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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 from all avenues of the open source movement. You will find core developers, unique users, and visionaries who will 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. Our speaker list is growing daily. Please check back regularly to see who we have lined up for you. N/A AahzAahz has been programming in Python for more than three years and enjoys teaching people how to use Python. Aahz was a technical editor for two Python books and has presented tutorials at OSCON 2000, OSCON 2001, and the Ninth Python Conference.
Click here for more info. DJ AdamsDJ Adams is an old SAP hacker who still thinks JCL and S/370 assembler is pretty cool. In recent years he's been successfully combining Open Source software with R/3 to produce hybrid systems that show off the power of free software. He is the author of O'Reilly's Programming Jabber, contributes articles to O'ReillyNet's P2P site, and has to own up to being responsible for the Jabber::Connection, Jabber::RPC and Jabber::Component::Proxy modules on CPAN.
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. Leonardo Rochael AlmeidaLeonardo Rochael Almeida is a software engineer at Hiperlógica. He is currently a graduate student of CS at the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, where his focus is on programming languages. At Hiperlógica, Almeida helped design the Pagina-1 publishing system, which applies the ideas of prototype-based languages such as Self to Zope programming.
Click here for more info. Kevin AltisKevin Altis is the lead developer for PythonCard, an open source framework for building cross-platform, standalone, desktop GUI applications. He is probably best known for his work as the co-developer of the Web Proxies Standard. He then went on to found City.Net, which was later sold to Excite, Inc., and became Excite Travel. Click here for more info. Kaj ArnöKaj Arnö is VP Community at MySQL AB. He promotes the 3 Ps of the MySQL Community: Popularity, Participation and Pioneering -- connecting the external and internal MySQL developers with each other. Kaj believes there are internal connections between his favourite topics which include arranging meetings in a virtual organisation, coping with timezones, managing cross-cultural teams and singing drinking songs (a practice of his native Finland that he is promoting with varied success in Munich, Germany where he's currently living).
Click here for more info. Jason AsbahrJason Asbahr's passion is building virtual worlds. His background includes programming Ultima Online 2 at Origin Systems, developing one of the first PC-based virtual actors for Compaq, crafting virtual building walkthroughs for architects, and performing laser shows for the Houston Museum of Natural Science. His current project is the massively multiplayer open source game Netsu. 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. Aaron BannertAaron Bannert is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and is a software engineer at Covalent Technologies. He spends most of his time working on the httpd and APR projects, but has been known to work on the PHP Apache 2 module as well as being co-author of flood. Aaron has been living in Southern California for far too long and it has started to affect his brain. Click here for more info. Ann BarcombAfter growing up in a small town she's too embarrassed to name, Ann Barcomb graduated with an interdisciplinary degree in fiction writing, philosophy, history, and travel, which has little to do with her work as a programmer, beyond making her perhaps the only coder ever to enjoy writing documentation. She currently practices this perversion on the CPANPLUS project. Barcomb's previous accomplishments include organizing YAPC::Europe 2001 and winning a blue ribbon in a children's county fair for a game written in BASIC.
Click here for more info. Jeff "Hemos" BatesJeff Bates works for the Open Source Development Network in Acton, Ma. He is an editor for and was a co-founder of Slashdot.org.
Click here for more info. Lane BeckerLane Becker is co-founder and president of Satisfaction Unlimited, a web startup developing tools to foster new methods of communication and collaboration between companies and their customers. Previously, Lane was co-founder of Adaptive Path, a user experience strategy, research, and design consultancy, known for, among other things, coining the technology terms "blog" and "ajax." While with Adaptive Path, Lane ran the consulting business and, as the creator of the New Ventures program, developed strategic partnerships with early-stage startup companies to provide them with long-term support for their product ideation, design, and launch strategies. Click here for more info. Michael BeckishMike Beckish is a Software Engineer at Software Engineering Associates in Pennsylvania, where he develops software systems for businesses. He holds Bachelor's Degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering, and hopes to soon complete his Master's Degree in Software Engineering (if he can come up with a thesis!). 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. Robin BerjonRobin Berjon is an independant contractor and consultant with strong experience in XML publishing and Perl programming. He has contributed to several Open Source projects such as AxKit and the PerlSAX2 effort.
Click here for more info. Steve BestSteve Best works in the Linux Technology Center of IBM in Austin, Texas. He is working on the port of JFS to Linux. Best has done extensive work in operating system development with a focus in the areas of file systems, internationalization, and security.
Click here for more info. Ewan BirneyEwan Birney has a PhD in Genetics and is a long time open source bioinformatics programmer. He is the PI (principle investigator) for a group of 15 people researchers in genome informatics, with a particular focus on the human genome. Click here for more info. Gunther BirznieksGunther Birznieks' early involvement in cutting edge biotechnology research brought him to the Web to manage collaborative research from the start and eventually went on to be a cofounder of eXtropia in Asia where he is CTO. Throughout this time, Birznieks has subsequently published multiple books and talks in various areas of web programming including the CGI Programming with Perl book from O'Reilly.
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. Jon BjornstadJon Bjornstad is a Perl programmer, and an amateur pianist. He lives in Santa Cruz, California and works for a small software company.
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. Tim BoudreauTim Boudreau had his first startup when he was 13, and has been hooked since, with brief departures to play rock and roll, write and play music and do graphics and photography. He is the coauthor of NetBeans, the Definitive Guide from O'Reilly and Associates. Tim was part of the team that open sourced NetBeans, Sun Microsystems' Java(tm) development environment, and currently work as a developer on that project.
Click here for more info. Jos BoumansJos Boumans is an active Perl developer, counting over two dozen contributions to CPAN, including Archive::Tar and CPANPLUS, and a regular speaker at Perl conferences. Boumans is a senior developer at XS4ALL, a large dutch ISP, where, besides programming, he spends his time on QA, development techniques, and training.
