LibrePlanet: Conference/2009/Speakers
Jeremy Allison, (Samba and Google) is a computer programmer famous for his contributions to the free software community, notably to Samba, a re-implementation of SMB/CIFS networking protocol, released under the GNU General Public License. Other contributions include the early versions of the pwdump password cracking utility." (from Wikipedia)
John W. Eaton, (GNU Octave) is the initial and main author of Octave, a system for numerical computations with a language that is mostly compatible with MATLAB, but is available as a free software. In his professional life he works as a computer administrator for a chemical engineering group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (from Wikipedia)
Brian Gough, (GNU) is the founder of Network Theory Ltd, a publishing house for free software manuals. The money raised from sales of the books supports the development of more free software and documentation. He is also the maintainer of the GNU Scientific Library, a general-purpose numerical library that is widely used in scientific research.
Mako Hill, (FSF Board, Debian)"I am a technologist, programmer and free software and free culture activist. I write software, books and articles and currently live in Cambridge, Massachusetts."
Marc Jones, works on (Coreboot,) a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) that you find in most of today's computers.
Bradley Kuhn, (Software Freedom Law Center) From 2001 until 2005, he served as FSF's Executive Director, where he led FSF's GPL enforcement efforts, launched the Associate Member program, and authored the Affero GPL. In 2005, he left FSF to join the founding team of SFLC. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from Loyola College in Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati. He is also a director and president of the Software Freedom Conservancy, and a member of the [1] autonomo.us committee], which studies issues of software freedom as they relate to software as a service.
Mike Linksvayer, ([2] autonomo.us committee]) joined Commons as CTO in 2003. Previously he co-founded Bitzi. He has over ten years’ experience as an enterprise software, web, and multimedia developer and consultant and holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign."
Alexandre Oliva serves on the board of the Free Software Foundation Latin America, and is a Compiler Engineer at Red Hat. He also spearheads the Linux Libre project which is dedicated to maintaining and publishing a 100% free linux kernel.
Ciaran O'Riordan, (End Software Patents) has been a free software lobbyist to the European Union institutions since early 2003. From mid 2005 until now, O'Riordan has worked full-time in Brussels for Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). With FSFE he as continued his lobbying work as well as assisting the free software community's participation in policy processes such as those run by the EU (patents, copyright), by ISO (OOXML), and by FSF (GPLv3). He previously worked as a software developer.
Henry Poole, (FSF board and [3] autonomo.us committee]) is an Internet Strategist, has three decades experience in information technology, and over ten years with online communities and commerce. Henry was the first technologist to setup a blog for a member of the US House of Representatives. He co-founded CivicActions LLC in the summer of 2004 to provide network-centric Free and Open Source technology solutions for organizations focused on transforming the world.
Evan Prodromou, ([4] autonomo.us committee]) is a writer and programmer from San Francisco living in Montreal. He is also the founder and CEO of Control Yourself, Inc. which is responsible for the Laconica micro-blogging software used on the identi.ca site.
Mark Taylor, (CEO at Sirius) is an early and continuing contributor to a wide spectrum of free software development projects. He is actively working on wide-scale deployments of free software technologies in a variety of environments, both private and public sector.
