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2007 Speakers

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Bob Young, Co-founder, RedHat, CEO and Founder, Lulu.com

  • Co-founder of Red Hat, the world's leading open source and Linux provider which evolved into a multi-billion dollar, Fortune 500 Company.
  • CEO and founder of Lulu.com, the premier marketplace for new digital content on the Internet, with more than 100,000 recently published titles, and more than 2500 new titles added each week, created by people in 80 different countries. Lulu empowers individuals to create and publish high quality content that is then sold to consumers.
  • Author of Under the Radar, which chronicles the dramatic rise of the open-source movement and the emergence of Linux, an operating system that can be downloaded, modified and redistributed - all for free, 1999.
  • Ranked fourth on Silicon.com's list of "Top Entrepreneurs," 2006 Named one of "Top 50 Agenda-Setters in the Technology Industry," 2006 by Silicon.com.
  • Named one of Business Week's "Top Entrepreneurs," 1999 Named one of Smart Reseller's "50 Smart People," 1999
  • Bob also has a Canadian connection in that he graduated from University of Toronto in 1976 and is also the owner of Hamilton Tiger Cats of the Canadian Football League.
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Dirk Riehle, Lead, Open-source Research Group at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, California

Dirk Riehle is a software researcher and entrepreneur. He leads the open-source research group at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, California. Dirk has worked in Germany, Switzerland, and the United States. He was the leader of the team that designed and implemented the first UML virtual machine. In 2005, Dirk started the WikiSym conference series, of which he was the first conference chair. He is interested in all things open source, collective intelligence and wikis, and software architecture. Dirk holds a Ph.D. in computer science from ETH Zürich and an M.B.A. from Stanford University
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Marcus Bornfreund, Co-Director, Creative Commons, Canada

Marcus Bornfreund is a Co-Director of Creative Commons Canada, a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and the founder of LawShare.ca: a collaborative online platform for legal professionals. Marcus has recently returned to his native Toronto, where his law practice focuses on helping individuals and small companies understand and manage their intellectual property.
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Louis Suarez-Potts, Community Manager and Chair of the Community Council for OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice

Louis Suárez-Potts is the longtime Community Manager and Chair of the Community Council for OpenOffice.org; he joined Sun Microsystems in 2007 and has led the OpenOffice.org community since 2000. The lead or co-lead of several projects and the primary spokesperson and representative of OpenOffice.org, Suárez-Potts also represents the project regarding OpenDocument format (ODF) matters, and is on the OASIS ODF Adoption Technical Committee and is a member of the ODF Alliance. He speaks frequently on the ODF, OpenOffice.org, education and open source, and community development throughout the world. Suárez-Potts is currently working on several articles regarding open source development and education. He lives in Toronto and received his PhD from U.C. Berkeley.
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David Eaves

An expert in negotiation, strategy and public policy, David works as a writer, public speaker and consultant. His writings on technology, public policy and foreign policy are frequently published in the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail and Embassy Magazine. As a consultant he works with Common Outlook, a spin-off of the Harvard Negotiation Project, developing and implementing collaborative negotiation strategies that enable organizations to maximize the value they generate with community members, partners, alliance members, customers, and suppliers. He has worked with leading companies across North America and Europe in a range of industries including financial services, healthcare, information technology, and telecommunications. In addition, David works with community groups, non-profits and government agencies consulting on negotiation strategy and public policy issues.
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Bryan Kirschner, Director of Platform Community Strategy, Microsoft Corp.

Bryan Kirschner is director of Platform Community Strategy at Microsoft Corp. He is responsible for the direction and management of a global community of practice inside and outside of Microsoft for users and developers of open source software and academic researchers on open source approaches. He is a member of the Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft team and an active blogger on Microsoft and open source on Port25, the lab's web portal (http://port25.technet.com). Kirschner has been a leader in Microsoft's efforts to establish deep cross-domain expertise as a basis for community engagement across open source development methods, licensing terms, and business model choices. He previously worked in strategy and research in Microsoft's Product Support organization and, prior to Microsoft, in public policy analysis. He holds a BA in Philosophy from Yale University.
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Mike LeVan, Associate Professor of Math, Transylvania University

Mike LeVan is an associate professor of mathematics at Transylvania University. While not teaching math or advocating open source solutions, he spends a lot of time with his family, including playing baseball, video games, and baseball video games with his son.
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Marcel Gagné, Author and Columnist, Linux Journal

