- Mark Shuttleworth
Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South African entrepreneur who was the second self-funded space tourist and first African national in space. He is now best known for his leadership of the Ubuntu Linux distribution. He currently lives in London and holds dual citizenship of South Africa and the United Kingdom - Eric S. Raymond
Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is a computer programmer, author and advocate for the open source movement. His reputation within hacker culture was established when he became the maintainer of the "Jargon File". After the 1997 publication of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", Raymond became a high-profile representative of the open source movement, and is today one of its most recognized and controversial characters. - Chris Messina
Chris Messina (born January 7, 1981 in USA), aka FactoryJoe, currently residing in San Francisco, is co-founder of Citizen Agency. Chris is best known for his involvement in helping to create the BarCamp movement and Microformats. Recently he co-founded The Citizen Agency, a company which describes itself as " Internet consultancy that specializes in developing community-centric strategies around product research, design, … - Larry Wall
Larry Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, linguist, and author, most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in 1987. Wall earned his bachelor's degree from Seattle Pacific University in 1976. Wall is the author of the rn Usenet client and the nearly universally used patch program. - Brian Behlendorf
Brian Behlendorf founded CollabNet, with O'Reilly & Associates , in July 1999. The company provides tools and services based on open source methods. Before launching CollabNet, Behlendorf was co-founder and CTO of Organic Online , a Web design and engineering consultancy located in San Francisco. During his five years at Organic, Behlendorf helped create Internet strategies for dozens of Fortune 500 companies. - Glyn Moody
Glyn Moody is a technology writer. He is best known for his book "Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution" (2001). It describes the evolution and significance of the free software and open source movements with many interviews of all the notable hackers. - Fabrizio Capobianco
Fabrizio Capobianco is CEO of Funambol, the company behind the Funambol mobile open source project. He is a highly regarded expert on open source software as it applies to the consumer mobile email market. He writes a regular blog called Mobile Open Source, which was voted among the 20 best in wireless by FierceWireless readers. He has forged new paths in open source licensing by co-authoring the Honest Public License (HPL), … - Robert Love
Robert Matthew Love (born September 25, 1981) is an American author, speaker, and open source software developer. He is best known as a Linux kernel hacker, due to his contributions to the Linux kernel, with notable work including the preemptive kernel, process scheduler, kernel event layer, virtual memory subsystem, and inotify. Love is also active in the GNOME community, working on NetworkManager, GNOME Volume Manager, Project Utopia and Beagle. - Matt Zimmerman
Matt Zimmerman is a technologist and free software and open source developer. Matt is a well known developer in the Debian project, having occupied a role on the group's security team and maintained the Advanced Packaging Tool (APT). Matt currently works for Canonical Ltd. as the technical leader of the Ubuntu project, chairman of the Ubuntu technical board and CTO of the project. - Mårten Gustaf Mickos
Mårten Gustaf Mickos is chief executive officer of MySQL AB. He has served as chief executive officer since January 2001. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Mickos was CEO at MatchON Sports. Mickos has a Master's degree in Engineering from Helsinki University of Technology in Finland. - Michael Tiemann
Michael Tiemann is a true open source software pioneer. His first major open source contributions included ports of and enhancements to GCC and GDB as well as the original authorship of the GNU C++ compiler, the world's first native-code C++ compiler. In 1989, Michael's technical successes and entreprenurial spirit led him to co-found Cygnus Solutions, the first company to provide commercial support for open source software. - Michael Widenius
Ulf Michael Widenius, born March 3, 1962 in Helsinki, Finland is the main author of the original version of the open-source MySQL database and a founding member of the MySQL AB company. After studying at (although not graduating from) the Helsinki University of Technology, Widenius started working for Tapio Laakso Oy in 1981. In 1985 he founded TCX DataKonsult AB (a Swedish data warehousing company) with Allan Larsson. - Larry Augustin
Larry Augustin is an angel investor and advisor to early stage technology companies. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Fonality, Hyperic, Medsphere, OSDL, Pentaho, SugarCRM, VA Software (NASDAQ: LNUX), and XenSource. One of the group who coined the term "Open Source", he has written and spoken extensively on Open Source worldwide. Worth Magazine named him to their list of the Top 50 CEOs in 2000. - Michael Wechner
Michael Wechner is co-founder of Wyona and the original creator of Apache Lenya, a CMS based on Apache Cocoon. Before entering the world of open source software he studied mathematical physics at ETH and was doing three years of basic research on computer simulations of dendritic growth. He co-founded OSCOM and also spends a lot of time with other Open Source Content Management Systems. - Andrey Golub
