Chris Messina has worked on Flock, Spread Firefox, CivicSpace and other open source projects and is currently consulting for Adaptive Path and other Silicon Valley startups providing strategy and vision with, hopefully, a dose of reality.

In his free time, Chris works on his hobby -- open source world liberation -- including Bar Camp, Mash Pit, Coworking and WineCamp. "Open source -- because I want control over my life, my time, my future, my present. And it seems like other people should have that control, too." And as much as possible, he spends whatever remaining time he has with Miss Rogue.

Session: A web more woven: the alchemy and practicalities of mashups

Session: The distributed grassroots marketing team: letting your community, advocates, evangelists, and fans do the heavy lifting