The Team

Tim Hwang is the founder of ROFLCon, the Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences, and the Web Ecology Project. By day, he’s an analyst and strategist with The Barbarian Group. Formerly, he was a researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. You can find him on Twitter here, or at his blog at BrosephStalin.com. He is embarrassed that it took so long to get this bio page updated, and even more ashamed that he listed himself as a “social media expert” once on this page. He is a (power) tool.

(photo courtesy Fred B)

Christina Xu is an undergraduate at Harvard College, where she used to do Computer Science but now studies people who do Computer Science. Besides being Tim’s comic relief sidekick, she also enjoys rollerblading recklessly, rabblerousing for Harvard College Free Culture and the Center for Future Civic Media, and procrastinating on her undergrad thesis about the history of instant messaging by tweeting and blogging.

Ben Weeks has an obvious pun in his name, (its been weeks since he’s heard it!) He wants to know who you are, what you’re doing, and why you expect him to have answers to such questions. He is a reformed web geek, who, despite his reformation, has found himself back on-line. Currently he spends his time in class and playing around the digital and physical bookstacks at Lorem Labs.

Rachel Mercer is a recent Northeastern graduate and the in-house graphic design / multimedia guru. A comic book collector, movie fiend, and type-identity master, Rachel can typically be found in the comforting glow of a laptop or television, either playing a video game or trying to fabricate an IV for her RSS feeds. In the fall, Rachel will be pursuing a Master’s in Communication.

Matt Blake is an undergraduate at Harvard studying Computer Science, whose fascination with computers extends back to playing civilization 1 on his old DOS box in ‘93. He knew he loved the internet when he found out he could download free computer games off it in 5th grade, and has been addicted ever since. He enjoys both technical and social aspects of the computers and the internet, and enjoys exploring both. While he had a few online crushes in middle school, he now dates exclusively offline. He can be found at mattblake.org.

George Rohac Jr is a graduate student at NYU. His thesis is focusing on the webcomics industry. He has  been a telemarketer, a chef’s assistant, a register monkey, a street interceptor, a public relations associate, a university relations intern, a researcher, an intern at The Colbert Report, and is currently Operations Director for Oni Press. He also swears, a lot – usually on twitter.

Carrie Andersen is a teacher and writer, focusing on the relationship between cultural artifacts and political movements. When not ROFL-ing, she plays the drums, competitive badminton (yes, it’s real), and watches reality TV as much as possible. Relatively few of her friends like the internet, so she is quite grateful to the ROFLTeam for existing. You can find her writing on culture here.

Rachel Lovinger is a web content strategist who digs internet culture, pop culture, subculture, and the places where they intersect. She got involved in ROFLcon because she loves introducing interesting people to each other. She has almost every issue of bOING bOING from when it was a print zine, and she last went to school at a time when she had to teach herself HTML because none of the profs knew how to do it.

ALUMNI

Diana Kimball fell in love with the internet. These days, she lives in San Francisco and works in technology. In 2008, she sent many, many emails about ROFLCon. Fortunately, she received many in return.

In general, she is an enthusiast.

Oliver Day helped with security last year and will be lurking in 2010.

MOOT MOOTKINS is a part of the ROFLTeam. He is a motherfucker.

Who Designed Your Awesome Website?
Page design credit goes to Dean Jansen (see above), and the ROFLies were designed by Jennifer Feller. Paul Irish contributed the cool script that allows for infinite scrolling. You guys rock! Also, huge huge thanks to Asheesh Laroia for donating extra hardware and bandwidth for roflcon.org