BSc- Applied Mathematics/ Software Engineering, PhD- Systems Analysis and Design. Who's Who in the World- 2008 (Marquis), . Prof: IT/TLC/Web Project- Product Manager, Sr.Systems/ Business Analyst and Team Leader. Web: Web 2.0 Evangelist and Researcher (Marketing 2.0/ PR 2.0/ Community Manager) with some broad experience in leading Open-Community (and Open-Source) projects.Co-founder, VP and IT/Web Manager of Business Club 2.0 Milan-IN (official LinkedIn Italia supporter Club). - Steve Purkiss
Entrepreneur, Visionary, Serial Networker, Open Source Advocate, Drupal developer - Piergiorgio Lucidi
Open Source Software Engineer on content management, content delivery and system integration applications.- JBoss Committer at JBoss for projects dedicated to Portals;- Editor at HTML.it for open source blog oneOpenSource;- Reviewer at Packt Publishing for books about J2EE and Portals.Videogame tester, barcamper, Creative Commons supporter, jazz guitarist. - Dirk Riehle
Dirk Riehle , Open-source Research Group at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, California Dirk Riehle is a software researcher and entrepreneur. He leads the open-source research group at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, California. Dirk has worked in Germany, Switzerland, and the United States. He was the leader of the team that designed and implemented the first UML virtual machine. In 2005, Dirk started the WikiSym conference series, of which he was the first conference chair. - Marc J. Miller
I help software teams understand customer needs, both from an engineering perspective and a marketing perspective. My specialties are open source software, social media, and Software as a Service (SaaS). - Otto de Voogd
IT consultant, Open Source enthusiast - Michael Wright
Founder and Player/Manager of a highly sucessful IT recruitment and executive search business demonstrating outstanding annual growth since foundation in 2001. Offices in Stockley Park, London, Buckinghamshire/Northamptonshire, and Exeter. Technical Specialisations: 3G and Wireless Technology, Security, EAI, SOA and E-Business, Consumer Electronics and Embedded Systems, IPTV, Digital Broadcast, Digital Media and SEO, Marketing, Business Intelligence, Datawarehousing, 'Impossible to find' . . . - Steve Carl
Blogger and Linux/Open Source guy. Currently at BMC Software as Manager of R&D Support for the Americas. - David Schlesinger
- David Geilhufe
- Sandro Groganz
Sandro Groganz alias "ordnas" runs an Open-Source marketing consultancy. Before that, he was the marketing lead at Open Source vendors eZ Systems and Mindquarry. Sandro combines traditional and social media marketing to build and sustain a market environment typical and beneficial for Open Source software vendors and contributors. He shares his marketing expertise in his blog at www.groganz.com. - David Benamin Isaac Recordon
- Raphaël Pinson
I have been working as a volunteer developer for Ubuntu and Kubuntu, making Debian software packages, triaging and fixing bugs, writing technical documentation, administrating machines. I have also set my own project, Ichthux, with the same technical issues, in addition to project management. In my current job, I supervise the technical side of the software deployment services for about 2000 Linux and Unix machines, including RedHat, Debian and Solaris OSes. I work on setting a new . . . - Scott Davis
I always strive to build a solution for each customer, driven by their business needs -- and not just demo product. Telling the right story, and establishing a vision to meet this (and differentiate us) remains the core function of an SE in my opinion. In that vein, success of this nature is not mine alone, but extends to the team at large. An integral part of this is constant teamwork: assisting with a qualifying a deal, prepping a POC, or crafting a workshop. I get a definite rush when . . . - Gautam Guliani
Gautam Guliani is a software architect and developer with over 15 years of experience developing web-based solutions to business problems in publishing, finance and education areas. He currently works as Executive Director, Architecture at Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, a Washington Post company. At KTPA, Gautam is responsible for technical design of all enterprise systems and integration amongst them. - Brandon Philips
- Stefano Maffulli
- Koen Vervloesem
Freelance journalist with a broad technical background, writing in Dutch and English. Specialised in writing about IT for online and print media. This varies from news items and interviews to background stories and technical articles. More information on my website: http://www.vervloesem.eu/journalist/ - Cees de Groot
Apply technology and methodology to help people connect, spaceshift, timeshift, network. If the technology doesn't help, don't apply it. Sometimes, paper and pencil is the most appropriate technology. The technology is always just the means, never the goal - I'm very disloyal to products and technologies if they don't prove their salt's worth. Among others, I dropped 4GL's, Bad OO (C++, Java), fat&static client/server, stupid distributed systems (Corba, J2EE); I did not drop (so far) . . . - Kenneth Paul Stox
- Deborah Bryant
- Michaël van Eeden
- Roberto Galoppini
Entrepreneur, public speaker and technical evangelist, one of the voices of the Italian Open Source community.Focused on commercial and strategic development, he is participating and contributing to the OpenOffice.org Community, he is a researcher with University of Rome on the economics of Open Source software, and he is a technical writer for IT and computer-related magazines. - Alex Leontiev
- Raoul Snyman
- Wytze Koopal
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