Marcel Gagné (Canada's Linux Guru), is probably best known as the award-winning author of the Linux Journal 'Cooking with Linux' series, for which he received the Readers' Choice award for favorite column four years in a row. His fourth, and more recent book, the second edition of his immensely successful "Moving to Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye!' is available in stores now. One of the best known voices of the Linux and open source world, he has written numerous articles on Linux and open source projects for various publications including Linux Journal, InformIT, Unix Review, SysAdmin magazine, and several others. He also appears regularly on radio, at industry shows, user groups, universities, and as the Linux guy on Tech TV's "Call for Help". He has written about, installed, and taught many open source applications including the Linux desktop environment itself, as well as the popular OpenOffice.org office suite. A long-time systems and network administrator, Marcel is a published science fiction author and editor, a pilot, an avid science and astronomy buff, and a former top 40 disc jockey. He also folds a mean Origami T-Rex.
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Peter Wolf, System Architect, ePresence Interactive Media, KMDI, University of Toronto

Peter Wolf is the System Architect and Senior Programmer on the open source ePresence Interactive Media project, at the Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI), University of Toronto. He is supported by a team of 4 developers and oversees the planning and development of the ePresence software system and portal. In addition to designing and implementing the ePresence Interactive webcasting system, Peter gives ePresence consultations and demonstrations. Peter received a Master’s degree in Computer Science from The Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Russia. His past experience includes programming for his alma mater, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (Bethesda, MD USA), and PC World Ltd (Russia).
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Dean Jansen, Outreach Director, Participatory Culture Foundation

Dean Jansen, Outreach Director for the Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF), wants everyone to know about Miro. For those who haven't heard, Miro is a free and open source video application. In a market crowded with proprietary formats, closed software, and would-be monopolists, Miro is a powerful advocate of open standards for web video. Dean helped PCF build MakeInternetTV.org, a free resource about creating internet video. The site basically reads like a book and gives instructions for shooting, editing, uploading and promoting video online. Aside from PCF, Dean is involved with FreeCulture.org, specifically the Harvard chapter. He helps organize events geared towards spreading awareness about the problems surrounding US copyright law (and what can be done to alleviate them).
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Benjamin Smedberg, Platform Developer, Mozilla Corporation

Benjamin Smedberg is platform developer for the Mozilla Corporation, and is module owner for Mozilla's application toolkit and build system.
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Marc Kwiatkowski, Senior Software Engineer, Facebook

Marc is a veteran systems programmer. He works on performance analysis and scaling problems at Facebook. Prior to Facebook, Marc was a member of the advanced development team at Veritas. He has a BA from Vassar College with a major in physics.
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Mike Beltzner, Director of User Experience, Mozilla Corporation

Mike Beltzner is a teacher and cognitive scientist by training, a skeptic and pragmatist by upbringing, and an optimist and compromise- seeker by nationality, and a usability specialist and product manager by employment. He holds the title of Phenomenologist at the Mozilla Corporation, and lives in Toronto with his wife and his cat.
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Mark Slee, Technical Lead, Facebook

Mark studied Computer Science and Mathematics at Stanford. Prior to joining Facebook, he enjoyed a brief stint in Google\'s mobile group. Mark focuses his work at Facebook on infrastructure and mobile applications. He spends his spare time producing electronic music.
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David Reiss, Software Engineer, Facebook

David studied Computer Science at Stanford University. He joined Facebook after receiving his Master's Degree, and has been working on the infrastructure team ever since.
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David Bolter, Accessibility Architect, ATRC, University of Toronto

David creates accessibility solutions on the forefront of software technology. He is a GNOME module maintainer, a Mozilla patch contributor, and most recently, he has added Dojo JavaScript Toolkit accessibility to his activities. He has taught vocational programming courses but now enjoys mentoring and learning through online communities. A philosopher at heart, his academic background is in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science.
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Miguel Tremblay, Physicist, Environment Canada

Miguel Tremblay has worked for Environment Canada at the Canadian Meteorological Center at Dorval since 2004. His first work at Environement Canada involved rewriting the road temperature model, producing METRo , released under a GPL license. He as a manifest interest in the new possibilities of the networks, as much for the aspect of collaboration, knowledge production and data dissemination.
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Simon Bates, Accessibility Architect, Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto

