• Eva Joly
  socio-political activity and cultural integration
• Noam Chomsky
• Slavoj Žižek
• Umberto Eco
• Philip Zimbardo

In the tech world

• Alex Martelli
  • python, programming knowledge, technical respect/authority
• Armin Rigo
• pypy
• Armin Ronacher
  • api design, writing on python
• Benoît Chesneau
  • python/erlang libraries, programming output
• Damien Katz
  • couchdb, technical leadership
• Dave Beazley
  • talks/trainings, swig
• Jacob Kaplan Moss
  • technical leadership
• Miguel de Icaza
  • mono
• Niko Matsakis
  • rust language design
• Pieter Hintjens
  • zeromq, community building, writing on software/society
• Steve Yegge
  • writing on programming
• Zed Shaw
  • teaching

Leadership/management

• Kate Matsudaira
  • leadership, management