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SpeakersOne of the best reasons to attend the O'Reilly Open Source Convention is the unprecedented gathering of top-notch presenters, leaders, and experts. Core developers, unique users, and visionaries share their knowledge with you to help you solve your computing or programming challenges. You won't find a gathering like this at any other conference. Jim AbbottSpeaker biography coming soon. Click here for more info. Tom AdelsteinTom Adelstein has a unique combination of talents as a technologist and a business person. For example, he drove a legislative initiative for Open Source Software in Texas in 2003 and created a run time LAMP environment for rapid deployment of eGovernment applications. He is a former Certified Public Accountant, Investment Banker and Entrepreneur. Tom has authored 15 books and several hundred articles in print and on the Internet. Click here for more info. Brian AkerBrian Aker is the director of architecture for MySQL when he helps set direction for technology and looks for opportunities to harness and shape the MySQL database for efforts in Web, OEM, and telephony. In his copious amounts of free time he works on Apache and Perl modules, and hacks on the Asterisk Telephony System (hence, never has a working home phone number). In the past, he has been involved with projects for the Army Engineer Corps, The Virtual Hospital, Splunk, and Slashdot. He lives in Seattle with his dog Rosalynd. Click here for more info. David AllenDavid Allen learned to program at eight years old, and has been working in the computer industry for over 10 years. He has worked with international banks (Schwab, Credit Suisse, JPMorgan), technology companies, and government organizations. David is an expert in security, messaging, enterprise directories, and global-scale mission-critical systems architecture and deployment. He has been an open source advocate and speaker for several years.
Click here for more info. Tim AllwineTim Allwine is a Senior Software Engineer at O'Reilly & Associates. At O'Reilly he develops software for the Market Research group. While at O'Reilly he has developed various tools that collect data from Amazon.com and bring business intelligence to the company. He is also involved in the development of web services here at O'Reilly.Before coming to O'Reilly he worked as a developer for IX Labs, a web development company in Santa Rosa, CA. Click here for more info. John AndersonSpeaker biography coming soon. Click here for more info. Fabio ArciniegasFabio Arciniegas is the President and Chief Technical Officer of Postgraphy, a company he co-founded in 2001 for the development of high-end graphics software and technical consulting, mainly in the areas of Image Processing and XML development. Fabio is the creator and main developer of ShotTreatment. As a writer, Fabio is the author of three books in XML development including the unique C++ XML and Addison Wesleys' upcoming Patterns in XML. He contributes regularly to xml.com.
Click here for more info. Thies C. ArntzenSpeaker biography coming soon.
Click here for more info. Matt AsayMatt Asay is VP of Business Development for Alfresco. Prior to Alfresco Asay co-founded Novell's Linux Business Office, founded the Open Source Business Conference, and ran embedded Linux vendor Lineo's Network & Communications division. Asay earned a JD from Stanford Law School, where he spent two of his three years studying open source licensing under Professor Lawrence Lessig. Matt blogs for InfoWorld and for CNET. Click here for more info. John Paul AshenfelterJohn Paul Ashenfelter is CTO and founder of TransitionPoint.com, where he builds web-based business applications for startups and small companies. He has written the aboutSQL column for O'Reilly's onLAMP.com site, written several books, and speaks about data warehousing and other topics at open source conferences. Click here for more info. R. Geoffrey AveryR. Geoffrey Avery is a computer scientist at GlaxoSmithKline where he builds tools for bioinformaticians. He is also a Perl Monger and occasional contributor to CPAN.
Click here for more info. David AxmarkDavid Axmark is one of the founders of MySQL AB and has been working with MySQL since before it had a name. His involvement with MySQL began with the idea to make an open source SQL RDBMS to replace an old terminal-based tool named UNIREG. Click here for more info. Marcus BörgerMarcus Börger works for Google in Zürich, Switzerland, andspecializes in C/C++, databases, UML, XML, and of course PHP. To the PHP community, he is also known as helly. He is one of the core developers focused on the new OO features of PHP 5 and Zend Engine 2. Börger has 'hacked' around on all kinds of stuff for over 15 years. Click here for more info. David BallengerSpeaker biography coming soon.
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Click here for more info. Kent BeckKent Beck is the Founder and Director of Three Rivers Institute (TRI). His career has combined the practice of software development with reflection, innovation, and communication. His contributions to software development include patterns for software, the rediscovery of test-first programming, the xUnit family of developer testing tools, and Extreme Programming. He currently divides his time between writing, programming, and coaching. Beck is the author/co-author of Contributing to Eclipse, Test-Driven Development: By Example, Extreme Programming Explained, Planning Extreme Programming, The Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns, and the forthcoming JUnit Pocket Guide. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Oregon.
Click here for more info. Stas BekmanStas Bekman is an open source developer, spending most of his time working on the ASF mod_perl project. He is an ASF member, online columnist, and a co-author of Practical mod_perl, published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Click here for more info. Josh BerkusJosh Berkus has been a member of the PostgreSQL Core Team for four years, and leads PostgreSQL contributions & support for Sun Microsystems, and is on the Board of Directors for Software in the Public Interest, Inc. He has been a leader of several other OSS projects, including OpenOffice.org, OpenBRR and LedgerSMB.
Click here for more info. Robert BernierRobert is a PostgreSQL consultant and trainer. He has written for publications such as Sys-Admin, Hakin9 and for the O'Reilly webportal. He is the maintainer of the live CD, pg_live, and is the lead Systems Designer for the ITERation project for the Treasury Board Secretariat (Canadian Federal Government). Click here for more info. Stephen BettsStephen Betts has worked for BBC News for four years. He has been Technical Lead for many projects, such as the General Election website and the BBC children's news website. Since 2002 he has led the Online Systems Development team for BBC News, which is responsible for the development of all applications deployed on the public-facing webservers. Click here for more info. Ask Bjørn HansenAsk Bjørn Hansen is a software developer and consultant focused on Perl, Apache, Linux and other open source technologies. He has worked with Perl for more than eight years, building large and small systems in Perl, including mod_perl systems serving thousands of requests per second. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and has been building and managing much of the perl.org community infrastructure since 1999.
Click here for more info. David N. Blank-EdelmanDavid N. Blank-Edelman is the Director of Technology at the Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Science and the author of the O'Reilly book Perl for System Administration. He has spent the last 18 years as a system/network administrator in large multi-platform environments, including Brandeis University, Cambridge Technology Group, and the MIT Media Laboratory. He has served as Senior Technical Editor for the Perl Journal. Click here for more info. Carol BoughtonSpeaker biography coming soon. Click here for more info. Clive BoughtonDr Clive Boughton has over 25 years of practical experience as a scientist, engineer, software developer, consultant, project manager, company manager, and company director. He also lectures in software engineering. He was directly involved in eVACS, specifically in requirements identification and design. Clive has a PhD in Experimental Physics from the Australian National University.