Simon wrote his first web app in 1997 and has been building web infrastructure and applications pretty much continuously since then. He is passionate about innovation on the web and about making the web usable for everyone. Simon joined the University of Toronto in 2001 to work full time on accessibility and is currently focusing his energies on dynamic HTML accessibility and JavaScript. He is a committer on the Dojo Toolkit.
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James Walker, Director of Education, Lullabot

James Walker is Lullabot's Director of Education. He comes to us following three years with Bryght, the company he co-founded in 2004. Walkah (as he is better known online), joined the Drupal project in 2002 and has written some of Drupal's staple core and contributed modules. James has also been involved in the community's security and infrastructure teams and currently serves as a community ambassador for the Drupal Association. He lives in Toronto, where he organizes the Toronto Drupal User Group and has helped run several Drupal Camp Toronto events.
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Shane Caraveo, Komodo Lead, ActiveState

Shane is the chief dragon-wrangler for Komodo, an IDE developed in XUL, JavaScript and Python, on top of the Mozilla code base. With one foot in the world of dynamic languages, the other in more obscure efforts like writing debugger protocols or NPAPI plugins, he's always tackling big bad ugly problems that would give many people bald spots. In years past, he worked extensively on PHP, making major contributions such as the port to Windows, the SAPI architecture and early SOAP implementations.
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Ross Chevalier, CTO, Novell, Canada

Ross has 25 years of industry experience and has been involved in all aspects of networking including systems integration and IS management. Prior to joining Novell Canada, Ross held a variety of senior consulting positions including, most recently, vice president, Professional Services at Brains II, one of Canada’s leading systems integrators.
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Colin Clark, Technical Lead, Fluid Project, Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto

Colin Clark is the lead developer for the Fluid Project, a community dedicated to fostering usability and accessibility within open source projects. He currently develops user interfaces for several open educational projects including Sakai and uPortal. Colin has worked in the field of inclusive design and software development at the University of Toronto's Adaptive Technology Resource Centre for ten years.
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Jay Goldman, President, Radiant Core, Inc.

Jay has been providing a human side to technology for over ten years, as both a User Experience Specialist and a Visual Designer. His career has been focused on the interaction between people and technology, and his insights have helped to greatly improve products on mobile, web, and desktop platforms, including IBM DB2 and Mozilla Firefox. Jay co-founded Radiant Core and has led our Professional Services Team on a wide variety of engagements across industries including homebuilding, financial services, consumer packaged goods, pharmaceuticals, travel, and software. He has been instrumental in the continued growth of the BarCamp community in Toronto and was one of the co-conductors of the very successful TransitCamp event held in February 2007 at the Gladstone Hotel. Radiant Core was founded on the belief that clients deserve a passionate ambassador for the success of their projects. In addition to sales and business development, Jay helps clients to understand their needs and to formulate technology and business strategies to take advantage of the evolving online world. His keen eye for design has helped clients to win awards, including Editor’s Choice awards from CNET and PC Magazine for the Mozilla Firefox 2 official theme. Jay has successfully led cross-disciplinary teams ranging from small technology startups to sizeable development groups working on DB2, one of the largest software projects in the world.
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Ross Turk, Community Manager, Sourceforge.net

Ross Turk has been with the OSTG family since 2000, and has served in multiple capacities during his tenure. As the Engineering Manager for SourceForge.net, he spearheaded efforts to improve to the world's largest destination for open source, including the new Software Map and Search and major navigation and aesthetic overhauls. In his current role as SourceForge.net Community Manager, Ross is responsible for communicating with the SourceForge.net community, understanding their needs, and contributing to the site's strategic plan. During his twelve-year career, he has focused on assessing and optimizing the business and engineering processes of a wide variety of engineering organizations, always with a passion for Open Source methodologies.
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Matt Norwood, Legal Counsel, Software Freedom Law Center

Matt Norwood is an attorney at the Software Freedom Law Center, a non-profit law firm in New York City providing legal representation and other law-related services to protect and advance Free and Open Source Software.
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David Crow, Senior User Experience Advisor, Microsoft Canada, Instigator, BarCampToronto and DemoCamp, Radiant Core, Inc.

