Who's Coming to ORD Camp 2012
- Aaron Salmon - UX Engineer @ Obama for America / Interaction Designer, community gardener, nuevodad and jovial lad. / @aaronsalmon
- Aaron Swartz
- Adrian Holovaty - EveryBlock, Django, YouTube guitar videos. Spy.
- Ajay Goel
- Ali Pasha
- Amanda Sari Perez - Neural interface researcher, Syncytium organizer (Burning Man camp), All Hands Active co-founder (Ann Arbor community hackerspace), MiND Ensemble member (Music in Neural Dimensions), propane tank drum maker, artist of the non-professional variety, person.
- Ameya Pawar
- Anders Conbere - Dude, Obama For America
- Andrea Saenz
- Andrew Graham
- Andrew Huff - editor of Gapers Block, writer, fan of scotch, @me3dia
- Anne Petersen - President of Pumping Station: One, webbie for UIC, photographer, maker, writer, speaker, geek, Chicagoan. Half-Danish and can speak Danish (rustily).
- Andrew Mason - Founder and CEO of Groupon
- Ari Gesher
- Atkins Meyer
- Augie Fackler
- Aza Raskin
- Barry Rogers
- Bart Dring - Founder Buildlog.net, an open source hardware web zone -- Makerslide! --- Sponsor of projects via the MakerShip program. Send's messages to outer space.
- Ben Berkowitz - CoFounder at SeeClickFix.com, Occasional tree planter, t-shirt maker, citizen, villager, werewolf.
- Ben Collins-Sussman - cofounder of Subversion, Google Code, Google Chicago office; interactive fiction author, photographer, musical theater composer, banjo player, radio ham, gamer, dad.
- Ben Huh
- Benjamin T Stanley - Research and Development Chef/Innovation at Basic American Foods | Co-Founder of Food Genius | Lover of anything with gears or food | Tinkerer | Fermentation
- Bill Hammack
- Blagica Bottigliero - Part of the original Orbitz crew. Director of Global Social Media for Motorola, Founder of Gals' Guide, Startup/tech evangelist, Wife, Mom. Fan of understanding migration patterns to cities. MC Hammer fan. A Chicagoan by way of the Motor City and a wee small country called Macedonia. @Blagica
- Bob Lee
- Borja Sotomayor - Researcher at the University of Chicago's Computation Institute, Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science. Enabler of student geeks. +Borja Sotomayor
- Brady Forrest
- Brandy Agerbeck | graphic facilitator, artist, drawing enthusiast | tweets, tumbles, flickrs, videos | If you enjoyed my session around drawing last year, you can find the Draw Quad in my Brandyfesto.
- Brett Elmendorf
- Brett Goldstein
- Brett Slatkin - App Engine, PubSubHubbub, Camlistore, Intrapreneur
- Brian Aker
- Brian Fitzpatrick - Head of The Data Liberation Front and Transparency Engineering at Google Chicago. Opener of Source. Co-Founder of ORD Camp and resident Chicagophile. I'm on Google+ and @therealfitz on Twitter. Not a werewolf.
- Bryan Wilcox - Co-Founder of The Product Manufactory. Working to bridge the gap between design and engineering. Open source enthusiast. Controller of machines.
- Cathy Chouinard-Hasmonek - Owner/Photographer at Chouinard Photography, Artist, Lover of music and architecture. On twitter @chouinardphoto. Enjoy building Ikea furniture.
- Charles Adler
- Charlie Catlett - Senior Computer Scientist at Argonne Nat'l Lab, Senior Fellow at UChicago Computation Institute, Visiting Artist at School of the Art Inst. of Chicago. After 25 years in high-performance computing & internet R&D (big, fast, monsters) trying my hand at pervasive, mobile, social computing (small, aware, personal). @cec, +cecatlett
- Chloe Johnston
- Chris McAvoy - Chicago Awesome Foundation Trustee, dabbler.
- Christen Carter - Owner of Busy Beaver Button Co. and co-curator of the Button Museum.
- Christie George
- Christie Hefner
- Christine Gutierrez - Babbaco
- Christine McClure: Librarian (at IIT on Chicago's south side). Web Developer. Photographer. Geek.
- Clay Johnson
- Cliff Schmidt - Founder of Literacy Bridge - using embedded audio technology to make knowledge available to impoverished people who are not literate. Formerly active open source guy, primarily with the Apache Software Foundation.
- Cole Pierce Artist, Videographer at the Chicago Teachers' Center of NEIU, contributor to Field Mic, DJ for NUMBERS.FM, mixtape connoisseur
- Craighton Berman - Craighton Berman Design, gravitytank, fueledbycoffee, @fueledbycoffee, 3rd time at ORD camp.