Click here for more info. Joshua BoverhofJoshua Boverhof is a computer engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a member of the Secure Grid Technology Group. His current focus is creating a web and grid services infrastructure. Josh is a developer on the PyWebsvcs project for Python web services, and pyGridWare a Grid Services implementation. His work in these areas include XML Schema and WSDL stub generation tools, secure messaging, OGSA, and WS-Resource technologies.
Click here for more info. Rich BowenRich Bowen is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, where he works on the documentation of the Apache Web Server. He's also the web guy at Asbury college (asbury.edu) in Wilmore, Kentucky.
Click here for more info. Jeremy BoynesJeremy Boynes joined Gluecode Software with over 20 years experience in enterprise computing. He is a founding partner of Core Developers Network, a consultancy group of leaders in the open source Java community who focus on the corporate Enterprise and targeted expertise in the creation, execution, and development of mission-critical open source projects and infrastructure. Prior to Gluecode, he successfully led multimillion dollar projects for Cisco Systems, BT, and the UK Employment Service as technical architect for Sequent Computer Systems. As chief architect for Bravanta and for Netmosphere, he played roles in ensuring their success by leveraging open source technologies. Boynes is actively involved in the Apache Geronimo J2EE project, as well as projects at OpenEJB and ObjectWeb. His technical specialties include database systems and application security. He earned his master's degree in electrical sciences from the University of Cambridge.
Click here for more info. Tim BunceTim Bunce has been a Perl5-porter since 1994, contributing to the development of the Perl language and many of its core modules. He is the author and maintainer of the Perl DBI module. He is the founder and CTO of Data-Plan Services, a Perl, database, and performance consultancy with an international client base. He is co-author, along with Alligator Descartes, of Programming the Perl DBI, the definitive book on DBI, published by O'Reilly Media.
Click here for more info. Bill BurkeBorn in 1971, Bill Burke fell in love with middleware when he was introduced to DCE while at the parent company of Open Environment Corporation. He later went on to being a core member of the Orbix2000 team at Iona, where he helped them build some of their CORBA products. After weathering a few internet startups building J2EE applications, he stumbled into JBoss and helped them with their clustering architecture and EJB container. Now as lead architect of JBoss 4, his main focus is on bringing AOP concepts and technology to the JBoss application server. He is co-author of O'Reilly's JBoss 3.2 Workbook, and has numerous other in-print and on-line publications. He graduated magna cum laude with a B.S.C.S. from Northeastern University in Boston in 1994. Click here for more info. Joel BurtonJoel Burton is an active member of the Plone development community and serves as chair of the board of the nonprofit Plone Foundation. He leads the open source development division of CIGNEX Technologies. Click here for more info. Rocco CaputoRocco Caputo has been an avid computer programmer since forever. Today he writes accounting and database software by day and keeps sane by freelancing and writing award-winning Perl libraries at night. In his spare time he fills the backs of old printouts with algorithms and intricate plans for world domination.
Click here for more info. Maciej CeglowskiMaciej Ceglowski is lead developer at the Vermont-based National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, where he helps to create advanced open source search engines and runs the NITLE Blog Census (http://www.blogcensus.net). He is an avid Perl programmer and the author of several CPAN modules, including Search::ContextGraph, WWW::Blog::Identify, and AI::General. He keeps a weblog at www.idleworlds.com.
Click here for more info. Joe CelkoJoe is one of the most widely read SQL authors in the world. His current column "Celko" is in Intelligent Enterprise magazine. He is the author of SQL For Smarties, Instant SQL, SQL Puzzles & Answers, Data & Databases, and Trees & Hierarchies In SQL.
Click here for more info. Casey ChanCasey Chan is a Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems. She speaks to developer audiences around the world on J2EE, Web services, open source technologies, and enterprise computing. Casey is a Star Wars fanatic and is pursuing an MBA at the USC Marshall School of Business. Click here for more info. Terry ChayTerry Chay was the only Mac user at Plaxo, where he develops the web-based version of their product (they tolerate him because he stinks at CounterStrike). In past lives, he developed the communication layer between an internet-enabled home control device and the web browser, voice portals, PDAs and cell phones via SOAP in PHP, and the first internet travel search engine, also in PHP. He gives seminars on PHP development, which really is just a veiled excuse to play with Keynote. He also thinks it’s pretty cool that he can boast at least six years of Ajax experience in his resume when it has only been around for two of them. Click here for more info. Christian ChelineSpeaker biography coming soon.
Click here for more info. Stuart Cheshire, Ph.D.Stuart Cheshire is currently a senior engineer at Apple and is the architect behind Rendezvous, Apple's revolutionary home networking technology. He previously worked on IBM Token Ring with Madge Networks in the UK and has published research papers in the areas of wireless networking and Mobile IP. Cheshire received B.A. and M.A. degrees from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, UK. He holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in California.
Click here for more info. Ryo ChijiiwaRyo Chijiiwa is the Author and Project Manager of IlohaMail.org, a light-weight PHP-based webmail application, which has been translated into 25 languages and is used by thousands of private, public and academic organizations around the world. In his free time, he is a full-time student at the University of Chicago, a freelance web developer, as well as an aspiring film-maker and aikido-ka. Click here for more info. chromaticchromatic is the technical editor of the O'Reilly Network. He edits ONLamp.com, the Linux Dev Center, and Perl.com. In his spare time, he is a prolific CPAN developer, a member of the Perl 6 design team, and a contributor to Perl 5, Parrot, and Pugs. chromatic is also the author or co-author of several books, including Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook (with Ian Langworth) and Perl Hacks (with Damian Conway and Curtis "Ovid" Poe).
Click here for more info. Nicholas ClarkNicholas Clark first used Perl processing data for a C++ program, got sucked in as a core porter, and is now trapped beyond the event horizon as the 5.8 maintenance pumpking. He is part of Fotango's conspiracy of orange, and resolves to write more Acme:: modules in future. Click here for more info. Justin ClarkeJustin is a Manager in Ernst & Young's Rudolph W. Giuliani Advanced Security Center in New York. He specializes in attack and penetration services including network, web application, source code and wireless testing work for some of America's largest organizations. Justin also does ongoing research in developing security tools for penetrating corporate web applications, servers, and wireless networks Click here for more info. Jeremy ColeJeremy Cole is MySQL Geek and co-founder at Proven Scaling LLC, where he consults on architecture, performance, scalability, reliability, and availability. Click here for more info. Garrett ConatyGarrett Conaty is an open source evangelist for BEA, most notably the Apache Beehive project. He has over ten years of industry experience, with the last six years focused on SOA and J2EE development in both integration and infrastructure. Click here for more info. Megan ConklinDr. Megan Conklin is an assistant professor in the Department of Computing Sciences at Elon University. Prior to joining the ranks of academia, she served as a software developer in numerous start-up software companies, and was the proud owner of the North Carolina "!#PERL" license plate. Click here for more info. Damian ConwayDamian has been a vi addict for quarter of a century. His h, j, k, and l keys are polished blank with overuse. He's noremapped his space and tab keys to more useful functions. His .vimrc is over 600 lines long, about 90% of it scripting code. VIM is his second favorite programming language and his only IDE.