David Crow is a emerging technology community advocate. At Microsoft Canada, David is responsible for bringing together the design and technology communities. David has spent his career as a bridge between designers and developers. Although he is trained as an interaction designer, David has spent time working in both design and engineering organizations and understands that the creative tension between differing viewpoints is key in creating successful products and innovations. Prior to joining Microsoft Canada, David has designed, built and shipped products for early-stage technology companies including Radiant Core, the now defunct Ambient Vector, Reactivity, and Trilogy Software. David received a Masters in Human-Computer Interaction from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and an Honours Bachelors of Science in Kinesiology from the University of Waterloo. He has spent 10 years working with early-stage technology companies and larger, well-established organizations to bring design thinking and human-centered methodologies to product development. David has helped organize events and conferences including HFES, CHI 2000, BarCampToronto, and 14 DemoCamps. David has presented at conferences such as O'Reilly's Web2Expo, O'Reilly's FooCamp and ACM SIGCHI. David blogs at http://davidcrow.ca/ and http://blogs.msdn.com/canux/
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Mark Surman, Open Philanthropy Fellow, The Shuttleworth Foundation

Mark Surman is in the business of connecting things: people, ideas, everything. A community technology activist for almost 20 years, Mark is currently Director of telecentre.org, a $21 million program that invests in grassroots computing networks around the world. He is also an open philanthropy fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation and co-convenes conversations about open cities in his hometown of Toronto. Mark's biggest fetishes are community, conversation and collaboration. He has facilitated over three dozen participatory workshops and unconferences, including Hollyhock's Web of Change, CopyCamp, PenguinDay.ca and countless telecentre.org events. Mark likes to write about community, technology and changing the world. He's written: From the Ground Up (why telecentres matter), Commonspace (web 2.0, before there was web 2.0) and Appropriating Technology for Social Change (activism on the Internet). When he was an idealistic student, he wrote From VTR to Cyberspace, about Gramsci, community television and the Internet. He also blogs.
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David Mandelstam, Founder/President/CEO, Sangoma Technologies, Inc.

As a pioneer developer of connectivity hardware and software products for IP telephony, Wide Area Network (WAN) and the Internet, David Mandelstam, Founder/President/CEO of Sangoma Technologies Inc., is responsible for overall the management of Sangoma and its future strategic direction. David and his Research and Development team are taking an industry lead by providing revolutionary PC-based telephony hardware, including the AFT Series T1/E1/J1 voice/data cards that are engineered for today’s demanding soft PBX, IVR and VoIP applications – such as AsteriskŇ, Callweaver, FreeSwitch, and Yate. They offer a competitive price and reliable performance standards unparalleled in the industry. Before starting Sangoma in 1984, David ran an engineering company and was engineering VP of an energy conservation company. David holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, an M.Sc. in Aerodynamics from the Cranfield Institute of Technology in the United Kingdom and a B.Comm. from the University of South Africa.
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Jesse Hirsh

Jesse Hirsh is a broadcaster, researcher, and Internet evangelist in Toronto, Canada. He frequently appears on CBC radio and has a weekly spot on CBC Newsworld, where he explains and analyzes the latest trends and developments in technology using accessible and illuminating language. He also hosts an interfaith show on Rogers/OMNI called 3D Dialogue. He owns and operates the consulting firm Openflows Networks Ltd., which specializes in using free software for open source intelligence. Primarily, this involves researching and deploying advanced Internet-based platforms for companies and organizations, both large and small.
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Paula Bach, OSS Researcher, Penn State University

Paula is a fourth-year PhD Student in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University. Her research interest is open source software development and HCI. Currently, at Penn State, she works in both the Computer- Supported Collaboration and Learning Lab and the System Design and Software Development Lab. She is also working with the Open Source Software Lab and Microsoft Research to understand the role of usability expertise in open source software and strategies to help the flow of expertise in all flavors of software development. This research will provide a framework for designing a tool in Codeplex that helps support usability expertise. Currently, she contributes usability expertise to WengoPhone, an open source communication over IP client. She holds a BA in English and Psychology from UBC and an MSc in Rhetoric and Technical Communication from Michigan Technological Univsersity.
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Nelson Ko, CEO/President, Citadel Rock Online Communities Inc.

