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As library development teams grow from single programmers writing "glue" scripts to small teams working together on mid size web apps and further to large development shops producing complex and large scale systems, they find themselves struggling with issues of scale. These issues of scale are not just with the systems being built, but with the operations of the team itself. Operations can often be overlooked during the daily routine of project meetings, writing code, fixing bugs, etc. John's insights on operations and capacity planning would be useful to the library development community, particularly for those in departments that are maturing from one or two programmers to mid-size or larger development teams.
==Amber Case==
Amber Case is a researcher exploring the field of cyborg anthropology and the interaction between humans and technology. She has been featured in Forbes, WIRED, and many other publications, both in the United States and around the world. Her main focus is mobile software, non-visual augmented reality, the future of location, and reducing the amount of time and space it takes for people to connect. Case has spoken at TED on technology and humans and was featured in Fast Company 2010 as one of the Most Influential Women in Technology. She’s worked with Fortune 500 companies at Wieden+Kennedy and on major applications at Vertigo Software. In 2012 she was named one of National Geographic's Emerging Explorers and made Inc Magazine's 30 under 30 with Geoloqi co-founder Aaron Parecki. She is @caseorganic on Twitter. Geoloqi was acquired by global mapping company Esri in October 2012.
http://caseorganic.com/
==Michael Dalessio==
Director at Pivotal Labs, co-author of Nokogiri, extreme web scraper, and advocate for pair-programming and Agile development. A sampling of some of his open-source contributions:
http://www.daless.io/projects.html
==Cory Doctorow==
Jerrielsworth.com, Jeri Ellsworth is an American entrepreneur and self-taught computer chip designer. She is best known for creating a Commodore 64 emulator within a joystick, in 2004, called C64 Direct-to-TV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Ellsworth
==Jeff Gothelf==
Jeff Gothelf is a product designer who recently published ''Lean UX: Applying lean principles to improve user experience'' (O’Reilly 2013).
==Sumana Harihareswara==
Founder of PandoDaily, tech journalist and author. I (Roy) saw her speak and she was awesome. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Lacy
==Brian Mathews==
Brian Mathews is Associate Dean for Learning & Outreach at Virginia Tech. Mathews is the author of The Ubiquitous Librarian[1], about designing better user experiences and the pursuit of use-sensitive libraries. He is the author of the paper, Think Like A Startup[2], which advocates for the concepts of Eric Ries in the library domain.
[1]http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/theubiquitouslibrarian/
[2]http://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/18649
==Jessica McKellar==
Jessica Mckellar is "an entrepreneur, software engineer, and open source developer". She is a maintainer for [http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ Twisted] python library and [https://openhatch.org/ OpenHatch], "a non-profit dedicated to matching prospective free software contributors with communities, tools, and education". A Director of the Python Software Foundation and an organizer of the Boston Python Meetup, she has sucessful record of promoting diversity within the Python community and developing great open source projects.
==Jennifer Pahlka==
Jennifer Pahlka is the founder and executive director of Code for America, currently on leave, serving as Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States under CTO Todd Park. She is known for her TED talk, Coding a Better Government. The Oxford Internet Institute awarded her the 2012 Internet and Society Award, Government Technology named her one of 2011’s Doers, Dreamers and Drivers in Public Sector Innovation and the Huffington Post named her the top Game Changer in Business and Technology the same year. She spent eight years at CMP Media where she ran the Game Developers Conference, Game Developer magazine, Gamasutra.com and the Independent Games Festival. Previously, she ran the Web 2.0 and Gov 2.0 events for TechWeb, in conjunction with O'Reilly Media, and co-chaired the successful Web 2.0 Expo.
== Jukka Pennanen & Mace Ojala ==