KiwiFoo 08

More than a tad late on this one, but KiwiFoo08 was the weekend before last and was again like last year brilliant. Some really interesting chats with people, and some new relationships I can’t summarise all here right now, but instead I thought I’d just let people speak for themselves, checkout their websites, their blogs and connect with some of the cool stuff happening across the country and into the world.

• Adam Hyde - founder FLOSS Manuals.
• Adam Shand - Weta Digital / Infrastructure Team
• Adrian Krzyzewski - Enterprise Architect, TVNZ
• Amanda Helliwell - programmer with a background in intellectual property and powerlifting, working on patent transparency, and biological open source
• AndrePang - Mac OS X coder at Realmac Software, Annodex and hyperlinked multimedia research
• AndyLinton - Network navvy
• BenNolan - Javascript and rails developer. Skater. Occasional businessperson.
• Brenda Leeuwenberg- manager NZ On Screen, longtime webgrrl
• Bruce Ferguson - video content creator for big and unusual displays. he calls his studio the darkroom
• Bruce Hoult - programmer, Innaworks
• Che Tamahori - Director and UX enthusiast, Shift.
• Chris Daish - Catalyst evangelist and fomenter of the New Zealand Open Source Awards
• Chris Shiflett - CTO, OmniTI - Known for PHP and web application security, but more interested in user experience, narratives, maps, OpenID, Ajax, Comet, URLs, and the Oxford comma.
• Chris O’Donoghue - Director Creative Federation.
• Colin Jackson - geek turned wonk turned IT strategist and commentator
• Cris Calude - Academic with interests in randomness, limits of proof and computation, quantum world, tennis
• Dan Randow, Chief Wrangler at OnlineGroups.Net
• Dave Nichols - academic, Greenstone developer, digital libraries, open source & usability, web, eScience
• Dave ten Have - CEO, Ponoko
• David Brebner - Unlimited Realities
• David Slack - Developer and distracted proprietor of speeches.com, contributor to Public Address and database backup expert
• Dean Stringer, Web, Perl and eLearning
• Deb Sidelinger - Webstocker, photographer
• Don Christie - A founder and a of Catalyst IT Limited and President of the NZ Open Source Society.
• Duane Malcolm - Research engineer at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute. Interested in modelling biology, electronics, web technologies, and software development.
• Erica Lloyd - Documentary maker and producer/reporter for TVNZ and TV3.
• Ewan Tempero - Academic who turns code into numbers - FearOfJava
• Garth Biggs - ICT industry guy.
• Glen Barnes - I used to measure stuff (and try and make it better) now I’m a Squire for Hire.
• Glynn Foster - Sun, OpenSolaris, GNOME
• Grant Robinson - Interacton designer at Xero. Interested in motion tracking, 3D, interactive spaces and creative apps.
• GregElisara - founder, ceo, md, stationery boy of startup, Wego.
• Hans Brough - UI Developer
• Hayden Vink - Strategist at DNA.
• Humphrey Wikeepa - Senior Project Manager/Web Developer, Museum visitor Wireless iPAQ Tour Guides, Websphere portal enterprise solution, Knowledge Management.
• Ian Wright - electric sports car developer, router engineer
• JamesNoble - vic, wikipublisher, wiki, dblp, wiki sym, patterns, http://postmodernprogramming.com/, FearOfJava
• Jason Paris - Head of Marketing and Emerging Business at TVNZ
• Jayne Wallis - Lifebox
• Jeff Root - content aggregation/syndication, Mukuna Gig Guide
• JimMooney - Peace Software / First Data Utilities / for sale
• Jock Phillips - Te Ara boss, listener
• Jo Eaton - unrelenting Flickr addict, ’90s web journal girl, online producer at Telecom
• John Ballinger - flash, flex, ruby, Auckland web meetup organiser, Adobe AIR developer, Tweetr creator and twitter addict twitter, WereWolf card maker.
• John Clegg - ProjectX and Summer of Code
• John Humphrey - telecommunications guy
• Jonny Martin - Internet infrastructure guy. Doer.
• Juha Saarinen - Vile Corporate Drone. Very mean evil corporate drone that sips lattes in Ponsonby…
• Julian Carver - eGovt & environment sector information sharing strategist/evangelist (getting people to play nicely together)
• Karl von Randow - Java & web developer, Charles Web Debugging Proxy, Cactuslab
• Kim Hill - host, Saturday Morning with Kim Hill
• Laurence Millar - government ICT leader
• Layton Duncan - Electrical engineer, native iPhone developer, entrepreneur, and founder of Polar Bear Farm
• Lisa Salmon - PHP, content syndication, UI, Mukuna Gig Guide
• Lucy Arnold - creator of Felt, graphic designer at Board of Design
• Ludwig Wendzich - Barcamp organiser and part-time web developer, work at Web Creative and play at LudwigNZ
• Lulu Pachuau - Provocative Experience Design person
• Lynne Pope Overworked and unpaid Mambo core developer, President of the Mambo Foundation, Inc. Collator of research into FOSS. Workaholic particularly interested in how to hack time to get more hours in each day.
• Marek Kuziel - OpenID enthusiast, Drupal and Django hacker (Encode)
• Mark Cubey - producer, Saturday Morning with Kim Hill
• Martin Sidoruk - uxd, customer-centred innovation
• Matthew Buchanan - co-owner, interaction designer, typographer, markup monkey, standards advocate at Cactuslab
• Mauricio Freitas - tech blogger (Blog/Geekzone)
• Michael Koziarski- Ruby on Rails guy
• Mike Barley Academic with interests in intelligent software agents, the technological singularity, and transhumansim.
