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Michael TiemannAndrew HuntOur roster of speakers was headed up by keynotes Michael Tiemann, Vice President of Open Source Affairs at Red Hat and President of the Open Source Initiative; Andy Hunt, co-founder of the Pragmatic Programmers, an agile publishing and training company; and Jascha Franklin-Hodge, CTO of Blue State Digital, which spearheaded Obama for America's online initiatives.

Featured speakers included jQuery creator John Resig; Seam development team member Dan Allen; Spring Framework core developer Mark Fisher; Groovy and Grails core developer Jeff Brown; James Ward of Adobe Systems; POJOs in Action author Chris Richardson; Agile Manifesto co-author Brian Marick; David Black (author of Ruby for Rails and The Well-Grounded Rubyist); Ezra Zygmuntowicz (co-founder of Engine Yard and creator of the Merb framework); and Bill Dudney (author of Core Animation for the iPhone and co-author of iPhone SDK Development).

Jascha Franklin-Hodge - Chief Technology Officer & Founding Partner, Blue State Digital

A Blue State Digital founding partner, Jascha brings more than a decade's experience in software development in the corporate, nonprofit, and political spheres to his role as Blue State Digital's Chief Technology Officer. He manages the company's technology staff and operations out of Blue State Digital's technology center near downtown Boston, including the infrastructure, maintenance and enhancement of the Blue State Digital Online Tools, and technology client services.

Blue State Digital spearheaded Obama for America's extensive online fundraising, constituency building and peer-to-peer networking initiatives, all of which helped to create momentum for the President-elect's successful campaign in 2008's historic election. For the campaign, Jascha managed the team that built and ran the my.barackobama.com technology platform, and worked directly with Obama for America's New Media team in providing the tools and platform to engage supporters, donors and volunteers. In addition, he managed the server and systems infrastructure that powered the Obama web presence.

For Gov. Howard Dean's groundbreaking 2004 presidential campaign, Jascha led the technology team responsible for scaling, securing, and maintaining a high-visibility, high-traffic Web site, which received praise from both the political and tech communities for its usability, reliability, and depth of functionality.

Andy Hunt - Co-Founder Pragmatic Programmers
Andy Hunt

Andy Hunt is a programmer turned consultant, author and publisher. He authored the best-selling book The Pragmatic Programmer and six others, was one of the 17 founders of the Agile Alliance, and co-founded the Pragmatic Bookshelf, publishing award-winning and critically acclaimed books for software developers.



Michael Tiemann - Vice President, Open Source Affairs, Red Hat, President, Open Source Initiative
Michael Tiemann

Michael Tiemann is a true open source software pioneer. He made his first major open source contribution more than two decades ago by writing the GNU C++ compiler, the first native-code C++ compiler and debugger. His early work led to the creation of leading open source technologies and the first open source business model.

Michael Tiemann received a BS in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Engineering in 1987. In 1989, Tiemann's technical expertise and entrepreneurial spirit led him to co-found Cygnus Solutions, the first company to provide commercial support for open source software. During his ten years at Cygnus, Tiemann contributed in a number of roles from President to hacker, helping lead the company from fledgling start-up to an admired open source leader.

Tiemann serves on a number of boards, including the Open Source Initiative and the GNOME Foundation. Tiemann also provides financial support to organizations that further the goals of software and programmer freedom, including the Free Software Foundation and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.