possible keynote speakers

Gregory Brown

• New Haven local
• Author of Ruby Best Practices
• Author of Prawn, a ruby library for generating PDFs
• Founder of Ruby Mendicant University
• Author and Founder of Practicing Ruby
• Speaking at MWRC in 2007 on Pragmatic Community Driven Development

Edward Tufte

• New Haven local - Yale prof, lives in Cheshire
• Works on information design and data visualization; invented the Sparkline
• Author of Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Envisioning Information, etc.
• Regularly speaks about his books
• Giving a keynote on data visualization

Paul Hudak

Dan emailed, waiting for reply

• New Haven local - Yale CS prof
• Worked on the Haskell language
• Wrote The Haskell School of Expression and The Haskell School of Music
• Wrote Euterpea, a Haskell DSL for generating and composing music
• Can't find videos, but he teaches at Yale, so he's probably used to speaking before an audience

Rich Hickey

Dan is looking for the best way to contact him - reached out to a mutual colleague

• Lives in "Greater NYC Area", according to LinkedIn
• Wrote the Clojure language
• Regular conf/keynote speaker, on Clojure, software design, complexity, functional programming
• RailsConf keynote: Simplicity Matters

Hilary Mason

• Data Scientist and hacker
• Lives in NYC
• Regular speaker: even wrote a series of helpful posts on speaking at confs

Sandi Metz

Dan emailed, waiting for reply

• Lives in North Carolina
• Author: Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby
• Regualr conf speaker
• RailsConf 2013: The Magic Tricks of Testing

Avdi Grimm

Seems he just went on vacation & unfollowed everyone. Will try again in 1 week.

• Ruby mini-celebrity, regular on Ruby Rogues podcast
• Author: Confident Ruby, Exceptional Ruby, Objects on Rails
• Produces RubyTapas screencasts
• Ruby Midwest 2011 talk: Confident Code

Steve Klabnik

TODO

Mike Bernstein

• Lives in Brooklyn
• Spoke at GoRuCo 2013 on garbage collection, and speaking at GoRuCo 2014 on static typing
• Hugely entertaining speaker
• @mrb_bk
• a guy who loves awesome theory, applied

Uncle Bob Martin

• Coined the SOLID principles of OO design
• Author: "Clean Code"

John Resig

• Lives in Brooklyn
• Author: jQuery, Processing.js
• works at Khan Academy
• Building a Better DOM API at JSConf

Oliver Steele

• Massachussets native
• Worked at Apple, at Nest, on OpenLaszlo
• Worked on many functional-style JavaScript libraries
• Has Erdös number 7
• No videos of his talks, but here are slides from several

Edward Snowden

Dan emailed, but then got disappeared.

• Retired from CIA.
• Leaked NSA files.
• Lives in an undisclosed location in Russia (but is seeking asylum in the EU).
• Travel arrangements could be complicated.