Thanks for the list. And for people like me who don't know much about (some of) them, here is a primer: Ian Lance Taylor - gcc maintainer, creator of GNU UUC

Thanks for the list. And for people like me who don't know much about (some of) them, here is a primer: Ian Lance Taylor - gcc maintainer, creator of GNU UUCP Rob Savoye - primary developer of Gnash Tom Lane - member of the core PostgreSQL development team, standardization of JPEG Lou Montulli - co-authored Lynx, came up with HTTP Cookies and HTTP Proxying Jacob Kaplan-Moss - Django maintainer Raymond Hettinger - core developer for Python Margo Seltzer - Berkley DB architect D. Richard Hipp - architect and primary author of SQLite Ben Tilly - developed a bunch of Perl modules Edit: Added standardization of JPEG to Tom Lane's intro.