ApacheCon 2000 Speakers

Saminda Abeyruwan

Sessions: Why Axis2: The Future of Web Services
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Working for WSO2 as a Software Engineer, currently contributing to Apache Axis2 and Apache Synapse.

Douglas Adams

Sessions: Living In a Virtual World

Douglas Adams (<URL:http://www.douglasadams.com>) was born in Cambridge in March 1952, educated at Brentwood School, Essex and St John's College, Cambridge where, in 1974 he gained a BA (and later an MA) in English literature.

He is the creator of all the various manifestations of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,' which started life as a BBC Radio 4 series in March 1978. Since then it has been transformed into a series of best-selling novels, a TV series, a record album, a computer game and several stage adaptations. It is currently under development as a major motion picture in Hollywood.

'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's phenomenal success sent the book straight to Number One in the UK Bestseller List and in 1984 Douglas Adams became the youngest author to be awarded a Golden Pan. He won a further two (a rare feat), and was nominated - though not selected - for the first Best of Young British Novelists awards.

He followed this success with 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe' (1980); 'Life, The Universe and Everything' (1982); 'So Long and Thanks for all the Fish' (1984); and 'Mostly Harmless' (1992). The first two books in the Hitchhiker series were adapted into a 6 part television series, which was an immediate success when first aired in 1982. Other publications include 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency' (1987) and 'Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul' (1988). In 1984 Douglas teamed up with John Lloyd and wrote 'The Meaning of Liff' and after a huge success 'The Deeper Meaning of Liff' followed this in 1990). One of Douglas's personal favourites was written in 1990 when he teamed up with zoologist Mark Carwardine and wrote 'Last Chance to See' - an account of a world-wide search for rare and endangered species of animals.

He has sold over 15 million books in the UK, the US and Australia. He is also a best seller in German, Swedish and many other languages.

Douglas is a founding director of h2g2 Ltd, formerly The Digital Village, a digital media and Internet company with which he created the 1998 CD-ROM Starship Titanic, a Codie Award-winning (1999) and BAFTA-nominated (1998) adventure game.

h2g2 is currently building an online Guide (www.h2g2.com) - the Earth Edition of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,' offering unconventional wisdom to a growing global community.

His assistant, Sophie Astin, can be contacted at: sophie@h2g2.com Tel: + 44 20 7543 1723 / Fax: + 44 20 7543 1701

Brian Aker

Sessions: MySQL Clustering and Replication for the Web, Slashcode, the bender release
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Brian Aker has been involved with different net communities long before the web took the Internet to it's current heights. He is currently works on the MySQL Database Engine and spends the rest of his time working on Apache, MySQL and Perl modules, which include mod_layout and the Apache streaming services module, mod_mp3. He coauthored the "Running Weblogs with Slash" book for O'Reilly. In the past, he has been involved with projects ranging from creating datawarehouses for the Army Engineer Corps to The Virtual Hospital, which was one of the first and largest online medical repositories. He spent several years working on the Slash site engine for Slashdot. He currently works for MySQL as the Director of Architecture. He lives in Seattle, Washington with his dog Rosalynd.

Ashutosh Aman

Sessions: Apache and Tomcat: Backbone of a Successful Application Service
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Mr. Ashutosh Aman is presently working as an E-Solutions Consultant with KSoft Systems Inc, USA. He is a Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 platform and has several years of experience in administering and managing Java technology enabled solutions. He has a Bachelor of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, INDIA and Master of Science from University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

Greg Ames

Sessions: Apache 2.0 Filters, Apache 2.0 Filters, Apache on the IBM System/390 (Not your father's mainframe!)

Greg Ames is a Senior Sofware Engineer with IBM who works on Apache. He is a volunteer administrator for the apache.org web site, which has been running Apache 2.0 since February 2001. Greg's prior projects include IBM S/390 TCP/IP performance, the OSPF routing protocol, AnyNet, and VTAM. He enjoys sailing in warm places, playing bass guitar, and recording music.

Jean Anderson

Sessions: Apache Derby Security, Apache Derby/Cloudscape: Embed This! (FREE TUTORIAL)

Jean Anderson has twenty years experience developing server-side and client-side applications on relational and object-relational databases. Currently she is the Community Architect for IBM Cloudscape.

Jean-Francois Arcand

Sessions: Embedding Tomcat 5 into Applications Servers, Tomcat 5 new features.

Jean-Francois Arcand is working for Sun Microsystems since 2000. He currently works on Jakarta Tomcat as well as SUN's Application Server. Before joining Sun, he has worked as a software architect for compagnies such as France Telecom, Microcell Telecom and HMS Software, in both Java and C++. Jean-Francois lives and works from home in Prevost, a very small city in Quebec where life is perfect..

Luis Argerich

Sessions: The PXP project, using reusable PHP components and XML to develop dynamic web sites
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Development Manager of www.salutia.com, software engineer and teacher at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Leading researcher for XML technologies and web development for the company.

Rob Arnold

Sessions: FreeBSD
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No bio available.

Thies Arntzen

Sessions: Making efficient use of Oracle8i through Apache and PHP 4, Making efficient use of Oracle8i through Apache and PHP 4, Making efficient use of Oracle8i through Apache and PHP 4, Making efficient use of Oracle8i thru Apache and PHP 4., PHP inside-out

Thies Arntzen is an independent consultant based in Hamburg, Germany. He is a member of the PHP-Group and has written various PHP modules.

Vincent-Olivier Arsenault

Sessions: Semantic Web Services with Apache Products

No bio available.

Lennie Au

Sessions: A scalable teaching and learning delivery environment built on Apache

Lennie is one of the core application developers in the Campus Wide Information Systems team(CWIS) at The University of Melbourne. For the past four years she has been involved in web server administration as well as application developments such as Webraft, the SGML University Handbook system and other web applications for the infrastructure of the university. She enjoys skiing, bushwalking, eating, gardening and restore old furniture to its previous glory. :*}

Stephen Auriemma

Sessions: ApacheModuleXSLT

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Stig Bakken

Sessions: The PHP Extension and Application Repository
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Stig Bakken works for Fast Search & Transfer in Trondheim, Norway, is married and has two daughters. He has been contributing to PHP development since late 1996, and has been a member of the PHP Group from its inception. His major contributions to PHP are the Oracle and XML support, the PHP manual framework, the UNIX build system and recently PEAR.

Donald Ball

Sessions: Real world experiences developing XML sites
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In a previous life, Donald was the systems administrator for SunSITE UNC/Metalab/ibiblio. Realizing he was missing all of the fun, he later switched to Java programming for the web at webslingerZ, Inc. He was the first Apache Cocoon programmer that Stefano let into the project, and has been working with it almost exclusively ever since. He's primarily responsible for the SQL interfaces, but also takes care of several of the other XSP logicsheets.

Suso Banderas

Sessions: Apache and Frontpage extensions
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Suso Banderas has been working at Kiva Networking in Bloomington, Indiana for the past four years. Over the past two years he has worked on several webserver related projects including defining a new method to setup Frontpage extensions on shared customer servers. He also runs a non-profit web hosting network, suso.org. For further information, check out http://suso.suso.org/.

Aaron Bannert

Sessions: Advanced Topics in Module Design: Threadsafety and Portability, Advanced Topics in Module Design: Threadsafety and Portability, Advanced Topics in Module Design: Threadsafety and Portability, Advanced Topics in Module Design: Threadsafety and Portability, Building Scalable Web Architectures, Scalable Apache for Beginners, Scalable Apache for Beginners
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Aaron Bannert is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and works as an Open Source Consultant for his company Codemass, Inc. Some of the projects he's been involved in are httpd, APR, the Apache.org infrastructure team, and the Incubator, and he has been known to dabble in other projects such as PHP and Flood as well. Lately he has been spending a lot of time working on high-performance webservers and writing high-concurrency network services. Aaron has been living in San Francisco for the past year after having lived in Orange County for most of his life, and absolutely loves the new area.

David Bau

Sessions: Inside Apache XMLBeans

David Bau is one of the original developers of XMLBeans, which he started because he could not find a complete XML Schema library in Java that met his needs. He has contributed to a spectrum of efforts ranging from the GPL'ed DQSD project to Microsoft's IE and .NET. He is currently a senior engineer at J2EE leader BEA Systems.

Daniel Beckham

Sessions: Caching Dynamic Web Content to Increase Dependability and Performance
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Daniel has been involved with web development since 1997, originally working with Perl but began to move towards PHP in late 1998 and now develops web content almost exclusively in PHP. He is also a PHP Doc contributor and maintainer. Daniel is employed full time as the head systems administrator and developer for dealnews.com, Inc. and also handles the technical aspects for the lucasgames.com network.

Clinton Begin

Sessions: Dealing with Enterprise Database Challenges In OO Applications

Clinton Begin is a Senior Applications Developer for ThoughtWorks Canada. He has been building enterprise applications based on the Java platform for 8 years and has extensive experience with persistence frameworks and relational databases. Clinton is the creator of the iBATIS Data Mapper, which he designed in response to the challenges faced by object oriented developers dealing with enterprise relational databases. Clinton is an experienced speaker. He has delivered formal presentations, training seminars and boot camps for audiences of up to 400, from San Francisco to New York City.

Brian Behlendorf

Sessions: Convincing Management to Let You Work on Open Development, State of the Foundation
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Brian is a founding member of the Apache Software Foundation. Brian also founded and was CTO of CollabNet Inc. from 1999 until 2007, and still serves as a board member and advisor. Brian is also on the board of the Mozilla Foundation.

Stas Bekman

Sessions: Getting Started with mod_perl, Getting Started with mod_perl, Getting Started with mod_perl, Getting Started with mod_perl, Getting Started with mod_perl (part II), Improving performance under mod_perl, Improving performance under mod_perl, Improving script and handler performance under mod_perl, Improving script and handler performance under mod_perl, Improving script performance under mod_perl, mod_perl 2.0, mod_perl 2.0 By Example, mod_perl 2.0 By Example
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Stas Bekman is an ASF member, an author of the mod_perl guide, a monthly columnist at perl.com and ApacheWeek. He has co-authored the Practical mod_perl book for O'Reilly and Associates, Inc. He can be reached at stas@stason.org.

Noel Bergman

Sessions: Panel: Inside the Wigwam, Portlet Development using JSR-168, Portlet Development using JSR-168, Portlet Development using the new JSR-286 (Portlet v2) API, Portlet Development using the new JSR-286 (Portlet v2) API, Portlet Development using the new JSR-286 (Portlet v2) API, Practical WS-BPEL - The Missing Piece of Your SOA Puzzle

Noel J Bergman's background in object-oriented programming spans close to 25 years, including participation on the original CORBA and Common Object Services Task Forces. Noel is a Member of the Apache Software Foundation, where he participates on various projects and the infrastructure team; helps in Community building; and is the Apache Incubator PMC Chair. Noel's presentations are intended to introduce attendees to the various technologies, and bring them up to speed. The goal is to enable attendees to immediately benefit from such technologies in their own projects.

Stephen Betts

Sessions: Localising BBC News for a Global Audience

Stephen Betts has worked for BBC News for four years. He has been Technical Lead for many projects, such as the General Election website and the BBC children's news website. Since 2002 he has led the Online Systems Development team for BBC News, which is responsible for the development of all applications deployed on the public-facing webservers.

Gunther Birznieks

Sessions: Running a Profitable Open-Source Company: A Case Study, Web Application Security: Tying the Past and the Present Together, Web Application Technologies - Surveying The Landscape
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Gunther Birznieks early involvement in cutting edge biotechnology research brought him to the web to manage collaborative research from the very start of the WWW. Soon after, Gunther joined forces with Selena Sol's Scripts Archive (now eXtropia.com). Throughout this time, Gunther has subsequently published multiple books and talks on the area of web programming from Perl, to Java, to eCommerce. Gunther Birznieks spent the majority of his web engineering/programming experience working for the Human Genome Project, but has also subsequently applied his skills to writing on-line trading systems for investment banking as well as extending web applications to other mediums such as mobile phone technology (eg WAP). Currently, Birznieks has been producing software tuned for application service providers (ASPs) in Asia.

Slava Bizyayev

Sessions: Improving Web Performance with Dynamic Compression
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Slava Bizyayev earned his Ph.D. in Applied Geophysics from the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1980. His scientific profile is available at http://users.outlook.net/~sbizyaye/scientific_profile.html

In open source community Slava is known mainly as an author of Dynagzip Project, on-line tutorial Web Content Compression FAQ, and associated software available on CPAN.

Ask Bjørn Hansen

Sessions: Real World Scalability

Ask Bjørn Hansen is a software developer, speaker and consultant focused on Perl, Apache, Linux and other open source technologies. He has worked with online systems for more than a decade and with Perl for more than eight years, building large and small systems, including mod_perl systems serving thousands of dynamic requests per second. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and has been building and managing much of the perl.org community infrastructure since 1999. He can be reached at ask@develooper.com or http://develooper.com/

Ryan Bloom

Sessions: Apache 2.0, Apache 2.0, Apache upon Win32 in the round, APR: What is it, and why we use it in Apache, Migrating Apache 1.3 modules to Apache 2.0, The future of Apache after 2.0, Writing Apache 2.0 filters, Writing Apache Filters, Writing Apache Modules for 2.0, Writing Code with APR
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Ryan Bloom is a senior software engineer for Covalent Technologies and a member of the Apache Software Foundation. Ryan has been working on Apache 2.0 and APR since December 1998, and writes monthly columns for ApacheToday and CNet.

Scott Boag

Sessions: Practical XSLT Transformations for Fun and Profit

Sofware Architect, Lotus Advanced Technologies. Developer of the LotusXSL XSLT processor, contributer to the Xalan xml.apache.org XSLT processor, member of the W3C XSLT working group.

Kirill Bolshakov

Sessions: Securing Java Application Servers

Kirill Bolshakov received his MS in computer science in 1999 from Saint Petersburg State Technical University in Russia. Currently, he is a PhD student in computer science at the same University. His research interests are in the field of distributed systems management, security policies and adaptive control systems.

Rich Bowen

Sessions: 20 Things You Didn't Know Your Web Server Could Do, Apache authentication, Apache authentication, Apache authentication, Apache authentication, Apache authentication, Apache handlers with mod_perl, Apache handlers with mod_perl, Apache handlers with mod_perl, Apache HTTP Server Cookbook, Apache HTTP Server Cookbook, Apache HTTP Server Cookbook, Apache mod_rewrite Cookbook, Apache mod_rewrite Cookbook, Apache on Windows, Apache on Windows, Apache performance, Apache Performance, Apache Web Server Cookbook, Authentication in Apache 2.1, Closing Session, Intro to WebDAV, Intro to WebDAV, Introduction to Apache mod_rewrite, Introduction to Apache mod_rewrite, Introduction to Apache mod_rewrite, Introduction to mod_rewrite, Introduction to mod_rewrite, Introduction to the Apache Server, Introduction to the Apache Web Server, Introduction to the Apache Web Server, Introduction to the Apache Web Server, Introduction to the Apache Web Server, Introduction to the Apache Web Server, Introduction to the Apache Web Server, URL Mapping, URL Mapping, URL Mapping, URL Mapping, URL Mapping: Directory indexing, Content negotiation, and URL rewritin, WebDAV, WebDAV, What's so great about Apache 2.0?
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Rich Bowen is the Web Database Programmer for Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky. Rich is the author of Apache Cookbook and The Definitive Guide to Apache mod_rewrite. He is a member of the Apache documentation project and of the Apache Software Foundation.

Tim Bray

Sessions: Keynote by Tim Bray

Tim Bray managed the Oxford English Dictionary project at the University of Waterloo in 1987-1989, co-founded Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq:OTEX) in 1989, launched one of the first public web search engines in 1995, co-invented XML 1.0 and co-edited "Namespaces in XML" between 1996 and 1999, founded Antarctica Systems (antarctica.net) in 1999, and served as a Tim Berners-Lee appointee on the W3C Technical Architecture Group (http://www.w3.org/2001/tag) in 2002-2004. Currently, he serves as Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems, publishes a popular weblog (http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/), and co-chairs the IETF AtomPub Working Group (http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/atompub-charter.html).

David Brin

Sessions: Probing For Quicksand: How We Peer a Bit Ahead, Into Tomorrow's World.

David Brin is known as a "futurist" noted for speculating plausibly and entertainingly about trends in science and technology... including a wide range of daunting challenges that may confront our rambunctious civilization across the decades and years ahead. His novels have won Hugo Awards and his nonfiction book -- The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Freedom and Privacy? -- won the 1999 Obeler Freedom of Speech Award. More information about hi can be found at <URL:http://www.kithrup.com/brin/>.

Don Brown

Sessions: Go Light with Apache Struts 2 and REST, Struts 2006: An Embarrassment of Riches

Don Brown is the Technical Lead for Hosted Services at Atlassian Software Systems, with a background in the commercial and US Department of Defense sectors. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and has been a Struts committer since 2003. He is also a committer on several Apache Commons projects, and is a frequent speaker at JavaOne, ApacheCon and Java user groups.

Jeffrey Buchbinder

Sessions: Commercial use of PHP with SQL backends
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Coming from a background of working mainly with SCO Unix, Jeff migrated to the more open and malleable Linux OS a year or two ago, and has since done work packaging for various distributions and doing various CGI and preprocessed HTML "programs." He hasn't written any books yet, but he instead spends far too much time in front of a terminal. He is the head project coder for the Freemed Project and also codes/fixes/tests for OCS Intranet.

Robert Burgess

Sessions: XML and Database Integration

Robert Burgess has been an engineer in the Silicon Valley for 14 years. He worked in systems integration at Lockheed Corporation for eight years. Since becoming an independent contractor in 1995, he has worked in Internet-related technologies and helped several startups through their critical first stages. Robert joined Informix in 1998 and has been instrumental in developing the company's XML strategy. He also currently manages a Technical Marketing group within Informix.

Tony Byrne

Sessions: High-Profile, High Speed: Case study in using PHP to build Algore.Com
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Tony is an Internet veteran with more than 11 years’ experience building online networks, communities, and services. He began his professional career as a radio reporter and magazine publisher. In 1989, Tony co-founded “GlasNet” the first non-governmental e-mail network in the former Soviet Union. Over the next six years, he built and directed a multi-million dollar effort to provide network services and training to universities and emerging companies and associations across Eurasia. In 1996, Tony joined IDEV as its Lead Web Developer. Since then, he has become a speaker, writer, and consultant on “best practices” in Internet development and online marketing. At IDEV, he oversees all Web development. He has also performed due diligence on new client/company acquisitions, and serves as the acting CTO. He is a specialist in Content Management Systems and B2B ecommerce. Tony is the past Program Director of the DC Internet Developers Association (DCIDA), and is active within several local technical communities, including the Capital PC Users Group (CPCUG) and the New Media Society.

Marcus Börger

Sessions: Advanced Object Oriented Database Access using PDO, PHP 5 and databases

Marcus Börger is a freelancer located in Germany and is specialized on C/C++, Databases, UML, XML and of course PHP. To the PHP community he is also known as helly. He is one of the core developers and focused on the new OO features of PHP 5 and Zend Engine 2. Marcus 'hacks' around on all kinds of stuff for over 15 years now and is currently working for Ford Motor Company.

Kelly Campbell

Sessions: XSL Formatting Objects with Apache FOP

Kelly is a Sr. Software Engineer at ChannelPoint, Inc. in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He has been a user of FOP since it was first donated to Apache, and has been a committer on the FOP project since December 2000. He is also the principle author of the Merlot XML editor. His first web project was one of the first daily online newspapers in the world, the Kansas State University e-Collegian in 1994. In the third year of the e-collegian, Kelly transfered the web server from a Macintosh based server to Apache 1.0 on an MacBSD system. Kelly spends his time away from computers hiking, biking, and taking pictures. Arved is a Software Architect with e-plicity, a wireless B2B software development company in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Arved has been a user of FOP dating back to its James Tauber days - he has been a committer on the Apache XML FOP since (???). His interests in XML date back to 1998, and he was involved with early efforts to enable XML processing with MacPerl. Wider interests in online and print publishing with new technologies are related to Arved's interest in data and document formats, and a long-standing relationship with TeX. Arved takes full advantage of his location to get in time on the mountain bike, rock-climbing, fishing (striped bass is his favourite), scuba and kayaking. Albeit not all at once (some combinations are illegal).

Emmanuel Cecchet

Sessions: Highly available web sites with Tomcat and Clustered JDBC, J2EE Clustering

Emmanuel Cecchet received his Ph.D. from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France in 2001. He contributed to the DynaServer project at Rice University in 2002 to study the design of scalable, high-performance and highly available e-business servers. He now leads a team at INRIA in France to provide open-source middleware for large scale data servers. Emmanuel is the Chief Architect of the ObjectWeb open source consortium and the leader of the C-JDBC project (http://c-jdbc.objectweb.org).