Click here for more info. Joseph ConwayJoe Conway has been involved with PostgreSQL as a contributor since 2001. His Postgres work includes implementation of set-returning (a.k.a. table) functions, improvements to bytea and array data types, several "contrib" libraries, and other miscellaneous features and fixes. Conway holds an MBA from San Diego State University and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Virginia Tech. He has twenty+ years' of professional experience in a wide range of business, engineering, manufacturing, and software development tasks.
Click here for more info. Rod CopeRod Cope is the CTO and founder of OpenLogic, Inc. He has 20 years of software development experience, including nine years of Java. Cope has used Groovy, JBoss, Hibernate, AspectJ, MySQL, Ant, and other open aource projects extensively in commercial applications. Cope has spoken on Groovy and other topics at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention and to Java User Groups around the country. He is currently writing a book on Groovy for O'Reilly. He holds both bachelor's and master's degrees in Software Engineering from the University of Louisville. Click here for more info. Doug CuttingDoug Cutting has worked on search technology for 20 years. This includes five years at Xerox PARC, three years at Apple, and over four years at Excite. In 1998 he wrote Lucene, an open-source search library which became an Apache project in 2001. In 2003 he founded Nutch, an open-source web search application, and in 2006 he started Hadoop, an open-source distributed-computing framework, both at Apache. Doug currently works for Yahoo!. Click here for more info. Winston DamarilloWinston Damarillo is founder and CEO of Gluecode Software. Prior to founding Gluecode in 2001, he spent several years at Intel Corporation, where he held roles in venture capital, strategic marketing, and product development. Damarillo was instrumental in launching new businesses for Intel and successfully led Intel's marketing initiatives with strategic software partners and services providers. During his time at Intel Capital, Damarillo was responsible for investments in the enterprise software and services sector, which resulted in four IPOs. As a voting member of OASIS web services standards, he is a recognized expert in portal technologies, XML, Web services, and open source technologies. Damarillo received his B.S. degree in industrial engineering from De La Salle University. Click here for more info. Miguel de IcazaAs the founder and leader of the GNOME Foundation, de Icaza is one of the foremost luminaries in the Linux development community. With his seemingly boundless energy, de Icaza has galvanized the effort to make Linux accessible and available to the average computer user. He brings this same excitement to his role as CTO of Ximian. de Icaza was instrumental in porting Linux to the SPARC architecture and led development of the Midnight Commander file manager and the Gnumeric spreadsheet. He is also a primary author of the design of the Bonobo component model, which leads the way in the development of large-scale applications in GNOME.
Click here for more info. Kyle DentKyle Dent is the author of Postfix: The Definitive Guide and works as an independent consultant and software developer in the New York metropolitan area. He has designed and implemented various security, network, and web-based applications for technology and financial firms.
Click here for more info. Nitesh DhanjaniNitesh Dhanjani is a manager at Ernst and Young’s Advanced Security Centers, and is the author of O’Reilly’s new book, Network Security Tools: Writing, Hacking, and Modifying Security Tools. He is also the author of Hacknotes: Unix and Linux Security, published by Osborne McGraw-Hill, and a contributing author to the bestselling security book, Hacking Exposed 4. He is a frequent speaker at security conferences such as Blackhat, Hack in the Box, and OSCON. Prior to Ernst & Young, Dhanjani was a senior consultant at Foundstone where he contributed to and taught Foundstone's "Ultimate Hacking: Expert" and "Ultimate Hacking" security courses. Dhanjani graduated from Purdue University with both bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science. Click here for more info. Paul DravisPaul Dravis has participated in the technology sector for over 20 years from various perspectives. His background includes advanced technology strategy and application development and investment management. Project work has been in the areas of object-oriented application development, electronic messaging, distributed computing, security management, data networking and global market risk management systems. Media exposure includes the Wall Street Journal, ABC (Nightline), BBC, CNN, CNET, CNBC, National Public Radio, New York Times, Business Week, and Computerworld. Click here for more info. Micah DubinkoMicah Dubinko serves as an editor and author of the W3C XForms specification. He works at Cardiff Software as a Principal Software Engineer and Chief XML Architect. Micah is the author of O'Reilly XForms Essentials available online at http://dubinko.info/writing/xformsand has launched a companion tutorial site, XForms Institute at http://xformsinstitute.com. Click here for more info. Edd DumbillEdd Dumbill is a writer, editor, and free software hacker. He edited O'Reilly's XML.com from 1999 to 2004, is the publisher of XMLhack.com, and chairs the annual XML Europe conference. He packages Bluetooth software for Debian GNU/Linux and is the author of the GNOME Bluetooth subsystem.
Click here for more info. James A. DuncanJames Duncan is Fotango’s Evangelist and spends a lot of his time attempting to improve software and save us from "yak-shaving". He has been active in the open source community for over 10 years and a speaker at conferences for 5. In his spare time he tries to become proficient at all forms of DIY. This effort has, thus far, been futile.
Click here for more info. Robin DunnRobin Dunn, the creator and maintainer of wxPython, has been working in the software industry for 18 years on a wide variety of applications. He discovered both wxWindows and Python in 1995 while looking for a cross-platform toolkit and has never (willingly) looked back. Dunn was awarded the ActiveState Programmers\u2019 Choice Award at the 2002 O\u2019Reilly Open Source Convention. He is working for the Open Source Applications Foundation, improving wxPython for use in their flagship product, Chandler.
Click here for more info. Esther DysonEsther's primary activity is investing in start-ups and guiding many of them as a board member. Her board seats include Boxbe, CVO Group, Eventful, Evernote, IBS Group (Russia, advisory board), Meetup, Midentity (UK), NewspaperDirect, Yandex (Russia)äand WPP Group (not a start-up). As a two-time weightless flyer, she is also active in the commercial space/airline start-up world. She will run the third annual Flight School conference, on the new air-taxi market, this June 20 to 22 in Aspen, CO. She also blogs occasionally for the Huffington Post. In both her investments and her nonprofit activities, she has always been concerned with the impact of information (technology) on business and society. Click here for more info. Freeman DysonFreeman Dyson is a retired professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has worked on pure mathematics, atomic physics, nuclear reactors, solid-state physics, astrophysics and biology. He has written a number of books about science for the general public. Disturbing the Universe (1979) is a portrait-gallery of people he has known during his career as a scientist. Weapons and Hope (1984) is a study of the ethical problems of war and peace. The Sun, the Genome and the Internet (1999) discusses the question whether modern technology could be used to narrow the gap between rich and poor rather than to widen it. Click here for more info. George DysonGeorge Dyson is a boat designer, writer, and historian of technology whose interests have ranged from the development and redevelopment of the Aleut kayak (Baidarka, 1986) to the evolution of digital computing and telecommunications (Darwin Among the Machines, 1997) and, most recently, nuclear bomb-propelled space exploration (Project Orion, 2002). Click here for more info. Ryan EatmonRyan Eatmon is an EDA specialist for Texas Instruments. He has contributed several Perl applications to the Jabber project and maintains the Net::Jabber Perl library. He is currently serving on the Jabber Council and the Board of Directors for the Jabber Software Foundation (JSF).
