking Stock and Outlining an Agenda for Design. CHI 2010: HCI For All. http://dmrussell.net/CHI2010/docs/p1301.pdf

== Heiðrún: DPLA's Metadata Harvesting, Mapping and Enhancement System ==

* Audrey Altman, audrey at dp.la, Digital Public Library of America
* Gretchen Gueguen, gretchen at dp.la, Digital Public Library of America
* Mark Breedlove, mb at dp.la, Digital Public Library of America

The Digital Public Library of America aggregates metadata for over 8 million objects from more than 24 direct partners, or Hubs, using its Metadata Application Profile (MAP), an RDF metadata application profile based on the Europeana Data Model. After working with the initial system for harvesting, mapping and enhancing our Hub’s metadata for a year, we realized that it was inadequate for working with data at this scale. There were architectural issues; it was opaque to non-developer and partner staff; there were inadequate tools for quality assurance and analysis; and the system was unaware that it was working with RDF data. As the network of Hubs expanded and we ingested more metadata, it became harder and harder to know when or why a harvest, a mapping task, or an enrichment went wrong because the tools for quality assurance were largely inadequate.

The DPLA Content and Technology teams decided to develop a new system from the ground up to address those problems. Development of Heidrun, the internal version of the new system, started in October 2014. Heidrun’s goals are to make it easier for us to harvest and map metadata from various sources and in variety of schemas to the DPLA MAP, to better enrich that metadata using external data sources, and to actively involve our partners in the ingestion process through access to better QA tools. Heidrun and its componentry are built on Ruby on Rails, Blacklight, and ActiveTriples. Our presentation will give some background on our design principles and processes used during development, the architecture of the system, and its functionality. We plan to release a version of Heidrun and its components as a generalized metadata aggregation system for use by DPLA Hubs and others working to aggregate cultural heritage metadata.

== OS or GTFO: Program or Perish ==
*Tessa Fallon, tessa.fallon@gmail.com

Description TBD

== Creating Dynamic— and Cheap!— Digital Displays with HTML 5 Authoring Software ==
* Chris Woodall, cmwoodall@salisbury.edu, Salisbury University Libraries
Would your library like to have large digital signage that displays dynamic information such as library hours, weather, room availability, and more? Have you looked into purchasing large digital signage, only to be turned off by the high price tag and lack of customization available with commercial solutions? Our library has developed a cheap and effective alternative to these systems using HTML 5 authoring software, a large TV, and freely-available APIs from Google, Springshare, and others. At this session, you’ll learn about the system that we have in place for displaying dynamic and easily-updatable information on our library’s large digital display, and how you can easily create something similar for your library.

== REPOX: Metadata Blender ==

* John Mignault, jmignault@metro.org, Empire State Digital Network

With the growth in the number of hubs providing metadata to the Digital Public Library of America, many of them are using REPOX, a tool originally created for the Europeana project, to aggregate disparate metadata feeds and transform them into formats suitable for ingest into DPLA. The Empire State Digital Network, the forthcoming DPLA service hub for NY state, is using it to prepare for our first ingest into DPLA in early 2015. We'll take a look at REPOX and its capabilities and how it can be useful for ingesting and transforming metadata, and also discuss some things we've learned in massaging widely varied metadata feeds.

== Beyond Open Source ==

* Jason Casden, jmcasden@ncsu.edu, NCSU Libraries
* Bret Davidson, bddavids@ncsu.edu, NCSU Libraries

The Code4Lib community has produced an increasingly impressive collection of open source software over the last decade, but much of this creative work remains out of reach for large portions of the library community. Do the relatively privileged institutions represented by a majority of Code4Lib participants have a professional responsibility to support the adoption of their innovations?

Drawing from old and new software packaging and distribution approaches (from freeware to Docker), we will propose extending the open source software values of collaboration and transparency to include the wide and affordable distribution of software. We believe this will not only simplify the process of sharing our applications within the Code4Lib community, but also make it possible for less well resourced institutions to actually use our software. We will identify areas of need, present our experiences with the users of our own open source projects, discuss our attempts to go beyond open source, and make an argument for the internal value of supporting and encouraging a vibrant library ecosystem.