Emmanuel Cecchet

Sessions: Building Highly Available Applications with Geronimo and Derby, Building Highly Available Database Applications for Apache Derby

Emmanuel Cecchet has a Ph.D. from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France. He contributed to the DynaServer project at Rice University to study the design of scalable, high-performance and highly available e-business servers. After leaving Rice, he led a team at INRIA in France to provide open-source middleware for large scale data servers. In 2005, Emmanuel joined Continuent where he now servers as Chief Scientific Officer. Emmanuel was Chief Architect of the ObjectWeb open source consortium and the leader of the C-JDBC project (http://c-jdbc.objectweb.org). He now leads Continuent.org and the Sequoia project (http://sequoia.continuent.org)

Ugo Cei

Sessions: An Architecture of Participation for Open Source, Cocoon, Developing Enterprise Web Applications with Cocoon and Spring
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Dr. Ugo Cei is Principal Consultant at Sourcesense, Europe’s leading Open Source systems integrator. He has more than 15 years' expertise in enterprise software architecture development using Web- and Java-based technologies. His passion for Open Source was ignited when curiosity caused him to install a Linux distribution received in error; today he is an active committer and Project Management Committee member on several initiatives at the Apache Software Foundation. He is a regular presenter at Open Source events and conferences, such as OSCON, RailsConf, and ApacheCon. Cei holds a Ph.D in Informatics Engineering from the University of Pavia, Italy.

Philippe M. Chiasson

Sessions: Building a Web Development Environment with Apache, mod_perl, C, From CGI to mod_perl 2.0, Fast!, From CGI to mod_perl 2.0, Fast!, mod_perl 2.0 by Example, mod_perl 2.0 by Example, mod_perl BOF, mod_perl for Speed Freaks!, mod_perl for Speed Freaks!
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Philippe M. Chiasson is an open-source developer, spending most of his time working on mod_perl, an ASF project to open up the power of the apache API to Perl developers. He is a member of the ASF and currently works for ActiveState.

Eran Chinthaka

Sessions: Developing Applications and Extensions of Axis2, Why Axis2: The Future of Web Services

Pioneering member of Apache Axis2, Axiom and Synapse projects, and a member of ASF.

Sean Chittenden

Sessions: mod_ruby: An Introduction and Overview

Sean Chittenden has is an old school mod_perl hacker that has written and managed web applications that were pushing in excess of 100Mbps of traffic. Experienced in Apache, he currently uses a mixture of mod_ruby, mod_backhand, mod_proxy, and mod_perl. Recently he was published as a contributing author in the Professional Apache 2.0 book by Wrox. Currently, he actively uses or maintains mod_ruby, ruby-snmp, DBI, libxml, and the libxslt modules for Ruby.

Eric Cholet

Sessions: Configuring Apache and mod_perl applications, Writing multilingual sites with mod_perl and Template Toolkit
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Eric Cholet is CTO of Logilune and a member of the ASF.

Kin-man Chung

Sessions: Jasper, the JSP compiler in Tomcat 5

I have been deveoping compilers and tools for over 15 years. I have been a committer on Jakarta Tomcat project for over 2 years, working primarily on the JSP compiler, Jasper.

Andy Clark

Sessions: Xerces2: The Sequel With No Equal, Xerces2: The Sequel With No Equal

The Apache XML Project was Andy's first introduction to Open Source development but even as a child he often gave his toys away. He has extensive experience in component architectures and XML using Java and for the past three+ years has been actively developing the Xerces-J XML parser. He was the lead architect for the Xerces2 parser and has recently moved back from Japan.

Ken Coar

Sessions: ApacheCon Europe 2000 Closing Session, ApacheCon Europe 2000 Opening Session, Closing Session, Closing Session, Closing/Wrapup Session, Closing/Wrapup Session, Closing/Wrapup Session, Closing/Wrapup Session, Getting Set Up with Apache, How the ApacheCon site works, Opening plenary, Opening plenary, Opening plenary, Opening plenary, Opening Plenary, Opening Plenary, The future of Apache after 2.0
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Ken Coar is a director and vice president of the Apache Software Foundation, a director and vice president of the Open Software Initiative, and a Senior Software Engineer with IBM. He has over two decades of experience with software engineering and system administration. Ken has worked with the Web since 1992, and in addition to working on Apache and PHP he was one of the authors of RFC 3874 (the CGI specification). He is the author of 'Apache Server for Dummies', a lead author of 'Apache Server Unleashed', and a co-author of 'Apache Cookbook'.

John Coggeshall

Sessions: Building Web 2.0 applications using PHP, Creating Dynamic PDFs using PHP, HTML manipulation and data mining with Tidy, Making the most of PEAR and PECL, Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5, PHPEE? The PHP Enterprise Architecture, Top 10 Scalability Mistakes

John Coggeshall is the Chief Technology Officer at Automotive Computer Services, specializing in building Web 2.0 applications for the auto industry. He got started with PHP in 1997 and is the author of three published books and over 100 articles on PHP technologies with some of the biggest names in the industry such as Sams Publishing, Apress and O'Reilly. John also is a active contributor to the PHP core as the author of the tidy extension, a member of the Zend Education Advisory Board, and frequent speaker at PHP-related conferences worldwide. His web site, http://www.coggeshall.org/ is an excellent resource for any PHP developer.

Roger Collins

Sessions: From ASP to PHP
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Roger has been developing software professionally for 15 years and recently taught web application development (using ASP) at Florida Atlantic Univ. He has developed three commercial web applications using Linux/Apache/PHP: ProProject.com, Watchit.us, and NameBuySell.com. Roger earned his MS in Computer Engineering from Univ. of Florida and his MBA from Florida Atlantic Univ.

Ben Collins-Sussman

Sessions: Subversion
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Ben is an employee of Collabnet, and is one of the principal designers and authors of Subversion, an open-source version control system built on apache/mod_dav. He is also one of the authors of an upcoming O'Reilly book about Subversion. Personal information can be found here.

Danese Cooper

Sessions: Strategic Commons: Open Source in the Developing World
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Danese Cooper has a 15-year history in the software industry and has long been an advocate for transparent development methodologies. Danese worked for six years at Sun Microsystems, Inc. on the inception and growth of the various open source projects sponsored by Sun (including OpenOffice.org, java.net and blogs.sun.com). She was Sun's Chief Open Source Evangelist and founded Sun's Open Source Programs Office. She has unique experience implementing open source projects from within a large proprietary company. She joined the OSI Board in December 2001 and currently serves as Secretary & Treasurer. As of March 2005 Danese has joined Intel to advise on open source projects, investment and support. Danese has been active in Apache for many years, and was voted into membership in 2007. She speaks internationally on Open Source and Licensing issues.

Martin Cooper

Sessions: Struts Fireside Chat

No bio available.

Mark Cox

Sessions: Apache E-Commerce Solutions, Apache Security Secrets Revealed, Apache Security Secrets Revealed

Mark Cox is the lead for the Security Response Team at Red Hat. He has developed a number of free and open-source software products for more than 9 years; being a founding member of both the OpenSSL group and the Mozilla Crypto Group, a core Apache developer since 1995, and the editor of Apache Week. He currently is a member of the Apache Software Foundation board of directors.

Wesley D. Craig

Sessions: Open Source Web Single Sign On

Wesley D. Craig joined the University of Michigan in 1987, where he designed and wrote netatalk, an implementation of the AppleTalk protocol suite for the Unix operating system. He is currently the Senior IT Architect and Engineer for the University of Michigan Computing Environement. He manages RSUG, the team that runs the University's central LDAP directory, e-mail, and charged-for printing systems. Recent projects include radmind, a suite of tools for Unix and Macintosh filesystem management; and cosign, a web-based single sign-on system.

Aaron Crane

Sessions: mod_rewrite as Business Logic: A Case Study of The Register, mod_rewrite as Business Logic: A Case Study of The Register

Aaron Crane has been using the Apache web server to deploy and maintain web sites since 1995. For several years he was based in Leeds, working as a trainer, consultant, and software developer. He has now settled in Edinburgh, where he is Technical Overlord for The Register, the UK's leading IT news site.

Todd Cranston-Cuebas

Sessions: Getting a job in the crazy open-source world! Part 2, The open source job market: What's happening out there?
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I'm the senior technical recruiter at Ticketmaster. Normally, you'll find me on the web as GeekHunter. Check out my "Geek Hunting" blog at http://www.dailydoodle.com/blog/geekhunting.html. Cool stuff: open-source, perl, php, workflow solutions, soccer, illustration and design, and playing my ukulele (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AtomicUkes/). Email: tcc@ticketmaster.com

Shane Curcuru

Sessions: Apollo, Hermes, and Muse Projects - Implementations of WS-ResourceFramework, WS-Notification, and WSDM Management using WS, Automated Java Testing at xml.apache.org, Cocoon Fireside Chat With Stefano, javax.xml.transform in Xalan-J user discussion, xml-commons Roundtable
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Shane's day job is Applications Architect for IBM's Extreme Blue intern program and University Recruiting teams. He also volunteers at the ASF on the Public Relations and Conferences committees.

Torsten Curdt

Sessions: Continuations revolutionizing webapp development, The Commons Libraries - don't reinvent the wheel

Torsten Curdt is an active member of the Apache Software Foundation developer community, as well as a technical writer. He has been around the Apache Cocoon project since version 1.7 and became a committer in 2001. With its creation he also became member of the Cocoon PMC. Although he has been involved in several other open source projects, his main contributions and publications are Apache related. Today he is also part of the Jakarta PMC, chair of the Commons PMC and a member of the Apache Software Foundation. In particular he is interested in the research of new technologies.

Gaitan D'Antoni

Sessions: Apache WEB Server on OpenVMS
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James Duncan Davidson

Sessions: Perspectives on the Jakarta Project, Perspectives on the Jakarta Project, SourceGarden.org, Using Ant to Build Java Code
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James Duncan Davidson is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun MIcrosystems and is the original author of Apache Tomcat and Apache Ant. During his career at Sun, he authored the Servlet 2.1 and 2.2 API specifications, the Java API for XML Parsing 1.0 specification and played an instrumental role in the donation of code from Sun to the Apache Software Foundation which formed the Jakarta Project. Currently he serves as a Strategic Technologist in the Sun Open Source office and does his best to help Sun "Do the Right Thing".

Chris J. Davis

Sessions: Great Code comes from Great Community: Meritocracy in Action, Great Code comes from Great Community: Meritocracy in Action, Installing and Configuring Apache 2.0 on MacOS X, Intro to XSLT

Chris J. Davis is a Web Developer and Mac Head living in Central Kentucky, USA. Currently Chris is the Web Architect for Asbury College, a core developer Habari Project and a contributing author for Blog Design Solutions from Friends of Ed. You can find his ramblings at Sillyness Spelled Wrong Intentionally.

Miguel de Icaza

Sessions: Miguel Predicts

As the founder and leader of the GNOME Foundation and a board member of the Free Software Foundation, Miguel is one of the foremost luminaries in the Linux development community. With his seemingly boundless energy, Miguel has galvanized the effort to make Linux accessible and available to the average computer user. He brings this same excitement to his role as CTO of Ximian. Miguel was instrumental in porting Linux to the SPARC architecture and led development of the Midnight Commander file manager and the Gnumeric spreadsheet. He is also a primary author of the design of the Bonobo component model, which leads the way in the development of large-scale applications in GNOME.

Dan Debrunner

Sessions: Introducing Apache Derby/Cloudscape, Introducing Apache Derby/Cloudscape, Securing Data with Apache Derby/Cloudscape

Daniel Debrunner is a Senior Technical Staff Member with IBM's Data Management division in San Francisco, California. For the past eight years he has been the architect for the Cloudscape database engine, guiding the technology from a startup company through two acquisitions to wide deployment in IBM's products and middleware. Now he is looking forward to being a participant in the Apache open source community that will drive Derby. Daniel has worked on the internals of number of additional database engines at Sybase, Illustra and Informix. Prior to coming to the United States Daniel worked for a London based Unix systems company and received a MA in Physics from the University of Oxford.

Frank DeChellis

Sessions: Helping your clients make the move to E-Commerce, Workshop for small/medium ISPs entering Web hosting industry
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I am president of Internet Access Worldwide in Welland, ON, Canada. Our company provides dial up and high speed access, server co-location and web hosting. We have been in operation since May 1995. I spoke at Apachecon Florida 2000. I had 2 topics there: "Helping your clients make the move to e-commerce" and I held a last minute fill-in workshop "running a web hosting business"

Thomas DeWeese

Sessions: Introduction to the Batik Project

Thomas DeWeese is a Senior Software Engineer at Eastman Kodak Company, in Rochester New York where he has worked for the Image Science Division's, image application development group since 1994. Thomas has made contributions to the imaging portions of the Java2D API, and was a major contributor to the Java Advanced Image API (version 1.0). Since then he has participated in the Jini Printing Working group and has recently become a member of Kodak's SVG Working Group team.

Thomas DeWeese

Sessions: Java Applications with Apache Batik

Thomas DeWeese is a Senior Software Engineer at Eastman Kodak Company, in Rochester New York where he has worked since 1994. Thomas has made contributions to the Java2D and Java Advanced Imaging APIs. He has also participated in the Jini Printing Working group. From 2001 to 2003 Thomas was Kodak's primary SVG Working Group Member. Thomas has also been a major contributor to the Apache Batik project, an OpenSource implementation of SVG in Java, since it's creation in late 2000.

David DeWolf

Sessions: Embedding Apache Pluto

David is the president and founder of Three Pillar Software, Inc., a small consultancy focused on providing custom application development and training services revolving around Open Source Technologies and Agile Methodologies. He works with mid sized and fortune 1000 companies to establish corporate standards that promote best practices and agile development. His past clients include PepsiCo, FritoLay, McKesson, NASD, PTC, and Johnson Controls as well as many mid sized and startup companies. David has over 8 years of commercial software development experience. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation's Struts, Tiles, and Portals projects and participates in the Java Community Process as a member of the Java Portlet Specification Expert Group. David is the author of various online publications and enjoys presenting on technical and agile topics. He recently presented at ApacheCon US 2005, Agile 2006, and SW Best Practices 2006 and is schedule to speak at other upcoming events. When David is not working with software, he enjoys spending time with his wife and four kids.

Cory Doctorow

Sessions: Keynote by Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow is the European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). He's also a visiting lecturer at Yale University Engineering, a fellow at Stanhope Centre in London, a Contributing Writer to Wired Magazine and a columnist for Popular Science and Make Magazines. I sit on the committee for the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference and am an advisor to Ludicorp, Inc and Musicbrainz. I'm also the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing. I co-founded the open source P2P technology company OpenCola, which was sold to OpenText in 2003.

Jim Driscoll

Sessions: Open Source for Business and Profit
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Jim Driscoll has been at Sun for nearly nine years, ever since he joined JavaSoft to work on the Java Web Server and the first version of Servlets. At various times, he has been the manager of the J2EE RI, the Java Web Services Developer Pack, and a host of Open Source, web and XML projects that Sun has either participated in or led. His current job title is Manager, Project GlassFish. He lives and works in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay area.

Bill Dudney

Sessions: Building WebApps with MyFaces

Bill Dudney is, in addition to an author and frequent speaker, a senior J2EE architect consultant with Dallas based OSG. He has been doing distributed computing for 14 years starting at NASA, building software to manage the mass properties of the Space Shuttle. Bill started doing Java in late 1996 after years of building software on the NeXT. Bill is the author of four books; J2EE AntiPatterns, Jakarta Pitfalls, Mastering JavaServer Faces and Eclipse 3 Live. Bill travels on the No Fluff Just Stuff symposium tour as an expert speaker on many J2EE topics. Bill is also a committer on the Jakarta Incubator project MyFaces.

Thomas Dudziak

Sessions: How to Unit Test the User Interface of Web Applications, Java-XML Binding Approaches at Apache
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Thomas Dudziak is a comitter to the OJB project since 2003, and to the DdlUtils project (former commons-sql). Since 1997 he is a researcher in the Fraunhofer organization, a large German research organization, in the Fraunhofer FIRST institute in the fields of applied computer graphics and modern visualization technologies. He also works for IT Service Omikron since 1998, a small company specialized in web and desktop application development, and development and quality assurance consulting.

Lisa Dusseault

Sessions: Cosmo and CalDAV: Open Source, Standards-based Calendar Sharing

Lisa Dusseault is a development manager and standards architect at the Open Source Applications Foundation, where she's involved in the Chandler, Cosmo and Scooby projects. Previously, Lisa came from Xythos, an Internet startup where she was development manager for four years. She has also been an IETF contributor on various Internet applications protocols for eight years now, and continues to do this kind of work at OSAF. She co-chairs the IETF IMAP extensions and CALSIFY (Calendaring and Scheduling Standards Simplification) Working Groups. She is also the author of a book on WebDAV and co-author of CalDAV, an open and interoperable protocol for calendar access and sharing.

Allan Edwards

Sessions: The future of Apache after 2.0

Allan is a Senior Software Engineer with IBM working on Apache and specializing in the area of high performance caching. He has been involved in Webserver software development for the past five years. Prior to that he was architect and programmer for several networking products.

Tobias Eggendorfer

Sessions: Spam-proof homepage design. Methods and results of a study.

Tobias Eggendorfer has been working as a freelance IT-Consultant and Software-Developer since 1999. He teaches at Munich-Business-School. Currently he is researching spam and techniques to prevent spam from hitting his spam-filter.

Lars Eilebrecht

Sessions: ApacheCon Europe 2000 Closing Session, ApacheCon Europe 2000 Opening Session, Behind the Scenes of the Apache Software Foundation, Behind the Scenes of the Apache Software Foundation, Behind the Scenes of the Apache Software Foundation, Behind the Scenes of The Apache Software Foundation, Behind the Scenes of The Apache Software Foundation, Behind the Scenes of The Apache Software Foundation, Behind the Scenes of the Apache Software Foundation (Part 1), Behind the Scenes of the Apache Software Foundation (Part 2), Closing Session, Opening Plenary, Panel: Inside Apache, Panel: Inside the Wigwam, Securing Communications with your Apache HTTP Server, Transparent Content Negotiation, Transparent Content Negotiation

Lars is co-founder and member of The Apache Software Foundation, and started contributing to the Apache web server project in 1997. In addition, he is the Vice President of the Conference Planning Committee, a member of the Apache security team, and the Apache public relations committee. He has a degree in computer engineering from the University of Siegen, Germany, where he wrote his first book about the Apache web server. He held various senior engineering, consulting and management positions at various ISPs, mobile network providers and software development companies. Lars is also a member of the International Financial Cryptography Association. Currently he is working as a senior security officer for a software development company in Munich specializing in cryptographic research and development, and the operation of highly secure data centers.

Ralf S. Engelschall

Sessions: Security Solutions with SSL, Security Solutions with SSL, Security Solutions with SSL, The future of Apache after 2.0
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RSE studied Computer Science and Mathematics and is an engrained Unix and free software enthusiast for over 10 years now. He spends most of his free time for contributing to free software projects (FreeBSD, GNU, Apache, OpenSSL) and is also the author of numerous popular packages (mod_ssl, MM, WML, ePerl, GNU Pth, GNU shtool, etc). His major Apache contributions are mod_rewrite, reverse proxy, mod_so/DSO, APACI, apxs, apache-contrib and mod_ssl.

Daniel Fagerstrom

Sessions: Cocoon Blocks

Daniel Fagerstrom has been involved in the Cocoon community since 2001 and a committer since 2003. He share his time between developing Cocoon based applications at Lentus AB and doing research in computer vision at KTH. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden.

Rich Feit

Sessions: Building Web Apps with Beehive

Rich Feit is a Beehive committer and a lead engineer in BEA's Boulder, Colorado office. He has spent the last several years designing and implementing the Java Page Flow programming model on top of the Apache Struts framework.

Derek Ferguson

Sessions: Creating Commercial Software for Jakarta, Creating Commercial Software for Jakarta, Integrating Apache with Microsoft's .NET, Integrating Apache with Microsoft's .NET
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Derek Ferguson is Chief Technology Evangelist for Expand Beyond Corp., the worldwide leader in mobile software for enterprise management. Derek has authored many books and articles, including "Broadband Internet Access for Dummies" and has spoken at conferences nationwide including JavaOne and CAWorld.

Roy Fielding

Sessions: A little REST and Relaxation, A little REST and Relaxation, HTTP and Apache, HTTP and Apache, State of Apache, waka: a replacement for HTTP, waka: a replacement for HTTP

Roy T. Fielding is chief scientist at Day Software, a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and V.P., Apache HTTP Server. He is a founder of several open-source software projects, architect of the current Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1) and REST architectural style, and co-author of the Internet standards for HTTP and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI). He received his Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine.

