Greg Elin
About: Greg Elin is the Chief Data Architect at Sunlight Foundation and responsible for creating the Sunlight Mashup Labs. He has helped large and small organizations articulate and prototype new technologies since the early 1990s with a focus on databases. His Fotonotes image annotation concept has been adopted for use by Flickr.com and others. Mr. Elin rholds a Masters from the Tisch School of the Arts’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and a B.A. in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania and considers his education at O'Reilly worth another advanced degree.
Occupation
Chief Data Architect, Sunlight Foundation. "Fetch the data. Go get the data. That's a good boy!"
Hobbies
Dating data models.
Favorite Books
Fooled by Randomness. On Intelligence. Stumbling Toward Happiness. Other Ways of Seeing.
Preferred Programming Languages/Frameworks
Javascript. PHP. Batchtags. Thinking MVC has limitations.