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Lyle spends his work days helping to create technology-enhanced art at the Digital Arts and New Media MFA program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Raised in community theatre and public radio, Lyle is a photographer, father, and programmer who hacks on Ruby on Rails and JavaScript. As a volunteer, Lyle helps run a community center and theatre in the Santa Cruz mountains and, for the past 12 years, has hosted GeekSpeak, a technology talk show on NPR member station KUSP on the central coast of California.
Having passed through the halls of Atari, Lucasfilm, and Paramount New Media, Doug was there for the birth of the genre of media that now dominates our time and attention, and has since become a champion and leading voice on JavaScript, the world’s most popular programming language. He discovered the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) data format while being the CTO of State Software, created the JSLint debugging tool, and is the author of the highly-referenced JavaScript: The Good Parts.
Tristan Nitot is a long-time Mozillian: He got involved as a Netscape employee in early 1998 when announcing the Mozilla project in Europe, where he was based. Since then, he has been in charge of developer relations for Europe at AOL/Netscape, then created Mozilla Europe in 2003, just after the Mozilla Foundation was created. He helped foster the various European Mozilla communities. Tristan is now Mozilla’s principal evangelist, promoting Mozilla’s mission around the world.
Estelle Weyl started her professional life in architecture and then managed teen health programs. In 2000, she took the natural step of becoming a web standardista. She has consulted for Kodakgallery, SurveyMonkey, Yahoo!, Apple, and many others. Estelle provides tutorials and detailed grids for CSS3 and HTML5 browser support in her blog. She is the author of “Mobile HTML5″ (O’Reilly, Oct. 2012), “HTML5: The Definitive Guide” (O’Reilly, Dec. 2012) and “HTML5 and CSS3 for the Real World” (Sitepoint, May 2011). While not coding, she works in construction, de-hippifying her 1960’s throwback abode.
Michal is an Open Web Alchemist, working on Boot2Gecko project at Mozilla. In his free time, he creates many ridiculous experiments, like “CSS Nyan Cat” and “All your gradient are belong to us”. He officiates as an HTML5 GameDev trainer in W3C and organizes onGameStart, the first HTML5 games conference.
Doris is a Senior Technology Evangelist at Microsoft for the Western region of the United States, specializing in Web technologies (HTML5, jQuery, JavaScript, Winodws 8, Ajax, and Java). Doris has over 15 years of experience in the software industry working in several open source Web tier technologies, Java platform, .NET and distributed computing technologies. She has developed and delivered over 400 keynotes, technical sessions, and code camps worldwide, published widely at numerous international conferences and user groups including HTML5 Dev Conference, O’Reilly, WebVisions, JavaOne, SD Forum, HTML5 & JavaScript meetups, and worldwide user groups. Doris works very closely to create and foster the open source community around Java, NetBeans, Glassfish, and related technologies. Before joining Microsoft, Doris Chen was a technology evangelist at Sun Microsystems. Doris received her Ph.D. from UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) in computer engineering, specializing in medical informatics. She loves to travel and she has visited 48 countries (out of 872) so far. In her spare time, she also enjoys music, movies and museums.
Ben Vinegar is a front-end engineer at Disqus, where he works on their distributed commenting widget. Disqus is served on over 500,000 blogs, online newspapers, and other Web properties, including CNN, IGN, Time.com, and Wired. He’s also the author of Third-party JavaScript (Manning Publishing), a book on best practices for third-party scripting.
Vojta is a big fan of open source and test-driven development. Originally from the Czech Republic, Vojta lives in California and works at Google in Mountain View. His goal is to make the development of Web apps and testing more fun. Testacular is a result of this effort. When not hacking on Testacular, Vojta is a core contributor to the AngularJS project and a trumpet player.
Laurent wrote his first file management software, ABC Base, in 1983. A year later, he created the company ACI, known today as 4D. As an innovator, Laurent is responsible for many industry “firsts,” including the first graphical relational database management system in 1985. For the past two years, Laurent and his 4D team have focused on JavaScript as the preferred language to develop rich business web applications. As his new “first,” Laurent is introducing Wakanda, the first unified open-source development platform that includes a client framework, graphical IDE, datastore and server-side technology to develop business Web applications entirely in JavaScript.
Dio Synodinos is the research platform team lead at C4Media and a freelance consultant, focusing on rich Internet applications, web application security, mobile web, and web services. He’s also the lead editor for HTML5 and JavaScript for InfoQ where he also regularly writes about the JVM platform. He is the author of “Pro HTML5″ and “CSS3 Design Patterns” (published by Apress) and “The Essential Guide to HTML5″ and “CSS3 Web Design” (published by friendsofED). Going back and forth between server-side programming and UI design for more than a decade, he has been involved in diverse software projects and has contributed to different technical publications.
Domenic Denicola develops software and servers for the NOOK at Barnes & Noble.com, all in JavaScript and HTML5. He enjoys taking part in the Node.js open source ecosystem and the New York tech scene, and he runs the NYC HTML5 App Developers meetup.