Brian Fitzpatrick

Sessions: ApacheCon Lightning Lottery Talks, ApacheCon Lightning Lottery Talks, ApacheCon Lightning Lottery Talks and a Movie, Do You Believe in the Users?, From CVS to SVN: Case studies in migrating your team to a new tool, From CVS to SVN: Case studies in migrating your team to a new tool, Panel: Inside the Wigwam, Subversion Tips and Tricks, Subversion Tutorial, Subversion Tutorial, Subversion Tutorial, Subversion Worst Practices, Subversion: Building a better CVS, Subversion: Building a better CVS, What's In It for Me? How Your Company Can Benefit from Opening Code, What's In It for Me? How Your Company Can Benefit from Opening Code
Send email to Brian Fitzpatrick

Brian Fitzpatrick started his career at Google in 2005 as the first software engineer hired in the Chicago office. Brian leads Google's Chicago engineering efforts and also serves as engineering manager for Google Code and internal advisor for Google's open source efforts. Prior to joining Google, Brian was a senior software engineer on the version control team at CollabNet, working on Subversion, cvs2svn, and CVS. He has also worked at Apple Computer as a senior engineer in their professional services division, developing both client and web applications for Apple's largest corporate customers. Brian has been an active open source contributor for over ten years. He became a core Subversion developer in 2000, and then the lead developer of the cvs2svn utility. He was nominated as a member of the Apache Software Foundation in 2002 and spent two years as the ASF's VP of Public Relations. Brian has written numerous articles and given many presentations on a wide variety of subjects from version control to software development, including co-writing "Version Control with Subversion" as well as chapters for "Unix in a Nutshell" and "Linux in a Nutshell." Personal information can be found at http://www.red-bean.com/fitz/

Rick Fleischman

Sessions: The Next Wave of PHP: Introducing PHP 5
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Rick Fleischman is Director of Product Marketing for PHP at Zend Technologies. He is responsible for evangelizing the use of PHP to the development community. Prior to Zend, Rick was at Blue Martini Software. He has a long history in tools and platform marketing roles at companies including Apple Computer, Netscape Communications, and Liquid Audio. Rick has a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from UCLA.

Neal Ford

Sessions: Clean Up Your Code: 10 Java Coding Tricks, Techniques, and Philosophy, Power Regular Expressions, Ruby for Java Developers

Neal Ford is an Application Architect for ThoughtWorks. He is an architect, designer, and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, and video/DVD presentations. Neal is also the author of Developing with Delphi: Object-Oriented Techniques (Prentice Hall PTR, 1996), JBuilder 3 Unleashed (SAMS Publishing, 1999), and Art of Java Web Development (Manning, 2003). His language proficiencies include Java, C#/.NET, Ruby, Object Pascal, C++, and C. Neal’s primary consulting focus is the design and construction of large-scale enterprise applications. He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, having spoken at over 40 developers’ conferences worldwide.

John Fowler

Sessions: Looking Ahead: Challenges for Open Software, Sun and Apache: A Bright Future

John was recently designated Chief Technology Officer for SMI's Software organization. He manages a small Advanced Development group and reports directly into Jonathan Schwartz's organization. He amplifies SMI's vision and energy; fosters alignment, leadership and innovation. John has been with Sun for 12 years with experience in software development and most recently corporate strategy.

John Fowler was responsible for identifying leading technology trends and the companies creating these trends for minority investment and acquisition. John's group took a forward view on both hardware and software technology developments, identifies companies that are complementary to Sun in specific areas, and seeks out to invest in these companies.

John managed a small group which has technology people with both a hardware and software background. His current personal interest is in middleware, operating system, and security technologies. Examples in the existing Sun portfolio of 35 companies are Nuance (voice recognition), Tripwire (Data Integrity), Liberate (Digital TV), RAPT (dynamic price optimization) and Mellanox (Infiniband Technology).

Prior to taking the technology position in the investment group, John was Director of Engineering for the Sun Software Development Tools organization. Over the past 10 years, he has held a variety of positions, primarily engineering management, in Java Software, Solaris, Unix Desktop, and Graphics.

Paul Fremantle

Sessions: Apache Synapse and the Open Service Bus, Building an open source Service Oriented Architecture with WSIF, High-speed SOA with Apache Synapse, Infrastructure for Web Services, Quickstart Apache Synapse: Adding service mediation to your network, REST vs WS-*: Myths, Facts and Lies, The Great Apache ESB Bakeoff

Paul Fremantle is VP of Technical Sales at WSO2, where he works on Open Source projects in Apache, including the Apache Synapse and Incubator projects. He has contributed to Apache since the first Apache SOAP project. While at IBM, he was instrumental in starting up the Apache WSIF, and Apache Woden projects, as well as being heavily involved in the AxisC/C++ initiative, where he led IBM's involvement. Paul was a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM, where he was the lead architect and co-creator of IBM's Web Services Gateway. Paul is the co-chair of the OASIS WS-RX technical committee and lead the JSR110 committee (JWSDL). Before joining IBM, Paul worked as a consultant in the pharmaceutical industry. Publications include co-authoring "Building Web Services in Java, 2nd Edition", articles on Web Services and SOA, and a redbook - "The XML Files: Using XML and XSL in WebSphere". Paul has presented at ApacheCon, Colorado Software Summit, XML Europe, Software Architecture and other industry conferences. Paul has an M.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy and an M.Sc in Computation from Oxford University.

Pier Paolo Fumagalli

Sessions: Apache and Tomcat integration, XML publishing fundamentals
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Pier "posh spice" Fumagalli got involved with the Apache JServ project a few years ago, and since then noone has been able to get rid of him (although many tried). He spends most of his time debating with his cat about performance of Java code on Mac OS/X, especially when JNI is involved. Lately he's spending more and more time on Apache 2.0 and APR, because segfaults are way more fun than NullPointerExceptions... He currently calls London his home and spends his days coding from Little Venice with two kittens jumping on his keyboard.

Santiago Gala

Sessions: Developing Commercial Products on top of O-S Software, Developing Commercial Products on top of O-S Software, LAMP and the REST architecture. Step by step analysis of best practice, Software Metrics Studies and OS Projects: academia vs infrastructure, Tools for Content Management and Publishing in Apache: An Overview, Using Apache Jetspeed to build dynamic, content driven Portals
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Santiago Gala is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and VP of the Apache Portals project. He owns High Sierra Technology, dedicated to consultancy and development in telecommunications and software technologies. URL: http://www.hisitech.com/. Teaches AI and Software Engineering in the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, and blogs in Spanish

Ross Gardler

Sessions: OSS Watch and your OSS Project, Single Source Publishing with Apache Forrest, Single Source Publishing with Apache Forrest
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In recent years Ross has been active in Computer Science research (UK and West Indies), has lectured in Computer Science and Management (West Indies) and has been a freelance contractor across the UK. He is currently a Research Officer with OSS Watch at Oxford University and is a member of the Apache Software Foundation.

Mario F. Gaul

Sessions: Multilingual Information Processing based on UTF-8 character encoding
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Mario F. Gaul is a PHP enthusiast who specialised in Graphical User Interfaces. His latest project was a multilingual web-frontend for a german billing software company. He is currently working as a freelancer.

Jeff Genender

Sessions: Apache Geronimo 2.0 - Deep Dive, Apache Geronimo for Developers

Jeff is the CTO of Savoir Technologies, Inc, an Apache Geronimo and SOA consulting company. Jeff is an Apache Member, an active committer and Project Management Committee (PMC) member for Apache Geronimo, a committer on OpenEJB, ServiceMix, and Mojo (Maven plugins). He is the author of Enterprise Java Servlets (Addison Wesley Longman, 2001), the co-author of Professional Apache Geronimo (2006, Wiley) and Professional Tomcat (2007, Wiley). Jeff also serves as a member of the Java Community Process (JCP) expert group for JSR-244 (Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE 5) Specification) as a representative of the Apache Software Foundation. Jeff is an open source evangelist and has successfully brought open source development efforts, initiatives, and success stories into a number of Global 2000 companies, saving these organizations millions in licensing costs.

Michael Giroux

Sessions: ASF & ObjectWeb collaboration, High-speed ObjectWeb Logger (HOWL) for J2EE Application Servers

Over 35 years of OLTP experience on mainframe and open platforms. Architect for interoperability products supporting direct and gateway access to Bull GCOS mainframe from Tuxedo, application servers, and desktops including a J2EE CA 1.0 Resource Adapter. Member of the JSR 112 Expert Group. Project leader and lead developer for the Objectweb HOWL project.

Will Glass-Husain

Sessions: Business Tips for the Open Source Consultant, Competing for Contracts, Growing a Small Software Business, Hacking Velocity, Hacking Velocity
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Will Glass-Husain is Chief Software Architect of Forio Business Simulations, a small startup located in San Francisco offering products and consulting services to customers around the world. Will has been programming since he was 10 and in one business or another since he was 14. He's a committer on the Jakarta Velocity project and user / bug reporter for many other open source projects.

Edwin Goei

Sessions: Java and XML Parsing Using Standard APIs

Edwin Goei is an engineer with Sun Microsystems where he currently works on Java and XML technologies. Among other projects, he has previously worked on Java virtual machines and X Window servers.

Edwin Goei

Sessions: Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) version 1.1

Edwin Goei is an engineer with Sun Microsystems where he currently works on Java and XML technologies and in particular on the JAXP reference implementation. Among other projects, he has previously worked on Java virtual machines and X Window servers. Edwin has an MSEE degree from UC Berkeley and has over 10 years of work experience. He has also been programming computers since the mid 70s, when he was first able to get access to one.

Christoph Goller

Sessions: Introduction to Lucene
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Christoph Goller got his Ph.D in computer science from the Technical University of Munich where he worked in several research projects on machine learning and neural networks. He worked for Lernout & Hauspie for several years and is now one of the driving forces behind Intrafind Software AG (www.intrafind.de), a German company specialized on full-text search and text mining. During the last two years he has become one of the core Lucene developers and he is a PMC member of the new Lucene top-level project.

Philip Gollucci

Sessions: Practical mod_perl
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Philip M. Gollucci works on mod_perl, Apache-Test, and mod_perl_docs and frequently contributes to libapreq. As of November 2005, he joined TicketMaster as a Sr. Software Engineer. In his free time, he works for his Consulting Firm, P6M7G8 Consutling, using FAMP(FreeBSD) stacks to design custom sites for clients.

James Goodwill

Sessions: Flashifying an Apache Axis Application

James Goodwill is an 8-time published author of leading technologies such as Java Servlets, JavaServer Pages (JSPs), Jakarta Tomcat, Jakarta Struts, and Apache Axis. In addition to being a oft-requested architect consultant, James is a frequent speaker at worldwide conferences such as COMDEX and ApacheCon. He has also contributed numerous articles to technical trade magazines.

Philip Grabowski

Sessions: Apache and DBMS Integration for High Volume WWW Sites, XML: An Intensive Introduction
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Philip Grabowski is a principal with the software development and consulting firm, Mountain Toolsmiths, Inc. With over 16 years of experience in the development and support of high-volume, distributed OLTP architectures, he currently splits his time consulting for major Wall Street firms and as a product manager for MTI's ecommerce tool business.

Hans Granqvist

Sessions: Pragmatic XML Security

Hans Granqvist is a member of VeriSign's Advanced Research group and represents VeriSign in standards relating to Web Services and security. He also heads up several internal VeriSign projects to analyze and improve code security and quality. Hans implemented an XML security toolkit, TSIK, and leads the Apache TSIK incubation effort. He has previosuly spoken at JavaOne and SD Expo. In his spare time, he writes feature movies. He hangs out at commented.org.

Zak Greant

Sessions: Advanced Development with Apache, MySQL and PHP, The next generation: PHP 5.1 and MySQL 5.0
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Zak Greant is a technical evangelist, author and programmer whose deep and constant love of Free Software and Open Source is turning him into a penguin. The only visible changes (so far) are a gradual accumulation of blubber, a loss of hair (which he hopes is the prelude to feather growth) and a growing preference for raw fish. When not practicing how to waddle or wear a tuxedo, he works at Foo Associates where his suit name is "Founder and Chief Strategist".

Joe Gregorio

Sessions: Extending HTTP Authentication
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Joe Gregorio, President, BitWorking, Inc, is an active member in the Atom and RSS community. He is the author of the RESTLog API, the Comment API, the draft RFC for the AtomAPI and the creator of the open source news aggregator Aggie, and publishes the site WellFormedWeb.org.

Christian Gross

Sessions: A look at the Apache 2.0 APR, Advanced Web Services Using Axis, C++ and Apache using C++ Server, Developing with APR, Managing Content using Apache Cocoon, Setting up the Apache Web Server for developers, Using C++ for Apache Modules, Writing Apache Extensions, Writing Programs for Apache Jakarta

Christian Gross is a Trainer / Consultant interested in all aspects of software engineering, which relate to the Apache, Internet, XML, or cross-platform .NET. His thirst for everything computing started in High School, when on a Commodore Pet he wrote two lines of BASIC code; 10 Print "cool!" 20 Goto 10. The rest is history and has accumulated into computing, how to effectivily build software teams, and mentor people in new technologies. Christian has given many talks and written various articles and books.

Christian Gross

Sessions: Applied Web Services: Google, Ebay, Yahoo, and Amazon, Coding With Jakarta Commons, The Future of Web Services Using REST

Christian Gross is a Trainer / Mentor interested in all aspects of Software. He is especially interested in Open Source technologies (Apache, XML, MySQL, Mono, Mozilla). His thirst for everything computing started in High School, when on a Commodore Pet he wrote two lines of BASIC code; 10 Print "Cool" 20 Goto 10. Of late Christian has authored three books; Applied Software Engineering with Apache Jakarta Commons, and Open Source for Windows Administrators. Christian has spoken at various conferences such as ApacheCon, Software Development, JAX, among others.

Ceki Gülcü

Sessions: Log4j, A Logging Package for Java, What is new in log4j version 1.3?
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Ceki Gülcü has over twelve years of development experience, including eight in the Java language. He holds a MS degree in Computer Science from Ecole Politechnic Federale of Lausanne. He is the founder of the log4j project and the author of The complete log4j manual. His interests include cryptography, anonymity, fair-exchange protocols and reliable systems at large.

Rolf Haberrecker

Sessions: Apache layout for Linux distributors
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Being the director of Business Partner Program, Rolf is the Apache package maintainer at SuSE Linux AG. He also oversees the PHP, SSL, mod_perl and mod_jserv packages. Being a computational linguist, he made his first contacts with open source software and Linux as early as 1994.

Jon "maddog" Hall

Sessions: Bill and Larry: Both are right, and both are wrong

Jon "maddog" Hall is the Executive Director of Linux(R) International, a non-profit vendor organization dedicated to promoting the use of Linux. Having been a volunteer in this position since 1995, Jon was funded to do this work full time by VA Linux Systems starting in the summer of 1999.

Before VA Linux' full-time funding, Jon was a Senior Manager in Compaq's UNIX(R) Software Group. Jon had been in the UNIX group for sixteen years as an engineer, Product Manager and Marketing Manager. Jon discovered Linux in May of 1994, and proceeded to become a very vocal advocate of it both inside and outside of Digital Equipment Corporation. Digital was the first system vendor to join Linux International, and Compaq Computer Corporation (who bought Digital in 1998) is a Corporate Sponsoring Member. Jon was directly responsible for the port of Linux to the Alpha processor.

Prior to Digital, Jon was a Senior Systems Administrator in Bell Laboratories' UNIX group, so he has been programming and using UNIX for over 20 years. Jon started his career programming on large IBM mainframes in Basic Assembly Language, but his career improved dramatically when he was introduced to Digital's PDP-11 line of computers as chairman of the Computer Science Department at Hartford State Technical College. There he spent four glorious years teaching students the value of designing good algorithms, writing good code, and living an honorable life. He has also been known to enjoy discussing aspects of computer science over pizza and beer with computer science students.

maddog (as his students named him, and as he likes to be called) has his MS in Computer Science from RPI, his BS in Commerce and Engineering from Drexel University, and in his spare time is writing the business plan for his retirement business: maddog's School for Microcomputing and Microbrewing

Richard S. Hall

Sessions: Apache Felix - A Standard Plugin Model for Apache, Apache Felix - A Standard Plugin Model for Apache, Apache Felix - A Standard Plugin Model for Apache, Java Modularity Support in OSGi R4, The Future of Open-Source OSGi

Richard S. Hall is a researcher in the software engineering group of the software systems and network research laboratory of Grenoble University in France. He is also an invited research member of the OSGi Alliance. His research focuses on component and service orientation and mechanisms to dynamically assemble applications at runtime. Other research interests include software deployment, which was the focus of his Ph.D. thesis. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Kip Hampton

Sessions: XML Publishing With AxKit

Kip Hampton is an independant Web Developer living the the sunny Southern California area. In addition to having written the monthly Perl/XML column for XML.com, he is also the author of several key Perl XML modules, and is a is a significant contributor to the Apache AxKit XML Application Server project. Kip is one of AxKit's representatives on the Apache Software Foundation's XML Project Management Committee and has recently published the book XML Publishing with AxKit through O'Reilly Media, Inc. When he is not hacking Perl or writing, he enjoys avant-garde cinema, improvisational comedy, and off-roading in his Jeep.

Bill Haneman

Sessions: Server-side image transformation and delivery with Apache Batik
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Bill Haneman works for Sun Microsystems' Desktop Enabling Middleware group in Dublin, Ireland, is a founding member of the Batik developer team. He is also technical lead for the Gnome Accessibility Project (http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap), an open project to provide an accessibility framework for linux and Solaris(TM) desktops. A twenty-year veteran of application development, he is a US expatriate who plays traditional Irish music on the uilleann pipes.

Deborah Hansknecht

Sessions: Modifying Apache?
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No bio available.

Vincent Hardy

Sessions: Introduction to the Batik Project

Vincent is an Apache member, one of the founders of the SVG Batik project at Apache and the Batik team contact. He is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems Inc., where he is part of the XML technology center. Vincent represents Sun in the W3C's SVG Working Group and is currently a W3C fellow in the W3C office in Sophia Antipolis, France. Vincent is the author of papers and a book on the Java 2D API.

BJ Hargrave

Sessions: Declarative Services in OSGi R4, The Future of Open-Source OSGi

BJ Hargrave has over 19 years of experience as an IBM software architect and developer. His focus is small computer operating systems (kernels, file systems, development tools, application binary interface specifications) and Java technology. He holds multiple patents for JVM performance improvements and is the IBM expert and lead architect for OSGi technologies. BJ holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Miami. BJ has been a leader in the development of the OSGi technology since its inception and was named an OSGi Fellow during the 1st OSGi World Congress for his technical contributions and leadership. He is currently CTO of the OSGi Alliance and chair of the OSGi Core Platform Expert Group.

Perrin Harkins

Sessions: Building a Large-Scale E-Commerce Site with Apache and mod_perl
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Perrin Harkins is a senior engineer at eToys, and was one of the lead software architects at CitySearch.com. He has been an active member of the mod_perl community for years.

Perrin Harkins

Sessions: Building Scalable Websites with Perl
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Perrin Harkins has helped build technology systems for some of the most well-known web-based companies in the world. He was one of the primary architects of the eToys.com web system, which handled e-commerce traffic second only to Amazon and eBay during the 2000 Christmas shopping season. Prior to eToys, he was a senior developer at CitySearch.com where he led efforts in performance tuning and restructuring the system architecture to allow for efficient development. He has also worked as a website performance tuning consultant. Perrin is well known in the Perl community, and a member of the Apache Software Foundation. He has given technical presentations at ApacheCon and the O'Reilly Open Source Convention about techniques for building scalable websites, and has contributed to several books on web development. His articles can be found on the perl.com site run by O'Reilly & Associates.

Erik Hatcher

Sessions: Ant - The Only Bug You Want Near Your Software, Lucene in Action, Lucene/Solr Case Studies, Lucene/Solr Case Studies, Solr Boot Camp, Solr Boot Camp

Erik Hatcher is an Apache Software Foundation member, and an active committer on the Lucene and Solr projects. Erik has co-authored the award-winning book Java Development with Ant (Manning) and the well reviewed Lucene in Action (Manning). Erik has spoken frequently at industry conferences, including JavaOne, ApacheCon, OSCON, and the No Fluff, Just Stuff symposium circuit.

Harrie Hazewinkel

Sessions: Apache 2.0 for multi protocol usage, Developing mobile applications with Tomcat and Sync4j, Managing the Apache HTTP server with SNMP, QoS management of Internet services, QoS management of Internet services

Harrie currently is a developer of the Sync4j group. Sync4j is the open-source mobile application framework which is based on SyncML and builds upon his experience building an Enterprise quality Web-based Calendar server. He also maintains the SNMP module for PHP and is the author of the SNMP module for Apache, an extension for retrieving and managing the status of an Apache Web server via the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). He was also co-editor of the WWW-MIB (RFC 2594) defined in the System Application MIB working group of the IETF.

Marian Heddesheimer

Sessions: Flash up your PHP, PHP Session-handling first steps
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Marian Heddesheimer has been a C++-programmer since 1988, living in Lübeck/Germany. Since then, he is doing Database programming with several LAN-based database tools. For about two years, he is also using PHP and mySQL to implement Web-Applications for his customers. He is also author for several computer magazines and trainer for computer novices as well as for programmers. He is currently teaching topics like Linux, C++, PHP, flash and MS-Office.

Simon Hefti

Sessions: mod_websh: A Tcl-based Apache module for rapid application development

Simon Hefti is the main Webshell developer and a software architect at Netcetera. He works in a wide range Tcl/Webshell projects with the main focus on financial web applications. He is involved with Linux and Open Source Software since 1995. He holds a PhD in physics from the University of Bern, Switzerland, and served as a Post-Doc at the University of Michigan, USA.

