[penguicon-general] Tech Nifties?

[Matt Arnold]

Linux Journal article "Who Are The Hacker Bloggers?" gave me some
ideas for people to keep an eye on through their RSS feeds.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000094

Who knows, perhaps we could get some of them for Tech Nifties? In many
cases, they'd make excellent Tech GoHs for a future year.

Mark Shuttleworth. By day, a billionaire playboy who takes tourism
trips to space. By night, he dons the utility belt in the Canonical,
Inc batcave, and brings into existence: Ubuntu Linux!
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/

Ian Murdock, whose name put the "ian" in "Debian"
http://ianmurdock.com/?page_id=215

Simon Phipps, OpenSolaris, Chief Open Source Officer, Sun Microsystems
http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/

Firefox developers:
Ben Goodger: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/
Blake Ross: http://www.blakeross.com/
Asa Dotsler: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/

Louis Suarez-Potts, OpenOffice
http://homepage.mac.com/luispo/blog/index.html

Miguel de Icaza, started GNOME, Mono, cofounded Ximian
http://tirania.org/blog/

Nat Friedman, Novell VP of Linux Desktops, cofounded Ximian
http://www.nat.org/2006/june/

Naturally if any of these live overseas, they're unlikely to attend.

Discuss?

-Matt