Nelson is the CEO of Citadel Rock Online Communities Inc., providing solutions for online collaboration using wikis, social networking and multimedia messaging. He is an active contributor to the TikiWiki open source project. Nelson has held positions in Hewlett-Packard and Singapore Telecom, and architected solutions brought to market across the world for companies such as Trans World International Interactive and Telstra. He holds an M.A. Economics degree from the University of Toronto, and is currently working on a dissertation "Building intellectual and social capital in online knowledge communities" in the M.A.Sc. Technology Innovation Management program at Carleton University.
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Mike Hoye, Systems Administrator, TFO

Mike Hoye is a systems administrator for TFO, the newly-independent Franco-Ontarian TV station, where he's using free software tools to support and smooth the organization's migration to a new infrastructure for hi-def TV production. A veteran Linux user and tech-support monkey, Mike draws on over a decade of cross-platform user support experience to fool people into thinking that he knows what he's talking about. He lives in Toronto with a brilliant wife, a small house, strong feelings about software and powerful metaphor at his disposal.
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Neal Stephenson, Manager, Development Services, York University

Neal Stephenson has been involved in computing since the Late 80's when he purchased his Radio Shack Model I, since then he has never been far from computing. Neal is a manager of a software development group at York University and has developed numerous applications including an identity management system. Most of his work revolves around integrating technologies into the University architecture.
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Rory McGreal, Associate VP Research, Athabasca University

Rory McGreal is Associate Vice President, Research at Athabasca University – Canada’s Open University. Previously, he was the executive director of TeleEducation New Brunswick, a province-wide bilingual (French/English) distributed distance learning network. Before that, he was responsible for the expansion of Contact North (a distance education network in Northern Ontario) into the high schools of the region. His present interest in mobile learning research grows from his investigations into learning objects and standardization for interoperability among different applications and devices. He is leading efforts at AU to build an open access learning object repository that will facilitate data output to a wide variety of mobile devices.
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Meron Hrycusko, Senior Web Developer, York University

Meron Hrycusko is a Senior Web Developer for the Faculty of Arts at York University. Prior to this position, he was an e-learning consultant specializing in Learning Management Systems for various corporations throughout North America including Hewlett Packard and Wachovia Bank.
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Mark Finkle, Platform Evangelist, Mozilla Corporation

Mark is a Platform Evangelist at Mozilla Corporation. His primary job is to make it easy for people to develop extensions for Firefox. He assists developers building applications on XULRunner and embedding Gecko in native applications. Mark also contributes to the XUL Explorer and WebRunner projects. Before Mozilla, Mark worked at several commercial software companies building Windows-based applications.
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Cesar Oliveira, Developer/Student, Seneca College

Cesar is a 4th year student in the Bachelor of Software Development (BSD) program at Seneca College. He is also a developer with the Mozilla project. Over the summer of '07 he did an internship at Mozilla, which started the snowball effect that is currently occupying most of his time. Yes, more time than school.
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Jason Cote, President and CEO, Freeform Solutions

Jason Cote is the President and CEO of Freeform Solutions, a not-for-profit organization that helps other not-for-profits use technology to meet their mission goals. Prior to co-founding Freeform Solutions, Jason founded Virtual Adventures Camps Canada (now Actua). He has held senior positions at Canarie, as well as chief executive positions at Actua, and CanadaHelps, all three of them leading national not-for-profits that excel in the use of information technology. Today, Jason oversees all operations at Freeform, and works with clients and staff to build the IT capacity of the not-for-profit sector. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Systems Engineering and an MBA.
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Julian Egelstaff, Sr. Dir., Consulting Services, Freeform Solutions

Julian Egelstaff is the Senior Director of Consulting Services at Freeform Solutions, a not-for-profit organization that helps other not-for-profits use technology to meet their mission goals. Prior to co-founding Freeform Solutions, Julian held a variety of positions in project management, documentation, and internal tool development at Corel and later Cognos. Today, Julian oversees all consulting projects, manages client relationships and coordinates Freeform's open source development efforts. Julian has 7 years experience in PHP development, recently becoming a ZCE. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Journalism and Philosophy, and has completed some graduate studies in Cognitive Science.
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Lindsay Marrin, Systems Analyst, Freeform Solutions

Lindsay Marrin is a Systems Analyst at Freeform Solutions, a not-for-profit organization that helps other not-for-profits use technology to meet their mission goals. Prior to joining Freeform Solutions, Lindsay held a variety of project management and technical positions at IBM and Telus, including managing Y2K readiness and rolling out new accounting and billing systems. She also had a previous career as a stand-up comic. Today, Lindsay puts both sets of skills to good use handling the front-line communications with clients, the analysis of non-technical processes underlying the technical requirements, and the design and implementation of systems. Lindsay holds an MBA.
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Lawrence Mandel, Software Developer, IBM Rational Software, IBM Canada