Click here for more info. Ronald BourretRonald Bourret is a freelance programmer, technical writer, and researcher. His work includes XML-DBMS, a set of Java packages for transferring data between XML documents and relational databases, an XML schema language (DDML), several widely read papers on XML and databases, and the XML Namespaces FAQ. 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. Tom BradfordTom Bradford is a software architect and open source software zealot. He is the creator and a developer of Apache Xindice, a native XML database. In addition to his work on Xindice, he is also Chief Architect for the dbXML Group. Click here for more info. Kim BrandKim Brand is President of Computer Experts, Inc., and author of common c functions, co-author of zope: web application development and content management, an open source entrepreneur, inventory of 'file-engine' rental server concept. Brand has twenty-five years experience in software/systems development and is a consultant to public, private, and government clients. Click here for more info. Dan BrianDan Brian is a software engineer, writer, analyst, and entrepreneur. His development and research interests include natural language processing, knowledge ontologies, and entertainment software. He is currently engaged with a small startup building web-based multiplayer knowledge games scheduled to launch in 2005. Brian was formerly a columnist for the Perl journal, a contributor to several O'Reilly texts, and a senior software engineer at NTT/Verio.
Click here for more info. Jason BrittainJason Brittain is co-author of Tomcat: The Definitive Guide (forthcoming from O'Reilly), and a Senior Software Engineer at CollabNet Inc. where he works on collaborative software project hosting infrastructure software made up of more than fifty open source software packages. He has also contributed to many Apache Jakarta projects, and has been an active open source software developer for several years. Click here for more info. Leon BrocardLeon Brocard (a.k.a. acme) is an orange-loving Perl/Parrot Eurohacker with many varied contributions to the Perl community, including the GraphViz module on the CPAN. YAPC::Europe was all his fault. He is still looking for a Perl Monger group he can start which begins with the letter 'D.'
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. Jesus CastagnettoJesus Castagnetto, a physical-organic chemist by training and a computational chemist and net-head by inclination, works in The Scripps Research Institute’s Metalloprotein Structure and Design Group. He developed the Metalloprotein Database and Browser (MDB), a bioinformatics resource with both a user interface and a set of APIs (web services). 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. Wesley J. ChunWesley J. Chun, author of Core Python Programming, the Python book for Prentice Hall's popular "Core" series, has over a decade of engineering and instructional experience. He is a principal and founder of CyberWeb Consulting, offering website design, software engineering, technical editing, and corporate training services. While at Yahoo!, he helped build Yahoo!Mail and Yahoo! People Search using Python. He can be reached at cyberweb at rocketmail.com.
Click here for more info. Petr CimprichPetr Cimprich is one of the founders of the Ginger Alliance, a Prague, Czech Republic based software company started in 1999. He is a web developer and software engineer. He designs and develops XML and XSLT applications, frequently using the Charlie framework. In 1997 Cimprich received a Ph.D. in Digital Image Processing from Charles University in Prague.
Click here for more info. Elaine B. Coleman, Ph.D.Elaine B. Coleman, PhD, Senior Cognitive Scientist, Sun Developer Network, studied Cognitive Science at the University of Toronto, Canada, and has done work on Belief Revision, Explanatory Models and the Role of Technology in Learning.
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. Dave CrossDave Cross is an active member of the Perl community and is a regular poster to Perl discussion boards. In 1998, Dave founded the London Perl Mongers group, the first Perl users' group outside the USA. He is still the nominal leader of this group. More recently, Dave has become a Perl writer and trainer. He has written articles for The Perl Journal and www.perl.com and was a regular columnist for PerlMonth. In January 2001, his first book Data Munging with Perl was published by Manning. He is a regular speaker at Perl conferences.
Click here for more info. James Duncan DavidsonJames Duncan Davidson is a freelance author, software developer, and consultant focusing on Mac OS X and related technologies. He is the author of Running Mac OS X Panther, the coauthor of Mac OS X Panther Hacks (with Rael Dornfest) , the coauthor of Learning Cocoa with Objective-C (with Apple Computer, Inc.), and the coauthor of Cocoa in a Nutshell (with Michael Beam), all published by OReilly Media, as well as publisher of his own web site, x180 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. Mike DeGraw-BertschMike DeGraw-Bertsch is a freelance writer, Unix and security consultant, and ice hockey goalie. He spends most of his time researching, implementing, and evaluating cool technologies, and then writing about the whole mess. When not breaking his own systems, DeGraw-Bertsch is often found fixing those of others.
Click here for more info. Jesse DoughertyDougherty comes to ActiveState from Mindquake Software, a full-service outsource development shop. As their vice president, Dougherty was responsible for business development, project management, and software development, and helped grow the company from inception to over sixty fulltime developers. Dougherty has also worked as a software developer at the precursor company to ActiveState, hip communications in the mid-1990s. Dougherty's role at ActiveState is to lead the company's anti-spam initiatives. He also manages and schedules development resources to improve product quality and timeline accuracy. Dougherty sits on the board of Brightwave Ventures.
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. Jan DuboisJan Dubois, a prominent member of the Perl Community and maintainer of Win32::OLE, comes to ActiveState from Germany and has been part of the ActiveState team since January 2000. Jan has over 10 years experience with information management in the financial services sector, a key area of ActiveState’s client base for PerlDirect, a quality assured Perl and support package for enterprise clients. Prior to joining ActiveState, Jan worked in several European banking and insurance firms. In the banking sector, he produced research tools to test portfolio management strategies at Hamburg Mannheimer Investment Trust. He also was an IT project coordinator of electronic futures and options trading at Wereins-und Westbank. In the insurance industry, Jan planned and implemented the information and trading platform for Hamburg Mannheimer Insurance Company’s asset management group and was the information systems manager for the securities division at Albingia Insurance Company. When not hacking Perl, Jan enjoys reading science fiction. Jan has a graduate degree in Physics (Diplom-Physiker) from the University of Hamburg.
