Aaron Salmon
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Design
Inspiration
Usability
Colleaguery
Bikes
Adrian Holovaty
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Music
Python
Chicago
Journalism
Django
Anders Conbere
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Anders
Andrew Huff
Editor & Publisher of Gapers Block
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Online Journalism
Social Media
Content Development
Community
Foodie Culture
Anjali Shenoy
Founder juntese.com - Integrated social networking for users in micro communities.
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Reading ( Publications )
Social Networks
Rails
Travelling
Startups
Barry Rogers
Principal at Northside Prep. Interested in creating the Creating the 21st Century Classroom
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Education
Organizations
Management
Music
Green Initiatives
Ben Collins-Sussman
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Version Control
Text Adventures
Banjo
Photography
Ben Hagen
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"This Picture Is AWESOME!!
Security
Foreign Languages
Breaking Things
Randomosity
Benjamin T Stanley
Research and Development Chef and Passionate Foodie. Looking to organize and inspire fun Chicago dining events
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Restaurants
Culinary Arts
Inventions
Creation
Food, Social, Pop, Nightlife, Urban Culture
Billy Whited
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M.F.A
Kinetic/Sculpture
UX/UI
HTML/CSS
Books
Blagica Bottigliero
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Online Marketing Veteran
I Wish I could Code
I Live in Social Media
I've Overpaid for One of my Sites
I Help "Suits" Understand Development
Borja Sotomayor
Computer Science Ph.D. candidate, University of Chicago (Chicago, IL); involved in grid computing and cloud computing research; open source developer on the Haizea and OpenNebula projects
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I
Love
Education
And
Science!
Brett Elmendorf
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CSS
Tech House
DMX 512
Rum
Furniture
Brian Fitzpatrick
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Learning by trying, failing, and trying again
Building a high-tech community in Chicago
Making things: software, teams, stuff
Poster Child for a liberal arts education
Architecture and old houses
Britt Selvitelle
(San Francisco, CA) Interested in people getting passionate about things
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Passion
Crazy
Hats
Connection
My dog
Brynn Evans
(San Francisco, CA)
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Social Interaction Design
Comics
Digital Ethnography
Detox
Pink!(the color)
Charles Adler
Co-Founder of Kickstarter
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User Experience Design
Electronic Music/DJing
Fatherhood
Crowd Funding
Cycling
Chris Gansen
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Websites
Trains
Tacos
Riding Bikes
Talking to Interesting Folks
Chris McAvoy
VP Technology, Skinny corp/Threadless
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Python
Coffee Roasting
Talking
Kites
Chris Messina
(San Francisco, CA)
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Rabbel Rousing
Conductioneering
Abstractivity
Internets
Design, browsers, identity, activity, streams, social
Cole Pierce
Artist.Also a videographer for the Chicago Teachers Center of NEIU
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Experimental Sound & Video Production
Art Theory & Practice
Documentary Video
Approaches to Education
Making Mix Tapes
Conrad Jahrling
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Music. All Kinds
"Pushing water through a hole."
The buzzword "Green"
Everything Chicago
Not Sleeping
Cory Wright
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Mandolin
Snowboarding
Cloud Computing
Travel
Python
Craig Berman
(Chicago, IL)
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Experimental Stuff
Design of Products, Experiences, Interations, and Urban Planning
Drawing Stuff
New Ideas
Pork Tamales
Dan O'Neil
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Hoffman for Senate
Kill Terrorists
Data is Cool
Regime Change in Chicago
Every Dime, Online, in Real Time
Dan Ratner
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Entrepreneurship
Writing
Sustainability
Politics
The Future
Lurking in Corners
Dan Sinker
Asst Professor @ Columbia College Chicago, founder cellstories.net
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Storytelling
Creating Awesome Teams
Teaching
Building Cool Stuff
Visual Design
Dave Bealey
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Python
Reverse Engineering
Teaching
Scientific Computing
Music
Dave Goodman
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Pop Culture/Music
Gadgets
Eating Out
Product Management
Pet Shelters/Dogs
David Chelimsky
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Music
Portugues
Scotch
Travel
Software that Works
David Falck
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Entrepreneurship/Startups
Learning
SaaS
Graphics/CAD on the Web
Scotch
Dennis McClendon
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Cities
Maps
Design
Transportation
Constitutional Law
Dirk Elmendorf
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Fermentation
Bookeeping
Software
Sci-FI
Linux
Doug Bradbury
8th Light, Inc - Knows how to build software
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Software Craftsmanship
Social Media and Authority
RC Flying Things
Limelight (Rich Ruby APPS)
Desktop Manufacturing
Dylan Richard
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Coding
Time Management
Learning
Simplicity
Sleep Deprivation
Eric Lunt
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Start-Ups
Android
Online Identity
LBS
Music (Listening to Indie)
Eric Peyton
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User Interfaces ( Interaction )
Food
Music
Family
Programming
BBQ
Frank Wiles
Revolution Systems, LLC - PostgreSQL and Django, centered around scaling and performance
Lawrence, Kansas.
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Open Source
Django
Python
PostgreSQL
Entrepreneurism
Gerard Blanton
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Music
Design
Art Direction
Comedic Annoyance
Survival
Gwendolyn Graff
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Music, Playing, Listening, Singing
Bubblegum- Can you blow a double bubble
Decorating
Construction
Ideas
Harper!
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Start-Ups
Smiling
Programming Silly Things
Laughing
Harper, Harper, and Harper....
