Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein (born June 22, 1933) is currently the senior U.S. Senator from California, having held office as a Senator since 1992. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Senator Feinstein holds a number of "firsts"; she is San Francisco's first and only female mayor, the first woman to serve in the Senate from California, one of two first female Jewish senators, and the first woman to chair the Rules and Administration committee of that body.

"' Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born Lawrence Ferling"' on March 24, 1919) is an American poet. He is also the co-owner of the City Lights Bookstore and publishing house; the store and publishing company that published early literary works of the Beat generation, and helped to launch the careers of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.

Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher.

Vendela Vida (born September 6, 1972) is an American novelist, journalist, and editor who lives in San Francisco with her husband, writer Dave Eggers. She graduated from San Francisco University High School in her hometown before attending Middlebury College as an undergraduate. She received an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. She has written three books, "Girls on the Verge", "And Now You Can Go", …

Damian Hess (born December 3 1973), known by stage name MC Frontalot, is a San Franciscan hip hop musician and self-proclaimed "world's 579th greatest rapper." He is best known in nerdcore hip hop and video game culture for naming the nerdcore subgenre, and performing at "Penny Arcade"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s annual Expo.

Jimmy Wales is an Internet entrepreneur and wiki enthusiast, and founder of the Wikipedia project. Jimmy was born in Huntsville , Alabama in 1966, and is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of Alabama . He worked as Research Director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm then located in Chicago .

June Morrall (born 1947) is a writer and San Mateo County [northern California] historian. The native San Franciscan has authored two books, "Half Moon Bay Memories: The Coastside's Colorful Past" and "The Coburn Mystery", an historical account of murder and mayhem in the quaint little village of Pescadero, California. She is considered a "popular historian" who strives to make local history fun to read as well as accessible.

Zoë Keating is a Canadian-born cellist and composer based in San Francisco, California. In her solo performances and recordings (particularly the ongoing project she calls "One Cello x 16"), she uses live electronic sampling and repetition in order to layer the sound of her cello, creating rhythmically dense musical structures. She also served from 2002 to 2006 as second chair cellist in the cello rock band Rasputina.

Dr. Victoria Hale founded The Institute for OneWorld Health in San Francisco, California in 2000. Dr. Hale earned her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is an Adjunct Associate Professor in Biopharmaceutical Sciences at UCSF, and an advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO). Her past affiliations include the US Food and Drug Administration's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and Genentech.

Ianthe Elizabeth Brautigan (born 1959) is an American writer and daughter of the popular author Richard Brautigan.

A former EFF staff member and recipient of EFF's 2007 Pioneer Award , Cory Doctorow is now an EFF fellow. In addition to being an award-winning author of both science fiction and nonfiction works, he is co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing . His novels include Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom ; Little Brother ; and Eastern Standard Tribe . He enjoys googling for interesting facts about long walks on the beach.

Paul J. O'Leary is a engineer at Spock focusing on information extraction, NLP, and data quality.

Patrick Cotter is a marketing and analytics rep. for Spock. When not working for Spock Patrick plays recorder and triangle in the funk-soul-polka band "The Rubber Spoon Incident"~Spin Magazine

I love to use my traditional “watchdog” instincts to serve communities. But also I have a deep desire to help them develop the power of social networks on the internet.

I'm not sure, but I think Spock might be sending invitations to email addresses that I'm searching ... ? Sorry if you got a weird email that looks like it came from me. I didn't mean for that to happen. It just means I'm internet-stalking you, and not doing a very good job.

http://neuralgraffiti.com/about/

Leah Culver founded Pownce with her friends as a way of sending messages, links, files and events to each other. Within 24 hours of private beta launch, 15,000 people had requested an invite for the service. Leah is the web developer for the site and spends most of her time working on feature development, fixing bugs, and scaling the website. Leah's past projects include recruiting ad sponsors to help her purchase a MacBook Pro laptop.

Cycling veggie nomad feminist yogi enforcer. On the good days.

Deadpanning my way through the straits and narrows, the slings and arrows of life. For more see: http://uncorrected.wordpress.com/.

Kathi O’Leary has been capturing eye catching portraits of families and professionals in the Bay Area for 14 years and has and also runs a photography school for students as young as 7. Her portrait studio is on California St in Pacific Heights, San Francisco. She offers digital photography instruction to individuals and groups and holds weeklong workshops for kids during school and summer breaks.