Click here for more info. Casey DuncanCasey Duncan is a code-monkey at Zope Corporation. He devotes most of his days developing with and for Zope but tries hard not to be too serious. He has developed many open source add-on products for Zope as well including: ExternalEditor and FieldedTextIndex. After the children go to bed, he can often be found plying his keyboard working on pypes and other assorted projects.
Click here for more info. Andy DustmanAndy Dustman works as a system administrator and Python programmer at the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. His current project is moving a large, mostly static website (with bits of PHP and Cold Fusion and Apache mod_rewrite) into a real content management system. 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. Jason EvansJason Evans is a senior engineer in the BSD Technologies group at Apple, where he works to maintain and enhance the Open Source Unix underpinnings of Mac OS X. He has spent the past year in this role, and was involved with the FreeBSD Project for several years before that, where he worked on POSIX threading and SMP enhancements. In addition to multi-threading, his areas of interest include manual and automatic memory management. Click here for more info. Mary Ann FisherSpeaker biography coming soon. Click here for more info. Keith FredericksKeith Fredericks is responsible for product development and technological direction at Maguma. Prior to joining Maguma, Keith held the chief technical role at New York Internet companies CDKnet, BiZBash and Gotham Broadband and the legendary supercomputer manufacturer, Cray Research. His career has included work in high performance computing, user interface, scientific visualization, Web development and network performance measurement. Keith has developed products for entertainment, communication and commerce. Along with the development of a number of Web sites, he led development of Web-connected CD systems and targeted messaging systems. At Cray Research, Keith led a pioneering effort in virtual reality and graphics and visualization which led to Cray's rendering & animation product, Cray Animation Theater, one of the first applications released for the Cray T3D massively parallel computer system. Keith studied photographic science and engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology, where his work into the sensitivity of nuclear track emulsions earned him a prestigious Central Intelligence Agency research grant. Click here for more info. Jeffrey FriedlJeffrey Friedl has been an engineer for Yahoo! Finance for five years, using mostly Perl to process volumes of financial news and data. Prior to that, he spent eight years doing kernel development for Omron Corp of Kyoto, Japan. He's spent the last two years researching regex-related issues of C#, MySQL, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Tcl, VB.NET, and many more, for the second edition of O'Reilly's Mastering Regular Expressions. He is sporadically active as a Perl core developer. He spent much of early 2002 pestering Jarkko Hietaniemi about Unicode problems in betas of Perl5.8, but perhaps redeemed himself by contributing some core patches as well. He lives with his wife in Cupertino, California, and is currently awaiting the Fall-2002 rollout of their first "software project" together.
Click here for more info. James FultonJim Fulton leads the development of the Zope application server and the Zope object database. He is currently shepherding the development of Zope 3, which is build on the Zope Component Architecture. He has more than 20 years experience in software development, including over 15 years with object-oriented software development techniques. Click here for more info. Pier FumagalliPier "posh spice" Fumagalli got involved with the Apache JServ project a few years ago, and since then noone has been able to get rid of him (although many tried). He spends most of his time debating with his cat about performance of Java code on Mac OS/X, especially when JNI is involved. Lately he's spending more and more time on Apache 2.0 and APR, because segfaults are way more fun than NullPointerExceptions... Click here for more info. Brett GlassBrett Glass has more than 25 years of experience designing, building, writing about, and crash testing computer hardware and software. A consultant, author, and programmer based in Laramie, Wyoming, Brett obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Case Institute of Technology and his MSEE from Stanford. He writes and architects software, designs hardware (including chips, embedded systems, and network servers), and has more than 1500 published articles to his credit. He currently writes "Mean Streets," a monthly security column, for BoardWatch magazine. When he's not writing, consulting, speaking, or cruising the Web in search of adventure, he may be playing the Ashbory bass, doing carpentry, teaching Internet courses for LARIAT (Laramie's community network and Internet users' group), cooking up a storm, or enjoying spicy ethnic food. He can be reached at www.brettglass.com/mailbrett.html (no spam please).
Click here for more info. Jesse GlickSpeaker biography coming soon.
Click here for more info. Paul GrassiePaul Grassie has been programming in Perl since 1990 and has an extensive background in programmer training and course development. He has over twenty years' experience with Unix programming and administration and has been conducting Unix programmer training seminars for more than fifteen years. 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. Chuck HagenbuchChuck Hagenbuch works as a consultant/engineer-for-hire in the Boston area and wherever the internet reaches. He founded and continues to lead the Horde Project, and has contributed to PHP's IMAP and MCAL extensions and the PEAR class library.
Click here for more info. Jon "maddog" HallJon "maddog" Hall is the Executive Director of Linux International (www.li.org), a non-profit association of computer users who wish to support and promote the Linux Operating System. During his career which spans over thirty years, Mr. Hall has been a programmer, systems designer, systems administrator, product manager, technical marketing manager, college educator and author. Click here for more info. Brett HalleSpeaker biography coming soon.
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. Piers HardingBorn a "Kiwi," Harding has been involved in the SAP community for longer the he would wish to remember. In more recent times he has fallen in love with the open source community, and its original ideals, becoming an enthusiastic advocate when ever possible. This has prompted him to make some contributions -
Click here for more info. Mike HardyMichael Hardy is the Director of Software Engineering at manageStar, Inc. In the past he's contributed a good deal to the Horde and IMP open source projects among a few others. He's currently responsible for shepherding a large application written using a mix of PHP, XML, and Java while trying to enjoy the San Francisco area as much as possible. 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. Trevor HarrisTrevor Harris is an Instructor and Consultant at NuSphere. He is responsible for delivering, and assisting in the development and delivery of customer education. Harris has been teaching advanced MySQL and PHP training for the past two years, and brings twenty years of Services experience to the NuSphere team. Harris has presented at dozens of conferences and seminars around the world as well as advised global companies on how to more effectively use technology in today's fast-paced market. Click here for more info. Ann HarrisonSpeaker biography coming soon.
