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Ryan North
http://qwantz.comRyan North is an Internet Famous writer, programmer, and humorist best known for writing Dinosaur Comics. His side projects include coauthoring the book Happy Dog the Happy Dog and collaborative comic Whispered Apologies. He has also developed software for webcomic artists and created the joke site Every Topic in the Universe Except Chickens.
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Tony Chang
http://ponderer.orgTony Chang is a software engineer and blogger on the Google Chrome team. After graduating with a Master's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2004, he joined Google and has been working there since. He has also worked on a number of independent projects, including Webnote.
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Don Stewart
http://cse.unsw.edu.au/~donsAn experienced Haskell programmer working for the Research and Development team at Galois, Don Stewart has coauthored the book Real World Haskell and many research papers. Now, he spends his spare time blogging about Haskell and contributing to open source projects such as the xmonad window manager.
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Bram Moolenaar
http://moolenaar.netAfter developing the Vim text editor and writing the original Vim book, Bram Moolenaar he joined Google and became the project leader for A-A-P, a build tool similar to make. He is also the founder and treasurer of ICFF Holland, a foundation that helps AIDS victims in the poor south of Uganda.
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Jon “maddog” Hall
A respected advocate and member of the open source community, Jon “maddog” Hall is the Executive Director of Linux International and CTO of Koolu, a company that redistributes low-power open phones. Maddog has been involved in the free software movement since the mid-’90s and received a Lifetime Recognition Award at the UK Linux and Open Source Awards in 2006.
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Brian Fitzpatrick
http://red-bean.com/fitz/Brian Fitzpatrick has been working with Subversion for almost ten years, and coauthored The Subversion Book with C. Michael Pilato and fellow conference speaker Ben Collins-Sussman. He is a member of The Apache Software Foundation and currently works for Google as their Chicago Engineering Manager.
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Robert J. Lang
http://langorigami.comA student of origami for over forty years, Robert J. Lang’s intricate animal and insect designs are internationally renowned and have been featured in exhibitions all over the world. He has authored or co-authored 9 books on origami and is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics.
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Alexis Ohanian
http://alexisohanian.comA cofounder of Reddit and the artist behind its famous alien mascot, Alexis Ohanian now blogs and speaks at conferences about his experiences working at a startup. He’s also worked on many side projects including the breadpig “uncorporation”. The company will publish the xkcd book this summer, with profits going to the charity Room to Read.
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Alex Martelli
http://aleax.itAlex Martelli, the author of Python in a Nutshell and coauthor of Python Cookbook, works for Google as “Über Technical Lead”. Before working at Google, he worked at Texas Instruments and IBM Research and taught courses at Ferrara University. He enjoys sharing his knowledge of Python at conferences, and some of his lecture videos can be found on Google Video.
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Douglas Crockford
http://crockford.comDouglas Crockford is a senior JavaScript architect at Yahoo best known for developing JSON. He founded and worked at Electric Communities and State Software until 2001. Since then, he has authored the book JavaScript: The Good Parts, written several articles on JavaScript and regularly talks at conferences.
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Raymond Chen
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthingRaymond Chen has been a developer at Microsoft since 1992 and maintains his popular blog The Old New Thing, which deals with Windows history and backwards compatibility. He authored the book The Old New Thing (named after his blog), and writes the Windows Confidential column for Microsoft's TechNet magazine.
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Ben Collins-Sussman
http://red-bean.com/sussmanBen Collins-Sussman is one of the original developers of Subversion and coauthored The Subversion Book with C. Michael Pilato and fellow conference speaker Brian Fitzpatrick. Having worked in the software industry since the early ’90s, he is now a technical lead for Google's Open Source Project Hosting service.