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'''This page is under development''' Below is a list of nominations for These individuals have been nominated to be invited keynote speakers for Code4Lib 2011. :
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* [http://jfwilliams.com/ Joan Frye Williams] - a sharp thinker of an extremely practical bent, I would expect her to tell us the cold, hard facts as she sees them in libraries today, which I think is what we should be hearing. - Roy
* [http://www.hilarymason.com/ Hilary Mason] - A software engineer with [http://bit.ly http://bit.ly]. From her web site: "Hilary is a computer science professor with a background in machine learning, data mining, and web applications. She is currently on sabbatical to explore real-world implementations of these technologies. She is widely published and regularly speaks at academic and industry conferences, and recently realized her dream of delivering a talk on algorithms while drinking a dry ice martini. She is an enthusiastic developer and often releases code on her personal site, www.hilarymason.com." - Roy She has an awesome [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/reinventing-e-mail-one-message-at-a-time/ email classifier (NYTimes article)]. -Jodi
* [http://xkcd.com/ Randall Munroe ] - programmer/math geek/xkcd creator/all-around genius. His Authors@Google talk was pretty entertaining, and he seems like the kind of guy who would put some effort into surprising and engaging the crowd he's talking to. * [http://diveintoaccessibility.org/ Mark Pilgrim ] - He knows (real world, not necessarily library) standards about as well as anyone and advocates strongly for what's simple and practical (check out his work on Atom and HTML5), but he's also an advocate for doing what's right even when it's not necessarily easy. He's funny, writes well, and seems to be articulate in person (based on his short-lived video log) ksclarke
* [http://diveintoaccessibility.org/ Mark Pilgrim ] - He knows (real world, not necessarily library) standards about as well as anyone and advocates strongly for what's simple and practical (check out his work on Atom and HTML5), but he's also an advocate for doing what's right even when it's not necessarily easy. He's funny, writes well, and seems to be articulate in person (based on his short-lived video log) -ksclarke
* [http://www.danreetz.com/ Dan Reetz] Currently at Disney Research, Dan Reetz is an inventor, fair use advocate, entrepreneur and and digital imagist, perhaps best known as the founder of the [http://diybookscanner.org/ DIY Bookscanner] community. In addition, he's totally awesome. [http://www.danreetz.com/blog/2010/09/10/diybooooooooooooooookscanner-at-goooooooooogle/ Here's a video] of his recent talk at Google.-gluejar
* [http://darkmattermatters.com/ Chris Grams] Former brand guru for Red Hat Linux now a partner at [http://www.newkind.com/ New Kind]. Speaks on Brand, Community, and Culture. Heard him keynote the Boone Drupal Camp this past weekend and really enjoyed it (was inspired by it). He's not a library person but deeply involved in open source communities (participates at [http://opensource.com opensource.com]) and I think would have some interesting/entertaining perspectives for the code4lib community -ksclarke
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