Click here for more info. Matthew HartmannMatthew Hartmann is a high school senior who has spent 3 years working with FreeBSD and Linux systems. He now builds/installs/maintains systems for local schools. In addition to system administration, he is interested in web development, ZOPE, and Python. He also has started and leads a Linux Club at his high school. Click here for more info. Shane HathawayShane Hathaway is a software developer at Zope Corporation. He helped develop some of the core pieces of the Zope framework and has written several add-on products for Zope. He is working on development of Zope 3 and assisting as time permits with other open source projects such as Boa Constructor, a Python IDE, and Gramps, a genealogy program. Click here for more info. Peter HaworthPeter Haworth is Chief Information Systems Developer at IOP Publishing. He is the lead developer of IOP's Electronic Journals service, and is also responsible for software quality in his department. He is author of the Cache::Mmap and HTML::StickyForms perl modules. In his spare time he is writing a compiler for yet another language of his own devising which no one will ever use.
Click here for more info. Jarkko HietaniemiJarkko Hietaniemi has been playing with computers since his father made the mistake of bringing work home and little Jarkko started coloring the mainframe printouts. After getting his MSc in CS in 1995 he has been mainly wondering in the Nokia Research Center how computers and networks can work at all.
Click here for more info. Kent HoxseyKent Hoxsey is an IT professional interested in information distribution. He has help to implement systems covering a wide range of business problems, providing transactional, reporting, and decision support. His focus is on integrating information from all business areas into intranet portals.
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. 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. John HurleyAs the Security Policy Architect for Apple, John Hurley works with the Data Security team and other groups at Apple to define the security policies for Mac OS X. He was previously the engineering manager for the Data Security team, which implemented many of the security features in Mac OS X, such as the keychain and encrypted disk copy technology. Before joining Apple in 1999, Hurley was a co-founder and Vice President of Aveo, Inc., a computer telephony and internet services corporation. Along with his work credits, Hurley holds two patents on e-commerce technologies, and he received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. 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. Joshua JensenJoshua Jensen was the first Red Hat instructor and examiner, and has been with Red Hat for 3 years. In that time he has written and maintained large parts of the Red Hat curriculum: Networking Services and Security, System Administration, and the Red Hat Certified Engineer course and exam. Jensen has worked with Linux for six years, and has been teaching Cisco Internetworking and Linux courses since the beginning of 1998.
Click here for more info. Darren JohnsonDarren Johnson is the administrator of the pgreplication project http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pgreplication/projdisplay.php. A former research scientist of the now defunct GreatBridge, he now works as and independent contractor specializing in custom software development. Click here for more info. Eric JonesEric Jones has a broad background in engineering and software development and leads Enthought's product engineering and software design. Prior to co-founding Enthought, Jones worked in the fields of numerical electromagnetics and genetic optimization in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Duke University. He has taught numerous courses about Python and how to leverage it for scientific computing. Jones holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University in Electrical Engineering and a B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Baylor University.
Click here for more info. Ian KallenIan Kallen is Lead Systems and Software Architect at Technorati where he is responsible for application innovations. Specializing in application, infrastructure and content management technologies, his background of engineering and leadership positions with a range of technology startups include Covalent Technologies, Salon.com and Gamespot.com (C/Net). Ian is known to blog[1] has presented and conducted tutorials at numerous O'Reilly Open Source, ApacheCon and other technology conferences. blog Click here for more info. Larry KarnowskiLarry Karnowski is the lead user interface developer for the OpenNMS project, the open source network management system. His goal is to make the sometimes obscure, obtuse, and obfuscated world of network management accessible (and even fun!). Karnowski got his start in user interfaces for network management at Worldcom where he led the user interface team that developed Worldcom’s frame-relay management system. Being a devoted open source advocate, he jumped at the chance to take a hand in developing OpenNMS which leverages open source technologies like Tomcat, Xerces, Xalan, JoeSNMP, Log4J, JBoss, Castor, and Ant. Click here for more info. Jim KentWilliam James Kent, who goes by Jim, is a research scientist at the University of California Santa Cruz. He is best known for producing the first assembly of the human genome and the human genome browser at UCSC. He studied math and art in college, and went on to a career making paint and animation programs for computers. These include the award winning Aegis Animator on the Amiga, Cyber Paint on the Atari ST, and Autodesk Animator on the PC. One day, when the Microsoft Windows 95 developer's platform arrived on 12 CD-ROMs, Kent freaked out at the complexity of software development. Reasoning that the human genome could fit on one CD-ROM and didn't change every three months, he decided to change careers to bioinformatics. After a year studying basic biology and chemistry at community college and another year studying more advanced biology at the University of California Extension, he entered the Molecular, Cell, and Developmental biology PhD program at UC Santa Cruz. As a graduate student, he built a browser for the C. elegans genome. As fate would have it, Kent was at the right place at the right time with the right tools to quickly develop a program that could assemble the public sequence of the human genome just days before Celera assembled their private sequence of the human genome. Kent went on to write a browser for the human genome that is used by many thousands of biomedical researchers every day. His main focus these days is to understand the genome, particularly the elaborate control systems that turn genes on and off in a coordinated fashion. These control systems are key to understanding how an entire human body can develop from a single egg cell.
