Doc Searls is Senior Editor of Linux Journal , which has been covering the world's fastest-growing operating system since Version 1.0, in 1994. He is a co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , perhaps the only book (and probably the only bestseller) that began as a rant on a Web site. He also writes Doc Searls Weblog , which usually ranks well up in Technorati's Top 100 blogs (out of about 2.7 million).

Greg Kroah-Hartman is a Linux kernel hacker. He is the current Linux kernel maintainer for the PCI, USB, I²C, driver core and the sysfs kernel subsystems, along with contributing to the kobject, kref and debugfs code. He is also the maintainer of the linux-hotplug and udev projects. Additionally, he maintains the Gentoo Linux packages for these programs, and helps with the kernel package. He works for SUSE Labs. He is a co-author of "Linux Device Drivers, …

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.

Pamela Jones, commonly known as PJ, is the creator and editor of Groklaw, an award-winning website that covers legal news of interest to the free and open-source software community. Jones is a journalist, who previously trained and worked as a paralegal. PJ's articles have appeared in Linux Journal, LWN, LinuxWorld Magazine, Linux Today, and LinuxWorld.com. She also writes a monthly column for the UK print publication Linux User and Developer.

Robert "Bob" Young was born in Ancaster, Ontario, Canada and graduated from the University of Toronto. He created the ACC Corporation which merged with Red Hat in 1995. From the merger to 1999 Bob Young was Red Hat's CEO. After leaving Red Hat he started Lulu.com, a self-publishing web-site that claims to be the world's fastest-growing provider of print-on-demand books. He is Lulu.com's CEO. Young also co-founded "Linux Journal" in 1994, and in 2003, …

David Heinemeier Hansson (born 1979 in Copenhagen) is a Danish programmer and the creator of the popular Ruby on Rails web development framework and the Instiki wikis. He is also a partner at the web-based software development firm 37signals. In 1999 David founded and built an online gaming news website and community called Daily Rush, which he ran until 2001.

Danny Yee is best known for his large collection of book reviews on a great diversity of subjects. Starting in 1992 via email, in 1993 via Usenet, and especially with their subsequent publication on the World Wide Web, Yee's mostly self-published reviews are widely consulted by readers evaluating book titles. Yee's reviews are frequently syndicated by the popular Slashdot website, generally for reviews of books covering programming and technical topics.

- Managed the Carrier Grade Linux Initiative, co-created and managed of the Mobile Linux Initiative at OSDL; - Evangelist to the development and adoption of Linux / Open Source Software Building Blocks in the telecommunication; - Creator and Leader of the Carriers/NEPs Forum at OSDL; - 5 years at the Ericsson Corporate Unit of Research; - Co-author of two books on the Red Hat Linux and Fedora; - Contributing Editor for 4 leading Linux / Open Source publications; - Speaker and panelist at . . .

Don Marti, conference chair, OpenSource World, former Editor-in-Chief, Linux Journal

Writer, editor and project manager specializing in marketing and corporate communications.

Rebecca Cassity , who joined Linux Journal in 1999, oversees general operations of the organization. Working with the president, she executes the strategic and tactical operational growth plans for the company, with particular emphasis on continued expansion into new products and international markets. Rebecca graduated from Oberlin College with a BA in Visual Arts with a concentration in Media Design, and a minor in English.

Joseph Krack joined the Linux Journal team in 2001. He brings with him broad experience and knowledge of the technical magazine world with a focus on event planning, production and sales. Joseph spent four years in Silicon Valley as owner of a seminar planning business, and has recently moved from Hawaii back to California. He is now Based in Sacramento, CA.