Ethan Henry

Sessions: Performance Tuning Java Code in Jakarta
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Ethan is the 'Java Evangelist' at KL Group. He spreads the "good word" about Java and KL Group's Java products. He has previously been a Java developer and a Java instructor. He can be reached at ethan.henry@klgroup.com.

Chathura Herath

Sessions: Developing Applications and Extensions of Axis2
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Chathura Herath graduated from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in Computer Science and Engineering with First class honors. He has been active in the area of web services and revealed a great deal of interest in open source development. He is affiliated with the Lanka Software Foundation, Sri Lanka, a non profit organization promoting open source software. He was an initial committer of the EWS, Apache project which is an implementation of the JSR109, which is an effort to integrate the SOAP stack with the J2EE protocol stack. EWS presently provides the web services stack to the Apache Geronimo J2EE container. He co-authored the paper “Enterprise Web Services” which is based on the design experience of EWS project. His current work involves the architecting and developing of Apache Axis2, which is the next version of the highly influential Apache Axis project. Axis2 is designed with high performance in mind while giving inbuilt support for key Web Service specifications such as addressing, MTOM, Asynchronous Messaging, etc.

Bill Hilf

Sessions: Building a Large-Scale E-Commerce Site with Apache and mod_perl
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Bill Hilf is a Sr. Consulting I/T Architect for IBM, specializing in Linux clusters, ecommerce, high volume Web sites, and infrastructure for eBusiness. Prior to joining IBM, Bill was the Sr. Director of Engineering for eToys, where he oversaw a department responsible for the architecture and performance of the systems that powered the eToys Web sites. Prior to eToys, Bill helped build some of the key properties for CNET, including News.com and CNET/Bloomberg Investor. Bill has also developed software for various technology companies in the San Francisco Bay area, which ranged from nanotechnology research systems to serving interactive 3D communities on the Internet. Bill received his masters degree from Chapman University.

Nick Holmes

Sessions: Migrating the BBC website to Apache 2

Nick Holmes has worked on the BBC's web site (now branded bbc.co.uk) for over 6 years and seen it progress through great innovation and difficult times. He has worked on standards forums with that role for 5 years, personally concieved and developed 'apache technology driven' page template structures and runs a team of 15 'client side developers' who work with html, xslt and css.

Hartmut Holzgraefe

Sessions: WebDAV server implementation with Apache and PHP
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Hartmut Holzgraefe PHP Developer, Author ... Hartmut started 'real' coding the hard way back in 1988 by writing his first production use UNIX device driver after playing around with home computers and BASIC for some years. He now holds university diplomas in both electric engineering and computer science / bioinformatics. His two theses were about handwritten character recognition and distributed robot control using neural network components. Hartmut started using (and patching) PHP C source and documentation in late 1999 while writing a customizable webmail client for Bertelsmann Telemedia. For the last three years he has been working for Six offene Systeme GmbH in Germany, developing content management and customer relationship solutions. He also did a lot of PHP bugfixing, extending and documentation during this time, so improving the platform his applications where built upon. Lately he has been working on PHP WebDAV, PECL_Gen for the creation of PHP extension code out of XML based description files and on the next issue of the first german PHP book.

James Howison

Sessions: Building Effective Open Source Communities

No bio available.

Don Hsi

Sessions: Running ASP & ASP.NET with Apache

Founder & President of Halcyon Software. Has more than twenty years of experience in management, marketing, and software engineering. Prior to founding Halcyon, Don spent seven years at Hewlett-Packard in both R&D and marketing. With Halcyon Software, Don assumes responsibility for all phases of product direction, planning, and business development. Don holds an MS in computer science from the University of Kansas and a BS degree from Taiwan.

Sterling Hughes

Sessions: Extending PHP 4, PHP and XSLT, PHP inside-out, The Top 7 Mistakes in PHP programming, The Top 7 Mistakes in PHP programming
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Sterling Hughes is a freelance programmer, working developing applications on the Unix platform in C, C++, Perl, Java and PHP. He is the author of "The PHP Developer's Cookbook", and a developer on the PHP project, who's contributions include authoring the cURL, sockets and XSLT extensions. His email address is sterling@php.net.

Bill Humphries

Sessions: The Sans-Suds Semantic Web, Using XML Data in Production: Lessons from Experience

Bill Humphries (www.whump.com) has been developing web applications since 1995. His main interests include XML for data and documents, web services, and the wireless web. His weblog (www.whump.com/moreLikeThis/) covers XML, web development and related issues. He is employed at Apple Computer, where he designs and builds web-based content management tools for their intranets. Bill holds a Master of Science in Economics from the University of Wisconsin.

Ted Husted

Sessions: Migrating to AJAX, Struts 2006: An Embarrassment of Riches

Ted Husted is a member of the Apache iBATIS, Struts, and MyFaces teams. His speciality is building agile web applications with open source products for Java or .NET, and helping others do the same. Ted's books include JUnit in Action, Struts in Action, and Professional JSP Site Design. He has consulted with teams throughout the United States, including CitiGroup, Nationwide Insurance, and Pepsi Bottling Group. Ted is currently working with the Oklahoma State Department of Environmental Services to improve their permitting system. His Pieces of Me site is an anthology of Ted's postings to public mailing lists.

Grant Ingersoll

Sessions: Advanced Lucene, Advanced Lucene, Apache Lucene Performance, Apache Lucene Performance, Introducing Mahout: Apache Machine Learning, Lucene Boot Camp, Lucene Boot Camp, Lucene Boot Camp, Lucene Boot Camp

Grant Ingersoll is a committer on the Lucene Java , Solr and Mahout projects and a member of the Lucene PMC. He has been developing commercial and research systems in Java for 11 years, many of which leverage Apache projects. Grant has used Lucene and Solr for implementing many different search and text-based application, including cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) systems, question answering (QA), sentiment analysis, collection analysis and customization applications. Grant is also a co-creator of the Apache Mahout project.

Will Iverson

Sessions: Using Tomcat to build Desktop Applications

Will Iverson served as Developer Relations Manager for the VisualCafé group at Symantec, as the Java & Runtimes Product Manager at Apple Computer and has led Cascade Technology Group, a private consulting firm, since 1999. He has spoken at a variety of technical conferences including JavaOne, MacWorld, ComDex, and more on behalf of a variety of companies including Symantec, Apple Computer, Sun Microsystems, and Canal+ Technologies. He is the author of the recently published O'Reilly book, 'Mac OS X for Java Geeks.'

Jim Jagielski

Sessions: Advanced Reverse Proxy Load Balancing in Apache HTTP Server 2.2, Advanced Reverse Proxy Load Balancing in Apache HTTP Server 2.2, ApacheCon Europe 2000 Closing Session, ApacheCon Europe 2000 Opening Session, Happy Trails: Migrating to Apache 2.0, Running a Successful Web Hosting Company, The future of Apache after 2.0, Web Hosting for Fame and Fortune, What's new in Apache HTTP Server 2.2, What's new in Apache HTTP Server 2.2

Jim's been active on the 'Net since the early 80's, starting as editor of the A/UX FAQ. He worked on the NCSA server and joined the Apache Group (as it was called back then) at a very early stage. He actively contributes on HTTPD, APR and Tomcat, but also hacks on other projects (ASF and others) as well in addition to mentoring many ASF incubator podlings. In addition to being a charter and core member of the ASF Jim serves as Director and Chairman for the foundation. His real job is as CTO for Covalent Technologies.

Deepal Jayasinghe

Sessions: Accelerating Web Services Development with Axis2, Quickstart Axis2 - from newbie to SOAP guru, Quickstart Axis2/Java - from Newbie to SOAP Guru, Real World Axis2/Java: Highlighting Performance and Scalability, Real World Axis2/Java: Highlighting Performance and Scalability, Real World Axis2: Highlighting Performance and Scalability

Deepal is a senior software engineer at WSO2 Inc., an open source technology company creating middleware platforms for Web services. Deepal is currently working on the architecture and development of Apache Axis2 and Apache Synapse Web services projects. He is a Apache Memmber , Web service PMC member and Apache committer. Deepal's expertise is mainly in distributed computing, fault tolerance systems and Web service related technologies. He is an associate member of IESL

David Johnson

Sessions: Advanced Apache Roller, Apache Roller and Blogs as a Web Development Platform, Roller and Blogs as a Web Development Platform, Roller: An Open Source Blogging Platform

Dave Johnson is a North Carolina based software developer who has worked in a variety of software companies including Rogue Wave, HAHT Software and SAS Institute. Unable to satisfy his urge to create cool software at work, Dave worked nights and weekends to create the open source, Java-based Roller blog server. Dave now works on Roller and related software full-time as a Social Software architect in the App Platform team at Sun Microsystems. Dave is the author of Manning Publications book RSS and Atom In Action (2006).

Scott Johnson

Sessions: Feedster at 18 Months Old : Dumb Mistakes We Made

J. Scott Johnson is co-founder and VP of Engineering for Feedster, Inc. Feedster is a search engine for XML data. Scott has near 20 years of experience in full text search at companies including Dataware, NTERGAID and others. He is also a well known blogger and author for Sams, O'Reilly, Wiley and others.

Britt Johnston

Sessions: MySQL, Open Source Database Rises to the Challenge
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Britt Johnston is NuSphere's CTO. He is responsible for overall product design and strategic planning for NuSphere and NuSphere MySQL™, a multi-platform integrated distribution of the MySQL™ database and related open source products. Before NuSphere, Britt was a Director in development at Progress Software Corporation. He has been building database systems since 1979, including several commercial relational database products.

Bill Jones

Sessions: Apache: A Business Server
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Bill Jones (aka -Sneex-) has developed distributed, enterprise-wide solutions using Apache and various open source technologies. His areas of interest include research and development of new and emerging technologies in an open source, Internet-aware environment. He holds a BS in Data Processing and has over twenty years experience in the computer industry. Bill, currently a E-Systems Developer for FCCJ, manages the Jacksonville Perl Mongers.

Ian Kallen

Sessions: Architecting an ASP on mod_perl
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Ian Kallen is CTO of Creation Engines. Previously Director of Engineering and Technology at Salon.com and GameSpot/ZDNet, Mr. Kallen has architected scalable Web operations with Apache and mod_perl technologies over the past five years. Mr. Kallen is also an instructor of Web administration and programming topics at San Francisco State University.

Alex Karasulu

Sessions: Apache Triplesec: Strong (2-factor) Mobile Identity Management, Apache Triplesec: Strong (2-factor) Mobile Identity Management, Embedding Apache Directory Server 2.0 into Applications, Embedding Apache Directory Server into Applications, Embedding Apache Directory Server into Applications, Introducing the Eve (LDAP) Directory Server, The Apache DIrectory Project Unveiled
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Alex Karasulu is proud to be an Apache Member. He founded the Apache Directory Project and is presently the V.P. and PMC Chair for Directory. Alex is a committer and/or PMC member on several projects: directory, jarkarta, excalibur, incubator, prc, maven, felix and wicket. He is also an incubator mentor for felix and wicket.

Manoj Kasichainula

Sessions: Apache 2.0 Overview, The future of Apache after 2.0

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Nick Kew

Sessions: Building smart markup-aware applications with Apache, Building smart markup-aware applications with Apache modules, Writing Apache Modules, XML Technologies in the Apache Webserver
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A veteran systems and software developer, with a longstanding enthusiasm for the potential of an information infrastructure to transform our lives. In addition to running my own company, WebThing Ltd, I am currently involved with W3C as invited expert and with Apache as a developer. Apart from my apache.org page http://www.apache.org/~niq/, my websites relevant to Apache are apache.webthing.com (many modules available) and www.apachetutor.org (tutorials for developers). I am also working on a book on developing Apache modules, to be published around the end of 2005.

Hans Kind

Sessions: Locking down your Apache Web Server with mod_security
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Hans Kind - Founder and Managing Partner of FlyingServers International. Hans is responsible for the international expansion of FlyingServers. He works with the Country Managers, International Resellers and Value Added Partners. After graduating in 1975, Hans worked for a number of years in the Hotel and Airline business, where he was involved in a number of automation projects. In 1983 Hans started his own business, and started selling PC's, wrote Clipper and FoxBase programs, and became one of the first Enterprise Certified Novell Engineers in The Netherlands. In the late 80's Hans started to work as a Consultant "Office Automation" with organizations like The Royal Dutch Air Force and the Dutch PTT. In 1995, Hans realized the potential of the Internet, and was a introduced to a Boston based Web Presence Provider (Adgrafix). Besides his duties as the International Manager with Adgrafix, Hans also worked as a system administrator, and was responsible for introducing PHP and MySql into the shared and dedicated server plans. Since 2001, Hans is focusing on security and locking down servers, and has been working with customers throughout Europe on this subject. Hans is married to Henny, and together they have 2 children Michelle and Martijn. They live in Assen a city about 2 hours drive north east of Amsterdam. Whenever times permits, Hans goes into the kitchen and prepares a exclusive meal for the family and friends. In the weekend the family can be found at the sporting arena, where some family members play the dutch game Korfbal.

Kristof Kloeckner

Sessions: IBM and Open Source - A software agenda

Vice President, Business Integration Development and Director, IBM Hursley Laboratory

Jan Kneschke

Sessions: Replication and Clustering for MySQL

Jan Kneschke started as web-developer and system-administrator for the NetUSE AG, Kiel, Germany with the main focus on PHP, LDAP and Solaris. After he finished his studies in electical engineering he founded incremental.de to give his knowledge in high-performance, network-related software a new ground. Even if he works works as developer and consultant for MySQL AB, Uppsala, Sweden he still invests his free time in lighttpd, a free, high performance, secure and full-featured web-server.

Craig Kohtz

Sessions: Migration from ASP to PHP
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Craig Kohtz is a Web builder for Covalent Technologies, Inc. He has extensive experience with IIS, ASP, DHTML, JavaScript and SQL Server development. When Craig came aboard with Covalent Technologies, Inc., he completely changed gears, immersing himself in the Apache/PHP and MySQL world. This change gives Craig a unique perspective of the differences between platforms.

Kevin Krouse

Sessions: Apache XMLBeans 2, Accessing the full power of XML in Java

Kevin Krouse has been a software engineer in BEA Systems' Seattle office for the past three years. While at BEA, he's worked with the Workshop team focusing on Web Services and XMLSchema. He has been working on XMLBeans since its humble beginnings within BEA and has recently joined the Apache XMLBeans project as a committer.

Matthew Langham

Sessions: Building multi-channel SOAP clients using CASA
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Matthew Langham was born in England but has been living in Germany since 1976. He has been working in the IT business since the mid 1980’s. Matthew wrote his first book on the Internet in 1993 and has since published several articles on the Net and related themes. He currently leads the Open Source group at S&N AG, a mid-sized software company in Paderborn, Germany. Matthew is the co-author of "Cocoon: Building XML Applications", published by New Riders in July 2002.

Jaron Lanier

Sessions: Keynote by Jaron Lanier

Jaron Lanier is a computer scientist, composer, visual artist, and author.

Lanier's name is often associated with Virtual Reality research. Indeed, he did coin the term ‘Virtual Reality’ and in the early 1980s founded VPL Research, the first company to sell VR products. In the late 1980s he lead the team that developed the first implementations of multi-person virtual worlds using head mounted displays, for both local and wide area networks, as well as the first "avatars", or representations of users within such systems. While at VPL, he co-developed the first implementations of virtual reality applications in surgical simulation, vehicle interior prototyping, virtual sets for television production, and assorted other areas. He led the team that developed the first widely used software platform architecture for immersive virtual reality applications. Sun Microsystems acquired VPL’s seminal portfolio of patents related to Virtual Reality and networked 3D graphics in 1999.

Since then, he has collaborated broadly with researchers in machine vision, computational neuroscience, cell biology modeling, and other disciplines defining the border between human cognition and the rest of the world. One major recent investigation, into what he has dubbed “Phenotropics”, concerns rejecting traditional protocol-based approaches in favor of statistical and pattern-recognition techniques to bind software components together in order to improve large scale reliability. A non-technical introduction to this work is found in the chapter he contributed to the 2002 book “The Next Fifty Years; Science in the Twenty First Century,” edited by John Brockman.

Ben Laurie

Sessions: ApacheCon Europe 2000 Closing Session, ApacheCon Europe 2000 Opening Session, PGP Keysigning, UK Crypto Meeting, UK Crypto Meeting

Ben has been programming free software since 1992. He is on the board of directors of the Apache Software Foundation, and is a member of the Apache core team and the OpenSSL core team. As such, he contributes to a wide variety of free software projects and is the author of Apache-SSL. Together with his father Peter, he is also the author of Apache: The Definitive Guide. Ben is a director of A.L. Digital, a company specialising in web and security solutions and the owners of The Bunker, an ex-RAF nuclear bunker now fully redeployed as the ultimate in secure hosting.

Changshin Lee

Sessions: Advanced J2ME Web Services - Mirae and JSR-172

Changshin Lee (a.k.a. Ias) is a member of Apache Web Services PMC and committer of Axis, Beehive, EWS, JaxMe, and Mirae projects. He is also participating in JSR 261 JAX-WSA 1.0 EGs to stand for Tmax Soft. He translated books such as Java Servlet Programming (Jason Hunter) and Contributing to Eclipse (Erich Gamma and Kent Beck) into Korean.

Trustin Lee

Sessions: Introduction to MINA
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Trustin Lee is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, a PMC (Project Management Committee) chair, committer, and the founder of the Apache MINA project, who is involved in various open source projects. He has been developing high-performance network applications including a massive SMS gateway, a lightweight ESB, ApacheDS LDAP server, and a RPC server in Java for more than 4 years.

Graham Leggett

Sessions: httpd, APR and LDAP - authentication, authorization and beyond, mod_proxy multi protocol framework for httpd-2.0, New mod_proxy features and uses for httpd 2.0, New mod_proxy features and uses for httpd 2.0
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Graham Leggett is a software developer working on Apache httpd and apr. He is responsible for the major portions of the mod_proxy design, and is working on stabilising the LDAP support within httpd and apr.

Jonathan Lehr

Sessions: Struts on Steroids: Leveraging Bolt-On Components, Struts: the good, the bad, and the ugly

Jonathan has been developing software and evangelizing his favorite IT technologies for more than twenty years. He is the founder of About Objects, Inc., a software training and consulting firm in Northern Virginia with clients in the Fortune 500 and the Federal Government, and is also the founder of the StrutsLive open source project. Over the past five years he has served as a lead architect on several mission-critical J2EE software projects, working with development teams that ranged in size from five to one hundred fifty. He is the author of Struts Live (SourceBeat), and a co-author of Jakarta Pitfalls and Mastering JavaServer Faces (Wiley).

Rasmus Lerdorf

Sessions: Do you PHP?, Introduction to PHP, Introduction to PHP, Introduction to PHP, Large-Scale PHP, PHP-MySQL, PHP: Scripting the Web, Scripting the Web with PHP

Rasmus Lerdorf is known for having gotten the PHP project off the ground in 1995, the mod_info Apache module and he can be blamed for the ANSI92 SQL-defying LIMIT clause in mSQL 1.x which has now, at least conceptually, crept into both MySQL and PostgreSQL. Prior to joining Yahoo! as an infrastructure engineer in 2002, he was at a string of companies including Linuxcare, IBM, and Bell Canada working on Internet technologies.

Donald Leslie

Sessions: Protocols for managing/updating xml.apache.org Website
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Member of the Xalan team. Responsible for documentation, including xml and javadoc doc tools, and Xalan sample applications.

Ted Leung

Sessions: Everything you always wanted to know about XML parsing, Everything you always wanted to know about XML parsing, Everything you always wanted to know about XML parsing, Everything you always wanted to know about XML parsing, Everything you always wanted to know about XML parsing, Open Source Community Anti-Patterns, XML at the ASF: The XML, WS, and Cocoon projects, XML at the ASF: The XML, WS, and Cocoon projects, XML at the ASF: The XML, WS, and Cocoon Projects
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Ted Leung is an engineering manager at the Open Source Applications Foundation, where he is working on the Chandler Project. He is the author of "Professional XML Development with Apache Tools". Ted was the technical lead for the IBM XML4J parser which served as the initial code base for the Java version of xml.apache.org's Xerces parser. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, co-maintainer of the PlanetApache group blog, and a pyblosxom developer. During his career, Ted has also worked on handheld computing, compound document architectures, and object-oriented databases. You can read his weblog to keep up with his latest adventures

Howard Lewis Ship

Sessions: Assimilating the HiveMind, Beginning Tapestry: Java Web Components, Tapestry In Action

Howard Lewis Ship is the creator of, and lead developer for, two Jakarta projects: the Tapestry web application framework, and the HiveMind services and configuration microkernel. Over the span of his career, he has worked on a number of database-driven client/server applications using a variety of technologies and programming languages, and has been actively developing web applications using Java since 1997. He started programming in BASIC and 6502 assembly language at age 13 and never looked back. Howard is the author of "Tapestry in Action" (Manning Publications), the definitive guide to Tapestry 3.0. He has spoken about Tapestry, HiveMind and Open Source at JavaOne, TheServerSide Symposium, and the NoFluffJustStuff symposium series.

