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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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

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