Click here for more info. Dirk ElmendorfDirk J. Elmendorf is one of the co-founders of Rackspace Managed Hosting and serves as Chief Technology Evangelist. He serves as a research and development leader, helping to develop and evaluate the new products and services he promotes in his evangelical role.
Click here for more info. Justin ErenkrantzJustin R. Erenkrantz is a Senior Software Engineer at Joost. He currently serves as a Director for The Apache Software Foundation. He has been a long-time contributor to the development of the Apache HTTP Server, Subversion, APR, Serf, mod_mbox, and flood. Click here for more info. Schuyler ErleSchuyler Erle is a free software developer and activist. He is responsible for NoCatAuth, an early open source wireless captive portal, and geocoder.us, an open source U.S. address geocoder. Erle wrote O'Reilly's Mapping Hacks with Jo Walsh and Rich Gibson, and Google Map Hacks, also with Rich. Presently, he works with MetaCarta in Cambridge, MA, USA, developing nitfy geographic projects like OpenLayers, an open source web mapping framework written in pure JavaScript, and Gutenkarte, a service for exploring the geographic dimension of classic works of literature. Erle is proud to be a founding member of the OSGeo Foundation. Click here for more info. George EssigGeorge Essig is a web developer for the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Since 2000, he has been using Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, and PHP to automate the publishing of economic research and data to the web. Previously, he worked as a research analyst at the St. Louis and Chicago Feds programming macroeconomic forecasting models. He holds a Masters in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a Bachelors in Economics from the University of Missouri. Click here for more info. Patrick EylerPat Eyler has been an advocate of free software since the early nineties. He is currently the Kaitiaki (Manager) of the Koha project. When he's not working as a systems engineer or working on Koha, he's liable to be playing with his kids.
Click here for more info. Fran FabrizioFran Fabrizio is a senior systems administrator for the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He uses open source software to support a network of Linux, Solaris, and Windows clients, and to meet the department's needs within the limits of a public university budget. Click here for more info. Jayson FalknerJayson is a Linux/Java proponent who currently works part-time as a Java consultant and full-time at the University of Michigan in pursuit of a PhD in Bioinformatics. He is best known for his technical writing, particularly Servlets and JavaServer Pages; the J2EE Web Tier, his participation on JSR 152 (JSP 20), and his work helping develop open-source Proteomics tools.
Click here for more info. Bruno Ferreira de SouzaSpeaker biography coming soon.
Click here for more info. Bryan Field-ElliotBryan Field-Elliot began working with social software in 1982, running a bulletin board on his TRS-80 at age 12. Since then, he has designed and implemented software systems for many companies. Bryan currently serves as CTO of Ping Identity Corporation, building open-source Digital Identity management systems and networks.
Click here for more info. Mike FitzgeraldMike Fitzgerald is a writer, author, programmer, and teacher. He is the author of Learning Ruby (O'Reilly, 2007), XML Hacks (O'Reilly, 2004), and Learning XSLT (O'Reilly, 2003). He also wrote Building B2B Applications with XML (John Wiley, 2001), and XSL Essentials (John Wiley, 2001).
Click here for more info. Brad FitzpatrickBrad Fitzpatrick was the founder and CTO of Danga Interactive, best known for the popular community blogging and social networking site LiveJournal.com. Fitzpatrick grew LiveJournal from its early days as a hobby project in college to a site with over 13 million accounts. Throughout LiveJournal's history, Fitzpatrick led the development of a number of open source tools and projects including memcached, OpenID, MogileFS, Perlbal, and DJabberd. Click here for more info. Brian W. FitzpatrickBrian W. Fitzpatrick is a software engineer at Google, working on their open source efforts. Prior to that, Brian worked for CollabNet on Subversion and related version control tools. He also worked at Apple as a senior engineer in the education and professional services divisions. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, a Subversion developer since 2000, and a co-author of the O'Reilly book Version Control with Subversion. Click here for more info. Chad FowlerChad Fowler has been a software developer and manager for some of the world's largest corporations. He recently lived and worked in India, setting up and leading an offshore software development center. He is co-founder of Ruby Central, Inc., a non-profit corporation responsible for the annual International Ruby Conference and The International Rails Conference, and is a leading contributor in the Ruby community. Chad is a contributor and editor for numerous books and is author of My Job Went to India (and all I got was this lousy book): 52 Ways to Save Your Job and Rails Recipes.
Click here for more info. Nat FriedmanSpeaker biography coming soon. Click here for more info. Ben GalbraithBen Galbraith is a frequent speaker, independent consultant, conference producer, and author of several books. He is an experienced CEO, CTO, and Software Architect, and is presently involved in a number of business ventures. Ben wrote his first computer program when he was six years old, started his first business at ten, and entered the IT workforce just after turning twelve. He has delivered hundreds of technical presentations world-wide; he was the top-rated speaker at JavaOne 2006, making him a "rock star" in that community according to Sun Microsystems. However, he doesn't yet have any groupies to show for the accomplishment. Click here for more info. Patrick GalbraithPatrick Galbraith, who has been involved with open source projects for the past twelve years, is a senior systems engineer at MySQL. His primary focus is MySQL Federated Storage Handler, DBD::mysql enhancements, as well as working on other MySQL storage engine projects. Previously, he headed the Slash development team at OSDN during the initial release of Slash 1.x and 2.0, as well as developing Source Forge Foundries. Click here for more info. Marcio GalliSpeaker biography coming soon. Click here for more info. Bdale GarbeeBdale is a former Debian Project Leader and as HP Linux CTO he helps to ensure Linux will work well on future HP systems. His background includes many years of both UNIX internals and embedded systems work. He helped jump-start ports of Debian GNU/Linux to 5 architectures other than i386. Click here for more info. Rich GibsonRich Gibson is a Perl/Database programmer in Santa Rosa. He has worked professionally with computers since 1982 when he created Public Utility Rate Case Models in SuperCalc on an Osborne II. While the technology has changed, his fascination with using finger muscle power to control electrical impulses has not. His current fascination is creating tools to aid in the acquisition, management, and presentation of information with a geographic component. He is currently converting an old golf cart into a mobile geo annotation platform.