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== Making It Work: Problem Solving Using Open Source at a Small Academic Library ==

* Adam Strohm, astrohm@iit.edu, Illinois Institute of Technology
* Max King, mking9@iit.edu, Illinois Institute of Technology

The Illinois Institute of Technology campus was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005, and contains a building, Mies van der Rohe's S.R. Crown Hall, that was named a National Historic Landmark in 2001. Creating a digital resource that can adequately showcase the campus and its architecture is challenge enough in and of itself, but doing so as a two-person team of relative newcomers, at a university library without dedicated programmers on staff, ups the ante considerably.
The challenges of technical know-how, staff time, and funding are nothing new to anyone working on digital projects at a university library, and are amplified when doing so at a smaller institution. This talk covers the conception, development, and design of the campus map site that was built, concentrating on the problem-solving strategies developed to cope with limited technical and financial resources.
We'll talk about our approach to development with Open Source software, including Omeka, along with the Neatline and Simile Timeline plugins. We'll also discuss the juggling act of designing for mobile mapping functionality without sacrificing desktop design, weighing the costs of increased functionality versus our ability to time-effectively include that functionality, and the challenge of building a site that could be developed iteratively, with an eye towards future enhancement and sustainability. Finally, we’ll provide recommendations for other librarians at smaller institutions for their own efforts at digital development.

== Recording Digitization History: Metadata Options for the Process History of Audiovisual Materials ==

* Peggy Griesinger, peggy_griesinger@moma.org, Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art has amassed a large collection of audiovisual materials over its many decades of existence. In order to preserve these materials, much of the audiovisual collection has been digitized. This is a complex process involving numerous steps and devices, and the methods used for digitization can have an effect on the quality of the file that is preserved. Therefore, knowing exactly how something was digitized is critical for future stewards of these objects to be able to properly care for and preserve them. However, detailed technical information about the processes involved in the digitization of audiovisual materials is not defined explicitly in most metadata schemas used for audiovisual materials. In order to record process history using existing metadata standards, some level of creativity is required to allow existing standards to express this information.

This talk will detail different metadata standards, including PBCore, PREMIS, and reVTMD, that can be implemented as methods of recording this information. Specifically, the talk will examine efforts to integrate this metadata into the Museum of Modern Art’s new digital repository, the DRMC. This talk will provide background on the DRMC as well as MoMA’s specific institutional needs for process history metadata, then discuss different metadata implementations we have considered to document process history.

== Pig Kisses Elephant: Building Research Data Services for Web Archives ==

* Jefferson Bailey, jefferson@archive.org, Internet Archive
* Vinay Goel, vinay@archive.org, Internet Archive

More and more libraries and archives are creating web archiving programs. For both new and established programs, these archives can consist of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of born-digital resources within a single collection; as such, they are ideally suited for large-scale computational study and analysis. Yet current access methods for web archives consist largely of browsing the archived web in the same manner as browsing the live web and the size of these collections and complexity of the WARC format can make aggregate analysis difficult. This talk will describe a project to create new ways for users and researchers to access and study web archives by offering extracted and post-processed datasets derived from web collections. Working with the 325+ institutions and their 2600+ collections within the Archive-It service, the Internet Archive is building methods to deliver a variety of datasets culled from collections of web content, including extracted metadata packaged in JSON, longitudinal link graph data, named entities, and other types of data. The talk will cover the technical details of building dataset production pipelines with Apache Pig, Hadoop, and tools like Stanford NER, the programmatic aspects of building data services for archives and researchers, and ongoing work to create new ways to access and study web archives.

== Awesome Pi, LOL! ==

* Matt Connolly, mconnolly@cornell.edu, Cornell University Library
* Jennifer Colt, jrc88@cornell.edu, Cornell University Library

Inspired by Harvard Library Lab’s “Awesome Box” project, Cornell’s Library Outside the Library (LOL) group is piloting a more automated approach to letting our users tell us which materials they find particularly stunning. Armed with a Raspberry Pi, a barcode scanner, and some bits of kit that flash and glow, we have ventured into the foreign world of hardware development. This talk will discuss what it’s like for software developers and designers to get their hands dirty, how patrons are reacting to the Awesomizer, and LOL’s not-afraid-to-fail philosophy of experimentation.

== You Gotta Keep 'em Separated: The Case for "Bento Box" Discovery Interfaces ==

* Jason Thomale, jason.thomale@unt.edu, University of North Texas Libraries

I know, I know--proposing a talk about Resource Discovery is like, ''so'' 2010.

The thing is, practically all of us--in academic libraries at least--have a similar set up for discovery, with just a few variations, and so talking about it still seems useful. Stop me if this sounds familiar. You've got a single search box on the library homepage as a starting point for discovery. And it's probably a tabbed affair, with an option for searching the catalog for books, an option for searching a discovery service for articles, an option for searching databases, and maybe a few others. Maybe you have an option to search everything at once--probably the default, if you have it. And, if you're a crazy hepcat, maybe you ''only'' have your one search that searches everything, with no tabs.

Now, the question is, for your "everything" search, are you doing a combined list of results, or are you doing it bento-box style, with a short results list from each category displayed in its own compartment?

