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Nominations for invited speakers for Code4Lib 2010. Alphabetical order. Not yet complete
== Jono Bacon ==
Homepage: [http://www.jonobacon.org/]
"Jono Bacon works at Canonical as the Ubuntu Community Manager and
works to grow and lead the world-wide Ubuntu community. He wrote
several books [http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_bks&q=bacon%2C+jono] and currently is working on a book titled the Art Of
Community published by O’Reilly. According to their site [http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/about/], "the
book will also be freely available online to enjoy, share and modify
under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike Non-Commercial
license." The draft of the first chapter is available online. [http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/2009/07/16/chapter-1-released/]
Bacon previously had worked as a professional Open Source advocate at
the UK government funded OpenAdvantage. He is a member of the Open
Source community, co-founder and presenter of LugRadio, contributor to
projects such as Jokosher, KDE and GNOME, and SeveredFifth music
project. [http://www.severedfifth.com/]"
== Mitchell Baker ==
"I've also seen Stephen talk and he offers a nice blend of tech, metadata, and end-user perspective."
== Benjamin Mako Hill ==
Hompepage: [http://mako.cc/]
"Ben Mako Hill is a Senior Researcher at the MIT Sloan School of
Management, a Fellow at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media, and an
adviser and contractor for the One Laptop per Child project. He has
been a leader, developer, and contributor to the Free and Open Source
Software community as part of the Debian and Ubuntu projects. He
authored "The Official Ubuntu handbook" (together with Jono Bacon) and
"Hacking Knoppix", among other things [http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=hill%2C+benjamin+mako], and a member of the Free
Software Foundation board of directors."
"I had a pleasure to listening to Ben Mako Hill's experience during an
OLPC XO get together [http://www.flickr.com/photos/ranti/2433871703/in/set-72157604675836466/] at PenguiCon 2008 [http://penguicon.org]."
== Paul Jones ==