Lawrence Mandel, a software developer at the IBM Toronto Laboratory, is currently the Portfolio Management Advanced Development Lead for IBM Rational. Previously he worked on Web development tools including the Eclipse Web Tools Platform project and Rational Application Developer. Lawrence is also leading the Apache Woden project and is a coauthor of the book Eclipse Web Tools Platform: Developing Java Web Applications. Lawrence joined the IBM Toronto Lab after graduating from the University of Toronto with an Hon. B.Sc. in Computer Science and Human Biology.
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Jeffrey Liu, Software Developer, IBM Rational Software, IBM Canada

Jeffrey is a software developer at the IBM Toronto Lab. He is responsible for the development of the Rational Portfolio Manager. Jeffrey joined IBM in 2001 after graduating with distinction from the University of British Columbia with a B.A.Sc in Computer Engineering, Commerce minor.
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Dafydd Hughes

Dafydd Hughes is a musician/educator in Toronto. He performs professionally as a keyboardist and teaches Music Technologies at Sheridan College. He uses Pure Data and other open source tools to create music and sound art, both as a solo artist and as a recording and live performance collaborator with popular, jazz and electronic musicians. http://www.sideshowmedia.ca
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David McCallum

David McCallum is the Editor of Musicworks (www.musicworks.ca), and a musician and sound artist. His work has focused on improvised music, DIY electronics, and locative media. Groups and projects have included the Warbike, a mobile sonification of WiFi networks; Interaccess' I/O Media and the Live Electroacoustic Research Kitchen improv groups; and You Say Potatoe, I Say Potato: a study in the sonic properties of genetically modified potatoes. http://sintheta.org
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Mark Fernandes, Professor, Seneca College

Mark Fernandes is a professor in the School of Computer Studies at Seneca College, where he teaches programming. He has an uncanny knack of explaining programming jargon with easy to understand code examples. He is an avid command line user who prefers to use cross platform open source tools for all his computing needs. When he is not programming, he can either be seen in bookstores and libraries, or be heard participating animatedly in group discussions over hot, or cold, beverages around town.
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Mike Martin, Professor, Seneca College

Mike Martin teaches Linux server administration and security at Seneca College. He has a M. Sc. in Information Technol0gy from the University of Liverpool.
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Chris Tyler, Professor, Seneca College

Chris Tyler is a professor in the School of Computer Studies at Seneca College, where he teaches programming and Linux system administration. He has been a computer consultant since 1986 and specializes in open source software and database-backed web applications. Chris is the author of "Fedora Linux: A Complete Guide to Red Hat's Community Distro" (O'Reilly) and is completing a book on the X Window System.
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David Humphrey, Professor, Seneca College

David Humphrey is a professor in the School of Computer Studies at Seneca College, and a founding member of Seneca's Centre for the Development of Open Technology (CDOT). His research and teaching are focused on open source methods and technologies, specifically the Mozilla project. David is also an educational liaison with the Mozilla Foundation. David studied Computer Science and English Literature at McMaster before receiving his M.A. from the University of Toronto.
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Diana Condolo, eLearning Web Specialist, Seneca College

Diana is a Web Specialist at the eLearning Centre at Seneca College. She works with faculty to make their online course material interesting, interactive, accessible and fun. She also assists staff with the use of technologies so that they can create and maintain their web pages.
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James Humphreys, eLearning Specialist, Seneca College

James is a Faculty member and eLearning Faculty Advisor in the eLearning Centre at Seneca College. His role is to help interested faculty use technology to enhance teaching and learning.
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Susan Learney, eLearning Specialist, Seneca College

Susan is a Faculty member and eLearning Faculty Advisor in the eLearning Centres at Seneca College. Her role is to help interested faculty use technology to enhance teaching and learning.
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Nilesh Mistry , Seneca College

Nilesh Mistry is a Windows/Unix administrator at Seneca College with over 9 years experience in providing technical support for users on stand alone servers and clusters, specializing in Oracle, mpiBLAST, Windows and LINUX. He has also worked with open source community on Open Source Cluster Application Resources (OSCAR), porting the OSCAR Trunk to SuSE as well as developing applications such as server administration and monitoring software.
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Mohsen Rezayatmand , Seneca College

Mohsen Rezayatmand is a senior Unix administrator at Seneca College with over 10 years experience in providing senior technical support for users on stand alone servers and clusters, specializing in AIX, IRIX, LINUX, and Windows platforms. He has also worked with the open source community on Open Source Cluster Application Resources (OSCAR), porting the OSCAR Trunk to SuSE as well as developing applications such as server administration and monitoring software.

 

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