Click here for more info. Thomas GoetzThomas Goetz is the articles editor at Wired Magazine, where he coordinates special projects, including "The Free and the Unfree: An Atlas of the Intellectual Property Wars," which appeared in the June issue. Last November he wrote Wired's cover story "Open Source Everywhere," documenting the spread of the open source approach to other disciplines. Prior to joining Wired, he was an executive editor at the Industry Standard, the late but lauded newsmagazine of the Internet Economy. Previously, he was a staff reporter at the Wall Street Journal. He started his career at the Village Voice. A graduate of Bates College, Goetz also holds a master's degree in American Literature from the University of Virginia. Click here for more info. Paul GrahamPaul Graham is the author of On Lisp, Ansi Common Lisp, and Hackers & Painters; was co-founder of Viaweb (now Yahoo Store); discovered a simple Bayesian spam filter that inspired many present filters; and is one of the partners in Y Combinator. He has a PhD in computer science from Harvard and studied painting at RISD and the Accademia in Florence. Click here for more info. Zak GreantZak Greant's love of free software and open source is turning him into a penguin. The only visible changes (so far) are a gradual accumulation of blubber, a loss of hair (which he hopes is the prelude to feather growth), and a growing preference for raw fish. When not practicing how to waddle or wear a tuxedo, he works with eZ systems AS as their managing director for North America; with the Mozilla Foundation on various community issues; and volunteers with the Free Software Foundation's Compliance Lab.
Click here for more info. Andi GutmansAndi Gutmans has been a contributor to PHP since release 3.0. He is a member of the PHP Group, the Apache Software Foundation, and the Eclipse Foundation. Recently, Gutmans spearheaded the object-oriented improvements for the newly released PHP 5 release. He is co-founder and vice-president of technology for Zend Technologies, which provides products and services for the PHP market.
Click here for more info. Uri GuttmanUri Guttman is world renowned as a Perl raconteur and bon vivant. He has regaled Perl Mongers wherever they gather with his adventures into the dark nooks and crannies of Larry's language. He lives in Arlington, MA with his wife Linda, cat, and too many computers (dead and alive).
Click here for more info. Christopher HaddadChris Haddad is a Senior Consultant and strategist with the Burton Group’s Application Platform Strategies service. He has over 13 years of experience architecting and managing application development initiatives and providing advice to leading Web services companies such as Grand Central, Flamenco Networks, Adjoin, Securant, Employease, Jamcracker, TRX, and Raygun. Prior to joining Burton Group, Haddad was CTO for Cobia Communications, an Atlanta based consulting firm providing XML Web services expertise. A strong proponent of Web service standards, Haddad currently chairs the Atlanta-based Web Services Special Interest Group. He has participated in the development of technology specifications for the OASIS FWSI TC, IBSi, ITML, and HR-XML working groups. He worked on Web services infrastructure for the Apache Axis and Employease EConnect projects and was granted committer status on the Apache Axis project in 2002. He is currently authoring a book on Apache Axis for O’reilly and Associates.
Click here for more info. Paul HammantPaul Hammant is an Architect for ThoughWorks, Inc in the UK. He leads the Inversion of Control interest group there. He's been a consultant since 1989. In terms of OSS, Paul co-leads PicoContainer & NanoContainer projects at Codehaus, leads the Enterprise Object Broker & Jesktop projects at SourceForge, and founded the AltRMI project that is in the Incubator at Apache. Click here for more info. Kip HamptonKip Hampton is a freelance Web Developer living in sunny Southern California. In addition to having written the monthly Perl/XML column for XML.com, he is the also the author of the XML::Schematron and XML::SemanticDiff modules, co-author of the XML::SAX distribution. He sits on the Apache Software Foundation's Project Management Committee for the Apache AxKit XML Publishing and Application Server project, and has written XML Publishing With AxKit published by O'Reilly & Associates. When he is not hacking Perl or writing, he enjoys avant-garde cinema, improvisational comedy, and off-roading in his Jeep.
Click here for more info. Perrin HarkinsPerrin Harkins is a senior engineer at Plus Three, an open source-oriented consulting company. His prior experience includes development at large web-based businesses like eToys.com and CitySearch.com. He has published articles on perl.com and contributed to several books about web development. He is a frequent participant in open source projects, and a member of the Apache Software Foundation.
Click here for more info. Reece HartReece Hart is currently a scientist in the Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering departments at Genentech, Inc. in South San Francisco. His primary interest is in the development and application of computational techniques to identify new members of therapeutically-relevant protein families. He earned a MS in computer science in 1994 from Washington University, and Ph.D. in molecular biophysics in 1998 from Washington University School of Medicine. Prior to joining Genentech, he was a postdoctoral scientist in the computational biology center at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center. I lobby internally for open source technologies where practical, and just celebrated my seventh anniversary being MacOS- and Windows-free. Click here for more info. Erik HatcherErik Hatcher co-authored Lucene in Action and Java Development with Ant. He has spoken at numerous conference and symposiums worldwide, including OSCON and EuroOSCON. Most recently he has been integrating the blinding speed of Lucene (via Solr) with the simplicity of Ruby on Rails to build Collex, a folksonomy grounded scholarly tool. Click here for more info. Jack HerringtonJack Herrington is a Senior Software Engineer with more than twenty years of experience. He is the author of Code Generation in Action and the editor of the Code Generation Network.
Click here for more info. D. Richard HippD. Richard Hipp is the founder of Hipp, Wyrick & Company, Inc. (a.k.a. Hwaci), a small North Carolina company providing custom algorithm design and implementation services to large corporations and governments for over 12 years. Hipp holds an M.S.E.E. from Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University in Durham, NC.
Click here for more info. Sterling HughesSterling Hughes is a PHP core developer, whose contributions, among other things, include writing the SimpleXML, cURL, XSLT, and Mono extensions. He is the author of the PHP Developer's Cookbook and currently writes a monthly column for the PHP Magazine entitled "Programming with PHP."
Click here for more info. Jim HuguninJim Hugunin is an architect on the Common Language Runtime team at Microsoft where he leads the development of IronPython as well as a broader effort to further improve the support for dynamic and scripting languages within the .NET platform. Prior to joining Microsoft, Jim worked at Xerox PARC as one of the principal designers of the AspectJ language and tools. Jim is also the creator of Jython, one of the first and still one of the most popular scripting languages for the Java platform and the second production-quality implementation of the Python programming language. Click here for more info. Jason HunterJason Hunter is Principal Technologist with Mark Logic, specializing in large-scale XML content manipulation using XQuery. He's the author of "Java Servlet Programming" (O'Reilly Media) and the creator of the JDOM open source project for Java-optimized XML manipulation.
Click here for more info. Brian IngersonIngy döt Net is a hacker with more current projects than years to complete them. Some of his more well-known creations are Inline.pm, Kwiki, and YAML. He is currently homeless, traveling worldwide from hackathon to hackathon.
