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Jono Bacon Jono Bacon is a leading community manager, speaker, author, and podcaster. He is the founder of Jono Bacon Consulting, which provides community strategy/execution, developer workflow, and other services. He also previously served as director of community at GitHub, Canonical, XPRIZE, OpenAdvantage, and consulted and advised a range of organizations. Find him on Twitter at: @jonobacon. |
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D Ruth Bavousett has been a system administrator and software developer for a long, long time, getting her professional start on a VAX 11/780, way back when. She spent a lot of her career (so far) serving the technology needs of libraries, and has been a contributor since 2008 to the Koha open source library automation suite. Ruth is currently a Perl Developer at cPanel in Houston, and also serves as chief of staff for two cats. In her copious free time, she occasionally reviews old romance novels on her blog, and is working on her first novel. |
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David Both is a Linux and open source advocate who resides in Raleigh, North Carolina. He has been in the IT industry for over 40 years and taught OS/2 for IBM, where he worked for over 20 years. While at IBM, he wrote the first training course for the original IBM PC in 1981. He taught RHCE classes for Red Hat and worked at MCI Worldcom, Cisco, and the State of North Carolina. He currently works as President, Senior Consultant, and janitor for Millennium Technology Consulting LLC. He has been working with Linux and open source software for about 15 years. David has written articles for OS/2 Magazine, Linux Magazine, Linux Journal and Opensource.com. His article "Complete Kickstart," co-authored with a colleague at Cisco, was ranked ninth in the Linux Magazine Top 10 Best System Administration Articles list for 2008. |
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VM (Vicky) Brasseur is a manager of technical people, projects, processes, products, and p^Hbusinesses. In her more than 18 years in the tech industry she has been an analyst, programmer, product manager, software engineering manager, and director of software engineering. Currently she is a Senior Engineering Manager in service of an upstream open source development team at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. VM blogs at anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com and tweets at @vmbrasseur. |
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Ben Cotton is a meteorologist by training and a high-performance computing engineer by trade. Ben works as a technical evangelist at Cycle Computing. He is a Fedora user and contributor, co-founded a local open source meetup group, and is a member of the Open Source Initiative and a supporter of Software Freedom Conservancy. Find him on Twitter (@FunnelFiasco) or at FunnelFiasco.com. |
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Jeremy Garcia is the founder of LinuxQuestions.org and an ardent but realistic open source advocate. Follow Jeremy on Twitter: @linuxquestions. |
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Marcus D. Hanwell is a Technical Leader in the Scientific Computing group at Kitware, Inc. He leads the Open Chemistry project, developing open-source tools to for chemistry, bioinformatics, and materials science research. He completed an experimental PhD in Physics at the University of Sheffield, a Google Summer of Code developing Avogadro and Kalzium, and a postdoctoral fellowship combining experimental and computational chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh before moving to Kitware, Inc. in late 2009. He is a member of the Blue Obelisk, a blogger, and is active on Twitter @mhanwell and Google+. He is passionate about open science, open source and making sense of increasingly large scientific data to understand the world around us. |
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Joshua Allen Holm is a Grand Rapids, Michigan, based writer and technology consultant. As one of Opensource.com's community moderators, he writes articles about open access, open education, and open source software. You can find Joshua on GitHub and Zotero, or email him at: [email protected]. |
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Robin Muilwijk is Advisor Internet and e-Government. He is a community moderator for Opensource.com and an ambassador for The Open Organization channel. Robin is also Chair of the eZ Community Board, and Community Manager at eZ Systems. Robin writes and is active on social media to promote and advocate for open source in our businesses and lives. Follow him on Twitter @i_robin or on LinkedIn.
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Scott Nesbitt is a writer, technology coach, and soldier of fortune, ocelot wrangler, husband, father, blogger, and collector of pottery. Scott is a few of these things. He's also a long-time user of free/open source software who extensively writes and blogs on the subject. You can find Scott on Twitter, Google+, and GitHub. You can also connect with him via his page on About.me. |
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Deb Nicholson wants to make the world a better place with technology and social justice for all. After many years of local political organizing, she started handling outreach for the Free Software Foundation and became an enthusiastic free software activist. She likes talking to developers about software patents, to project maintainers about leadership, and to activists about free software. She is currently the Community Outreach Director at the Open Invention Network and the Community Manager at GNU MediaGoblin. She also serves on the board at Open Hatch, a.k.a. Free Software's Welcoming Committee. She lives with her husband in Cambridge, Massachusetts, surrounded by a community of food nerds and noisy musicians. |
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Nithya A. Ruff is the Director of Western Digital’s Open Source Office and the president of SanDisk’s Women’s Innovation Network (WIN), which is dedicated to the development of women's highest potential in the work place. Nithya graduated with an MS in Computer Science from NDSU and an MBA from the University of Rochester, Simon Business School. She lives in the Bay Area and is a proud mother of two daughters. Follow Nithya on Twitter at @nithyaruff. |
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Subhashish Panigrahi is an educator, author, blogger, Wikimedian, language activist and free knowledge evangelist based in Bengaluru, India. Earlier with Wikimedia Foundation's India Program and currently at the Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge program. Builds partnership with universities, language research and GLAM (Gallery, Library, Archive and Museums) organizations for bringing more scholarly and encyclopedic content under free licenses, designs outreach programs for South Asian language Wikipedia/Wikimedia projects and communities. Author of "Rising Voices: Indigenous language Digital Activism" in Digital Activism in Asia Reader. Follow Subhashish at @subhapa on Twitter. |
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Nitish Tiwari is a software developer by profession and an open source enthusiast by heart. As a tech author for Linux based magazines, he covers new open source tools. He loves to read and explore anything open source. In his free time, he likes to read motivational books, listen to songs, and sleep. Follow him on Twitter @tiwari_nitish. |
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Jason van Gumster mostly makes stuff up. He writes, animates, and occasionally teaches, all using open source tools. He's run a small, independent animation studio, wrote Blender for Dummies and GIMP Bible, and continues to blurt out his experiences during a [sometimes] weekly podcast, the Open Source Creative Podcast. Adventures (and lies) at @monsterjavaguns. |
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Don Watkins is an Information Technology consultant, Educator, entrepreneur, and open source advocate and is the CEO of DGW Enterprises LLC. Read more about Don and follow him on Twitter: @Don_Watkins. |
