Donnie Berkholz IT Industry Analyst and data griot at RedMonk. Open-Source Developer at Gentoo Linux.
Zack Urlocker, COO at Zendesk, heads up Sales, Marketing, Business Development and Services. Previously Executive VP of Products at MySQL where he ran Engineering and Marketing. He is an occasional marathon runner, blogger, and blues guitar player.
Matt LeMay, Platform Manager, bitly. Matt is a writer, musician, coder and generally thinky/talky dude living in Brooklyn, NY. He is a senior contributor at Pitchfork, and work on platform-related things at bitly. For five years, he recorded and toured with his band Get Him Eat Him.
Greg Avola, CTO and co-founder of Untappd, the beer check-in app and official social network of Red Monk Brew. Web Developer, Open-Source, Data Junkie
Mike Milinkovich is Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, responsible for supporting the open-source community and commercial ecosystem. In past lives he’s worked for a number of startups such as Object Technology International (OTI), The Object People, and WebGain.
Leisa Riechelt is a freelance user experience (UX) consultant based in London, UK. Likes to work on challenging projects with smart people – such as the Drupal 7 redesign. A passionate supporter of the UX community, Leisa is a mentor and event organiser.
Paul Downey, co-founder of Solderpad, a collaboration site for electronics, is mildly notorious for the über-doodle “The Web is Agreement” and has been hacking software since the late 1970s. He also compères OSHUG, a monthly open source hardware meet-up.
Jason Hoffman, Joyent co-founder and CTO, responsible for engineering, operations, R&D, and technical evangelism. Jason manages Joyent’s IP portfolio including open source projects, licensing, technology transfer, M&A. His specialties include bioinformatics, grid computing, cloud computing, and distributed systems.
Laura Merling works at Alcatel Lucent as a corporate rabble rouser. API Strategist, Marketing and Business Dev, Developer Community Geek
John Appleby, SAP Business Analytics & Technology Lead @BluefinSolution. SAP Mentor. Blogger. Londoner. Ski Mountaineer. Photographer. Guitarist. Troublemaker.
Andre Charland and Dave Johnson, founders of Nitobi & the PhoneGap project. They both love snowboarding and hacking code- in that order.
Dave Neary is a consultant working with companies to overcome the obstacles they meet when growing communities around their software projects. Still active in the GNOME community, he has also worked on MeeGo, Maemo, OpenWengo and the GIMP.
primarily on open source and emerging technologies for the last 12
years, and has written for ReadWriteWeb, Linux.com, LWN.net, IBM
developerWorks, CIO.com and many others.
wow, monksy, you’ve included a whole one woman (with a careful-stepping-on-eggshells and politically-correct topic of UX) in your lineup! congrats. this is a true success.
Two actually, we just hadn’t added everyone to the page yet. But agreed there’s always room for improvement.
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