Patrick Lightbody

Sessions: Struts 2006: An Embarrassment of Riches
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Patrick Lightbody is the founder of Autoriginate,the provider of cutting edge solutions for software QA. Previously Patrick has was the manager of the professional services organization at Jive Software, as well as an engineer for various silicon valley companies of all size. Patrick also leads the open source organizations OpenSymphony and OpenQA. He actively developers WebWork and is the creator of OSWorkflow.

Elena Litani

Sessions: Apache XML Parser: Xerces2 and Xerces C++

Elena Litani is a software developer working for IBM. For the last couple of years, she has been a member of the W3C Document Object Model (DOM) Working Group, working on the DOM Level 3 specification. Since 2000 Elena has been an active contributor to the Apache Xerces2 project, working on the XML Schema and DOM Level 3 implementations in Xerces.

Christophe Lombart

Sessions: Content and Document Management Ecosystem

Christophe is a senior developer and committer for the Jackrabbit project. He is also working for Sword Group which is an european IT company providing services for ECM, portal and BI applications.

Daniel Lopez Ridruejo

Sessions: Apache as a Reverse Proxy, Apache Projects Overview, ASP.NET on Unix with mod_mono, Crossplatform ASP.NET with Mono, Crossplatform ASP.NET with Mono, Developing with LAMP, Easy to Use Apache, Securing Apache, Setting up a secure server with Apache and mod_ssl

Daniel Lopez is President and CTO of BitRock, a company building multiplatform installation and management tools with a focus on open source. He is the original author of the mod_mono Apache module, the Comanche configuration tool, a variety of Linux and Apache related howtos and of the book "Teach Yourself Apache 2" from SAMS publishing.

Daniel Lopez Ridruejo

Sessions: Apache projects overview, Apache projects overview, Comanche, a GUI configuration tool for Apache, Comanche, a GUI for Apache, XML configuration for Apache

No bio available.

Steve Loughran

Sessions: Meeting New Challenges with Ant 1.7

Steve Loughran is a researcher at HP Laboratories , Bristol, UK, exploring the challenges of large-scale system deployment, especially that of testing them to destruction. He an Apache member and a committer on the Apache Ant project. He is the author Ant in Action (Manning Press, 2007)

Raphaël Luta

Sessions: Building an Enterprise Information Portal with Jetspeed, Jakarta Jetspeed: evolution

After some time spent in developing algorithms for fingerprint recognition, I encountered Java in 1995 and got hooked. Shortly afterwards, I became development lead in a French web agency, designing dynamic web sites and teaching Java and Internet application development. I joined Vivendi Universal in 1998 where I manage part of the corporate worldwide internal shared services. I've been contributing to various OS projects for 2 years and I am the current project leader for Apache Jetspeed.

Colm MacCarthaigh

Sessions: Scaling Apache 2.x in all dimensions, Scaling Apache 2.x to > 20,000 concurrent downloads, Scaling Apache hands-on

Colm is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and contributor to various Apache projects. By day he is Network Architect at Joost.

Doug MacEachern

Sessions: mod_perl 2.0, mod_perl Version 2.0, mod_perl-2.0

Doug MacEachern is a developer at Covalent Technologies, Inc. He is the lead developer of the mod_perl Apache module, an Apache Software Foundation board member and co-author of the book "Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C".

Jennifer Machovec

Sessions: Legal BOF

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Julie MacNaught

Sessions: Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP4J) Introduction/Demo
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Julie MacNaught is a Senior Software Engineer with IBM Research. Ms. MacNaught joined IBM in 1996 and became part of research in 1998. She has worked on various technologies related to distributed user interfaces included, WSXL, WSIA, and most recently WSRP. Ms. MacNaught is also a committer on the Apache WSRP4J Open Source project and a member of the Web Services and Portals PMCs.

Geir Magnusson Jr.

Sessions: Apache Harmony, Apache Harmony - Building Java SE in Open Source, Apache Harmony - Building Java SE in Open Source, Collaborating Communities: Geronimo, ObjectWeb, more, Geronimo Q&A, Java and the JCP - A Layperson's Tour of Java Specification Licensing, Java and the JCP - A Layperson's Tour of Java Specification Licensing

Geir Magnusson Jr. is a software engineer at Joost, working on the advertising platform and monetization systems. Prior to that, he worked on middleware and java strategy at Intel, open source java strategy in the areas of J2EE and J2SE for IBM, and was the VP of Products and Strategy for Gluecode, Inc prior to it's acquisition by IBM. Geir is a proud member of the Apache Software Foundation and currently represents the ASF on the JCP's Executive Committee. A past director and PMC chair, he is an active contributor to several Apache projects and activities, and is very interested in helping the ASF grow and continue to create great communities and software. He is interested in how open source will continue to change how organizations and individuals collaborate, and how independent projects and communities can be brought together to solve larger technical problems, for which Apache Geronimo and Apache Harmony are examples. His current focus at Apache is the Apache Harmony project (in incubation).

Christopher Manly

Sessions: An Architecture for Apache Install Management

Christopher Manly works as a web developer for Cornell University. He is responsible for managing several mission-critical web servers. He has been managing apache-based web servers for 4 years, and has written an apache module to integrate his web servers with Cornell's authentication architecture. He likes solving problems using open source software, as well as singing, cycling, and fixing up his house.

Costin Manolache

Sessions: Advanced Tomcat Configuration and Performance Tuning, Design and Implementation of the Tomcat Servlet Engine
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Member of the servlet team @sun. He started in a small ISP in Romania - where he installed few hundred Linux servers in schools and small companies, with Apache/sendmail and Squid and small leased lines. After too many buffer overflows decided that Java is the only hope, and since then is a happy Java programmer.

Martin Marinschek

Sessions: Apache MyFaces - Open Source JavaServer Faces
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Martin has been developing web applications with JavaServer Faces since before the first version of the standard was released, and was one of the first committers to Apache MyFaces. He teaches using MyFaces for the development of web applications at universities in Vienna and uses MyFaces in projects at Irian (http://www.irian.at), a web consulting and development company.

Jeff Martin

Sessions: An Introduction to Alexandria
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I have been working professionally within IT for Six years, working in a variety of organisation from financial institutions to web development companies. I have been instrumental in the adoption of XML as a core technology within these organisations and championed the use of and involvement in open source development within these organisations. Developing primarily in Java environments I became a Sun certified Java architect 1 year ago. Currently work for Sila Communication (http://www.silacom.com/) as a member of the Architecture & Processes Group. Specifically looking at build processes & the use of XML in documentation.

Kyle Marvin

Sessions: Introduction to Beehive Controls

Kyle Marvin is a Staff Software Engineer for BEA System working on the runtime for Beehive Controls. He's been part of the Workshop runtime team (focused on ease-of-use programming models and abstractions for J2EE) since 2001.

Stefano Mazzocchi

Sessions: A No-Nonsense Introduction to "Semantic Web" Technologies, Adding XML capabilities with Cocoon, Adding XML capabilities with Cocoon, ApacheCon Lightning Lottery Talks, Community Building Practices, Darwinian Software Development, Faceted Browsing Theory and Practice, How the Apache Software Foundation works, Past, present and future of the Apache Cocoon project, Toward the Semantic Web: a view of XML from outer space, Virtual Community Dynamics

Stefano Mazzocchi is a research scientist working on semantic web technologies for the SIMILE project in affiliation with the Digital Library Research Group at the MIT Libraries. He is also known for his open source activities withing the Apache Software Foundation of which he's been a member since 1999, a director between 2003 and 2005 and is now serving at the chair of the Apache Labs project. There, he's is mostly known for having started the Apache Cocoon project. He has also participated in several expert groups within the Java Community Process, such as the Servlet API, the Java XML API and more recently the Java Content Repository API. His research interests include data interoperability, knowledge management, software usability, data mining, user interface design and software engineering.

Jeff McAffer

Sessions: The Future of Open-Source OSGi

Jeff McAffer leads the Eclipse Equinox OSGi, RCP and Orbit teams and is a Senior Technical Staff Member with IBM Rational. He is one of the architects of the Eclipse Platform and a co-author of The Eclipse Rich Client Platform (Addison-Wesley). He is a member of the Eclipse Project PMC, the Tools project PMC and the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors. Jeff is currently interested all aspects of Eclipse componentry from developing and building bundles to deploying, installing and ultimately running them. Previous lives included work in distributed/parallel OO computing (Server Smalltalk, massively parallel Smalltalk, etc) as well as expert systems, meta-level architectures and a PhD at the University of Tokyo.

Brian McCallister

Sessions: Apache ActiveMQ in Anger, Cheap, Fast, and Good: You can have it all with Ruby on Rails, Cheap, Fast, and Good: You can have it all with Ruby on Rails, Introduction to Rules Engines using Drools, Introduction to Rules Engines using Drools, Managing Open Source: Getting the Most from an Investment, Managing Open Source: Getting the Most from an Investment, Mod_wombat: Multi-threaded Scripting in the Apache HTTP Server in Lua, Mod_wombat: Multithreaded Scripting in the Apache HTTP Server with Lua

Brian McCallister is a programmery kind of person who loves that folks are willing to pay him to write code. He works as a Software Architect at Ning, a platform for building your own social websites. Brian has worked variously as a programmer, technical writer, and systems administrator for over a decade on projects ranging from telecommunications GIS systems to loom (weaving) control software, and as an English teacher and canoing guide to boot. He is proud to be a Member of the Apache Software Foundation, and serves as the Chair of the Apache ActiveMQ Project.

Craig McClanahan

Sessions: Authentication and Access Control in Web Applications, Building Web Applications with the Struts Framework, Building Web Applications with the Struts Framework, Building Web Applications with the Struts Framework, JSP New And Improved -- The JSP 2.0 Specification, Migrating Apache JServ Applications to Tomcat, Migrating Apache JServ Applications to Tomcat, Perspectives on the Jakarta Project, Recommendations for Java-Based Web Application Architectures, Shale: The Next Struts?, Struts After 1.1 -- Where Do We Go From Here?, The Tomcat Servlet Container, Tomcat 5 new features., What's New in Struts 1.1

Craig McClanhan is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems. His current responsibilities include being the architect for Sun Java Studio Creator, an IDE focused on easy development of web applications using JavaServer Faces. He is also the original founder of the Struts Framework project, and has been involved in other Apache projects as well (such as Tomcat and Jakarta Commons).

Rob McCool

Sessions: TAP: Building a Machine Web

Rob McCool has been active with the Web since 1993. His NCSA httpd project formed the basis of Apache, and its CGI interface became a de facto standard for web server software. His designs with Netscape regarding the performance and modular API have also been widely adopted. He is now a research programmer with the Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Stanford University researching next generation Web infrastructure.

Kevin McGowan

Sessions: Open Source Web Single Sign On

Kevin joined the University of Michigan's central IT group in 1996 as a teacher and programmer. Currently he is the technical lead and manager of the University's webmaster team. His recent projects include: ldapweb, a friendly web interface to the campus LDAP directory; kpasswd.cgi; and cosign, a web single sign-on system.

Chris McManaman

Sessions: Real time business process integration using Open Source Code, Using Xalan to achieve application interoperability.
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Chris McManaman is a Business Integration Architect with RCG Information Technology. He is an Oracle Certified DBA and a Sun Certified Java Programmer. His primary expertise is identifying and providing data and application integration solutions to the energy industry.

Tom McQueeney

Sessions: Getting Up to Speed with Apache Geronimo, Open Standards/Open Source Java Web Services with Apache Geronimo

Tom McQueeney is a software architect for a consulting company in the United States and has more than 10 years of software development experience. He is the author of the upcoming book Geronimo Live to be published in July by SourceBeat Publishing, and a contributor to "Apache Axis Live" by James Goodwill. In 2004, he served as president of the Denver Java Users Group.

Dr. Horst Mehrländer

Sessions: Opening Plenary

Dr. Mehrländer's political career began 1968 when he joined the Federal Ministry of Economics. Since 1996 Dr. Mehrländer is the State Secretary of the Ministry of Economic Affairs of Baden-Württemberg. See his official homepage for further information.

Kiran Mendonce

Sessions: Secure Web Gateway with mod_security and mod_proxy

Kiran Mendonce Currently working for Hewlett-Packard, Bangalore, India. Involved in supporting Apache and other products on HP-UX.

Michael Meyer

Sessions: Secure Financal Transactions with Open Source
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Michael Meyer is responsible for interactive web based applications. His areas of interest include research and design of secure and high performant transactions over the internet. He is currently working with Apache, SSL, TomCat, Jboss and JSP.

Scott Meyers

Sessions: Documenting Open Source: A Guide for Reaching Your Audience

Scott Meyers is a Senior Development Editor for the Pearson Technology Group with over 8 years of editorial experience in computer documentation (primarily on network and open source technologies). Prior to that he was a computer consultant and webmaster (beginning in the early days of NCSA' s httpd server).

Jordi Montserrat

Sessions: MyComponents.com: the marketplace for reusable web applications
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Jordi worked several years for a consulting company specialized in geographical information system where he developed high skills for project management in an international environment. Before joining MyComponents.com, Jordi finished a postgrade in Management of Technology at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL, HEC Lausanne and the Business School of Texas - Austin, TX), his final work resulting in the launch of an Knowledge Management ASP service company. Jordi hold a master degree from the EPFL and fluently speaks/writes English, French, German and Spanish.

Brian Moon

Sessions: Building scalable web applications and clusters, Caching Dynamic Web Content to Increase Dependability and Performance, PHP Users Unite

Brian Moon has been working with the LAMP platform since before it was called LAMP. He is a programmer and systems administrator for dealnews.com. He has made a few small contributions to the PHP and Apache projects. He is the founder and lead developer of the Phorum project, the first PHP/MySQL message board ever created.

Ryan Morgan

Sessions: Writing Protocol Modules for Apache 2.0

Ryan Morgan is a senior software engineer at Covalent Technologies, Inc. in San Francisco, CA. Ryan received his BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Nebraska.

Peter Moulding

Sessions: Apache in the real world - beating the inhouse bias, Managing User Groups, Planning and programming for cross platform

Peter has 25 years experience building interactive systems and web sites. Mainframe, mini & micro systems to bring suppliers together with customers. Peter built some as the business owner, some as technical manager and some as the grunt on the bleeding edge of new technology. Projects from $1,000 to $20,000,000, from 1 person to 27,000 in Australia, Asia and USA.

Languages: 25 to date not counting some written by Peter. Education: University level Accounting, Law, Communications, Marketing and some of the 25 languages mentioned above.

Peter designed, built and improved 30 online customer sites before the Web was invented. He has built or improved more than 50 Web sites since.

Aaron Mulder

Sessions: J2EE Development with Apache Geronimo, Real-World Messaging with ActiveMQ
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Aaron Mulder is the Chief Technical Officer of Chariot Solutions where he helps companies with their Java, J2EE, Rails, and Open Source architecture challenges. When not consulting, you can usually find him presenting at conferences and user groups, wrangling with JCP spec committees, working on his latest book, or hacking away at Apache Geronimo, ActiveMQ, ServiceMix, XBean, or OpenEJB. Along the way, he has contributed to many other projects including JBoss and PostgreSQL.

Chuck Murcko

Sessions: Apache Town Meeting, Mod_proxy new design, New mod_proxy features and uses for httpd 2.0

Chuck Murcko has been involved in liberated software development for about 20 years. He currently works on mod_proxy and jakarta-bsf. He dabbles in RF and realtime projects, mountain biking, shooting, and sailing.

Gerald Müllan

Sessions: AJAX in Apache MyFaces, MyFaces and AJAX in Action: Open Source JavaServer Faces 1.2, MyFaces and AJAX in Action: Open Source JavaServer Faces 1.2, MyFaces in Action: An Introduction to Open Source JavaServer Faces
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Gerald Müllan is a web-engineer who lives in Vienna (Austria). He has studied computer science at the fh-campuswien and is currently working on intregrating AJAX into JSF web applications and into the Apache MyFaces project, where he is a PMC member. Gerald has profound programming experience in developing applications, especially in the J2EE area. In the last years he shifted his emphasis towards developing web-applications with the JavaServer Faces technology. He is co-author of the german book JSF@Work and leads trainings about MyFaces and Apache Trinidad for his employer, the austrian company IRIAN.

Jeremias Märki

Sessions: Apache FOP: Optimizing speed and memory consumption
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Jeremias Märki is an independent software developer and consultant, living in Lucerne, Switzerland. He concentrates mainly on document production and document management. He is an Apache member, committer in the Apache FOP project and PMC chair of the Apache XML Graphics project.

Lee Nackman

Sessions: Open Source and the Corporation
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Dr. Lee R. Nackman
Vice President, Application Development Tools
Application & Integration Middleware Division
IBM Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC

Lee leads development of IBM's development tool and complier products. Previously, he was Director of Architecture for AIM, providing architectural direction for IBM's application development and distributed application server products. Prior to joining Software Group in 1998, Lee held technical and management positions at IBM's Thomas Watson Research Center, most recently as department group manager of Software Development Technology. He received an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement award on research on programming environments and an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement award research on CAD system architectures and automation languages. Lee received his Sc. B in Computer from Brown University in 1976 and his Ph. D in Computer Science from the University of North at Chapel Hill in 1982. An accomplished writer, Lee co-authored with John J. Barton the book "Scientific and Engineering C++: An Introduction with Advanced Techniques and Examples", (Addison-Wesley, 1994) and was for several years a regular columnist for C++ Report. He has also published fifty papers and holds two patents.

William Nagy

Sessions: Infrastructure for Web Services

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Brad Nicholes

Sessions: Monitoring your Data Center using Apache and Ganglia, Mysteries of Mod_Auth_LDAP Uncovered, Mysteries of Mod_Auth_LDAP Uncovered, New Modular Authentication Architecture in Apache 2.2, New Modular Authentication Architecture in Apache HTTP Server 2.2 and Beyond, Using LDAP Authentication in Apache 2.2

Brad Nicholes is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer for Novell, Inc. He has been a committer on the HTTPD and APR projects since 2000 primarily working in the areas of authentication and authorization as well as porting, maintaining and supporting the Apache HTTPD server on the NetWare platform. He is also a contributor or maintainer of various other Open Source projects such as the OMC-Project, Ganglia Project and mod_eDir. Brad attended school at the University of Utah and Brigham Young University and holds a degree in Computer Science.

Glenn Nielsen

Sessions: Tomcat Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting, Tomcat Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting, Tomcat Server and Application Security, Tomcat Server and Application Security, Tomcat Server and Application Security

Glenn Nielsen is the Unix Programming Coordinator for the Missouri Research and Education Network, University of Missouri System. Glenn has 20 years programming experience which includes developing commercial software for the Amiga computer. Glenn has been a Tomcat developer for over three years. He authored the code which implements the Java SecurityManager in Tomcat 3.2 and Tomcat 4.0. Glenn has authored five JSP tag libraries for the Jakarta-taglibs project and is a member of the JSR52 JSP Standard Tag Library Expert Group.

Steven Noels

Sessions: Introducing Apache Cocoon
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Steven Noels is co-founder of Outerthought, a geek-level technical XML, Java and Open Source competence center focused on Apache Cocoon. Steven is a Cocoon and Forrest committer, and is known for his especialy lousy time management. Besides all that, he's chairing the Belgian XML User Group, and likes organizing events such as the Cocoon GetTogether. He maintains a weblog at http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/

Eddie O'Neil

Sessions: Building Web Apps with Beehive
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Eddie O'Neil is a staff engineer at BEA systems and a committer on the Apache Beehive project. For Beehive, he focuses on data binding in the web tier. At BEA, he has worked on the WebLogic Workshop and Portal teams and is on the JSR 245 expert group.

Tim O'Reilly

Sessions: Watching the Alpha Geeks

Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly & Associates, which many people consider to be the best computer book publisher in the world, whose conferences have led one commentator to say "Tim throws the best tech parties ever", and whose online sites are among the most highly regarded on the net. His success is a tribute to the subject of this talk. "What we do at O'Reilly is watch the alpha geeks and tell the rest of the world what we learn from them." Tim is also known for championing open standards and open source software, and fighting software patents and legislation to require digital rights management software. O'Reilly produced the first commercial web site, and hosted the "open source summit" where the leaders of the free software world agreed on the new meme.

Andrew Oliver

Sessions: Jakarta POI or "Maybe we shouldn't ingore the 10,000 lb Gorilla", Jetspeeders
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Andrew C. Oliver is President of SuperLink Software, Inc., a consultant for the JBoss Group, LLC and a member of the Apache Software Foundation. He has an obscene interest in binary constructs and founded the Jakarta POI project.

Victor Orlikowski

Sessions: An Introduction to the Bean Scripting Framework, An Introduction to the Bean Scripting Framework

Victor Orlikowski became interested in open source software even before becoming a student at Duke University. He now works on developing BSF and Apache full-time for IBM. In his spare time, he enjoys cycling, reading, and programming.

