Last year was a year of finding many interesting people, online, in email lists and in real life. These are in no particular order, but I respect and appreciate these peoples talent.

• Dougald Hine of School of Everything and Dark Mountain, a talker, thinker and doer.

• Cathal Garvey Makerbot aficionado, maker of the dremelfuge, a centrifuge attachment for a dremel.

• Aaron of Oomlout, and generally geeky with the robots and e-commerce

• Tuur Meneer RCA graduate, doing lots of amazing things with design and societies particularily like the Open Urinomics project he did with Vincent Rouilly + others.

• Joanne Jacobs social media expert, Australian around London, and igniter of Amplified events

• Vincent Rouilly Research scientist pushing forward with open source bio,

• Yaroslav Tenzer medical roboticist, started savepleo.org and other wacky ideas

• George Kuk business academic researching open source software and hardware

• Richard Barbrook academic / writer of the book imaginary futures, part of Guy Debords Class War Games at Wunderbar Festival 2009