Dori Smith asks again why women aren’t being invited to speak at tech conferences (this time pointing at the Ajax Experience 2006)?

I find it funny that someone asks over on the conference site “is this going to be an unconference?”

Uh, no.

I’m thinking a lot about who I want to be part of our Mix06 conference. I’m noodling on an idea I call “the mix masters.”

Those in the industry who know their stuff. Web developers, designers, visionaries, architects, who you’d like to have a conversation with over lunch at a conference.

I think I’ll start a list of mix masters and see where it goes.

Dori Smith is first on the list. She’s on the list cause she was a JavaScript expert before JavaScript was cool.

I deleted a list I was starting here cause I realized that for every name I put on it there were at least four others who were deserving too. Plus, I think it’ll start an interesting conversation. Who has done the best work in the Web design and development fields?

Who else is a mix master? Who would you want to hang with for an hour?