Winifred Mitchell Baker, better known simply as Mitchell Baker, is Chief Executive Officer of the Mozilla Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates development of the open source Mozilla Internet applications, including the Mozilla Firefox web browser and the Mozilla Thunderbird email client.

Andy Hertzfeld (born April 6, 1953) was a key member of the original Apple Macintosh development team during the 1980s. After buying an Apple II in January 1978, he went to work for Apple Computer from August 1979 until March 1984, where he was a key designer of the Macintosh system software. Since leaving Apple, he has co-founded three companies: Radius in 1986, General Magic in 1990 and Eazel in 1999. Hertzfeld joined Google in 2005 and has been working there since.

Pamela Samuelson is a Professor at the University of California at Berkeley with a joint appointment in the School of Information Management & Systems as well as in the School of Law where she is a Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. She teaches courses on intellectual property, cyberlaw and information policy.

Michael Toy is a computer programmer. He was one of the developers of the 1980s dungeon-crawling computer game Rogue. He later became an employee of SGI and followed its founder Jim Clark when he left to form Netscape. Following his time there, Toy joined Mitch Kapor's OSAF organization in 2003, becoming the first software development manager for the Chandler project.

James Fallows is a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and has worked for the magazine for more than 25 years. He has written for the magazine on a wide range of topics, including national security policy, American politics, the development and impact of technology, economic trends and patterns, and U.S. relations with the Middle East, Asia, and other parts of the world.

Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world, and an activist for open standards. O'Reilly Media also publishes online through the O'Reilly Network and hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, and the Web 2.0 Conference.

Mitchell Kapor , who also serves as a board member for Level Playing Field Institute, donated the funds after attending the IDEAL Recruitment Reception on April 9, 2006: "The impact IDEAL has made in the lives of these students is enormous. It feels great to be able to support this program and to be in a position to allow more students access to the crucial resources it provides.”

Pieter Hartsook - Marketing Specialist The token marketing guy on the team, Pieter started out as a librarian and became interested in using personal computers in libraries back in the early 80's. He found computers were much more fun than books and he's been involved with them ever since. These days sharing information over the Internet is even more fun than computers. He thinks helping make a successful open-source collaborative "killer app" at OSAF is very cool.

Lanugages: .. many, many years of C and C++; .. Maya used a lot of TCL in the beginning; .. lots of little utilities in Perl (and Perl/Tk); .. sh, ksh, csh, tcsh; .. the native scripting language of Maya, "Mel" .. Objective C (via Cocoa); .. Ruby, Rails; .. ASP VBScript (ugh); .. Python; Systems: .. Apple ][+ (woo hoo); .. Atari 800 XL; .. Mac OS 9; .. Mac OS X (they are really different beasts); .. Window 3.1 through Windows Vista; .. Unix in many forms (System V, BSD, Irix, . . .

Matthew Eernisse - Web Development Engineer Matthew brings a somewhat eclectic background to his position at OSAF -- as an undergrad he studied English Lit and Biology. After a stint living in Japan, he returned home to find everyone talking about this 'Internet' thing. A taste of the World Wide Web led to endless hours in front of a computer, a master's degree in Instructional Technology, and a ride on the dot-com startup tain.

John has been writing software since high school, when he programmed one of the world's first PDP-11's. Since then, he earned a Ph.D. in Zoology at the University of Washington, co-founded Solaster Software Corporation, wrote WriteNow, the award-winning word processor for Macintosh, managed the application software department at NeXT Software, and wrote code for many Silicon Valley companies.

Heikki Toivonen - Development Manager Heikki has been fascinated with structured documents since the birth of the web as we know it. He spent several years in providing solutions for large corporations struggling with document management. Lately software security has become one of his major interests. He got hooked on Open Source with Mozilla, and has been an active developer in the project since 1998. He worked for Netscape before joining OSAF.

Randy Letness - Server Developer

Brian Kirsch - E-mail Framework Software Engineer Brian is OSAF's "go to" person for making email happen in Chandler. This includes everything from an architectural role in deciding how to integrate email to evaluating existing code for communicating with e-mail servers, making fix/build decisions, and hooking these to the networking and data repository frameworks.

Dave Cowen - System Administrator After 10 years providing support and product development for Internet and telecommunications applications at ExecPC , Voyager.net, and the companies that came thereafter though mergers and acquisitions, Dave Cowen came to OSAF to keep the servers humming, the desktops running and the network flowing. Dave is also an avid movie buff, author of the FAQ for Terry Gilliam's film Brazil , and a regular voter in the Skander Halim Memorial Movie Survey .

Jeffrey Harris - Software Development Engineer In an attempt to avoid the inevitable bliss of life in the Bay Area, Jeffrey left the University of Michigan's physics program and joined Dancing Rabbit where he learned a whole lot about building egalitarian community.

Travis Vachon - Software Engineer Travis comes to OSAF straight from Williams College, a small liberal arts college nestled in the hills of Berkshire County, Massachusetts. His first brush with open source software came from a 2005 Google Summer of Code grant during which he worked with the GNOME desktop project.

Philippe Bossut - Development Manager, Applications Group Philippe came to programing by way of Geology. He earned a PhD in Image Sciences from Ecole des Mines de Paris and went on spending his career building and delivering desktop applications, some of them you may have used (MS Office, Internet Explorer for Mac OS X) and some you may not (Live Picture, LivePix).

Aparna Kadakia - Quality Assurance Manager Aparna was fascinated by all the open source development projects while working at Netscape. She started out as a QA lead at Netscape and later became QA manager at other Silicon Valley ventures where she defined QA processes for large scale enterprise projects. OSAF is her first contribution to the open source world.

Bryan Stearns - Software Engineer Bryan comes to OSAF by way of Microsoft, Excite@Home, Classifieds2000, Apple, and the first computer store in the world. He's happy to be working with Donn again in the Applications team (after their long-ago stint together on the original Mac team), and he's excited about working in OSAF's open development process.

Sheila Mooney - Program Manager Sheila has been working in the software industry for over 13 years at companies including Microsoft, Wells Fargo and several startup ventures. She comes to OSAF from RelayHealth, an ASP providing secure messaging services between doctors and patients. As the technical project manager she helped streamline the design and development process, managed project scheduling and planning activities and acted as the liaison to a 23 person offshore team.

Grant Baillie - Software Development Engineer Grant Baillie comes to OSAF by way of NeXT and Apple, where his most recent project has been the Mail client in Mac OS X. At OSAF he'll be working in the Services Group on sharing and other projects. In his spare time, he can be found pedalling up and down various peaks in the Bay Area on his road bike.

Bobby Rullo - Server Developer Bobby Rullo comes to OSAF from New York where he has worked for the last eight years developing software in diverse areas such as the apparel, marketing and textile industries. He is eager to be a producer of open source software, having been an enthusiastic consumer for some time. Bobby plays Brazilian instrumental music on guitar and speaks faltering Portuguese.

By Scott Rosenberg From Publishers Weekly: "Software is easy to make, except when you want it to do something new," Rosenberg observes—but the catch is that "the only software worth making is software that does something new." This two-tiered insight comes from years of observing a team led by Mitch Kapor (the creator of the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet) in its efforts to create a "personal information manager" that can handle to-do lists as easily as events scheduling and address books.

Mike Taylor - Build Tools & Setup Engineer