George Paolini

Sessions: Sun and Apache
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George Paolini is the Vice President of Technology Advocacy and Community Development. In this role, he is responsible for the marketing and adoption of emerging, open technologies including the Java platform, Jini and XML. His objective is to drive adoption of these open technologies in an effort to capture developer mindshare and provide a level "playing field" for the software industry. Included in his group are Standards Integration, Technologies Marketing and Strategy, Evangelism, Evangelism Technical Support, Technology Messaging, the Java Community Process program, industry neutral Web Services and Web Content for the Java developer community and Brand Development for the Java and Jini brands. "My job is to act as the eyes and ears for the industry with regards to emerging technologies and open standards and to help Sun support these technologies," says Paolini. "In this role, I hope to help Sun respond more quickly to the needs of our customers and developer communities." Paolini has been employed with Sun since 1993. Prior to his current role, he served as Vice President of Java Community Development and Vice President of Marketing. As the Vice President of Java Community Development, he was responsible for creation and success of the Java Community Process program, the industry-neutral, open process through which Java technologies are evolved. Other responsibilities in this role were building and maintaining Sun's relationship with the licensees of the Java technology, defining and evangelizing the Java platform editions, and managing Sun's software licensing practices. As Vice President of Marketing, Paolini helped Sun create its first Internet marketing strategy, a role which led to evangelizing and promoting Java. Before working at Sun, Paolini spent over 13 years as an editor with daily newspapers throughout Northern California, including the San Francisco Examiner.

Joyce Park

Sessions: Mod_pubsub: asynchronous publish and subscribe messaging with httpd

Joyce Park is co-author of the Wiley book _PHP Bible_, and co-lead of the mod_pubsub project. Adam Rifkin is co-founder of KnowNow, Inc. and co-lead of the mod_pubsub project.

Michael Parker

Sessions: Extending Apache SpamAssassin using Plugins, SpamAssassin, Storing SpamAssassin User Data in SQL Databases, Storing SpamAssassin User Data in SQL Databases

Michael Parker is a SpamAssassin developer and member of the SpamAssassin PMC. He has been involved, mostly as a lurker, in open source projects for the last 10 years. His primary SpamAssassin focus is on backend processes and modules with a slant towards SQL database interfaces. He has lived all of his life in Texas and currently lives outside of Austin with his wife Denise and son Ryan.

Giacomo Pati

Sessions: Apache Cocoon 2 - What's new, Apache Cocoon 2 - What's new

I'm looking back on 20 years of IT experience in the financial and software industries. The last five years I've worked on large datawarehousing and web application/publishing project. I've joined the Apache Cocoon project more that a year ago. Since December 2000 I'm member of the board of Otego Inc. which is a XML and Open Source consultancy company in Switzerland.

Jason Pepin

Sessions: Web Presence by 5pm, Web Presence by 5pm

I work for CNA Life Insurance Company in Nashville, TN as a Unix Administrator. For the past two years I have been tasked with helping to develop, maintain, and enhance our web infastructure. We have several external consumer web sites and internal web applications running the Apache web server. Most sites utilize their own Apache instance but we do use virtual hosts as well. We are currently in the process of migrating our existing IIS web sites to Apache. We also utilize Stronghold for most of our secured websites. I have been working hard over the last couple of years in demonstrating to our Management the ease and reliability of Apache. These factors have been successful in phasing out IIS in favor of Apache in our environment.

Benjamin Pharr

Sessions: MySQL and Java Servlets - The Perfect Combination
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Benjamin Pharr is a Computer Science student at the University of Mississippi. He has been programming in Java for over five years and is currently doing research in security, cryptography, and operating systems.

Simon Phipps

Sessions: "Adoption-Led" - a rather obvious way of talking about open source, The Zen of Free: Deriving a General Model for Open Source
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Simon Phipps is the Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems, co-ordinating Sun's extensive participation in free and open source software communities and actively participating in the global conversation they express. Prior to this appointment he co-founded Sun’s pioneering staff weblog facility at blogs.sun.com, based on Roller.

A computer industry insider of 20+ years standing, Simon has worked in such hands-on roles as field engineer, programmer and systems analyst as well as being involved at a strategic level in some of the world’s leading computer companies. Fascinated by the idea of ‘action at a distance’, he worked with OSI standards in the eighties, on the first commercial collaborative conferencing software in the nineties, and helped introduce both Java and XML at IBM. He joined Sun in mid-2000.

He takes an active interest in multiple free/open source software projects and is on the Advisory Board of GNOME and the China Open Source Promotion Union. He holds a degree in electronic engineering and is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the British Computer Society where he is on the committee of his local branch.

Simon lives in the UK with his family but is based in Silicon Valley in the US. With membership of airline frequent flyer clubs thus taken care of, he is free to indulge in his favourite pastimes of reading, writing poetry, collecting music, taking photographs and playing with cool toys. His personal home page and blog is http://www.webmink.net and Sun's Open Source home page is at http://www.sun.com/opensource. He can be reached via e-mail as webmink@sun.com

Mark Pilgrim

Sessions: The Atom API
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Mark Pilgrim is the author of Dive Into Python, a free Python book for experienced programmers, and Dive Into Accessibility, a free book on web accessibility techniques. He works for MassLight, a Washington DC-based training and web development company, where, unsurprisingly, he does training and web development. But he lives outside Raleigh, North Carolina, because it's warmer.

Chris Pirillo

Sessions: RSS Elements and Versions, The Death of Email Marketing

Ask yourself: "How did Chris Pirillo parlay Lockergnome from a single Windows-centric newsletter into a series of daily tech-related mailing lists, best-selling books, digital how-to guides, a revenue-generating meme, radio show, annual conference, television gig, top ranking on Google for his first name, and a well-trafficked blog?" He didn't do it alone, and some of those secrets will be revealed at ApacheCon US 2003.

Martin Poeschl

Sessions: Torque and OJB - the Apache persistence frameworks

Martin Poeschl is senior developer at ANECON, developing web-applications in Java. He is member of the Jakarta PMC and involved in the development of Torque, OJB, Turbine and several other Apache projects.

Mike Pogue

Sessions: The Cathedral Meets The Bazaar
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Mike is a member of the Project Management Committee for the Apache XML Project (xml.apache.org), and manager of the XML Technologies Group at IBM. His group created the IBM XML parsers for Java, C++, and Perl, which were used as the initial code base for the Apache XML Project's Xerces parsers.

Martin Pool

Sessions: Caches in a dynamic world
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Linuxcare Open Source Engineer Martin Pool has been involved with free software since 1994 and specializes in Web protocols and Web programming languages. From 1996 to 1998 he was a core developer on the Apache JServ project , which added Java servlet support to Apache, the world's most popular web server. His involvement with free software has deepened lately with work as a lead developer for the rproxy project with Andrew Tridgell. rproxy, destined for submission to the IETF as an Internet standard, extends HTTP to enable significant speed and traffic improvements for web applications. Martin is also active as an advocate for free software, having been a speaker at conferences and user group meetings. His Linuxcare home page can found at . Martin sings in a chamber choir and enjoys riding bicycles and motorbikes.

Ovidiu Predescu

Sessions: Using Cocoon to build Web sites for wireless devices
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Ovidiu Predescu is a Senior Software Engineer working for Hewlett Packard. He is the team lead of a group working on Java/XML/XSLT-based frameworks and applications in the mobile area.

His earlier work involved adding Perl and Python scripting support to GDB, the GNU debugger, for distributed debugging support. Before this, he worked on a distributed system in Objective-C running on Solaris, Linux and NeXTSTEP machines.

Ovidiu was also involved in the early design and implementation phases of the GN step, a free-software implementation of OpenStep, a precursor of MacOS X. He implemented major components in all the libraries, starting from the low-level libraries, the database access libraries, up to the GUI libraries. In his spare time he still maintains the Objective-C front-end and runtime library in the GCC compiler suite. His areas of interest include compilers, programming languages and development tools.

Ovidiu Predescu

Sessions: Cocoon control flow

Ovidiu is a software engineer with Google, where he spends his time working on solving interesting problems. He has been involved in open-source development since 1994, including the Objective-C support in GCC, the design and development of major components of the GNUstep system, XSLT processing and debugging support in Emacs, Cocoon and many others.

Eric Pugh

Sessions: Building Projects with Maven
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Fascinated by the “craft” of software development, Eric Pugh has been heavily involved in the open source world as a developer, committer, and user for the past 5 years. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and a committer on many projects including DBUnit, Maven, and Jakarta Commons. In biotech, financial services and defense IT, he has helped European and American companies develop coherent strategies for embracing open source software. As a speaker at conferences including ApacheCon and OSCON, he has emphasized the advantages of Agile practices in software development.

Jason Purdy

Sessions: Developing Web Applications with CGI::Application, Developing Web Applications with CGI::Application, e-Commerce 101, Firefox Extension Development Tutorial, Server-Side Input Validation with Data::FormValidator
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Jason Purdy is the IT Manager of Journalistic, Inc., publisher of the award-winning publications QSR Magazine and Fine Books & Collections Magazine, as well as other online initiatives. He is responsible for helping to formulate business plans, oversee and help implement the necessary applications as well as perform post-mortems to evaluate success and next steps. Jason earned his BS in Mathematical Sciences (Computer Science) at UNC-Chapel Hill and has had a varied career track, working with a .com startup (AuctionRover.com), small companies (Stingray/Rogue Wave Software, Goto.com) and large (Trilogy, IBM and Data General). Jason lives in Apex, NC with his wife, Casey and daughters, Meredith and Eleanor.

Paul Querna

Sessions: Developing Applications with APR, Mass Virtual Hosting with Apache 2.0, Using XSL and mod_transform in Apache Applications, What's new in Apache HTTP Server 2.2, What's new in httpd 2.2, Writing Apache Modules

Paul Querna is an APR and HTTPD developer. He currently works on Bloglines.com for Ask Jeeves.

Daniel Quinlan

Sessions: SpamAssassin Tutorial, SpamAssassin Tutorial

Daniel Quinlan works as Anti-Spam Architect at IronPort Systems, an email security provider in San Bruno, CA. He is a SpamAssassin developer and a V.P. of the Apache Software Foundation. In addition to working on anti-spam stuff, he is founder and chairperson of the Free Standards Group. Daniel lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, enjoys rock climbing, and is trying to figure out how to not lose at Texas Hold'em.

Gianugo Rabellino

Sessions: Communities at work: what's under the hood?, Generating beautiful PDF files with FOP, Porting CMS applications to WebDAV and Cocoon, Slicing and dicing REST with Apache Cocoon, So you want to start an Open Source project..., Taming Apache Cocoon, Taming Apache Cocoon, Taming Apache Cocoon, The case for Open Development, The Case for Open Development, Your Open Source Strategy Sucks!, Your Open Source strategy sucks!

Gianugo Rabellino is Chief Executive Officer of Sourcesense, Europe's leading Open Source systems integrator. He has been at the forefront of the Open Source movement in Europe, founding the first official Italian Linux organization in 1994, and launching Orixo, the consortium of European Open Source companies. A Member of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), Rabellino serves as Vice President of the Apache XML Project Management Committee, is a committer on several ASF projects including Cocoon, Xindice, and Jackrabbit, as well as mentor of the River project currently in development at the ASF Incubator. His highly charismatic presentations on topics such as Enterprise Open Source adoption, next-generation opportunities in Open Source, and building Open Development communities draws enthusiastic audiences at all levels at industry-leading events including JavaOne, Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise, and ApacheCon.

Michael Radwin

Sessions: Hacking Apache HTTP Server at Yahoo!, HTTP Caching and Cache-busting for Content Publishers, HTTP Caching and Cache-busting for Content Publishers

Michael J. Radwin is an engineering manager at Yahoo! Inc. His team develops and supports core web infrastructure such as Apache, MySQL, and PHP and more recently SOAP/REST toolkits. Radwin has been hacking on Apache since 1998 in high-performance environments and has a particular affinity for HTTP Cookies.

Matt Raible

Sessions: Comparing Web Frameworks: Struts, Spring MVC, WebWork, Tapestry & JSF
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Matt Raible currently resides in Denver, Colorado where he is a J2EE Consultant for Raible Designs and SourceBeat Author. Matt has been surrounded by computers for most of his life - even though he grew up in the backwoods of Montana without electricity. Most of his "nack for computers" comes from his father who had them hooked up to Compuserve in the mid-80s. Matt's began playing on the Internet in 1994 and has been doing so ever since. Java became his passion in 1999 and he's still in love with it today. When he's not working, he's playing with his daughter Abbie or restoring his 1966 VW Bus.

Mandar Raje

Sessions: Design and Implementation of the Tomcat Servlet Engine

I graduated from University of California where I did my Masters in Computer Science. There I worked on Security of Untrusted Applications and on Distributed Systems. I joined the Java Software Division of Sun Microsystems Inc. I am currently working as a JSP Engineer mainly responsible for the reference implementation.

Ajith Ranabahu

Sessions: Introducing Axis2, Web Service Client Programming Models Using Axis2

Ajith is one of the major committers for the Apcahe Axis2 project and has been working on Web service based projects for the past 4 years. His technical expertise is majorly in Web services and XML processing technologies. Ajith started his open source activities as one of the core developers for Apache Axis2 while he was at Lanka Software Foundation and now works for WSO2 (http://www..wso2.com) sharing his time between Axis, synapse and other opensource projects.

Tobias Ratschiller

Sessions: Advanced PHP: Web Applications - Sessions and Authentication, Advanced PHP: Web Applications - Sessions and Authentication, PHP from an IT Manager's Perspective
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Tobias Ratschiller is a New Media Consultant in Italy, specializing in the creation of large-scale dynamic Web sites. He has provided consulting and implementation work for some of the world's largest Web Sites and has contributed to several PHP titles and articles. Together with Till Gerken, he's currently writing a book titled Advanced Web Application Development with PHP, which will be published in April 2000 by New Riders. Tobias runs http //phpwizard.net.

Garrel Renick

Sessions: Parallel Development and Hosting using Apache, Tomcat, and MySQL

I have worked in the IT field for the last decade. Previous work includes application support, technical writing, and help system design. My current work focuses on application design for MOREnet--the Missouri Research and Educational Network and part of the University of Missouri system. I assist in the design and support of an e-mail, web site, and web applications hosting solution for state government, universities, colleges, K12 schools, libraries, and other affiliates that are connected to MOREnet's statewide network.

Derick Rethans

Sessions: PHP: Localization and Internationalization, What time is it? PHP time handling

Derick Rethans provides solutions for Internet related problems. He has contributed in a number of ways to the PHP project, including the mcrypt extension, bug fixes, additions and leading the QA team. He now works as developer for eZ systems A.S.. In his spare time he likes to work on SRM: Script Running Machine and Xdebug, photography and travel. You can reach him at dr@ez.no

Ron Reuben

Sessions: Perform with Apache Derby/Cloudscape

Ron Reuben is the Lead Quality Engineer of the IBM Cloudscape team. He has 6 years of experience in the field of Quality Assurance and is heavily involved in all aspects of the product development cycle and customer support. He joined IBM in 2001 via the acquisition of Informix, which he joined in 1998 after graduating with an M.S. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University.

Georg Richter

Sessions: The next generation: PHP 5.1 and MySQL 5.0

Georg Richter is the author of PHP's mysql extensions. He works for MySQL AB as a Senior Developer (SAP R/3 adaption, PHP's mysql extensions, Connector/OO.org), contributes code to various Open Source projects and is a member of the Apache Software Foundation. Besides contributing code, Georg is also involved into the organisation of various events, like LinuxTag (since 1999) or MySQL ComCon Europe.

Gerald Richter

Sessions: Embperl - Building dynamic Websites with Perl, Embperl - Building dynamic Websites with Perl, Embperl - Building dynamic Websites with Perl
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Gerald Richter is a programmer and networkadministrator. Since 6 years his main working area are internet-technics and his focus is on Apache, Perl and mod_perl. He is the author of Embperl and activly involved in the mod_perl project.

Jim Rivera

Sessions: Apache Beehive

Jim is a Director of Technology with BEA Systems. In this role, Jim is responsible for driving adoption of BEA technology within the technical communities world-wide. Jim joined BEA in 1999 and was lead Technical Product Manager for the BEA WebLogic Server 6, 7, and 8 releases. In this role, Jim was responsible for the strategy and roadmap for various components of the server including EJB, Web Services, XML, and clustering. He has over 13 years of experience in software development, strategy, marketing, and electrical engineering.

Enrique Rodriguez

Sessions: Secure Single-Sign-On with Apache Directory and Apache Kerberos, The Future of Open-Source OSGi

Enrique Rodriguez is a Project Management Committee (PMC) member and a committer on the Apache Directory project. Enrique originally joined the Apache Directory project as the lead developer of the Kerberos protocol provider plug-in and continues to focus on the protocol provider implementations and integration with the OSGi Service Platform. Enrique was formerly a Systems Architect contracting for Microsoft Consulting Services, the Director of Implementation and Principal Product Architect for a dot-com, and the Director of Global Systems for Liberty Mutual Insurance. His recreation and work experiences have taken him to 47 U.S. states and to over 100 other locations across six continents. Enrique earned a degree in Electrical Engineering and minored in the Biology of Behavior at Rensselaer (RPI). Enrique is an avid mountaineer and has climbed the highest mountains in North America (Mt. McKinley, United States), South America (Aconcagua, Argentina), Europe (Elbrus, Russian Federation), and Africa (Kilimanjaro, Tanzania). Between climbing expeditions, Enrique competes for Team Mercury Multisport in triathlons and marathons.

Javier Rodriguez

Sessions: Building visually-consistent, multilingual Web sites with Apache and mod_perl

Javier A. Rodriguez is the Research and Development Manager at LatinB2B, the premiere B2B e-commerce enabler in LatinAmerica. Prior to LatinB2B, Mr. Rodriguez was Partner and Chief Scientist of Aldea Internet, among other renowed Mexican and US-based Internet companies. Mr. Rodriguez holds a B.S. in Telecommunications and Electronics Engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, State of Mexico Campus (ITESM).

David Rolsky

Sessions: Introduction to Mason

Dave Rolsky has been a professional Perl programmer since the the ol' bubble days of 1999. He has worked on a number of open source Perl projects including the Perl DateTime Project and Alzabo. Since the summer of 2000, he has been part of the Mason core development team. In October of 2002, O'Reilly and Associates published Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason, co-authored with Ken Williams. Since September of 2004, he has been working as a member of the development team for Socialtext, Inc.

Garrett Rooney

Sessions: Hacking Atom with Apache Abdera, Subversion Best Practices, Using the Apache Portable Runtime in a Non-httpd Application

Garrett Rooney is a Senior Software Engineer at Joost Technologies B.V. He graduated from RPI with a degree in Computer Science, after narrowly avoiding acquiring a degree in Mechanical Engineering. In some of his copious free time, he works on a variety of open source projects, most notably Subversion, APR, Apache Abdera, and a variety of smaller projects.

Mark Roth

Sessions: JavaServer Pages 2.0 Technology: The Community Delivers!
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Mark Roth is a member of the Java(tm) 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition team. He has contributed to a number of key specifications and implementations and is currently a co-lead for the JavaServer Pages(tm) specification version 2.0.

Rich Roth

Sessions: Apache (by itself) does not a Web site make
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Rich Roth, CEO of TnR Global, has been a developer in the computer field for 35 years, a kernel level programmer and a user of Unix, the Internet, and on-line services from their inception. His various ventures currently operate over 2,000 web sites, all based on LAMP (Apache, Linux, Perl or PHP and MySQL). He drove the Apache Gui Dev project (gui.apache.org) and developed of apache-tools.org. He put his first web server online in 1994 and was an early user of Linux and Apache, including Red Hat's first commerce web site (1995) and the first fully automated remote CGI system at i-depth.com (online 1996 and still running).

Gregor J. Rothfuss

Sessions: Creating Print on Demand solutions with Cocoon, FOP, and Lucene, Creating Print on Demand solutions with Cocoon, FOP, and Lucene

Gregor is COO of Wyona, an Open Source Content Management consultancy with offices in Boston and Zurich. He is an Apache Lenya comitter, co-founder of the Open Source Content Managment Organization (OSCOM) and a founding member of the Digital Development Foundation (DDF). In the past, Gregor has been involved with Postnuke and was on the founding Project Management Comittee for the Xaraya CMS project. He was also former president of the Association of Students in Computer Science at the University of Zurich.

William A. Rowe Jr.

Sessions: Apache 2.0 on Windows, Apache 2.0 on Windows, Apache HTTP Server Cookbook, Apache upon Win32 in the round, Apache/WinNT: Security, security, wherefore art thou, security?, i18n: Apache Speaks on Windows, Managing Apache HTTP Web content with DAV and FTP, Managing Apache HTTP Web content with DAV and FTP, Managing Apache HTTP Web content with DAV and FTP
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William's contributions to Apache include numerous enhancements to the Win32 port of the HTTP Server project, including CGI, security, Service control, file system support, and APR design targeted at the Win32 native API, and author of mod_aspdotnet. He provides Win32 hints to Apache related lists, and has been a speaker at previous ApacheCon events. As a member of the ASF and the Apache httpd and APR projects, and a Senior Software Engineer with the Covalent Division of SpringSource, his work on Apache continues in areas such as integration of Apache 2 with the Win32 security model and add-in modules. William started his career developing an array of customized and revenue document imaging systems. Prior to joining Covalent, he provided consulting services in revenue document generation and management, data transformation, application integration and Web interface services.