Click here for more info. Pavel KulchenkoPavel Kulchenko has over 10 years of experience in design and development of complex financial and banking applications, and information management in the financial services sector. Pavel is the author and maintainer of the popular SOAP::Lite module for SOAP clients and servers in Perl, the XMLRPC::Lite module that implements XML-RPC protocol, and the UDDI::Lite module, a client interface for UDDI repositories. Click here for more info. Mike KuniavskyMike Kuniavsky researches, designs and writes about people's experiences at the intersection of technology and everyday life. Companies and universities around the world use his 2003 book, "Observing the User Experience," to understand and teach techniques that bring the design of products closer to the people who use them. His next book, "Smart Things," expected in 2007 from Elsevier, will discuss user experience design for mobile devices and ubiquitous computing. Click here for more info. Dan KuykendallSpeaker biography coming soon. Click here for more info. Karim R. LakhaniKarim R. Lakhani is a doctoral student at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a consultant with The Boston Consulting Group. He is a co-founder of the MIT Free/Open Source Research Project and runs the MIT based Free/Open Source Research Community website. His research at MIT is focused on the management of technological innovation with a specific focus on coordination and innovation in open source communities. His work at BCG is focused on the intersection of emerging technologies, intellectual property and new organization forms. He has a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering and Management from McMaster University, Canada, and a Masters in Technology and Policy from MIT. Previously he worked at GE Medical Systems. Click here for more info. Tom LaneTom Lane has over ten years open source development experience. He is widely known as organizer and lead programmer of the Independent JPEG Group. Involved with PostgreSQL since 1988, Lane is now a member of PostgreSQL's core steering committee. Most of his Postgres work is on the query planner/optimizer, though he does fix bugs in many other parts of the system. Lane holds a PhD in computer science as well as a bachelor's in electrical engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University. He has twenty-five years' professional experience in a wide range of systems software development tasks.
Click here for more info. Matthew LanghamMatthew Langham is the technical director of the open source group at S&N AG, Paderborn, Germany. He has been working in the software industry for over 10 years and is focused on adapting emerging technologies for commercial use. Langham is the co-author of Cocoon: Building XML Applications, published by New Riders in August 2005.
Click here for more info. Rasmus LerdorfRasmus Lerdorf is known for having gotten the PHP project off the ground in 1995, the mod_info Apache module, and he can be blamed for the ANSI92 SQL-defying LIMIT clause in mSQL 1.x which has now, at least conceptually, crept into both MySQL and PostgreSQL. Prior to joining Yahoo! as an infrastructure engineer in 2002, he was at a string of companies including Linuxcare, IBM, and Bell Canada working on internet technologies.
Click here for more info. Lawrence LessigLawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law and John A. Wilson Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School. Professor Lessig is chairman of the board of Creative Commons and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. He sits on the board of directors for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Public Library of Science. In 2002, Lessig was named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Innovators, and the American Bar Association recently awarded him the Cyberspace Law Excellence Award. From 1991 to 1997, Lessig was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He then became the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. In 1999-2000, he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin before moving to Stanford in 2000. Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, law and high technology, Internet regulation, comparative constitutional law, and the law of cyberspace. His book, Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace, was published by Basic Books, and The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World, is available from Random House. His most recent book, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, is now available online at www.free-culture.cc and from Penguin Press.
Click here for more info. Mark LutzMark Lutz is a Python trainer, writer, and software developer, and is one of the primary figures in the Python community. He is the author of the O'Reilly books Programming Python and Python Pocket Reference, and co-author of Learning Python. Lutz’s involvement with Python started in 1992, and he began teaching Python classes in 1997. Visit Lutz at www.rmi.net/~lutz.
Click here for more info. Carl MalamudCarl Malamud is the CTO at the Center for American Progress, a Washington, D.C. think tank. Prior to that, he ran the Internet Multicasting Service, which started the first radio station on the Internet and liberated the SEC EDGAR and US Patent databases for free access on the net. The author of 8 books, Carl is also chair of the Jabber Software Foundation.
Click here for more info. Rob "Cmdr Taco" MaldaRob "CmdrTaco" Malda and Jeff "Hemos" Bates are the creators and maintainers of Slashdot.org. Slashdot, part of the Open Source Development Network, is "News for Nerds, Stuff That Matters" covering a wide range of subjects each and every day. They can neither confirm or deny the allegattions regarding their invention of sliced bread.
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. Rob McEwenRob McEwen is Chairman and CEO of Goldcorp Inc., North America’s most profitable gold mining company in 2001, on a per share basis. Goldcorp is listed on the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges. His career began in the investment industry, then in 1990 he jumped into the mining industry. Since that time he has driven the transformation of Goldcorp from a holding company into a dynamic, profitable gold mining company. Since 1993, when Rob started restructuring Goldcorp, its market capitalization has grown from Cdn$60 million (US$50 million) to Cdn$3.03 billion (US$2.03 billion) and Goldcorp’s share price has increased at a 41% (US 38%) compound annual growth rate. Rob has a 7% interest in Goldcorp and he is the largest individual shareholder. He has been a successful “white knight” in two hostile takeover battles, done extensive corporate restructuring, endured a 46-month labour strike which concluded with the mine becoming union free, financed the discovery of one of the world’s richest gold deposits and launched the first ever on-line Internet gold rush, “The Goldcorp Challenge”.
Click here for more info. Bharat MedirattaBharat Mediratta is a software engineer and architect for VA Software. His professional experience has ranged from working on the Solaris kernel to writing web applications for a series of dot coms. Bharat is the co-founder and a primary developer of Gallery, a popular open source image management tool.
Click here for more info. Jeremie MillerJeremie Miller is the founder of the Jabber project, having created the XMPP protocol and written the first Jabber server. He is now working on tearing down the walls of Search and establishing an open source foundation complimented with a distributed open protocol for search.