Ian Bicking
Man At Large (Minneapolis)
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Python
Open Source Ethic
Civics, A Transparent Bureaucracy ( Not Just Data)
New Opportunities
Radical Leftist Politics
Ioan Raicu
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Grid Computing
Resource Managment
Distributed Storage
High Performance Computing
Data-Aware Scheduling
Jacob Lee
Google (New York)
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Python
Noisy Music
Programming Languages
Walking Fast
Transit/Planning/Maps
Jason Gessner
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Art School Dropout
Raising Geek Girls
Loving Small Cities (GO! MILWAUKEE!)
Engineer
"Indy" Comic Books
Jason Huggins
- (Oak Park, IL)
Founder, Sauce Labs Inc. Creator, Selenium web testing library.
Interested in cloud app development; open source hardware hacking. (Arduino!)
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Waiting
For
The
Robot
Revolution...
Jason Kunesh
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Simple Design
User Research
Accessibility
HTML5/ARIA/WCAG
Design Process
Jason Rexilius
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Real-World-Uses
Systems-Of-Problems
Agents-Based
Self-Sufficiency- In Harsh Environments
Jason Tillery
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Real Time Web Apps
Javascript
Good TV Shows
BBQ
Thinklinks
Jeff Talbot
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Start-Ups
Web APPS
Algorithms
Sports
Puzzles
Joe Born
Neuros Technology and Digital Innovations
(Chicago, IL)
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Open Innovation
Hardware (Physical Products)
China
Energy Tech
Dress Pants
Joe Kottke
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Entrepreneur
Bores Easily
Builds Scalable Infrastructure
Purple Monkey Dishwasher
John Bracken
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Chicago
Internet
Dad
Local Politics
Hummus
John Tolva
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Cities
Humanities
Rocketships
Making Music
(Insert Ideas Here!)
John Yerhot
FOSSCasts and Technicasts
(Chicago, IL)
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Teaching
Video
Open Source
Education
Entrepreneurship
Jon Trowbridge
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Open Source
Distributed Systems
CHIRPRADIO.ORG
Food & Wine
Zombie Movies
Josh McAdams
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Everything...Sort of
Dynamic Languages
Julie Shapiro
(Chicago, IL)
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Sound
Radio
Words
Peoples
Music
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Justin Massa
MoveSmart.org, Metro Chicago Info Center, NetSquared
(Chicago, IL)
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NOLA
Maps
Open Data
Civil Rights
Chicago
Leon Chism
CTO of Viewpoints
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Software as a Knowledge Acquisition Tool
Teams & Teamwork
Games
Serious Play
Mark Hayward
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Juggling, Yo-Yoing, Paddleball, and other Useless Skills
Model A Ford (1928-1931)
Performing for an Audience
Small Sculpture, Especially Mechanicals
Matthew Spenko
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Robotics ( Mobility )
Mechanical Design
Mechatronics
Education
Rock Climbing
Michael Tolva
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Chicago
History
Operations
DJ
Epiphone Sheridan II
Moshe Tamssot
Founder of The Innovation Center
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Innovation
Food Hacking
Life Streaming
Creative Adventurer
Exploring Opportunities
Start Ups
Counting
BBQ
Nate Kontny
Co-Founder of Inkling
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Mind Hacks
Reading as Many Books as I can
Cooking Stuff from 7-11
Nathan Ingersoll
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Developer Tools
Sports
Family
New Toys
Beer
Nikola Milivojevic
CTO @ MagDrive, start-up that brings change in Wind Industry
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Renewable Energy
Cycling
Tasty Food
Travel
Entrepreneurship
Pallavi Kaushik
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MOTLABS
Android
HTML5
MIT Media Lab
Enterprise
Buckyballs
Rubixcubes
Patrick McCarthy
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Teaching
Acquired Technology
Creative Enablement
Optics/Physics
Circuit Bending
Recycling E-Waste
Paul Gross
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Scalability
Ruby
Delivering Software
New Technology
Bicycling
Pek Pongpaet
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Wushu
UX
Anaylitics
Design
Twitter
Rania El-Sorrogy
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Modular Bookbinding
Meaningful Change
Environmentally Friendly Innovation
Social Responsibilty
Richie Vos
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RATLS/RUBY
Web APPS
Aquariums
Scuba
Program Developement
Ross Kimbarovsky
coFounder, crowdSPRING
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Start-Ups
Crowdsourcing
Technology
Music
Social Media
Ryan Blitstein
The SGE Fund
(Chicago, IL)
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Social Entreprenuership
Educational Technology
Media/Journalism
New Models of Philantrophy
Three-Part Harmonies
Sara Schnadt
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Artist - Techie
Data Visualiztion as Art
Chiacgo Artists Resource- CoFounder
I Love to Build Stuff
IA as Art
Scott Robbin
Formerly of Songza, currently of Weightshift.
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Javascript
Audio
Bucycle
Education
Usability
Scott VanDenPlas
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Linux
Beards
The Internet
Awesome Food
Politics
Shelly Mujtaba
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Entrepreneurship
Adoptive Learning
Start-Ups
Graphics
Finance
Stel Valavanis
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Asterisk
Myth TV
Open WRT
Ableton Live
Freepress.net
onShore's New Data Center
Steve Cardamone
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Spiritual
Public Speaking
Renaissance Man
Enjoys Helping People Find their Passion
Acting Cool when Terrified
Steve Delahoyde
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Filmaking
Editing
Writing
Design
Producing
Tasos Karahalios
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Digital & Physical Prototypes
Mechanical Design
Manufacturing
Start-Ups
Medical
Ted Homatas
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SMS
Mobile
EC2
Android
Data Collection
Vishu Ramanathan
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Chicago Technolgy Rocks
Thinking Together
Removing Unnecessary Procedures
PIE
Zach Kaplan
(Chicago,IL)
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Innovation
Scale
Agile
Imagination
Exploration
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