Sam Ruby

Sessions: Building a Web service from SOAP to Nuts
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Wilfredo Sanchez

Sessions: ApacheCon Lightning Lottery Talks, ApacheCon Lightning Lottery Talks and a Movie
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Wilfredo Sánchez is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after which he co-founded an Internet publishing company, Agora Technology Group, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He then worked on enabling electronic commerce and dynamic applications via the world wide web at Disney Online in North Hollywood, California. Wilfredo is presently a senior software engineer at Apple in Cupertino, California. He was worked on the BSD subsystem in Mac OS X as a member of the Core Operating System group, and as open source engineering lead at Apple. He later became part of the team that built and launched the iTunes Music Store, and is presently the technical lead for iCal Server, which the calendaring solution in Mac OS X Server, and is available as open source at http://www.calendarserver.org/. Wilfredo is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and a contributor to various open source projects.

Olav Sandstaa

Sessions: Configuring Apache Derby for Performance and Durability, Performance Analysis of Apache Derby, Putting Apache Derby into Production

Olav Sandstå is senior staff engineer in the Database Technology Group at Sun Microsystems. For the last six years he has been working on the internals of high-availability database management systems with focus on high performance. Today he is working as a Apache Derby developer. Prior to joining Sun he worked on the Clustra DBMS. He has a PhD in storage systems for digital video from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Lynn Schaper

Sessions: Web Issues at Universities & Colleges

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Torsten Schlabach

Sessions: Lenya Hands-On Tutorial

Torsten Schlabach is an IT and management consultant currently especially interested in the usage of Linux / J2EE / XML technologies for collaborative electronic publishing purposes. Torsten has more than 15 years of overall experience in the IT industry. He has been working for a number of well known companies including General Electric and T-Mobile, the mobile arm of Deutsche Telekom AG. Besides his IT knowledge Torsten has attended management education at GE Crottonville, GE's corporate University in New York and finished a General Management Programme with INSEAD. Aside from his current consulting assignment in Germany he is serving as the Interim CEO for PAIWASTOON Networking Services Ltd, a Kabul, Afghanistan, based Internet start-up. Torsten is an active commiter to the Apache Lenya project.

George Schlossnagle

Sessions: High Performance PHP, Scalable Internet Architectures, Scalable Internet Architectures, Scalable Internet Architectures
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George Schlossnagle is the author of mod_log_spread - a distributed logging module for Apache, APD - a profiler/debugger for PHP. When not working on open-source projects, George is a Principal and co-owner of Omn TI, Inc where he designs and maintains systems and database architectures for some of the web's largest sites.

Theo Schlossnagle

Sessions: Advanced Production Troubleshooting, Advanced Production Troubleshooting, Apache Projects on DTrace, Backhand - a load balancing module for Apache, Backhand: understanding and building HA/LB clusters, Clustered logging with mod_log_spread, Clustered logging with mod_log_spread, mod_backhand: internals explained, mod_backhand: Resource Allocation and Content Intelligence, Scalable Internet Architectures, Scalable Internet Architectures, Scalable Internet Architectures, Scalable Internet Architectures, Scalable Internet Architectures, Scalable Internet Architectures, Scalable Internet Architectures, Spread as an Infrastructure for the Future of Clustered Apache Services., The Backhand Project: load-balancing and monitoring Apache Web clusters
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Theo Schlossnagle is a Principal Consultant at OmniTI Computer Consulting where he designs and implements scalable solutions for highly trafficked sites and other clients in need of sound, scalable architectural engineering. He is author of Scalable Internet Architecture published by Sams. Theo is the author and maintainer of the mod_backhand load-balancing module for Apache, an author and maintainer of the Backhand Project and an active participant in a plethora of open source projects.

Cliff Schmidt

Sessions: American Fair Use in Court, Beehive Web Services Metadata (WSM), Behind the Scenes of the Apache Software Foundation (Part 1), Behind the Scenes of the Apache Software Foundation (Part 2), Deep Comprehension of XPath and XSLT, Deep Comprehension of XPath and XSLT, Digging deep into XML Schema with Apache XMLBeans, International Intellectual Property Laws, Licenses: Words, Words, Words, Licensing: What Every Apache Committer Should Know, Mangling data with XSLT, Mangling data with XSLT, Panel: Inside the Wigwam, Spectrum of Licenses, The Incubator: Starting a Successful Apache Open Source Project, The Incubator: Starting a Successful Apache Open Source Project
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Cliff has served as Apache's Vice President for Legal Affairs since 2005 and has provided licensing and legal policy assistance to other leading open source organizations, such as the Eclipse Foundation, Free Software Foundation, Open Source Initiative, and ObjectWeb Consortium. He has consulted for numerous small and large software companies throughout Europe, North America, and the Middle East on intellectual property issues, privacy policies, export controls, open source business strategy, and community development. Cliff also serves on Apache's Board of Directors and on the project management committees for both Apache’s Incubator project and Eclipse’s Technology project, where he helps oversee and assist new projects to each organization.

Nicolas Schmidt

Sessions: Enhancing ESA's Earth Observation Portal with GIS Features
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Nicolas Schmidt is a Senior Software Engineer for Netcetera AG in Zürich, Switzerland. He has 7 years of experience in various IT projects for customers in the industrial and financial sectors. Mainly using tcl/websh and j2ee technologies. Bevore that, he worked as a geographic researcher and GIS-specialist for Navigation Technologies Europe. He recieved his M.D. at the Department of Geography, University of Zürich, Switzerland in 1995.

Timo Schmidt

Sessions: Multilingual Information Processing based on UTF-8 character encoding, Multilingual Information Processing based on UTF-8 character encoding

Timo Schmidt has worked as a professional software developer at CyberSolutions GmbH, Munich where he was developing a multilingual web-based user interface written in PHP. Currently he is working for the Munich-based company wunder media gmbh, responsible for the in-house developed database migration tool based on XML.

Henning Schmiedehausen

Sessions: An Introduction to Apache Velocity 1.5, Apache Containers, Apache James - The Java Mail Server, Apache James - The Java Mail Server, Empowering the social web with Apache Shindig, iBatis, Cayenne, OpenJPA - Apache Persistence Layers, iBatis, Cayenne, OpenJPA - Apache Persistence Layers, Jakarta Velocity - An Overview, Jakarta Velocity - An Overview, Logging and Configuration - Demystifying the banes of App development, Rapid application development with Maven and Turbine, Rapid application development with Maven and Turbine, What's new in the Jakarta Turbine 2.3 Web application Framework, Writing a web application with Jakarta Turbine 2.3

Henning Schmiedehausen is a team member on a number of Apache Java projects. He works as a freelance consultant, architect and software developer using the J2EE platform and admits under torture that he can program in PHP and perl. When not sitting in front of a computer, Henning enjoys traveling with his wife around the world, sports (both active and passive) and moonlights as a 11th level barbarian at his local D&D group. He currently has the pleasure of serving as a board member and a director of the Apache Software Foundation.

Kurt Schrader

Sessions: Building Web Applications Using the Turbine Suite of Tools
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Kurt is a Java Developer currently employed at the University of Michigan, where he has been designing and developing web-applications for the last 3 years using a variety of different technologies. He has been programming for the last 12 years, and holds a BSE in computer engineering from the University of Michigan. He currently fills his free time by contributing to the ever-increasing number of Jakarta Turbine sub-projects.

Doc Searls

Sessions: Apache and Do-It-Yourself IT (DIY-IT), The Modularity Movement: Open Source in a Maturing Market

Doc is Senior Editor of Linux Journal and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto. He is a popular speaker, presenter, and writer and his Web log is avidly read on a daily basis by thousands of people.

Giri Senji

Sessions: Search, Lucene & Beyond

Giri Senji is a Senior J2EE consultant at Daimler Chrysler Corporation. He has been working on Java since its inception; and has acquired in-depth knowledge in several Apache projects. He initiated open source projects on java.net and contributes to java community during his free time. He is also working towards his MBA from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor part-time during weekends.

Kishore Senji

Sessions: Revving up Turbine

Kishore Senji is a Senior Software Engineer at Finaplex, Inc. He has been involved in Java based development for over a decade and has extensive knowledge in Java/J2EE, XML and various Jakarta related technologies. He contributes articles, source code to the Java open source community. He holds Masters degree from Clemson University and Bachelor's degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Matt Sergeant

Sessions: AxKit - An XML Application Server for Apache, AxKit - An XML Application Server for Apache, AxKit - an XML Delivery Toolkit for Apache

Matt Sergeant works for AxKit.com who specialise in building open source content management solutions for companies wishing to have ultimate control over the tools they use. His previous work has been the development of high speed internet solutions for companys like the BBC, Ericsson and Wood MacKenzie. In his "spare" time he can be found writing articles for XML.com and talking at various conferences.

Chris Shiflett

Sessions: PHP Attacks and Defense, PHP Security, PHP Security, PHP Security Briefing, Power PHP Testing, Securing PHP Sessions, Testing PHP with Perl, Testing PHP with Perl: Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together, Writing Secure Web Applications with PHP

Chris Shiflett is an internationally recognized expert in the field of PHP security and the founder and President of Brain Bulb, a PHP consultancy that offers a variety of services to clients around the world.

Chris is a leader in the PHP community, and his involvement includes being the founder of the PHP Security Consortium, the founder of PHPCommunity.org, a member of the Zend PHP Advisory Board, and an author of the Zend PHP Certification.

A prolific writer, Chris has regular columns in both PHP Magazine and php|architect. He is also the author of the HTTP Developer's Handbook (Sams) as well as the highly anticipated Essential PHP Security (O'Reilly).

Trent Shue

Sessions: ObjectWeb/JOnAS J2EE Application Server and Apache projects

Trent Shue is a Senior Project Manager for Bull Information Systems in Phoenix, Arizona. He has 23 years of industry experience in systems development, application development and databases. For the past 3 years Trent has managed the development of J2EE-related products, including managing a team of developers contributing to Objectweb in the areas of JOnAS, J2EE Connector Architecture and Transaction Management.

Leo Simons

Sessions: Inside the ASF Infrastructure Workflow, Introducing Apache Gump, Introducing Apache Gump 3
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Leo Simons is a Dutch student and software developer. He has been working on a variety of Apache projects for most of his adult life, acting as committer, mentor, Vice President, documentation author or sysadmin. Proud to be an ASF member, he is currently spending most of his time as one of the main developers of Apache Gump and in his role as member of the ASF Infrastructure Team.

Peter Simons

Sessions: FastCGI -- The Forgotten Treasure, FastCGI -- The Forgotten Treasure, FastCGI -- The Forgotten Treasure

Peter Simons discovered the Internet in 1992 and was fascinated by it immediately. Since then, he worked for the »Research Institute for Discrete Mathematics«, the »National Research Center for Information Technology«, and the Munich-based software company »CyberSolutions GmbH«. During his career, he was involved in several free software projects like PGP 2.x, GNU Autoconf, Petidomo and mapSoN. Furthermore, he published various articles on the subject of computer security, networking, and software engineering, including the book »Datenfernübertragung«, which was -- at the time of its publication in 1995 -- one of the first books about the Internet in german language. His biggest success, though, was doubtlessly the contribution of a ground-breaking foreword for Lars Eilebrecht's book »Apache Web-Server« . ;-) Nowadays, Peter works as a free-lance software engineer and consultant for various international companies and enjoys life together with his two cats »Alan« and »Louis«. His home page can be found at http://cryp.to/.

James Smith

Sessions: An Open Source Approach to Digital Humanities, Secure Authentication in an Insecure Environment

James Smith is the inaugural digital humanities lead developer for the College of Liberal Art. As lead developer, he is spearheading programming efforts as well as providing tutorials, workshops, and other resources to faculty interested in digital humanities. James received his B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from TAMU in 2001. He has completed all but thesis for a creative writing M.A. in English. In his current position, James is an active Perl module developer and can be found most days on #moose and other venues.

Bruce Snyder

Sessions: Apache Geronimo for Developers, Enterprise Messaging With Apache ActiveMQ, Service Oriented Integration With the Apache ServiceMix ESB, Take Apache Camel for a Ride, Taking Apache Camel for a Ride, The State of Apache Geronimo, The State of Apache Geronimo
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Bruce Snyder is a veteran of enterprise software development and a recognized leader in open source software. Bruce has experience in a wide range of technologies including Java EE, Enterprise Messaging and Service Oriented Integration. In addition to being a principal with Organic Element, Bruce is also an Apache Member, a co-founder of Apache Geronimo and a developer for Apache ActiveMQ, Apache Camel, Apache ServiceMix. Bruce serves as a member of various JCP expert groups, is the co-author of Professional Apache Geronimo, Beginning Spring Framework 2 both from Wrox Press and is currently co-authoring Apache ActiveMQ In Action for Manning Publications. Bruce lives in beautiful Boulder, Colorado with his family.

Ferdinand Soethe

Sessions: Single Source Publishing with Apache Forrest, Single Source Publishing with Apache Forrest
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Ferdinand Soethe is a Committer and PMC member of the Apache Forrest project. For more than 15 years he has been working as a software architect and consultant in various areas of PC-based computing. As a technical author he has published two books for Addison-Wesley (in German) and several articles in German and English publications. Documentation has always been an important part of his work and his favorite topic of research and experimental programming.

Alfred Z. Spector

Sessions: The Web and Technology Fusion

As Senior Technical Strategist for Application Frameworks and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, Dr. Alfred Z. Spector is spending the year assisting IBM customers who are implementing e-business applications and teaching advanced web technologies to Columbia students. Prior to this sabbatical year, Dr. Spector was General Manager of Marketing & Strategy for IBM's middleware business, which includes WebSphere, Visual Age, and MQSeries.

Davanum Srinivas

Sessions: State of the Web Services Union
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Davanum Srinivas is currently the PMC chair of Apache Web Services and V.P of Engineering at WSO2 Inc.

Greg Stein

Sessions: A Fireside Chat about WebDAV, Building WebDAV-based filesystems using Apache's mod_dav, Panel: Inside the Wigwam, Subversion: Version Control Rethought, Using WebDAV with Apache, WebDAV and Apache, WebDAV and Apache, WebDAV and Apache, WebDAV and Apache, WebDAV and Apache, WebDAV and Apache
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Greg Stein is an engineering manager at Google, where he manages the Blogger development team. Outside of work, he is the current Chairman of the Apache Software Foundation, and spends a lot of time with Subversion, WebDAV, and Python projects. Previously, Greg worked as a director of engineering at CollabNet where he managed the Subversion project and releases of CollabNet's SourceCast product. Prior to that, Greg worked at Microsoft on the commerce server and site server products.

Frank Stepan

Sessions: Closing Session

Frank is Marketing and Key Account Manager at Software & Support Verlag, the Producer of ApacheCon Europe 2005.

Jon Stevens

Sessions: Turbine: Building Model 2+1 Web Applications

Jon Stevens is a recognized expert on integrating the Java language with Apache Web server software, is a founding member of the Open Source Java Apache and Jakarta Apache Projects, and frequently speaks at trade conferences. He currently is working on an Open Source Issue/Bug tracking system for CollabNet called Scarab that is based on the Java Apache technologies he helped develop.

Christian Stocker

Sessions: Now in a new flavour - XML in PHP 5.1, XML on Crack - The hidden beauties of XML in PHP, XML on Speed - How to write fast and scalable PHP/XML code, XSLTAL - Instant XSLT for everyone

Christian Stocker is one of the developers of the XML extensions in PHP. He's further author of the PHP book "PHP de Luxe" (in german) and CEO of Bitflux GmbH, a web developement company based in Zurich.

Bill Stoddard

Sessions: Apache 2.0 for Windows, Apache on Windows

Bill Stoddard is a Senior Software Engineer with IBM and manager of IBM's Apache HTTP Server development team. He is member of the Apache Software Foundation and active contributor to the Apache HTTP Server project. Bill was the technical leader behind IBM's decision to drop development of its proprietary HTTP server in favor of adopting Apache.

Perry Stone

Sessions: Apache on VMS
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Malte Stretz

Sessions: When one assassin ain't enough: Clustering SpamAssassin

Malte Stretz lives and works as a freelance system administrator in Hamburg, Germany. He studies Computer Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Wedel. In the past years he has contributed to several Open Source projects, especially everything email-related seems to create a high force of attraction. Since his first contribution in 2002 he focussed on the SpamAssassin project (or the project on him) of which he is a member of the PMC today.

Sander Striker

Sessions: Apache 2.0 modules: development and debugging, Apache Portable Runtime 1.0 Tutorial, Caching, tips for improving performance, Panel: Inside the Wigwam
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Sander Striker is an independent consultant and a member of the Apache Software Foundation. He is an active member of the Apache HTTP Server, Apache Portable Runtime and Subversion communities.

Patricia Sueltz

Sessions: Sun's Apache Initiatives

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Zeev Suraski

Sessions: PHP 4 Internals, PHP 5 Infrastructure Preview: Zend Engine 2
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Zeev Suraski has been working on PHP along with Andi Gutmans since 1997, when they started the PHP 3.0 project, and continued in the design and implementation of the PHP 4.0 core. Zeev, a graduate of the Technion, Israel institute of Technology, is a member of the PHP Group, a member of the Apache Software Foundation and one of the founders of Zend Technologies.

Darin Swanson

Sessions: Ant and Eclipse
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Jonathan Swartz

Sessions: Mason: Component-based web development with Perl and Apache

Jonathan Swartz has been programming since his awkward teenage years. He served most recently as a technical lead at AvantGo, Inc. and is now an independent consultant in San Francisco. Jon's overriding passion in engineering is the creation of innovative development environments. He is the author and active developer of HTML::Mason, a Perl-based web development platform.

David Taylor

Sessions: Building an Enterprise Portal with Apache Portals and Jetspeed-2, Jetspeed Beyond the Portal: EAI with Jetspeed and Apache projects, Jetspeed Beyond the Portal: EAI with Jetspeed and Apache projects

David is an open source developer and member at the Apache Software Foundation. David is a founder of the Apache Portals project and architect of the Jetspeed-2 open source enterprise portal. He is also a member of the Java Portlet API Expert Group. He owns Bluesunrise Software, dedicated to open source software solutions. URL: http://www.bluesunrise.com/

Omar Tazi

Sessions: ApacheCon Lightning Lottery Talks and a Movie
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Omar is currently Chief Open Source Evangelist with Oracle. Prior to joining Oracle, Omar was the CEO of Orbeon where he created a successful business model based on services using Open Source Software donated by Orbeon to the community. Omar was an active member of the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee where he also particpated in several JSRs. Before crossing the Atlantic, Omar has held several research and teaching positions in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, specializing in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Object Oriented Programming (OOP). He holds an M.S. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. See Omar's blog at: http://otazi.blogspot.com

Sander Temme

Sessions: Apache and Zeroconf Networking, Apache and Zeroconf Networking, Apache HTTP Server Performance Tuning Part 1: Scaling Up, Apache HTTP Server Performance Tuning Part 1: Scaling Up, Apache HTTP Server Performance Tuning Part 2: Scaling Out, Apache HTTP Server Performance Tuning Part 2: Scaling Out, Apache Performance Tuning Part 1: Scaling Up, Apache Performance Tuning Part 2: Scaling Out, Hardening Enterprise Apache Installations Against Attacks, Hardening Enterprise Apache Installations Against Attacks, Measuring and Enhancing Apache Performance, nCipher Certified Systems Engineer, Practical SSL Implementation with Apache, Shoehorning Apache Onto Your Box: System Sizing Tips, Shoehorning Apache Onto Your Box: System Sizing Tips, Shoehorning Apache Onto Your Box: System Sizing Tips, Web Traffic Burstiness: Why Benchmarks Are Wrong

Sander Temme is an Enterprise Solutions Engineer for a security company whose clients include Fortune 500 companies, financial services companies and government agencies. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and is active in the httpd, Infrastructure and Gump projects. Sander is owned by Murphy, the wonder cat.

Randy Terbush

Sessions: ApacheCon Europe 2000 Closing Session, ApacheCon Europe 2000 Opening Session, What is "open-source" and why should my business care about it?
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Randy Terbush is Managing Partner of the Tribal Knowledge Group and serves on the board of both the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) and the Apache Software Foundation. One of the original co-founders of the Apache HTTP Project, Terbush is a recognized figure in the open-source software community. Terbush began his involvement with open-source in 1989, working on such projects as 386BSD/*BSD, Linux and X386/XFree86. In 1995, Terbush along with the other original Apache Group members developed the first version of the Apache HTTP server, which quickly became one of the most successful open-source projects in history. Today, Apache dominates, running on over 20 million of the world's Web sites. In 1998, Terbush founded Covalent Technologies where he held CEO and CTO positions managing technology, architecture and associated advanced development programs for Covalent.