Click here for more info. Patrick J. MillerPatrick Miller has over twenty years of experience in high performance and parallel computing, and he has been a devoted lover of Python for the last six. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Davis in runtime error detection/correction. He currently works at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and lectures in distributed programming at the University of San Francisco. He has research interests in parallel computation, parallel languages, high efficiency interpreters, and debuggers. He previously developed compilers and interpreters for the SISAL parallel language project and more recently developed a distributed, parallel Python implementation (pyMPI) and various Python to C++ translators.
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. Deirdre MulliganDeirdre Mulligan came to Boalt from the Center for Democracy and Technology, where she worked to advance privacy, free speech and other democratic values on the Internet. In 2001 she joined the Boalt faculty as acting clinical professor and director of the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic. Mulligan serves on the California Internet Political Practices Commission that was created, as a result of the rapidly expanding role of the Internet in politics, to examine issues posed by political activity on the Internet in relation to the goals of the Political Reform Act of 1974 and recommend necessary legislative changes. In addition, she serves on the National Academy of Science Committee on Authentication Technologies and their Privacy Implications to assess emerging approaches to authentication in computing and communications systems, focusing on the implications of authentication technologies for privacy. Mulligan wrote "Privacy in the Digital Age: Work in Progress," in Nova Law Review (with Berman, Winter 1999). With the Center for Democracy and Technology, she issued a report titled Square Pegs and Round Holes: Applying the Campaign Finance Law to the Internet--Risks to Free Expression and Democratic Values (October 1999). She also prepared the Report to the Federal Trade Commission of the Ad-Hoc Working Group on Unsolicited Commercial Email (July 1998).
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. Norman NunleyNorman Nunley, Jr. is a Senior Systems Archetect for Peak Strategy, Inc, where he programs in many languages, including Perl and Java (and occasionally Perl that generates Java code). He is a quiet, but active, member of the open source community, but is currently caught up in his most recent project, Winston Ives (Proof) Nunley, who was released on April 20th of this year.
Click here for more info. Lisa NymanLisa Nyman is a Senior Internet Technologist with the US Census Bureau. She creates user-friendly, accessible Web sites to deliver government services.
Click here for more info. Patrick O'BrienPython expert Patrick O'Brien is the author of PyCrust, an interactive, graphical Python shell, a developer of the PythonCard wxPython application construction kit, and leader of the PyPerSyst team, which is working on object persistence mechanisms for Python applications. His articles have been published by O'Reilly, IBM, and LinuxFormat Magazine.
Click here for more info. Shane O'DonnellFrustrated with the expensive bloatware in the commercial network management marketplace, Shane O'Donnell, along with a crack team of developers, built and promoted an alternative--OpenNMS. O'Donnell served as OpenNMS project manager and chief architect through May 2002, and continues to serve in his role as CTO with Oculan Corporation. Shane holds an M.S. in Computer Science. Click here for more info. Todd OgasawaraTodd Ogasawara is the eGovernment Team Leader for the State of Hawaii. One of his current tasks is to build a State Intranet Portal for State employees. He has been using Open Source tools since the 1980s. His other areas of interest/research are in ultraportable devices and computer/internet telephony. Click here for more info. Michael OlsonMichael A. Olson is the President and CEO at Sleepycat Software, Inc. Sleepycat Software develops, distributes, and supports Berkeley DB, the Open Source embedded database system. Mike is closely involved with Sleepycat's efforts to sell Berkeley DB into the rapidly-emerging market for embedded devices like palmtop and set-top computers, telecommunications switches, and wireless networking infrastructure. Mike was one of the original developers of both Berkeley DB and the Postgres database at the University of California at Berkeley. Click here for more info. Brian PaneBrian Pane is an Associate Vice President at CNET Networks. He manages the Builder.com website. Previously, he served as chief architect and managed CNET’s software infrastructure group. His technical interests are centered around software performance and scalability. His past work includes dxpc, an open source X11 protocol compressor for speeding up X applications over low-bandwidth connections. He is a contributor to the Apache httpd, currently working on performance tuning for Apache 2.0. Click here for more info. Paul Pangaro, Ph.D.Paul Pangaro, PhD, Senior Director, Sun Developer Network, studied Computer Science at MIT, worked in Negroponti's research lab, established a software development firm and for 10 years built large-scale knowledge systems in LISP. His particular interest is biological modeling of complex social systems. Click here for more info. Bruce PerensSpeaker biography coming soon. Click here for more info. Tom PhoenixSince 1982, Tom Phoenix has been working in the field of education. After more than thirteen years of dissections, explosions, interesting animals, and high-voltage sparks during his work at a science museum, he started teaching Perl classes for Stonehenge Consulting Services, where he's worked since 1996. Since then, he's been traveling to any number of interesting locations, so you might see him soon at a Perl Mongers' meeting. When he has time, he answers questions on Usenet's comp.lang.perl.misc and comp.lang.perl.moderated newsgroups, and contributes to the development and usefulness of Perl. Besides his work with Perl, Perl hackers, and related topics, he spends his time on amateur cryptography and speaking Esperanto. His home is in Portland, Oregon.
Click here for more info. Ernest PrabhakarAs Product Line Manager for Development Platforms, Ernest Prabhakar is responsible for Open Source, Java and XML technologies at Apple. Since joining the company in 1997, Prabhakar has driven a number of new product initiatives at Apple, including the launch of Mac OS X Server and Darwin, Apple's Open Source operating system based on BSD technology. He has been developing on UNIX and Mac OS X-related technology for over fifteen years, beginning with BSD 4.2 at MIT's Project Athena. Prabhakar received his S.B. in Physics from MIT and his Ph.D. in Experimental Particle Physics from Caltech.
