@ingrid I'm no GIS celebrity but first job out of college was making web maps for the NWS, tilted at windmills with OS X geotagging shareware for a while, got to hang out with GeoLoqi folks and do some "Cloud Cartography" WebGL experiments at the next job, tilted at windmills processing satellite images after that, contributed a bit to Polymaps and D3 and now Leaflet most recently.