Rodney Thayer

Sessions: Crypto Hardware and OpenSSL, PKI Processing with OpenSSL
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Rodney Thayer has held various positions in the design, implementation, deployment, and analysis of network security and network protocol systems. Most recently, he was a Security Architect at Counterpane Internet Security, where he was responsible for the cross-Internet secure communications mechanism used for their Managed Security Service. He has spent the last 25 years working in the computer industry, in such areas as protocol design, cryptographic system implementation, network deployment, and real-time systems development. He has extensive experience working to standardize network security protocols and practices through organizations such as the Internet Engineering Task force (IETF.) He was a member of the working Group responsible for delivering the first standard specification of the IPsec protocol, and was involved in developing several IETF specifications including RFC 2411 (IPsec), RFC 2440 (PGP), in addition to involvment in work on TLS (web browser/SSL security) and Digital Certificates (X.509/PKI.) He was involved in creating the VPN Vendor Consortium and has extensive experience in the VPN marketplace. He has written and lectured extensively on security matters and has presented work in a variety of forums including Data Communications Magazine, several Internet Web Sites, Networld+Interop, and various other lecture and print venues.

Richard Thieme

Sessions: New Ways of Thinking About Security: Open Source Thinking in a Bunged-up World
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Richard Thieme (www.thiemeworks.com) is an author and professional speaker focused on the deeper implications of technology, religion, and science for twenty-first century life. He has spoken for Def Con for ten years and Black Hat for eight as well as for venues ranging from ShmooCon, Pump Con and ToorCon to InfraGard and AUSCERT to the Pentagon, the FBI, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the US Department of the Treasury. He has consulted for Network Flight Recorder, Neohapsis, Psynapse/Center for the Advancement of Intelligent Systems, OmniTech, and SPC (System Planning Corporation. His internet columns, "Islands in the Clickstream," are widely read and were published by Syngress Publishing in June 2004. Since then he has published fourteen short stories including "The Geometry of Near," a hacker tale published by Phrack and included in the anthology CyberTales: Live Wire. A short story collection, More Than a Dream: Stories of Flesh and the Spirit is coming soon and he is writing a novel, The Necessity for Invention, which includes the adventures of Don Coyote and Pancho Sanchez, two suitably wily hackers.

Geoff Thorpe

Sessions: Apache E-Commerce Solutions, OpenSSL discussion forum
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Geoff Thorpe is senior cryptographic software engineer for C2Net Europe and has extensive experience with cryptography and SSL. He's mostly fascinated by crypto and networking, and saturating systems with a combination of both. Despite finding deep anguish in markup languages and scripting, Geoff is nevertheless very interested in the Apache web-server (and how far one can push it). :-) He also does mathematics, plays/teaches music, and cooks a mean curry.

Doug Tidwell

Sessions: Building a Web service from SOAP to Nuts, Building a Web service from SOAP to Nuts, Building SOAP applications, Building Web Services with Apache, Generating beautiful PDF files with FOP, Generating beautiful PDF files with FOP, Managing your Web site with Cocoon, Mangling data with XSLT, Mangling data with XSLT, Rub-a-dub-dub-dubya: SOAP and the Web
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Doug Tidwell is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM. He was a speaker at the first XML conference in 1997, and has spoken on technical topics around the world. He works in IBM’s Software Strategy group, evangelizing emerging XML standards such as SCA, SDO and XForms. He is the author of O’Reilly’s XSLT (second edition now available!), and has written many articles on IBM’s developerWorks site and elsewhere on the Web. He lives with his wife and daughter (and Domino, the Hound of Renown) in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

John Tigue

Sessions: mod_autoindex meets XML

John Tigue received a B.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins. After a few years contract programming, he visited Microsoft in the Windows NT Program Management Group where he eventually became the first BackOffice Developer. Since then he has been involved with software start-ups. While Senior Software Architect at DataChannel, he became active in standards body work. He was on the W3C Working Group which produced XML 1.0. He was the author of the WebBroker Note which was an early precursor to the current W3C XML Protocol Activity. Tigue is currently consulting on XML-based Web applications.

Dyre Tjeldvoll

Sessions: Performance Analysis of Apache Derby
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Dyre Tjeldvoll is senior engineer in the Database Technology Group at Sun Microsystems. For the last five years he has been working on the internals of a distributed high-availability database management system. He is currently working as an Apache Derby developer.

Mads Toftum

Sessions: Advanced httpd troubleshooting, Advanced mod_rewrite, Apache 2 mod_ssl by example, Apache 2 mod_ssl by example, Apache 2 mod_ssl by example, Apache 2 mod_ssl tutorial, Apache mod_rewrite, the Swiss Army Knife of URL manipulation, Apache mod_rewrite, the Swiss Army Knife of URL manipulation, Apache mod_rewrite, the Swiss Army Knife of URL manipulation, Apache mod_rewrite, the Swiss Army Knife of URL manipulation, Troubleshooting Apache configurations, Troubleshooting Apache configurations, Troubleshooting Apache configurations

Mads Toftum is an independent consultant with more than eight years of experience in various ISP jobs. Previous projects include designing and developing HA www hosting in a shared unix/NT environment and more than two years building a commercial CA. In his spare time he is a committer on the httpd-docs project, developing payment software and actively helping users in #apache (freenode) and on the mod-ssl mailing list.

Stipe Tolj

Sessions: Apache as a WAP Server, Apache as a WAP Server, Apache as WAP Server, Apache Distributed Authoring Environments
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Stipe Tolj is currently Department Manager of the Technology Center and Research Lab at Wapme Systems AG, where he focuses on conceptual client/server WAP application design and implementation. He is involved in the development of wireless application strategies and integration aspects of WAP components to existing internet based environments. His work contributes to several open source projects for the WAP application environment, like the Kannel WAP Gateway or the Apache HTTP Server.

Adam Trachtenberg

Sessions: Consuming Web Services Using PHP 5, eBay Web Services, Why PHP 5 Sucks! Why PHP 5 Rocks!, XML in PHP 5

Adam Trachtenberg is the Manager of Technical Evangelism at eBay, where he preaches the gospel of the eBay platform to developers and businessmen around the globe. Before eBay, Adam co-founded and served as Vice President for Development at two companies, Student.Com and TVGrid.Com. At both firms, he led the front- and middle-end web site design and development. Adam began using PHP in 1997, and is the author of "Upgrading to PHP 5" and coauthor of "PHP Cookbook," both published by O'Reilly Media. He lives in San Francisco, and has a B.A. and M.B.A. from Columbia University.

Jon Travis

Sessions: mod_snake: Flexible Apache modules in Python, mod_snake: Boosting productivity with Python

Jon Travis is a software engineer for Covalent Technologies. His background includes writing security, network, and CAD software. He is the author of the Open Source projects, Camserv and mod_snake.

Jeff Trawick

Sessions: Apache 2.0 Filters, Apache upon Win32 in the round
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Jeff Trawick is a programmer for IBM in RTP, North Carolina and works on Apache httpd and APR. Previously, Jeff worked on TCP/IP and SNA networking software for OS/390.

Gregory Trubetskoy

Sessions: Introduction to Mod_Python

Gregory "Grisha" Trubetskoy is the original author of mod_python and a member of the Apache Software Foundation. Born and raised in Moscow, Russia, he now lives in Vienna, Virginia, where he balances his time between developing software, watching after the kids and his latest endeavor - a hosting startup openhosting.com.

Gregory Trubetskoy

Sessions: mod_python, mod_python
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Mladen Turk

Sessions: Clustering and load balancing using mod_proxy, Fronting Apache Tomcat with Apache HTTP Server, Introducing Apache Tomcat 6
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Mladen Turk is a Developer and Consultant for Red Hat Inc., where he is responsible for the native Java integration. He is a long time commiter for Apache Tomcat, Apache Httpd and Apache Portable Runtime projects.

Theo Van Dinter

Sessions: New and upcoming features in SpamAssassin v3, SpamAssassin: Lightning Topics, SpamAssassin: The Engine

Theo Van Dinter spends his working hours as a System and Administrator for Google in New York City. In his free time, Theo is an avid user and developer of open source software. He became involved with SpamAssassin in 2002, and is now part of the SpamAssassin PMC.

Dirk-Willem van Gulik

Sessions: Basic Plumbing: Configuring Apache as a Router, Proxy or Gateway, Taming Daemons - scaling your site, Taming Daemons - scaling your site, Why Logging is a Complete Nightmare
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Dirk-Willem van Gulik is a director of the Apache Software Foundation and a longtime contributor to the Apache projects. He currently is a senior partner at the http://www.asemantics.com/.

Sander van Zoest

Sessions: Audio and Apache, Audio and Apache, Audio and Apache, High-Performance Dynamic Pages with Templates, XML, and mod_perl, Link Rot: How to sustain the dynamic web., XML and I18N, XML and I18N

Sander is a developer at Yahoo! in San Diego, CA. He also enjoys working on server infrastructures, performance, horizontal scalability, working in the home studio and collecting as many tunes as possible.

Jason Van Zyl

Sessions: Developing Web Applications with Turbine, Getting to Know Maven: A Gentle Introduction To Maven, Maven The Beautiful City: A Gentle Introduction To Apache Maven, The Future of Open-Source OSGi, Using Maven Effectively: Projects from Zero to Infinity

Jason the founder of the Apache Maven project, the Plexus component framework at Codehaus, the Velocity project at Jakarta, and currently serves as Chair of Apache Maven PMC. Jason is an Open Source fanatic, has been involved with Apache for over six years, helped to found the Codehaus Foundation and when he isn't awake working on Open Source projects, he's asleep dreaming about them.

Anil Vijendran

Sessions: Design and Implementation of the Tomcat Servlet Engine

Anil Vijendran is the Sun project lead for the Tomcat @ Jakarta project. For the past three years he has been involved in various middleware efforts at Sun -- CORBA, RMI-IIOP, and EJB. Anil has a master's in computer science from University of Louisiana.

Nathan Wallace

Sessions: Apache Knowledge Base, Design Patterns in Web Programming, Design Patterns in Web Programming, PHP: Hackers Paradise, PHP: Hackers Paradise, PHP: Hackers Paradise Revisited

Nathan began his development career with IBM helping to build their Visual Age for Java and Smalltalk suites. From there he moved into web programming and has spent the last two years running Synop, a PHP development company. He built and maintains the PHP Knowledge Base as part of http://www.faqts.com. After 18 months of development and refinement, Synop is currently in the release process for a number of large PHP applications.

Michael Wechner

Sessions: Content Management with Apache Lenya, Lenya and Jackrabbit Make a Fine Couple, Powering High-volume web sites with Lenya/Cocoon and mod_cache, Powering High-volume web sites with Lenya/Cocoon and mod_cache, Seamless Content Management with Lenya and XUL/XAML

Michael Wechner is co-founder of Wyona and the original creator of Lenya, a CMS based on 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.

Sanjiva Weerawarana

Sessions: Infrastructure for Web Services

Sanjiva Weerawarana is a Research Staff Member and Manager of the Component Systems group at IBM TJ Watson Research Center, where he has been since August 1997. His research is centered around component-oriented programming. He is part of the teams that developed Bean Markup Language (BML, http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com/formula/bml), Bean Scripting Framework (BSF, http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com/tech/bsf), SOAP4J/Apache SOAP (http://xml.apache.org/soap), Web Services Toolkit ( http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com/tech/webservicestoolkit) and the WSDL Toolkit (http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com/tech/wsdltoolkit). Weerawarana received his BS (1988) and MS (1989) in Applied Mathematics / Computer Science from Kent State University and his Ph.D. (1994) in Computer Science from Purdue University.

Paul Weinstein

Sessions: Securing Web Access with a Private Certificate Authority

Paul Weinstein is President Chief Consultant of Kepler Solutions. His focus is on integrating open source systems in a reliable and secure manner for small and medium businesses. Before moving to full-time consulting Paul worked as an engineer for C2Net Software and Red Hat, allowing him to work on the forefront of business and open source technology for the past six years. With C2Net Paul developed, integrated and maintained C2Net’s external and internal websites, database systems and internal security solution. With Red Hat Paul worked on maintaining and expanding Red Hat’s community-based websites and programs. In his free time, Paul has written articles on open source technology and fiddles with various media technologies on his personal website.

David Welton

Sessions: Fast, Light, Easy - Apache Tcl Overview, mod_dtcl - fast and light web scripting
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David Welton is the coordinator of the Apache Tcl project, the co-author of Apache Rivet, and creator of the Hecl programming language. Originally from Eugene, Oregon, he lives and works in Innsbruck, Austria as the founder of DedaSys LLC

Christian Wenz

Sessions: New (and old) Trends in Web Application Security, PHP Web Services, PHP Web Services, PHP Web Services, PHP Web Services 2007, Web Security Trends 2007, Web Security With/Despite Web 2.0

Christian Wenz is author, trainer and consultant with focus on web programming. He is author or co-author of over four dozen books, among them several titles on PHP, most recently the PHP Phrasebook and JavaScript Phrasebook (both Sams Publishing). Christian regularly writes for renowned IT magazines and speaks at developer conferences around the globe. He maintains or co-maintains several PEAR packages and is co-author of the PHP 5 Zend certification and founding principial at the PHP Security Consortium.

Matthias Wessendorf

Sessions: Advanced JavaServer Faces - Using cool JSF Technologies, Advanced JavaServer Faces - Using cool JSF Technologies, Apache MyFaces - Open Source JavaServer Faces, Apache MyFaces - Open Source JavaServer Faces, Apache Trinidad &#32;&#150; First class citizens for Java Server Faces, Hands-on MyFaces. An introduction to OpenSource JavaServer Faces

Matthias Wessendorf is a software developer at Oracle. He currently works on ADF Faces, which is an AJAX-based JSF component suite. Matthias also contributes to the OpenSource community, mainly Apache MyFaces and Apache Trinidad. Before joining Oracle, he worked as a CMS-Developer at Pironet, where he was building a next-generation CMS, using UI technologies like XUL and AJAX.

Casey West

Sessions: Advanced Apache Administration with Perl
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Casey West is a six year veteran specializing in Open Source based high-availability web development. He's spend most of his time hacking on Perl 5 and Perl 6 development, as well as random contributions to other OSS projects. At pair Networks he is a Software Developer working on services for nearly 150,000 hosted websites.

wil wheaton

Sessions: Opening Keynote: The Re-Enfranchisement of the Masses

I'm just this guy, you know?

Phillip Wherry

Sessions: Ten Tough Questions to Ask Your Application Developers About Security and the Web

Phillip Wherry has been involved professionally with Internet applications since 1989 and Web application design and security since 1995. In these roles, he has been responsible for Web application security architecture and implementation for a number of high-visibility, high-value projects including the first online equity trading system deployed in Europe, several home banking systems, and an integrated subscription-based content delivery system based on open-source tools. He led the project team responsible for implementation of an Apache-based single-sign-on authentication, authorization, and auditing system at a major U.S. pharmaceutical company. Mr. Wherry has also led training programs in security topics such as distributed application security and public-key cryptography for development organizations worldwide. He current serves as Director of IT Operations for Leap Wireless, Inc.

Mike Whitaker

Sessions: 250M pageviews a month: a case study of a high traffic site, 250M pageviews a month: a case study of a high traffic site
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Mike Whitaker is System Architect for Mind Candy Design Ltd, a company that specialise in the design of puzzles and Alternate Reality Games He has an MA in Computer Science from Cambridge University, England, and in the past he's also ported a CAD/CAM modeller to various Unix platforms (including one of the first HP PA2-RISC machines in the world), worked as postmaster at the UK's largest ISP and developed the web infrastructure for the world's largest single-sport website, CricInfo. In his spare time he runs a small recording studio, plays in a Fleetwood Mac tribute band, runs an IRC network and the odd Science Fiction convention. He's married to a computer-literate, cricket-loving, keyboard-playing veterinary surgeon, and has a 4 year old son and two cats.

Jim Whitehead

Sessions: Catacomb: A database backed WebDAV and DASL repository
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Jim Whitehead is the Chair and Founder of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working group on Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV), and is a co-author on all major specifications produced by this working group. Jim additionally spearheaded the formation of the DeltaV working group for Web versioning and configuration management, and is an author on the DeltaV protocol specification. Jim is also an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research interests include hypertext versioning, collaborative authoring, web protocols, open hypermedia (the Chimera system), and configuration management.

Mark Wilcox

Sessions: Apache and LDAP, Apache and LDAP, Web Applications and Single Sign-on
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Mark is developer and consultant with WebCT Inc where he specializes in integrations and is the overall authentication geek. He is the author of the book "Implementing LDAP" by Wrox press and a frequent contributer on many LDAP,authentication & related discussion groups.

Mark Wilcox

Sessions: Apache and LDAP

Mark is the Web and LDAP Administrator for the University of North Texas. He's a frequent author and speaker on LDAP. Mark developed the original LDAP backend for Jabber for SourceExchange and Jabber.com.

Jan Wildeboer

Sessions: Software Patents in Europe - Where we are, where we are heading
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A long-time programmer and watcher of the howabouts of the IT-market. Former osCommerce Core Developer, now involved heavily in the lobbying efforts against software patents in europe. Member of FFII. Jan organised several demonstrations (Karlsruhe, Munich), represents FFII at conferences throughout europe.

Jim Winstead

Sessions: World domination heroes series: PHP, Writing a PHP Extension

Jim Winstead is the lead web developer for MySQL AB, one of the core PHP group members, and a member of the Apache Software Foundation.

Mark Womack

Sessions: What is new in log4j version 1.3?

Mark Womack has been developing software for over 13 years. He has been developing in Java for the past 5 years, focusing on web application development. He has been an active committer for the Apache Logging Services log4j project since April 2002, contributing features for the upcoming v1.3 release. He is also the PMC Chair for the Logging Services Project.

Cliff Woolley

Sessions: Apache 2.0 modules: development and debugging, Apache Portable Runtime 1.0 Tutorial, Bucket Brigades: Data management for Apache 2.0, Bucket Brigades: Data management for Apache 2.0
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Cliff Woolley is a graduate student in computer science at the University of Virginia and a member of the Apache Software Foundation. He has been an active member of the Apache HTTP Server and Apache Portable Runtime Projects working on Apache 2.0 for the past four years and has administered Apache-based web servers since 1997.

Thomas Wouters

Sessions: Performance-tuning Apache, Performance-tuning the Apache Web Server, Performance-tuning the Apache Web Server
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Thomas Wouters is a System Administrator and programmer at Dutch ISP XS4ALL (http://www.xs4all.nl), where one of his jobs is maintaining and developing the Apache-running webservers.

William Wright

Sessions: EJB containers for Apache?

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Geoffrey Young

Sessions: mod_perl 2.0 at Warp Speed, mod_perl: world domination redux, Object-Oriented mod_perl, Perlformance: The Art and Science of Tuning a Large Perl Application, Power PHP Testing, Test-Driven Apache Module Development, Testing PHP with Perl: Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together, Transitioning to mod_perl Handlers, Transitioning to mod_perl Handlers, Why mod_perl 2.0 Sucks, Why mod_perl 2.0 Rocks, World domination heroes series: mod_perl, Writing Tests with Apache-Test

Geoffrey Young is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, current chair of the mod_perl PMC, and lead author of the mod_perl Developer's Cookbook. He currently is a Senior Software Engineer for Ticketmaster. When not programming or writing he is busy spending time with his wife and growing family, slowly rebuilding their house a room at a time.

Carsten Ziegeler

Sessions: (A) Maven is Your Friend, (A) Maven is Your Friend, Building multi-channel SOAP clients using CASA, Cocoon - One Hour Portal, Cocoon - One Hour Portal, From A(valon) to O(SGi) - The Future of Modular (Web)Applications, Getting Up to Speed with Apache iBatis, JCR in Action - Content-based Applications with Apache Jackrabbit, JCR in Action - Content-based Applications with Apache Jackrabbit, Portals@Apache: Standards and the Portals Projects, The Apache Portals Panel, The Cocoon Portal: More than the Portlet API (JSR 168)
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Carsten Ziegeler is senior developer for JEE and portal applications at Day Software. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and is participating in several open source projects for more than ten years. Carsten is a member of the Cocoon and the Portals PMC and is playing a major role in the development of the Apache Cocoon project.

Andrei Zmievski

Sessions: PHP and Unicode: A Love at Fifth Sight

Andrei Zmievski works on internal tools at Yahoo! Inc. specializing in i18n and infrastructure software, such as PHP and Apache. He is also a core PHP developer, leader of the PHP-GTK project, and a co-author of "PHP Developer's Cookbook" and Smarty templating system. His current focus is the native Unicode support in PHP. In his free time he studies languages and linguistics, goes sailing, and travels to other countries.

John Zukowski

Sessions: Developing Dynamic Web Sites with JavaServer Pages, Developing Dynamic Web Sites with JavaServer Pages

John Zukowski conducts strategic Java consulting with JZ Ventures, Inc. His latest books are Java Collections and the Definitive Guide to Swing for Java 2 (2nd ed) for Apress.

Dr. Horst Zuse

Sessions: The Origins of the Computer

Horst Zuse was born on November 17, 1945. He received the Diploma degree in electrical engineering from the Technische Universität in 1973 and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Technische Universität of Berlin in 1985. Since 1975 he is a senior research scientist with the Technische Universität Berlin. His research interests are information retrieval systems, software engineering, software metrics and the measurement the quality of software during the software life-cycle.