Click here for more info. Paul PrescodPaul is an enthusiastic proponent and implementer of open source technologies and open standardss. He is well-known for his implementation of systems using XML and the open source Python programming language. Most recently he has been working with Pyrex, which can compile Python code to C and allow seamless combination of Python and C data types.
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Click here for more info. Dustin PuryearDustin Puryear is a contractor working in the Information Technology industry. In addition, he is author of Integrate Linux Solutions into Your Windows Network, as well as numerous articles for both print and online publications. Click here for more info. Antoine QuintAntoine Quint is an independent SVG consultant also participating in the W3C SVG Working Group as an invited expert. He lives with his über-cat Stig Elmer and has a book in the works with his pal Robin Berjon.
Click here for more info. Luciano RamalhoLuciano Ramalho is a Zope and Python developer and evangelist at Hiperlógica. He has been developing Zope-based sites since 1998. Ramalho enjoyed learning a new programming language every few months until he discovered Python, which suits his brain extremely well.
Click here for more info. Allison RandalAllison Randal is co-chair of O'Reilly's Open Source Convention and Energy Innovation Conference. Her first geek career was as a research linguist in eastern Africa. But eventually her love of coding drew her away from natural languages to artificial ones. Allison is the architect of Parrot, on the board of directors of The Perl Foundation, and founder and president of Onyx Neon. She co-authored Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials, and has edited various O'Reilly books on dynamic languages including Perl Hacks and Programming PHP.
Click here for more info. Jason ReidJason Reid is CEO of Codeit, a web development firm with offices in California and New York. Going from painter to owner, Jason has been involved with Collegeworks Painting for twelve years, and was once an officer for Platinum Capital Group, an INC 500 company. His experience comes from being a business owner looking for an Intranet solution and not being knowledgeable about open source nor open to the concept in the beginning. He also trains for his black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Jason is married with three children. Click here for more info. Carl RendellCarl Rendell is an IT professional interested in information distribution. He has helped to implement systems covering a wide range of business problems including transactional, reporting, and decision support. His focus is on integrating information for distributed information systems.
Click here for more info. Gerald RichterGerald Richter is a consultant for Apache/mod_perl/Embperl, and a programmer (among others Perl and C/C++). He is also a system adminstrator in a mixed Unix/NT/Novell environment, and the author of HTML::Embperl.
Click here for more info. Armin RigoArmin Rigo is a Ph.D.-ing mathematical logic researcher. He lived and studied math in Switzerland before he came to Brussels Free University. As a long-time hacker he completed several large projects (notably in 3D gaming) and zillions of small ones, and he is now drifting to work on the fundamentals of programming. Click here for more info. Jason Robbins, Ph.D.Dr. Robbins has been a software development professional since 1988. He earned a Bachelors in Computer Science from UCLA in 1993, a Masters in Software Engineering from UC Irvine in 1995, and a Ph.D. in Software Engineering from UC Irvine in 1999. He is the author of over twenty conference and journal papers. As part of his research into usability of software development tools, Jason founded the ArgoUML project to build an open source UML tool. ArgoUML currently has over 100,000 registered users and is still a very active open source project. Jason joined CollabNet in October 1999 and played a central role in the design and development of SourceCast. In 2002, he changed roles to become Senior Product Manager.
Click here for more info. Lawrence RosenLawrence Rosen is both an attorney and a computer specialist. Rosen is very involved in the open source community. He often publishes and speaks around the world on open source licensing and patent issues. Rosen's book, a href="http://www.bookpool.com/sm/0131487876">Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law, was published by Prentice Hall in 2004. Click here for more info. Gregor J. RothfussGregor J. Rothfuss is a graduate student in computer science and business administration at University of Zurich, Switzerland. His main interest is revitalizing knowledge management by empowering individuals with weblogs. He expresses this interest by working on the PostNuke project, where he is one of the project leaders.
Click here for more info. Gavin M. RoySpeaker biography coming soon.
Click here for more info. Dr. Fredo SartoriSpeaker biography coming soon. Click here for more info. Andreas SchaeferAndreas Schaefer is a Senior Consultant for JBoss Group LLC (www.jboss.org) developing on the core of JBoss as well as helping customer to take the most out of the JBoss application server. Working in Switzerland as a developer and consultant for more than 10 years, Andreas found the perfect platform in Java to develop software. Later J2EE gave him the opportunity to bring all his knowledge together to create modular and extensible applications for the fast paced web with the need to integrate legacy systems. After the open source application server JBoss drew his attention, he began developing on JBoss and using it as a preferred application server and reference platform. He is a co-author of the upcoming JMX book by Juha Lindfors and member of the JSR-77 expert group.
Click here for more info. Hans-Juergen SchoenigHans-Juergen spent two years at Synthesis, an Austrian research company. He was responsible for the scientific analysis of the data provided by the Austrian social security insurance system. He is a co-founder of a company focusing entire on PostgreSQL and is the author of three books about PostgreSQL ("PostgreSQL Developer's Handbook" by SAMS). Click here for more info. Randal L. SchwartzRandal L. Schwartz is a two-decade veteran of the software industry--skilled in software design, system administration, security, technical writing, and training. He has co-authored the "must-have" standards: Programming Perl, Learning Perl, Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules, and Effective Perl Programming, as well as writing regular columns for several magazines. His offbeat humor and technical mastery have reached legendary proportions worldwide (but he probably started some of those legends himself). Since 1985, Randal has owned and operated Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc.
Click here for more info. Michael G. SchwernMichael G Schwern has authored and maintained more Perl modules than he can remember, and some we'd all like to forget. Test::More, Test::Inline, Exporter::Lite, Class::DBI, Class::Accessor and Sex.pm are some of his creations while ExtUtils::MakeMaker and Test::Harness are under his maintenance. Due to clerical oversight, Michael is the Perl 1 Pumpkin King.