At UNT, we've been holding off on implementing an "everything" search, for various reasons. One reason is that the evidence for either style hasn't been very clear. There's this persistent paradox that we just can't reconcile: users tell us, through word and action, that they prefer searching Google, yet, libraries aren't Google, and there are valid design reasons why we shouldn't try to oversimplify our discovery interfaces to be like Google. And there's user data that supports both sides.

Holding off on making this decision has granted us 2 years of data on how people use our tabbed search interface that does ''not'' include an "everything" search. Recently I conducted a thorough analysis of this data--specifically the usage and query data for our catalog and discovery system (Summon). And I think it helps make the case for a bento box style discovery interface. To be clear, it isn't exactly the smoking gun that I was hoping for, but the picture it paints I think is telling. At the very least, it points away from a combined-results approach.

I'm proposing a talk discussing the data we've collected, the trends we've seen, and what I think it all means--plus other reasons that we're jumping on the "bento box" discovery bandwagon and why I think "bento box" is at this point the path that least sells our souls.

== Don’t know about you, but I’m feeling like SHA-2!: Checksumming with Taylor Swift ==

* Ashley Blewer!, ashley.blewer@gmail.com

Checksum technology is used all over the place, from git commits to authenticating Linux packages. It is most commonly used in the digital preservation field to monitor materials in storage for changes that will occur over time or used in the transmission of files during duplication. But do you even checksum, bro? I want this talk to move checksums from a position of mysterious macho jargon to something everyone can understand and want to use. I think a lot of people have heard of checksum but don’t know where to begin when it comes to actually using it at their institution. And cryptography is hella intimidating! This talk will cover what checksums are, how they can be integrated into a library or archival workflow, protecting collections requiring additional levels of security, algorithms used to verify file fixity and how they are different, and other aspects of cryptographic technology. Oh, and please note that all points in this talk will be emphasized or lightly performed through Taylor Swift lyrics. Seriously, this talk will consist of at least 50% Taylor Swift. Can you, like, even?

== Level Up Your Coding with Code Club (yes, you can talk about it) ==

* Coral Sheldon-Hess, coral@sheldon-hess.org

Reading code is a necessary part of becoming a better developer. It gives you more experience and more insight into How Things Are (or Aren't) Done; it builds your intuition about how to solve problems with code; and it increases your confidence that you, too, can tackle whatever technological problems you're facing.

But you don't have to read code alone! (Which is good. It's really not fun to read code alone.)

In late 2014, a group of librarians formed two Code Clubs, inspired by [http://bloggytoons.com/code-club/ this talk by Saron] (of Bloggytoons fame). I'd like to tell you about how we've structured our Code Clubs, what has gone well, what we've learned, and what you need to do to form your own Code Club. I'll share a list of the codebases we've looked at, too, to help you get your own Code Club off the ground!

== The Growth of a Programmer ==

* [[User:jgo | Joshua Gomez]], Getty Research Institute, jgomez@getty.edu

Just like other creative endeavors, software developers can experience periods of great productivity or find themselves in a rut. After contemplating the alternating periods in my own career I've noticed several factors that have effected my own professional growth and happiness, including: mentorship, structure, community, teamwork, environment, formal education, etc. Not all of the factors need to be present at all times; but some mixture of them is critical for continued growth. In this talk, I will articulate these factors, discuss how they can effect a developer's career, and how they can be sought out when missing. This talk is aimed at both new developers looking to strike their own path as well as the veterans that lead or mentor them.

== Developing a Fedora 4.0 Content Model for Disk Images ==

* Matthew Farrell, matthew.j.farrell@duke.edu, Duke University Libraries
* Alexandra Chassanoff, achass@email.unc.edu, BitCurator Access Project Manager

As the acquisition of born-digital materials grows, institutions are seeking methods to facilitate easy ingest into their repositories and provide access to disk images and files derived or extracted from disk images. In this session, we describe our development of a Fedora 4.0 Content model for disk images, including acceptable image file formats and the rationale behind those choices. We will also discuss efforts to integrate the disk image content model into the BitCurator Access environment. Unlike generalized, format-agnostic content models which might treat the disk image as a generic bitstream, a content model designed for disk images enables expression of relationships among associated content in the collection such as files extracted from images and other born-digital and digitized material associated with the same creator. It also enables capture of file-system attributes such as file paths, timestamps, whether files are allocated/deleted, etc. Further, a disk image content model suggests further steps repositories can take in order to transform and re-use associated metadata generated during the creation and forensic analysis of the disk image.