Matthew was born in London and grew up on the east coast of the United States. He began programming on his father’s HP calculator at the age of nine and went on to study Computer Science and Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. A lifelong fan of European languages, culture and cuisine, he moved to Paris in 1992. Stints as a software developer and then project manager led him to Hamburg, Germany, where he lived and worked for three years. He then settled in Prague, Czech Republic, to start a software services business called Schemantix. In 2005, Matthew founded AllPeers, which developed and marketed a Firefox extension for creating private peer-to-peer sharing networks. At the time, the extension was easily one of the most ambitious and sophisticated ever developed and won awards from prestigious publications such as PC World, Wired and CNet’s Webware. He then spent several years as a freelance consultant for big industry names like Yahoo, VMware and Mozilla. During this period he led the development of a Mozilla Labs project called Prism (later WebRunner), a “single-site browser” that enabled users to turn Web apps into desktop apps with a single click. He founded Salsita in 2010, with a focus on assembling a world-class team of software engineers specializing in what he calls “JavaScript software engineering.” Matthew writes about a wide range of technological topics as the primary author of the Salsita blog. He has given talks at a number of leading industry conferences including OSCON, Media in Transition, FOSDEM, Reboot and FooCamp.
Michael Chaize is a developer evangelist at Adobe, where he focuses on rich Internet applications and mobile applications. Based in Paris, he works with large accounts that need to understand the benefits of rich user interfaces, leverage their existing back-ends to add a rich presentation layer and measure the impact on the existing IT teams. He believes that intuitive user experiences in the enterprise are key to the successful development of effective, efficient, engaging, easy to learn and error-free applications. Before joining Adobe, Michael founded a software company and taught RIA languages such as Flex and PHP in IT engineering schools. He’s the editor in chief of Appliness.
After half a decade of regular web development, Bergie got involved with free software in 1999 by coordinating the public release of the Midgard content management system. Since then, he has been actively working on integrating standards like RDFa into the system and traveling the world advocating interoperation between open-source CMS’s.
Luca is the CEO of NuvolaBase Ltd, the company behind the OrientDB NoSQL Open Source project. He’s also the author of Roma Meta Framework project and a member of Sun/Oracle Expert Group for JSR 12 and 243.
Sebastian Golasch works as a JavaScript Lead Developer at the Cologne (Germany) based agency denkwerk. After some time developing backend applications with Java, PHP and Ruby he became a citizen of the JavaScript world. For the last two and a half years Sebastian has been working on the development of cross platform JavaScript applications in the front and backend area. In his spare time, he likes to contribute to open source software and advocates for a better understanding of JavaScript as the lingua franca of the Web.
After more than a decade of web and database development, Jan joined the ArangoDB core development team a year ago. While working on ArangoDB with C/C++ most of the time, he also enjoys leveraging and using other languages such as JavaScript, Ruby, and his company’s own query language. AQL.
Having been in the mobile market since 2004, Tam has seen the market as developer, author of technical books and trade journalist covering the mobile industry for various German newspapers.
With over 15 years of experience in development, Corinne is addicted to code and can’t go very far from it. Freelance since 1999, she traveled from C++ to Java, J2EE, Spring, Struts, JSP, Web 2.0 and naturally made her path to mobile apps. Being an Agile coach and practitioner, she thinks code is craft and collaboration is key to success. Chatting about the latest tech trends at coffee break: a female geek – what do you expect – she’s always curious to discover (or rediscover) languages and frameworks. She is co-founder of RivieraGUG (Grails and Groovy User Group) and an active member of JS Sophia: because there is no better way to achieve continuous learning than sharing ideas.
Fabrice is a Web architect in charge of code quality for a large organization (nickname Mr. Clean Code). With over 15 years of experience in bank, insurance, multimedia and travel industry all over the world, he is now spending his nights coding HTML5 mobile apps. Involved in a couple of open source projects and co-founder of RivieraGUG (Grails and Groovy User Group), you can always discuss with him about asynchronous behavior, Groovy and JavaScript over a couple of beers.
Wolfgang Damm is the lead software architect at Wikitude and lead the technical development of Wikitude’s next generation augmented reality platform. Being based on Web technologies, he has recently learned to love HTML5, CSS and JavaScript while keeping C++ close to his heart. He studied mobile computing at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria and worked at Nvidia and NXP as an intern. Wolfgang is interested in everything mobile and loves to mountain bike and snowboard in the Austrian alps.
Dominique Burger graduated from the Ecole Superieure d’Electricité and has a PhD in electronics. He works at UPMC-INSERM (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Medicale) as Senior Research Engineer. Since 1982, his major research interests have been in the area of interface design for users with visual impairment, particularly in the field of education. He has been participating in several European projects, as scientific manager or coordinator. Dominique Burger is the scientific coordinator of the European eAccessibility Forum.
Sylvie Duchateau studied in France and Germany and has a master’s degree in applied foreign languages (English and German) and political science. She works at Association BrailleNet in the field of digital accessibility. She coordinated the French translation of the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and is an active member of the W3C/WAI’s education and outreach working group. She is involved in trainings on accessibility and the writing of documents that help promote a better implementation of W3C’s guidelines.
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