- Dale Reed - Lecturer in Computer Science Department at UIC, CS evangelist at Chicago area high schools, Catalyst for Chicago area CS teacher training CS4HS, like to fix/build things myself
- Damon Kohler - Googler, tinkerer, and creator of SL4A and rosjava. I'm on Google+ and at damonkohler.com.
- Dan Meyer
- Daniel X. O'Neil - Smart Chicago Collaborative. I take pictures of stuff. Civic innovation &etc. @juggernautco
- Dan Ratner
- Dan Schultz
- Dan Sinker - Heading up the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership. Part-time troublemaker. @dansinker
- Dan Siroker
- Dan Yocum
- Daniel Sauter
- Dave Beazley
- Dave Dribin - Daytime hacker at Apple, father of 16 month old twins. In copious free time (ha!): AVR/Arduino, retro gamer, chiptune, foodie. @ddribin
- David Anderson - Electronics dweeb, hater of NATs, small time Go hacker, occasional pilot, Google+ user, California weather weenie, Google cluster tinkerer.
- David Chelimsky
- David Falck - architect at Model Metrics/Salesforce.com, entrepreneur, Peaksmart co-founder
- David Recordon
- David Schalliol - Sociologist, photographer, managing editor of Gapers Block. @metroblossom
- Dean Putney
- Dennis McClendon Urbanist, constitutional law scholar, transportation geek, Chicago history buff, and mapmaker at Chicago CartoGraphics
- Dennis Roberson
- Devorah Heitner Teacher, scholar, media geek, kids' media consultant
- Dirk Elmendorf
- Don Schwarz
- Doug Bradbury - Software Craftsman at 8th Light, Make Magazine contributor, RC enthusiast, treadmill desk champion
- Doug van der Molen
- Dug Song - co-founder Duo Security, Ann Arbor New Tech Meetup, startup co-op Tech Brewery, Ann Arbor geek non-profit a2geeks.org, Ann Arbor Skatepark, OpenSSH, etc.
- Duncan Davidson
- Dylan Richard
- Ed Zotti
- Edward Ford - family man, tinkerer of lots, master of none, desktop cnc machines, identifying ninjas, trying to be different just like everyone else. @shapeoko
- Eleanore Brophy (Eckstrom) - Cream cheese food scientist at Kraft Foods, Master's thesis on creme fraiche, member of I Heart Crafting
- Emily Short - interactive fiction author, consultant in interactive narrative for games and ebooks. @emshort
- Eric Lunt - CTO: BrightTag, Co-founder & CTO: FeedBurner, Co-founder & CTO: Spyonit.com. Happy to be back!
- Eric Peyton
- Eric Wolff
- Erin Kissane
- Eszter Hargittai - studying people's Web-use skills, thinking about how to improve people's Web-use skills, geocaching, photography
- Evan Miller
- Francesca Slade
- Gabriel Burt – software developer at Obama for America, @gabaug
- George Aye – Founder/Design Director at Greater Good Studio, Assistant Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, teaching in the Dept. of Architecture, Interior Architecture and Designed Objects. @georgeaye
- Gillian Rode - Canadian, former Props Project Manager @ Cirque du Soleil , @gillianrode
- Gina Trapani
- Greg Kick
- Gwendolyn Graff - Scientist Geek @ Wrigley - Pasttimes: Bubblegum creation, general crafty things, and wrangling horses - 4th year at ORD Camp
- Harper Reed
- H.B. Siegel - CTO @ IMDb 3D, movies, graphics, games, glimpses of sunlight. Seattle WA
- Henry Liu
- Ian Bicking
- J. Stanton — Author of The Gnoll Credo. Paleonutrition researcher: articles at gnolls.org.
- Jacob Matthews
- Jacqueline Edelberg - Dir. of Str. Partnerships for Youtopia.com, Huffington Post blogger, author of How to Walk to School: Blueprint for a Neighborhood School Renaissance.
- Jake Shapiro
- Jake Trussell - Creative Director @ World Business Chicago | Producer & DJ of experimental party music | Photo-grapher | Cyclist | Eater & Drinker
- James Evans -- Sociologist and computational scientist interested in designing robot reasoners/researchers; enjoy Lake Michigan (swimming/sailing) with kids
- James Goggin — Director of Design, Publishing, and New Media at MCA Chicago. Founder of Practise. Lecturer at Werkplaats Typografie, Ecal, etc. Birthplace: Unknown. @practise
- James Megquier — Software Engineer at Google Chicago. Distributed systems, electronics hackery.
- Jason Gessner - Vice-President Milwaukee Makerspace, Ads Engineer at Google Chicago, raiser of Geek Girls, FIRST Lego League Coach and fan of abrasive music of all kinds. @plural
- Jason Huggins - Cofounder, CTO: Sauce Labs. Creator: Selenium web testing tool. Creator: a robot that plays Angry Birds on an iPhone. Home: Oak Park, IL
- Jason Kunesh - Roustabout of User Experience at Obama For America. Storyteller, nice guy, guitar dude. @jdkunesh
- Jason Rexilius
- Jason Seats - Mediocre at enough things to be interesting. Cofounder of Slicehost. Managing Director of TechStars Cloud.
