2010 Nominations list

Alphabetical order. Not yet complete

Stephen Downes

"a great speaker and works with the Canadian National Research Council. He would definitely bring a more teaching and learning perspective to his talk."

"I've also seen Stephen talk and he offers a nice blend of tech, metadata, and end-user perspective."

Paul Jones

"Paul Jones, the director of ibiblio.org. He's a poet, teaches at a journalism school and a library school, he's a part of internet and open source history (how many of you downloaded your first linux distro from sunsite.unc.edu?) and he's a fantastic public speaker.

"Here's an extract from his website (http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/):

"Although often mistaken for other unreconstructed relics of the failed social policies of the Sixties, Paul Jones is the Director of ibiblio.org, a project that includes the Site Formerly Known as MetaLab and SunSITE, The Public's Library -- a large contributor-run digital library. Besides speaking at several conferences world-wide, Paul teaches on the faculties of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the School of Information and Library Science. He can be found many places on the Internet. He was the original manager of SunSITE.unc.edu, one of the first WWW sites in North America and is co-author of The Web Server Book (Ventana, 1995) (rereleased as The Unix Web Server Book, Second Edition Ventana, 1997). Jones has an additional on-going research interest in Open Source and Sharing Communities and Information policy issues as well as being an actively publishing poet. Paul is the editor of the Internet Poetry Archives, published with UNC Press.

"Paul is a founding board member of the American Open Technology Consortium, a member of the Board of Trustees of Chapel Hill Public Library, and a board member of the Linux Documentation Project. But he is most pleased to have been admitted into the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists and to have been selected in April 2003 as Best Geek in the Research Triangle by the Independent Weekly."

Penny Leach

"2009 Google Open Source Award winner in the "Best Education Hacker" category, and a contributor to both Moodle and Mahara. From her blog: "This is a website about me. I am just this girl, who works on open source web based education stuff, and drinks too much."

Joe Lucia

"at Villanova. He is a Library Director who fully supports Open Source software and speaks on it from time to time. He was the keynote speaker at the recent Evergreen conference."

Peter Morville

"most commonly known as the author of 'Ambient Findability', and co-author of 'Information Architecture for the World Wide Web'. He's president and founder of Semantic Studios [1], teacher at UMich, and blogger at findability.org.

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."

Mark Pilgrim

because 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 updating external link: Dive Into Python … He's funny, writes well, and seems to be articulate in person (based on his short-lived video log) … He lives in NC … His mother was a librarian. (Brett Bonfield)

Daniel Pitti

"formerly an authority control librarian, now a co-director for University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. He's been the chief technical architect for EAD and EAC (Encoded Archival Context), a companion data model thats much more machine-oriented and linked data-friendly. He's also worked on some really great, innovative digital humanities projects."

Richard Stahlman

1) he has repeatedly expressed an interest in attending, 2) he apparently wants to tell us the real/ true meaning of free and open source software.

Joan Frye Williams

"mostly because I know of few people with such a practical bent and I think it would be helpful to hear her perspective on what library coders might be able to do to help the largest number of people."

Jonathan Zittrain

co-founder of Harvard's external link: Berkman Center for Internet and Society (where external link: David Weinberger is a fellow) and author of "The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It"