• Mike Brown - Webstocker, FullCodePress co-creator
• Mike Cannon-Brookes - Atlassian, Java, Open Source, entrepreneur, nerd
• MikeCochrane - Jojo Core Developer Lead developer at gardyneHOLT
• Mike Pearson - egovernment architect, thinking about open data, open government, sustainable computing, human/information interfaces, egovbarcamp, secure mail, TheFreeNet.
• Mike Riversdale aka “Miramar Mike” - passionate about making info available, findable and usable; barcamp organiser (e-govt, agile and mobile coming); proud wellingtonista;
• Miki Szikszai - optimist, general business guy blend of media, tech futures and marketing, CX proponent
• Michael Wallmannsberger - Security Consultant ASB Bank, InternetNZ Council, Standards Council, New Zealand Labour Party
• Nat Torkington - host, web guy
• Natalie Downe - Senior Clientside Engineer at Clearleft
• Nic Steenhout - GAWDS Member, Mambo Core team member. See NicSteenhout for more.
• Nicholas Chapman - Indigo Renderer, computer graphics, network coding, physics guy.
• Nigel Parker - Microsoft Web UX Guy
• Neil Forster - Why not… lets try (Innocation advocate, Tryer of new things, prototype delivery, Customer advocate)
• Paul Campbell - hardware/software hack, digital video engineer
• Paul Gold - Systems / Database guru from Auric, ProjectX and Summer of Code.
• Peter Gutmann - security guy, photography enthusiast, and occasional s**t-stirrer :-).
• Peter Macaulay- InternetNZ President , Fibre Activist, Netness nut
• Peter Reutemann - research programmer, machine learning, data mining, open-source and Ubuntu addict
• PeterTorrSmith - founder of HireThings.com.
• Philip Fierlinger - interaction designer at Xero, also known for Turntable projects, see all my past and present shenanigans at my blog
• PhilipLindsay — hardware and software hacking, “troublemaker”
• PhillipPearson - web hacker (Myelin / BBM)
• Piers Harding - Scrag end
• Regan Cunliffe - Throng Media
• Rick Shera - law geek
• Richard Hulse - Webmaster and intranet developer at Radio New Zealand.
• Richard Simpson - Business and Innovation Manager Bioengineering Institute, Visible Learning Lab,and UniServices; once an Auckland City Councillor and Chair of Transport Committee; Digital Earthling; founder Cadabra; veteran of 2007 baa camp - passion for yachts, SOA, electrified rail and urban geomorphology…
• Robert Coup - Developer, CTO of One Track Mind. Sailing, mapping, python, javascript, OSS…
• Robert O’Brien- software dev, web arch, identity and privacy.
• Robert O’Callahan - core Firefox/Gecko developer, free software/standards warrior, managing Mozilla’s NZ contractors, research on programming languages and tools (currently debuggers)
• Robin Sheat - programmer (Profiler Corp), free software developer
• Rochelle Hume - lawyer, Webster Malcolm & Kilpatrick
• Roger Dennis - technology innovation and future scenarios dabbler…
• Ross Howard - Creative Director (Shift | UI/UX/Bow-hunting skillz, thinks and writes (sometimes) for alistapart and boxesandarrows.
• Rowan Simpson - one hit wonder (blog | about)
• Russell Brown - journalist and commentator, host of Public Address blogs
• Sam Ng - Usability police at Optimal Usability and more recently web startup guy of OptimalSort and Huddlein
• Sam Vilain - Geek of Perl, Source Control Management, Databases, Unix Admin … and professional IRC troll.
• Sandy Mamoli- Database addict turned agile evangelist, Business Analyst (contractor) at Breathe Communications, Mac freak, Unix fan, iPhone lover
• Selena Dewar - Developer, TVNZ
• SethWagoner - Interclue Geek in Chief
• Sid Jones - network mechanic
• Sidney Markowitz - PhD student, biocryptologist, free software developer (SpamAssassin)
• Sigurd Magnusson - cofounder of SilverStripe. Programmer turned evangelist of open source, usability, web development.
• Simon Willison - web developer, Django, JavaScript/Ajax, jQuery, Comet, OpenID…
• Sione Palu - Main interests is in numerical computing & algorithm development (heavily numerical analysis related domain). Algorithm proto-typing is mostly done in Matlab but final coding is developed in Java using the publicly available JAMA (JAva Matrix Algebra) package (http://math.nist.gov/javanumerics/jama/).
• Stuart Hale - Apple enthusiast, trainer and educator at Renaissance Education- empowering kids to learn
• Stephen Weir - Entrepreneur, CEO MadeIt.com, Saturn Media Inc.
• Steve McCrone pipeline management software and green technology investment geek
• Sue Tyler - Crafty Chick, Wellingtonist and creator of Craft2.0
• Tarique Naseem - Serious Game Development | Web Applications Development - Partner @ Carbon Imagineering; Coming to NZ to work with Creative Federation
• Tash Hall - webstock-organising-trade-me-user-testing-dog-loving-boozer.
• Thomas Fuchs - JavaScript guru, author of script.aculo.us, core team member of Ruby on Rails and Prototype
• Thomas Scovell - project and malarkey manager, Shift
• Tim Norton - Entrepreneur, CEO of PlanHQ, Blogger @ Silicon Welly and Make it Happen
• TobyCollett - Robotics Engineer / Inro Technologies
• TonyBowden - Tech-Nomad / Spreadsheet Wikis / OpenStreetMap / e-stonia
• Will Bryant - systems architect, Ruby on Rails etc.
• Vern Dempster - ICT co-ordinator Mahurangi College. php postgresql web
• Zef Fugaz - UX protagonist, information remixer, interaction design simplificator, Leader of Experience Design at Provoke
• Zita Joyce - coordinating Farsi language localisation of FLOSS manuals + organising Aotearoa Digital Arts network Symposium