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

Benjamin Mako Hill is a Debian hacker and author of the Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible and "The Official Ubuntu Book". He works in the Computing Culture group of the MIT Media Lab, and is on the boards of Software Freedom International (the organization that organizes Software Freedom Day) and the Ubuntu Foundation. Hill was on the board of Software in the Public Interest from March 2003 until July 2006, serving as the organisation's vice-president from August 2004. Read more...

Ben Collins is a former NASA engineer and was the Debian Project Leader from April 2001 to April 2002. He was succeeded in that role by Bdale Garbee. He currently works for Canonical Ltd. as the Linux kernel team leader for Ubuntu. He is married with 3 sons.

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).

Bookseller, Publisher, BOTB Indexer, Consultant in Office and Personal productivity tools specializing in Virtual Working. Founder of Project Vyas through which he is trying to teach people of all walks of life to use Internet for their personal and professional use. He is also part of Citizenship program proposed by Jaycees to teach Internet to ten million people over a period of time. Practitioner of advanced form of Yoga discipline called Purna Yoga an esoteric branch of Raja Yoga.

Hi to the world :) My name is Julian Rapp. I'm 21 and I live in Seckach, a town in south of Germany. I love to meet my friends, drink cocktails, go to partys and love my computer. I am a programmer and spend much of my time trying to find new technological developments and innovations. I search a job opportunity in my environment. I study computer science and will be one better guy in this world. :D

Mark a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt is authorized by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) of Carnegie Mellon University to lead SEI CMMI®-Based Appraisal Method for Process Improvement (SCAMPI sm A, B, & C). Additionally, Mark is licensed by the SEI to teach its Introduction to the CMMI® course. To date, Mark has authorized more than one dozen SEI lead appraisers, led over 50 formal SEI assessments, and conducted 100’s of informal process improvement appraisals.

1) Measure twice, cut once2) Never let perfect get in the way of good enough 3) Good enough better be remarkable

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