Maxwell from the Diaspora team:

Daniel Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg, Raphael Sofaer, and Ilya Zhitomirskiy.

Four NYU computer science students who bonded over many late nights building a Makerbot at ACM meetings. After being inspired by a talk by Eben Moglen about freedom and ownership online, we started discussing what a distributed social network would look like, but coders like us can never just talk—so we started building.