Click here for more info. Brian JepsonBrian Jepson is an O'Reilly editor, programmer, and co-author of Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks and Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther. He's also a volunteer system administrator and all-around geek for AS220, a non-profit arts center in Providence, Rhode Island. AS220 gives Rhode Island artists uncensored and unjuried forums for their work. These forums include galleries, performance space, and publications. Brian sees to it that technology, especially free software, supports that mission. Click here for more info. Brewster KahleSince the mid-1980s, Brewster has focused on developing transformational technologies for information discovery and digital libraries. In 1989 Brewster invented the Internet’s first publishing system, WAIS (Wide Area Information Server) system and in 1989, founded WAIS Inc., a pioneering electronic publishing company that was sold to America Online in 1995. In 1996, Brewster founded Internet Archive, the largest publicly accessible, privately funded digital archive in the world. At the same time, he co-founded Alexa Internet in April 1996, which was sold to Amazon.com in 1999. Alexa's services are bundled into more than 80% of Web browsers. Brewster earned a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1982. As a student, he studied artificial intelligence with Marvin Minsky and W. Daniel Hillis. In 1983, Brewster helped start Thinking Machines, a parallel supercomputer maker, serving there as lead engineer for six years. He is profiled in Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite (HardWired, 1996). He was selected as a member of the Upside 100 in 1997, Micro Times 100 in 1996 and 1997, and Computer Week 100 in 1995.
Click here for more info. Mitchell KaporMitchell Kapor is active in the world of open source software as the founder and president of the Open Source Applications Foundation, which is developing Chandler, a new personal information manager, and as chair of the Mozilla Foundation. Kaporl founded Lotus Development Corporation in 1982 and designed Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer app" which made the PC ubiquitous in business. He is also the co-founder (in 1990) of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and currently serves as a director of the Mitchell Kapor Foundation and of the Level Playing Field Institute. Click here for more info. Robert KayeRobert is a diehard MP3 fan dedicated to improving the digital audio experience. After studying Computer Engineering at Cal Poly he joined Xing Technology where he worked on the AudioCatalyst project. At EMusic, Robert worked on FreeAmp and started the MusicBrainz community metadata project, which continues as his main obsession today.
Click here for more info. Vivek KheraVivek Khera, Ph.D., co-founder and CTO of MailerMailer LLC, has over 15 years of experience developing scalable, database-driven Internet-based products and services. He holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Duke University and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Click here for more info. Richard KilmerRichard Kilmer is the founder of Virginia-based software and services company InfoEther, Inc.. His background includes peer-to-peer software, wireless web, workflow, and pen computing. His current projects make production use of Ruby on several DARPA research projects. He is an active member of the Ruby development community working on Alph, FreeRIDE, RubyGems, RubyJDWP, Jabber4R, and hosts RubyForge.org.
Click here for more info. Brian KirschSpeaker biography coming soon. Click here for more info. Casey KochmerCasey Kochmer's professional programming experience spans the past 15 years. Since 1996, his emphasis has been on Web development using the server side Web languages. Now actively promoting the JavaServer Pages specification, heis a co-founder of JSPInsider.com, a web site devoted to technical support for programmers making the jump to this development environment. He also is president of Amberjack Software LLC. He has co-authored JSP and XML from Addison Wesley, Professional JSP, second edition by WROX, and Beginning JSP Web Development by WROX.
Click here for more info. John KoenigJohn Koenig is the President of Riseforth, Inc. management consultant to hardware and software technology companies, and IT organizations worldwide. He has held engineering and marketing management positions at Fortune 500 companies General Electric and Tektronix, and at startups Mercado and Myrio. He served for six years as corporate counsel and an officer of nCUBE and more recently led regional business development for Zuken, one of Japan's largest software firms. John worked in Tokyo for GE Japan in the design automation field, and as an associate for Mori Sogo, a top Japanese law firm. He pioneered video-on-demand licensing with major Hollywood film studios and the licensing of television programming for delivery over DSL. Riseforth provides clients with marketing and licensing strategies to implement progressive open source and hosted service business models. Next to open source and net-native applications, John's favorite disruptive technology is residential real estate. He is the founder of Real Estate Services of America and the author of numerous audio CDs on residential real estate transactions. In addition, He recently designed the SafeAir line of mobile air filters. He has a B.S. from the University of San Francisco and a J.D. from University of California, Hastings. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the State Bar of California, and a licensed California Real Estate broker. Click here for more info. Satya KomatineniSatya Komatineni is the creator of Aspire/J2EE: a declarative RAD tool for developing server side applications. He has published over 20 articles with O'Reilly on Java, .Net, XML, and Architecture. He has also created 'Aspire Knowledge Central' for knowledge gathering and disemination. He regularly contributes to java.net via weblogs. He is an active member of an SBIR (Small Business Innovative Research) team at Indent, Inc., resulting in a number of SBIR grants including a recent phase2 grant. You can also find him in the IT trenches coding everyday java. Click here for more info. Peter KornPeter Korn has been working on disability access to computing since 1992 starting with Berkeley Access - creators of the first graphical screen reader and magnifier. At Sun since 1996, Peter helped develop and implement the Java Accessibility architecture, and wrote the Java Access Bridge for Windows. As Sun's Accessibility Architect, he is involved with accessibility of GNOME, StarOffice, Mozilla, Evolution, and numerous other projects within Sun. With Pat Sueltz he received the Helen Keller Achievement award for Sun's leadership in GNOME accessibility, and he received the American Foundation for the Blind Access Award for Sun's Java Accessibility architecture. Peter Korn is Sun Microsystems' Accessibility Architect. Click here for more info. Mike KruckenbergMike Kruckenberg is a long-time MySQL devotee who has used MySQL personally and professionally since the early days of web-based applications. Besides being the go-to guy for all things MySQL at his day job, Mike is an active member of the MySQL community. Mike is the co-author of Pro MySQL (Apress) and the MySQL Cluster Certification Study. He did the technical review for Expert MySQL (Apress) on MySQL source code modifications. Mike is a member of a few MySQL Guilds, regularly presents at tech conferences, and actively writes about MySQL and other (mostly) technical things at mike.kruckenberg.com.
Click here for more info. Daniel KushnerAs Director of Training and Certification, Daniel is responsible for the Zend PHP Certification program. In addition to designing the Certification program he developed the Zend PHP Training program, which provides the necessary study guide and classes to help PHP developers become Zend PHP certified. As part of the program, Daniel also initiates and maintains business relationships and partnerships with worldwide PHP training facilities. Prior to Zend Technologies, Daniel was a Senior Software Engineer at DynamicLogic, responsible for developing integrated research recruitment solutions used in name brand websites including Yahoo!, AOL, and Lycos. Click here for more info. Ramnivas LaddadRamnivas Laddad is the author of several books, articles, and papers as well as a speaker at several venues. His most recent book, AspectJ in Action: Practical Aspect-Oriented Programming(Manning, 2003) , has been labeled as the most useful guide to AOP/AspectJ. He has been developing complex software systems using technologies such as Java, J2EE, AspectJ, UML, networking, real-time systems, and XML for over a decade. He is an active member of the AspectJ user community and has been involved with aspect-oriented programming from its early form. Click here for more info. Christian LahtiChristian Lahti has over 15 years experience in the IT industry. He is an expert in security, systems, and networking, having developed and implemented global IT infrastructures with a focus on Linux and open source as well as providing consulting expertise for successful cross-platform integrations and interoperability. He is also skilled in databases and web development. He is a speaker at LinuxWorld and OSCON, and was the lead developer and technical editor of the book Windows To Linux Migration Toolkit, a Syngress title.