== Data acquisition and publishing tools in R ==

* Scott Chamberlain, scott@ropensci.org, rOpenSci/UC Berkeley - first-time presenter

R is an open source programming environment that is widely used among researchers in many fields. R is powerful because it's free, increasingly robust, and facilitates reproducible research, an increasingly sought after goal in academia. Although tools for data manipulation/visualization/analysis are well developed in R, data acquisition and publishing tools are not. rOpenSci is a collaborative effort to create the tools necessary to complete the reproducible research workflow. This presentation discusses the need for these tools, including examples, including interacting with the repositories Mendeley, Dryad, DataONE, and Figshare. In addition, we are building tools for searching scholarly metadata and acuiring full text of open access articles in a standarized way across metadata providers (e.g., Crossref, DataCite, DPLA) and publishers (e.g., PLOS, PeerJ, BMC, Pubmed). Last, we are building out tools for data reading and writing in Ecologial Metadata Language (EML).

== SPLUNK: Log File Analysis ==

* Jim LeFager, jlefager@depaul.edu, DePaul University Library

DePaul University Library recently took over monitoring and maintaining of the library EZproxy servers this past year and using Splunk, a machine data analysis tool, we are able to gather information and statistics on our electronic resource usage in addition to monitoring the servers. Splunk is a tool that can collect, analyze, and visualize log files and other machine data in real time and this has allowed for gathering realtime usage statistics for our electronic resources allowing us to filter by multiple facets including IP Range, Group Membership (student, faculty), so that we can see who is accessing our resources and from where. Splunk allows our library to query our data and create rich custom dashboards as well as create alerts that can be triggered when certain conditions are met, such as error codes, which can send an email alert to a group of users. We will be leveraging Splunk to monitor all library web applications going forward.

== Your code does not exist in a vacuum ==
* Becky Yoose, yoosebec at grinnell dot edu, Grinnell College
(Done a lightning talk, MC duties, but have not presented a prepared talk)

“If you have something to say, then say it in code…” - Sebastian Hammer, code4lib 2009

In its 10 year run, code4lib has covered the spectrum of libtech development, from search to repositories to interfaces. However, during this time there has been little discussion about this one little fact about development - code does not exist in a vacuum.

Like the comment above, code has something to say. A person’s or organization’s culture and beliefs influences code in all steps of the development cycle. What development method you use, tools, programming languages, licenses - everything is interconnected with and influenced by the philosophies, economics, social structures, and cultural beliefs of the developer and their organization/community.

This talk will discuss these interconnections and influences when one develops code for libraries, focusing on several development practices (such as “Fail Fast, Fail Often” and Agile) and licensing choices (such as open source) that libtech has either tried to model or incorporate into mainstream libtech practices. It’ll only scratch the surface of the many influences present in libtech development, but it will give folks a starting point to further investigate these connections at their own organizations and as a community as a whole.

tl;dr - this will be a messy theoretical talk about technology and libraries. No shiny code slides, no live demos. You might come out of this talk feeling uncomfortable. Your code does not exist in a vacuum. Then again, you don’t exist in a vacuum either.

== The Metadata Hopper: Mapping and Merging Metadata Standards for Simple, User-Friendly Access ==

* Tracy Seneca, tjseneca@uic.edu, University of Illinois at Chicago
* Esther Verreau: verreau1@uic.edu, University of Illinois at Chicago

The Chicago Collections Consortium: 15 institutions and growing! 8 distinct EAD standards! At least 3 permutations of MARC, and we lost count of the varieties of custom CONTENTdm image collections. Not to mention the 14,730 unique subject terms, nearly all of which lead our poor end-users to exactly one organization's content.

All large content aggregation projects have faced this challenge, and there are a few emerging tools to help us wrangle disparate metadata into new contexts. The Metadata Hopper is one such tool. The Metadata Hopper enables archivists to map their local metadata standards to standardized deposit records, and tags those materials using a shared vocabulary, integrating them into a user-friendly portal without disrupting local practices. In last year's Code4Lib lightning talk we described the challenges that the Chicago Collections Consortium faces in creating shared, in-depth access to archival and digital collections about Chicago history and culture across CCC member organizations. This year, thanks to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we have a working Django application to demonstrate. In this talk we'll discuss the design that enables multiple layers of flexibility, from the ability to accept a variety of metadata standards to designing for an open source audience.

http://chicagocollectionsconsortium.org

== Programmers are not projects: lessons learned from managing humans ==

* Erin White, erwhite@vcu.edu, Virginia Commonwealth University - first-time presenter

Managing projects is one thing, but managing people is another. Whether we’re hired as managers or grow “organically” into management roles, sometimes technical people end up leading technical teams (gasp!). I’ll talk about lessons I’ve learned about hiring, retaining, and working long-term and day-to-day with highly tech-competent humans. I’ll also talk about navigating the politics of libraryland, juggling different types of projects, and working with constrained budgets to make good things and keep talented people engaged.

2015 Prepared Talk Proposals

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