Click here for more info. Matt SergeantMatt Sergeant writes anti-spam software for MessageLabs. Prior to that he hacked on SpamAssassin for a bit. In 2002 he received the ActiveState Programmers Choice Award for both Perl and XSLT (presumably for filling CPAN up with modules related to XML). Sergeant lives at home in Gloucester with his wife Heather and menagerie of pets.
Click here for more info. Gavin SherryGavin Sherry is the director of an Australian Software Development Company, Alcove Systems Engineering. He has been working with open source software for seven years and has focused over the last three years on migrating companies to open source software. Sherry is active in the PostgreSQL and PHP community and is a regular patch-submitter.
Click here for more info. Aaron SkonnardAaron Skonnard is an instructor/researcher at DevelopMentor, where he develops the XML and Web service-related curriculum. Skonnard coauthored Essential XML Quick Reference, and Essential XML, both published by Addison Wesley. Skonnard also writes "The XML Files" column for MSDN Magazine and speaks at various XML-related conferences. Get in touch with him at skonnard.com.
Click here for more info. Geoffrey SpeicherGeoff Speicher is a Software Engineer at Software Engineering Associates in Pennsylvania, where he develops software systems for other companies. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a Master's degree in Software Engineering. His brainchild is an object-oriented library of web components for PHP. Click here for more info. Robert SpierRobert Spier is an engineer at Google, working on RT and other open source projects. In his spare time, he maintains the perl.org infrastructure and volunteers at a local dog rescue.
Click here for more info. Richard M. StallmanSpeaker biography coming soon.
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Click here for more info. Bob StaytonBob Stayton is the principal consultant of SageHill Enterprises, an independent center for DocBook development and implementation. He has been engaged in computer-based publishing since 1980, starting with WordStar and a daisy wheel printer, progressing to desktop publishing and laser printers, and now implementing XML-based publishing systems for multiple output formats. As Architect of Technical Publications at The SCO Group from 1989 to 2003, Bob designed and implemented computer-based publishing systems for technical documentation. Bob is a member of the OASIS DocBook Technical Committee that develops and maintains the DocBook DTD standard. Bob is also a member of the technical team for the DocBook Open Repository Project on SourceForge that develops the stylesheets and other tools. He is the author of DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide, published by Sagehill Enterprises.
Click here for more info. Greg SteinGreg Stein is an engineer at Google, working on their open source efforts. Prior to that, Stein was a director of engineering at CollabNet where he managed the Subversion project and releases of their SourceCast product. He also worked at Microsoft as a development manager, in the Commerce Server and Site Server groups. Stein was a co-founder and the corporate technologist of eShop, one of the first electronic commerce software companies, before its acquisition by Microsoft. In Stein's spare time, he works on many open source projects, such as Subversion, WebDAV, and Python. He also spends time with Apache projects and is the current chairman of the Apache Software Foundation.
Click here for more info. Lincoln D. SteinLincoln Stein was a hospital pathologist until he saw the light and joined the bioinformatics revolution. He learned the tricks of the trade in Eric Lander's lab at the MIT Genome Center, before striking off on his own at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He is now an associate professor at CSHL and runs a lab, the main interest of which is in integrative databases for biological sciences.
Click here for more info. Bruce SterlingBruce Sterling is the author of several science fiction novels including Involution Ocean, The Artificial Kid, Schismatrix, Islands in the Net, and Heavy Weather. He edited the collection Mirrorshades, the definitive document of the cyberpunk movement, and co-authored the novel The Difference Engine with William Gibson. He also writes a critical column for Science Fiction Eye and a popular-science column for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. His non-fiction book, The Hacker Crackdown, describes the law enforcement and computer-crime activities that led to the start of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 1990.
Click here for more info. David StutzDavid Stutz has been a professional musician since boyhood. Despite this impediment, he has also managed to actively participate in the evolution of a number of computer languages, programming models, and developer tools - most recently Microsoft's "Rotor" project. As a software architect and kibitzer, he has been involved in the early design stage of many technologies, including software component models, systems, database products, network protocols, and a whole lot of other hard-to-categorize plumbing. Despite repeated attempts to go clean, he remains obsessively attracted to distributed systems, winegrape growing, and the mechanisms of biology.
Click here for more info. Dan SugalskiDan Sugalski is the lead designer and alleged head of the Parrot project, tasked with designing the world's fastest and most full-featured z-code capable virtual machine. (It will also run Perl 5, Perl 6, Ruby, and Python code for extra flexibility in text gaming) He's been at this for near four years with no sign of land yet, though as long as he avoids the dragons he figures things can't be too bad. He's also been a long-time contributor to Perl 5, for a while handling much of the VMS Perl port, tried very hard to get the original Perl threading model working, and has written more than a dozen XS-only Perl modules, all of which likely explain this bio.
Click here for more info. Dain SundstromDain Sundstrom is an IBM Programmer and a recognized specialist in open source architecture, whose experience includes over 7 years in enterprise computing. Prior to joining IBM, Sundstrom was Chief Architect for Gluecode Software. Before Gluecode, Sundstrom held Senior Software Engineer positions with McKesson and United Health Care before becoming an independent consultant to open source development and working with companies such as McDonalds and MCI. A founding partner of Core Developers Network, he was also the Chief Architect for the JBoss/CMP project, subsequently rewriting it in its entirety and implementing the CMP 2.0 specification. Sundstrom earned his B.S. degree in Computer Science at the University of Minnesota, Institute of Technology. Click here for more info. Autrijus TangBorn in 1981 CE, Autrijus Tang is a self-educated i18n geek, net a(ctiv|narch|rt)ist, and serial entrepreneur. In his spare time from translating Free Software and related books to Chinese, Tang engages in open source and wearable computing advocacy.
Click here for more info. Rick TatemRick Tatem is a Systems Programmer in the Inf |