Click here for more info. Robert "r0ml" Lefkowitzr0ml is an software architect and systems designer with over thirty years of experience. For two decades, r0ml worked on Wall Street, developing market data, trading, risk management, and quantitative analysis systems. More recently, as chief technical architect at AT&T Wireless, he drove the improvement of their CRM, ERP, commission, and data warehousing systems. Over the last several years, r0ml has become increasingly interested in open source software strategy at large enterprises, and is a frequent speaker on the topic.
Click here for more info. Andy LesterAndy Lester petdance.com has been aprofessional programmer for over twenty years and Perl evangelist for a decade. As one of the core Perl developers, Andy's interests in Perl focus on quality assurance. He maintains eight testing modules on the CPAN, as well as the Perl QA website. Andy is a frequent speaker at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, YAPC, and at Perl Monger meetings around the country.
Click here for more info. Ted LeungTed Leung is a Senior Engineer at the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF), where he is working on the Chandler Personal Information Manager. He is also using his experiences as a member of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) to help OSAF bootstrap a vibrant community around Chandler. Ted continues his involvement with the ASF, where he is working to help new projects become a part of the Apache community. He was one of the original developers of the Xerces-J XML parser, and a founding member of the Apache XML Project. Prior to working at OSAF, he worked for several years as an independent consultant focusing on Java, XML, and web services. Other projects he has worked on include IBM's XML4J, Apple's Newton PDA, and on the compound document portion of Taligent's object-oriented frameworks. Ted is the author of Professional XML Development with Apache Tools, and has written several trade magazine articles and academic papers. You can find Ted's weblog at weblog.
Click here for more info. Zach LevowZach Levow is a pioneer in mail server development, remote access, and the free Internet space. As Co-founder and Vice President of Engineering of Barracuda Networks, he leads the continued development of the Barracuda Spam Firewall Family of solutions. Prior to Barracuda Networks, Levow was Co-founder and Vice President of Engineering for Affinity Path, a self-service, private label and profitable DSL/dial-up ISP with over 4,000 partners. Prior to Affinity Path, he was co-founder and CTO of Spinway, Inc., the fastest growing ISP in history reaching eight million customers in just eight months before being acquired by Kmart Corporation in November 2001. During his tenure at Spinway, Levow was the lead developer of the Spinway architecture, one of the world's largest client server applications at that time. He has also worked as a software development and architectural software design consultant for clients such as Sun Microsystems, Computer Sciences Corporation, Cadence Design Systems, and Motorola, Inc. Zach received his Bachelor of Science in Math and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh.
Click here for more info. Marcel LevyMarcel Levy is the technical lead for the Reno Gazette-Journal's online department. He has been creating content-rich websites for almost a decade. He was the co-writer for the SCHWA World Operations Manual (Chronicle Books, 1997). He lives with his wife Rachael and three kids in Reno, Nev. In his spare time he pursues a Ph.D. at the University of Nevada, Reno. Click here for more info. Jeff LicquiaJeff Licquia has twenty years of broad experience with computer technology, from embedded systems to system administration to high-level system development. His current responsibilities at Progeny include its open source projects at platform.progeny.com, such as discover, Anaconda for Debian, and Componentized Linux. Jeff lives in the Indianapolis area with his wife and two children. Click here for more info. Thomas LimoncelliAuthor of O'Reilly's Time Management for System Administrators and co-author of The Practice of System and Network Administration from Addison-Wesley (second edition just released). Tom is an internationally recognized speaker on system administration and time management. He received the SAGE 2005 Outstanding Achievement award. A sysadmin and network wonk since 1987, he has worked at small and large companies, and currently works at Google's NYC office. EverythingSysadmin.com
Click here for more info. Bob LisbonneBob Lisbonne joined the Silicon Valley office of Matrix Partners in 2001. Before Matrix, Lisbonne was a general partner with Crosspoint Venture Partners. Prior to Crosspoint, Lisbonne was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Browser Products at Netscape. In 1998, Lisbonne led the effort to open source Netscape Navigator and Communicator, leading to the launch of mozilla.org and the development of the Mozilla Public License. Before that he was Vice President of Marketing at Collabra Software, which was acquired in 1995 by Netscape. Previously, Lisbonne was Director of Integrated Products at Claris and a co-founder of Pacific Coast Software. Earlier in his career, he was an investment banker specializing in high technology companies at Goldman Sachs. Bob attended Stanford University, where he earned MBA, MA, and BA degrees and did graduate studies in Computer Science. Click here for more info. Robert LoveRobert Love is a Senior Kernel Engineer in Novell's Ximian Desktop Group. He is involved in and passionate about both the Linux kernel and the GNOME desktop. Robert is author of the book Linux Kernel Development and a Contributing Editor for Linux Journal. He lives in Boston and loves cheese. Click here for more info. Sean LynchSean Lynch started building websites in the early days of the web in 1996 where he had his own web consulting company. Sean has worn a number of hats including general programmer, systems administrator and most currently is the Sr. Director of Systems Engineering at Ticketmaster. Over the past three years has built a world class systems engineering team and systems infrastructure for Ticketmaster online and was instrumental in leading the design and implementation of Ticketmaster's systems, networks, data centers and day-to-day operations. Click here for more info. Roger MagoulasRoger Magoulas is the director of market research at O'Reilly Media, Inc. Magoulas runs a team building an open source analysis infrastucture providing analysis services, including technology trend analysis, to business decision makers at O'Reilly and beyond. In previous incarnations, Magoulas has designed and implemented data warehouse projects for organizations ranging from the San Francisco Opera to the Alberta Motor Club.
Click here for more info. Alex MartelliAlex Martelli is Uber Technical Lead at Google, Inc. Martelli holds a laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica from Bologna University. He wrote Python in a Nutshell, and also co-edited the Python Cookbook. He's a member of the Python Software Foundation, and won the 2002 Activators' Choice Award. Martelli spent 8 years with IBM Research, earning three Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards; twelve as senior consultant (Win32, Fortran, C, C++, Java, etc), think3 inc; and three as a Python freelance consultant, mostly for AB Strakt. He has taught Programming, Numerical Computing, and OO Design at Ferrara University and other venues. Click here for more info. Jason MatusowJason Matusow is the Director of the Shared Source Initiative for Microsoft Corporation. He is responsible for the business strategy and implementation of Microsoft’s global source licensing initiative. Under his direction, Shared Source has grown to cover a broad spectrum of Microsoft technologies reaching more than 1.5 million participants around the world. Matusow continues to work closely with the core Microsoft product teams to determine the optimal collaborative development and community strategy for their intellectual property assets. Click here for more info. Stefano MazzocchiStefano Mazzocchi is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and has been involved in various open source activities for the last 7 years. He is the original author and main architect of Apache Cocoon and helped bootstrap many of the java/xml related projects around Apache. He has also been part of several expert groups for the Java Community Process (Servlet API, XML API, Repository API).
