the peeps behind values of n
- Rael Dornfest, Founder and CEO, Lead Programmer
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Rael leads the Values of n charge with passion, unearthly creativity, and a repertoire of puns and jokes — some of which are actually good.
Prior to founding Values of n, he was O'Reilly's Chief Technical Officer, program chair for the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (which he continues to chair), series editor of the bestselling Hacks book series, and instigator of O'Reilly's Rough Cuts early access program. He built Meerkat, the first web-based feed aggregator, was champion and co-author of the RSS 1.0 specification, and has written and contributed to six O'Reilly books.
Rael's programmatic pride and joy is the nimble, open source blogging application Blosxom, the principles of which you'll find in the Values of n philosophy and embodied in Stikkit.
- Asha Dornfest, Communicator
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Asha Dornfest has been writing professionally for over ten years. She's written several books about Web publishing, but her most popular (and enduring) book is Microsoft FrontPage For Dummies (Wiley).
After her kids were born, she began writing about the endlessly fascinating and confounding details of parenthood and domestic life. Asha is the Publisher of Parent Hacks, "daily parenting tips from the real experts: actual parents."
our supporting cast
Our team is fortified by a brilliant, dedicated group of contractors, go-to experts, and barn-raisers.
- Michael Buffington, Ad Hoc Community Advocate
- Dan Cederholm, Web Designer to the Stars
- simplebits.com
- James Duncan Davidson, Programmer and Photographer
- duncandavidson.com
- Adam Greene, Programmer and Mensch
- sweetspot.dm
- Aaron Huslage, System Administrator and 120-Decibel Laugher
- huslage.vox.com
- Surj Patel, Enthusiastic Hacker
- surjpatel.com
- Nathan Torkington, Writer, Brainstormer-At-Large
- radar.oreilly.com/nat
- Chrissey Trainello, Graphic Designer and Creator of Paper Thingies
- trainello.com
- Jeremy Voorhis, Programmer
- jvoorhis.com
- David Wheeler, "The Perl Guy"
- justatheory.com, kineticode.com
funding
Values of n is funded and mentored by a stellar group of Silicon Valley and Portland, Oregon angel investors led by Ram Shriram of Sherpalo Ventures.