- Javaun Moradi - product manager / experimenter at NPR. Husband, father, mountain biker. Native Chicagoan living in DC. Rock solid alibi. @javaun
- Jeff Solin - Owner @ Solin Systems Consulting, CS Teacher / curriculum enthusiast / FIRST FTC coach @ Northside College Prep, Co-founder @ Chicago CSTA, musician / father / husband @ home, motorcycle rebuilder @ garage
- Jeff Talbot
- Jeff Ubois, MacArthur Foundation / after-hours archivist www.personalarchiving.com / www.ubois.com,
- Jennifer Farrington
- Jen Masengarb - Architecture & design educator. Digital teen learning projects. Urban & architectural history. Writer of haikus as Chicago love letters.
- Jesse Kriss - Visualization Engineer: Obama for America, previously General Hackery at Figure 53 and lead developer of Many Eyes at IBM Research.
- Jesse Seay - sound & kinetic artist, professor of Audio Arts and Acoustics, Columbia College. (Red Rubber Bands kinetic sculpture and Women -n- Technology session)
- Jessie Chavez - Software Engineer + Education Outreach at Google Chicago. Prevoiusly at FeedBurner, Centrifusion. Former Teacher. Techie/host/dev for many social justice projects from Chicago to Latin America. Human Rights observer in Honduras.
- Jim Blandy
- Jim Kimball - curious, technical, and exploratory guy by night... Sr. Technical Leader, Enabling Innovation @ S.C.Johnson & Son by day
- JJ Lueck
- Joe Born - Consumer Electronics Entrepreneur/Hacker, Neuros Technology, Digital Innovations and most recently Sonr Labs
- Joe Germuska - News App developer @ Chicago Tribune • Founder, OpenGovChicago • Host, "Conference of the Birds", WNUR-FM • @JoeGermuska
- Joe Kottke
- John S. Bracken - Work @knightfdn in Miami, live Chicago. I help people do stuff, on the internet, mostly, and I fly a lot. @jsb.
- John Bronsteen
- John Tolva - Cities, humanities, technologies. Also, rocket ships.
- Jon Udell
- Jordan Bunker
- Jordan Ho
- Josh Hale
- Julie Shapiro - Third Coast International Audio Festival, occasional muser-about-music: gallopinging, @jatomic
- Justin Massa - founder & CEO at Food Genius, public data wonk, dad, @justinmassa
- Justine Nagan - Executive Director of Kartemquin Films, director of Typeface, co-founder of I Heart Crafting, and soon to be mama
- Kara Oehler
- Karl Fogel - Question Copyright; Civic Commons; Producing Open Source Software; @kfogel; search://kfogel/; technoskeptic (but in a good way); musician
- Kate McGroarty
- Kathleen McCarthy
- Kumar McMillan - Web Developer at Mozilla; DJ and Tech Director at CHIRP Radio
- Kurt Preston
- Kurt Spoerer - Online ad guy, lover of photography (still early in my voyage), avid athlete and father of two.
- Larry Adams
Leo Dirac- Snowed in with much of the Seattle crew. Might be able to get a flight out but looking unlikely. :(- Leon Chism
- Lesa Mitchell
- Lisa Caplan
- Marc Hannah
- Marcin Wichary – @mwichary, Google Chrome/Doodles, designer, programmer, occasional speaker and writer, computer historian, photographer. Misquotes movies for a living.
- Mark Hayward - Juggler, Yo-yoer, Self-Proclaimed Cool Guy. Maker of things. Recent convert to wood turning. Model A Ford enthusiast.
- Mars Saxman
- Matt Braithwaite - Tech Lead for Google's Transparency Report. Otherwise fairly private.
- Matt Gornick
- Matt Hansen - Software Engineer at Google Chicago, tech gadget enthusiast.
- Matt Hellige
- Matt Shobe - Ex-Googler, Co-Founder of FeedBurner with Eric Lunt (above); Chief Design Officer, BigDoor; TechStars Seattle mentor; despite my zipcode, a shameless Chicago booster.
- Megan Stielstra - Literary Director at 2nd Story. I write, teach writers, & teach teachers. @meganstielstra
- Mercedes Mane
- Mert Iseri
- Michael Ga
- Mike Loukides O'Reilly Media: data, programming, future of publishing, books & book ideas, math, music. Pianist, but can't bring piano; will bring recorders if there's enough room.
- Mike Sussman - Professional Astronomer, Planetary Climate Modeler, Electronica Producer
- Mike Tyka @mtyka works @ University of Washington on protein folding. Co-founder of ALTS Makerspace and co-founder or GrooveLabs, designed and built a 28ft playable Rubiks cube. Makes metal sculptures and explores the hidden beauty in molecules.