Click here for more info. Jamie McCarthyJamie McCarthy is a programmer and DBA for the Open Source Development Network. For the last three years his trial-by-fire has been helping Slashdot, a high-profile public forum, shrug off miscreants of all types. In his spare time he works with an animal rescue group and a school for the visual arts -- support a local artist and spay and neuter your pets (or vice versa)! Click here for more info. Andy McKayAndy McKay is a core Plone developer and in his spare time is writing the Plone book. He has been developing in Zope and Python for over three years. Sites McKay has developed include the Python Cookbook and ZopeZen. When not in front of a computer he can be found white water kayaking, canoeing, or hiking. Click here for more info. Jeffrey McManusJeffrey McManus runs Platform Associates, a consultancy that helps platform technology companies bring platform products to consumer and developer audiences. Jeffrey is also the developer of Approver.com, a site that makes it easy to share documents with friends and co-workers online. Previously, Jeffrey led developer relations initiatives at more than a half dozen companies, including eBay and Yahoo!, where he co-founded the Yahoo! Developer Network. He has served as a champion of web services, web syndication, and open source within these businesses. Before that, he worked for nearly a decade as a consultant helping software development teams adopt new technologies. He is the author of six books on software application development. Click here for more info. Jim McQuillanJim McQuillan has been developing solutions for customers, utilizing Unix and networking since 1984 and has been involved with Linux since 1995. Additionally, he is the founder of the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP), an open source project which has received world wide recognition as the standard method of deploying Thin clients in a GNU/Linux environment. Click here for more info. Rob MenschingBy day Rob is a Software Design Engineer at Microsoft Corporation. For the last 5 years he has worked to improve the state of setup (a.k.a. "software installation and deployment") inside and outside of the company. By night Rob is the benevolent dictator of the Windows Installer XML toolset. For the last 5 years he has worked to improve Microsoft's understanding of Open Source via his development practices on the Windows Installer XML toolset. Recently Rob's two worlds collided and the Windows Installer XML toolset was released to SourceForge as an official Open Source project from Microsoft. Despite much fanfare, Rob continues to work to improve the state of setup and improve Microsoft's understanding of Open Source.
Click here for more info. Peter MillardPeter Millard is a programmer for Jabber, Inc. He has written open-source win32 clients and libraries including Winjab, JabberCOM and Exodus. He writes enterprise level jabber server components for Jabber, Inc.'s commercial products. He is currently serving on the Jabber Council.
Click here for more info. Bruce MomjianBruce Momjian is a co-founder of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, and has worked on PostgreSQL since 1996. He is the author of PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts, published by Addison-Wesley. Momjian is employed by Software Research Associates (SRA) in their PostgreSQL support division. Previously, he was vice president of Database Development at Great Bridge LLC, another PostgreSQL support company. He has spoken at many international open source conferences.
Click here for more info. Dana MooreDana Moore is a division scientist at BBN Technologies, and is an acknowledged expert in the fields of software agents, P2P, and collaborative computing. He is author of Peer-to-Peer: Building Secure, Scalable, and Manageable Networks and Jabber Developer's Handbook, and over twenty papers for refereed journals. He has lectured extensively on these subjects at O'Reilly P2P Conferences and other venues.
Click here for more info. Edward MoyEdward Moy is a senior programmer at Apple. He has used and contributed to open source over the years, while working at such places as the University of California at Berkeley and Xerox PARC. At Apple, Ed maintains Libc/Libsystem, Perl, Python, Terminal and several other projects. He is also working on a new open source software maintenance (i.e., package management) system. Click here for more info. Michael NachbaurMichael Nachbaur is a Perl web developer working for Sunwave Cable Internet. He started in the days of plain Perl CGI, and has since tried almost every form of templating system to improve workflow and code-reuse in web applications. He has become obsessed with XSLT and RDF, particularly with AxKit. His pet project is CallistoCMS, an all-XML WYSIWYG content management system built on AxKit. Click here for more info. Chris NandorChris Nandor has been a programmer for Slashdot since 2000, and has written numerous Perl modules and articles, and has contributed to several Perl books. He maintains the Perl community web site, use Perl;. Click here for more info. Milton NganMilton Ngan is the chief architect for the technical infrastructure of Weta Digital. He has been at Weta Digital for nearly 10 years and was integrally involved with the setup of the facility for the "Lord of the Rings" project. Since then, Ngan has continued to lead the IT department through other major projects such as "I-Robot" and most recently, "King Kong." Ngan received a M.S. degree from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.
Click here for more info. Joel NobleJoel Noble is a systems engineer at Qwest in Denver, CO, where he creates tools to help various internal support organizations. He uses a large, eclectic set of software tools to help solve the right 80% of a problem quickly. Previously, Noble was a consultant for several large telecommunications companies. Click here for more info. Allen NorenAllen Noren is Director of Online Marketing at O'Reilly Media. He's been with the company since 1992 when one of his first jobs was to maintain the O'Reilly Gopher site. He was a founding member of the GNN team that built one of the first commercial web portals, and was part of the group that created Safari Books Online and SafariU. He is currently helping to drive O'Reilly's digital efforts.
Click here for more info. Jeff NorrisJeff Norris is a senior computer scientist in the Mobility Systems Concept Development Section at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and team lead for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rover Mission Science Activity Planner. Norris is also the manager of the Maestro public outreach effort for the mission. He is currently a Tactical Activity Planner on the Integrated Sequencing Team for the Spirit Mars Rover and is responsible for the daily construction of the integrated rover activity plan. His research interests include collaborative, distributed operations for Mars rovers and landers, secure data distribution, science data visualization, and human/computer interaction. Norris has bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT and is working toward a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Southern California. Norris lives with his wife Kamala and daughter Vivian in La Crescenta, CA. Click here for more info. Bill OdomBill Odom has been some form of programmer, network administrator, DBA, or software designer for over two decades. He studied Computer Science and Computer Engineering at Tulane University and the University of West Florida. For the last few years, he's served as a consultant and senior software developer for a number of Fortune 1000 firms in the U.S. Midwest. He is currently trying to remain smarter than his nine-year-old daughter.
Click here for more info. Andy OramAndy Oram works as an editor for O'Reilly Media, specializing in books and content on Linux and free software. Some of the better-known books he has edited include Running Linux, Linux Device Drivers, and Mastering Regular Expressions. He is also a member of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Click here for more info. Luke PalmerLuke Palmer is a prime participator in the Perl 6 project. In his free time, he answers questions on the +perl6-language mailing list and works on Parrot. His day job entails designing and maintaining an Expert System language and +compiler, which runs on Parrot.
Click here for more info. Paul PatersonPaul Paterson, orginally from England but now living in Texas, has been working in the oil and gas industry for ten years. Paterson's main interest has been in the area of development and integration of simulation technologies. Click here for more info. David PatrickDavid Patrick is General Mana |
