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

• 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

• 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

Sandi Metz

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

Avdi Grimm

• 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

Uncle Bob Martin

TODO

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