- Moshe Tamssot - @Tamssot - Founder & CEO, CookItFor.Us | Founder, Monks of Invention | Founder, The Innovation Center, Inc. | Executive Producer of the 3D Multi-Sensory Immersive "Art & Science of Smoking Pigs" BBQ Experience, not in IMAX
- Neal Patel
- Nell Taylor - Founder, Executive Director at Read/Write Library Chicago (formerly Chicago Underground Library). Printers' Ball-er. MLIS, School of Hard Knocks. @nelltaylor
- Nick Piepmeier - Data Liberator, generative media geek, ex-game-developer, tinkerer, and lover of delicious things. On Google+ and @pieps on Twitter.
- Nick Rosa
- Nicole Montanye
- Nina Nashif
- Noah Friedman
- Noah Gift
- Noah Hurwitz
- Noah Iliinsky - @noahi Freelance data visualization consultant, writer, and speaker. Author of Designing Data Visualizations. I live in Seattle and occasionally blog at ComplexDiagrams.com.
- Pallavi Kaushik - Principal Research Engineer at Motorola Solutions. MIT Media Lab alum. Travel Addict. Puzzle Solver.
- Pamela Fox - @pamelafox, pamelafox.org - coder, cooker, arts&crafts-er, occasional contortionist. Founder of EatDifferent, formerly on Google Developer Relations (Maps/Wave).
- Patrick McCarthy - Inventor, Instructor, Armchair Physicist, Puppeteer, Multimedia Designer/Programmer, Painter, Sculptor, Musician, Circuit Bender, 1/2 of Roth Mobot
- Peter Nepstad
- Rabiah Mayas
- Ravi Singh Mobile Researcher and Developer for iOS , Android, RIM , Windows Phone 7 and interested in all things related to embedded devices
- Richie Vos Developer at Groupon. Interested in anything web, electronics, and most things aquatic
- Rick Klau - Partner at Google Ventures, former Google Product Manager (Blogger, Google+, YouTube), FeedBurner OG. Me on: Google+ Twitter Blog
- Riley Scott
- Robert Kaye - @mayhem Troublemaker, hacker, artist, drinkbot creator, burner, founder of MusicBrainz. I'll bring my Tequila Sunrise Bot, so YOU can hack it.
- Roger Magoulas
- Russ Lankenau - Founder and President, Workshop 88. President, Lunar Giant Studios. First time at ORD Camp, looking forward to it.
- Ryan Germick - creative lead of the Google Doodle team
- Ryan Kanno
- Ryan Singer - UI and Product Manager at 37signals, @rjs on Twitter, writes about software product design at http://feltpresence.com
- Sacha De'Angeli
- Sandor Weisz - Designer at EveryBlock. Puzzler at PZLR.
- Sara Aye - Founder / Research Director at Greater Good Studio, teacher at SAIC, Northwestern, ID and Lake Forest College. Was proposed to in a really cool way.
- Sara Winge
- Scott Brown
- Scott Robbin - coding with Weightshfit, founder of MinuteFrame, shows up on first page when searching for 'Weird Al videos.'
- Scott Robertson
- Scott VanDenPlas - Philosopher, Futurist, Everyone's Pal. I build robots for Obama as DevOps Lead. Part time dinner organizer.
- Shelly Mujtaba
- Stel Valavanis - founder onShore Networks, Creative Coworking, tech art, embedded systems, tvdrug, ECTV, now also with the ACLU-IL!
- Steve Brown - 365yoyotricks.com, Marketing & Production Manager at Shinbone Creative, co-founder of Triple Crown of YoYo, Moustache Collector
- Steve Delahoyde - filmmaker at Coudal
- Sue Khim
- Suneel Gupta
- Sunni Brown
- Ted Han - lead developer for DocumentCloud, employed by Investigative Reporters & Editors, linguist by degree, programmer by trade, and scifi & web comics nerd by leisure. @knowtheory
- Ted Homatas
- Tim Saylor - DIY product entrepreneur, director of Pumping Station: One, co-organizer of BARcamp Chicago, software consultant for PSC Group. First time at ORD camp.
- Tommy Stephenson - Inventor, Musician, 1/2 of the circuit bent duo Roth Mobot
- Tony Dreyfuss
- Troy Henikoff - Co-founder and CEO of Excelerate Labs - loves bikes, startups and technology
- Will Robinson - Engineering site lead, Google Chicago. Manager of the Google Web Server team in Chicago. "That tall guy." Second time at ORD camp!
- Yuri Frank Maxwell Malina
- Zach Kaplan - CEO Inventables
- Zach Nixon
- Zach Hines - CEO Buildatron Systems - 3D Printing