Virtual Programming Conference - Hack Summit

As Lotico San Diego Semantic Web Meetup members,

You can register for the conference ( at no cost and avoid the donation option) at http://hacksummit.org (http://hacksummit.org/) using code LOTICOSD .

(And as a heads up - Dates are Dec 1 through Dec 4 - albeit a virtual event)

Speakers Include:

-Tom Chi (co-creator Google Glass)

-Grady Booch (creator the Unified Modeling Language)

-David Heinemeier Hansson (inventor of Ruby on Rails)

-Brian Fox (invented the GNU Bash shell)

-Hakon Wium Lie (inventor of CSS)

-Qi Lu (Executive Vice President, Microsoft)

-Bram Cohen (inventor of Bittorrent)

-Alex Gaynor (Director, Python Software Foundation, and core committer to Django)

-Sarah Allen (co-creator of After Effects, Flash video, recent Presidential Innovation Fellow)

-Gilad Bracha (co-author of the Java Language Specification)

-Kent Beck (creator of Extreme Programming, created Test Driven Development, co-created Agile, author of 9 books)

-Ward Cunningham (inventor of the wiki, contributed to Extreme Programming, co-author of Design Patterns)

-Hampton Catlin (creator of Sass, Haml, m.wikipedia.org, book author)

-Matei Zaharia (creator of Apache Spark)

-Melody Meckfessel (Google Director of Engineering)

-Jon Skeet (the top answerer on StackOverflow)

-Scott Hanselman (author of multiple books)

-Jeff Haynie (founder of Appcelerator)

-Ryan Bubinski (founder of Codecademy)

-Aaron Skonnard (founder of Pluralsight)

-Floyd Marinescu (founder of InfoQ)

-Steve Newcomb (founder of Famo.us)

-Orion Henry (founder of Heroku)

-Janet Wiener (Engineering at Facebook, big data expert)

-Scott Chacon (CIO, Github)

-Chad Fowler (CTO, Wunderlist, well-known programming educator and blogger)

-Salil Deshpande (open source investor titan)

-Hadi Partovi (Co-founder and CEO of Code.org)

-Rebecca Parsons (CTO, Thoughtworks)

-John Henry Thompson (inventor of Adobe Director and Lingo Scripting Language)

-Yehuda Katz (Ember.js, JQuery, Rails core contributor; inventor of Handlebars)

-Chris Richardson (Java Champion, book author, founder of Cloud Foundry)

Hope to see you online.