ApacheCon 2000 Speakers

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: 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 working on the redesign of slashcode (the publishing engine for the Open Source site Slashdot) and spends the rest of his time working on Apache and Perl modules. In the past, he has been involved with projects ranging from creating datawarehouses for the Army Engineer Core to The Virtual Hospital, which was one of the first and largest online medical repositories. He currently works for VALinux/OSDN as a Senior Software Developer and lives in Seattle, Washington.

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 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.

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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Thies Arntzen

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

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

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 one daughter. 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/.

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.

Brian Behlendorf

Sessions: Convincing Management to Let You Work on Open Development, State of the Foundation

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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 script and handler performance under mod_perl, Improving script and handler performance under mod_perl, Improving script performance under mod_perl
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Stas Bekman is an author of the , a monthly columnist at PerlMonth and Ap cheToday. He is currently co-authoring a mod_perl book for O'Reilly and Associates, Inc. He is a maintainer of The Ultimate Learn and Resource Center and a developer of the SinglesHeaven.com service at his spare time. He can be reached at stas@stason.org.

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.

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: Apache on Windows, Apache on Windows, Introduction to the Apache Server, Introduction to the Apache Web Server
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Rich Bowen writes a monthly column for ApacheToday.com. He's contributed some to the Apache documentation project, and is the author of Apache Server Unleashed. Rich is the Director of Web Application Development at The Creative Group, in Wilmore Kentucky (http://www.cre8tivegroup.com/)

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/>.

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.

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).

Philippe M. Chiasson

Sessions: Building a Web Development Environment with Apache, mod_perl, C
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I've been developing a web development environement for HBESoftware for over a year now and it currently supports more than 20 concurrent projects and over 40 developers. My experience includes deep knoledge of Apache, Perl, mod_perl, cvs and various development tools. Since I am both a sysadmin and a web programmer, I was able to understand and solve the problems that arise from both sides. I am also an active mod_perl & CPAN contributor.

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.

Andy Clark

Sessions: 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 tended to give 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 is the lead architect for the Xerces2 parser. Andy is currently living in Japan as a technical liaison for IBM.

Ken Coar

Sessions: ApacheCon Europe 2000 Closing Session, ApacheCon Europe 2000 Opening Session, Closing/Wrapup Session, How the ApacheCon site works, 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, 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 is heading the project to develop Internet RFCs for CGI. He is the author of 'Apache Server for Dummies' (IDG), a lead author of 'Apache Server Unleashed' (Macmillan/Sams), a columnist for 'ApacheToday.Com,' and is currently working ona new book, 'Apache Module Developmentin C' (Addison-Wesley-Longman).

Mark Cox

Sessions: Apache E-Commerce Solutions
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Mark Cox is Director of Research for 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.

Shane Curcuru

Sessions: Automated Java Testing at xml.apache.org, javax.xml.transform in Xalan-J user discussion
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I've been a Software Quality Engineer at Lotus for the past 12 years working on 1-2-3 and eSuite before moving to IBM Research for my current work on LotusXSL and Xalan. I focus on developing, documenting, and using efficient automated testing frameworks for large scale development efforts, and I'm enjoying learning how to mix proprietary software development techniques with nifty new open source ones.

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".

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.

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.

Lars Eilebrecht

Sessions: ApacheCon Europe 2000 Closing Session, ApacheCon Europe 2000 Opening Session, Transparent Content Negotiation, Transparent Content Negotiation
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Lars is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and started contributing to the Apache server project in 1997. In addition he is a member of the ApacheCon planning committee. He studied computer engineering at the University of Siegen, Germany and is now Director Product Management at CyberSolutions GmbH in Munich, Germany, a TelesensKSCL company. Lars is also the author of the book Apache Web-Server.

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.

Derek Ferguson

Sessions: Creating Commercial Software for Jakarta, Integrating Apache with Microsoft's .NET
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Derek Ferguson is Chief Technology Evangelist for PocketDBA Systems, a wireless technology company that allows database administrators to monitor and manage their databases using handheld devices. Derek has authored many books and articles, including "Broadband Internet Access for Dummies" and speaks at conferences nationwide including JavaOne 2001 and Wireless DevCon 2000.

Roy Fielding

Sessions: HTTP and Apache, HTTP and Apache, State of Apache, waka: a replacement for HTTP

Roy T. Fielding is chairman of the Apache Software Foundation and chief scientist at eBuilt, Inc. He is a founder of several open-source software projects (including Apache httpd), architect of the current Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1), 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.

Paul Fremantle

Sessions: Infrastructure for Web Services

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Pier Paolo Fumagalli

Sessions: Apache and Tomcat integration, XML publishing fundamentals
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Pier was the first author of mod_jserv in 1998 to integrate Apache 1.3 and the Apache JServ servlet engine and after a pause of two years spent in XML land (where he wrote StyleBook and co-wrote the first implementation of Cocoon 2.0) he got back in Jakarta land to author mod_webapp to allow the integration of Tomcat 4.x with different web servers. He currently calls London his home and spends his days coding from St. Catherine's Docks with two kittens jumping on his keyboard.

Santiago Gala

Sessions: Developing Commercial Products on top of O-S Software, Using Apache Jetspeed to build dynamic, content driven Portals
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Santiago Gala is the Operations Manager for High Sierra Technology, dedicated to consultancy and development in telecommunications and software technologies. URL: http://www.hisitech.com/

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.

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.

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.

Christian Gross

Sessions: A look at the Apache 2.0 APR, C++ and Apache using C++ Server, Setting up the Apache Web Server for developers, Using C++ for Apache Modules

Christian Gross is an independent consultant specializing in Internet Application Development. He has been online since 1992, when the term NOS actually meant something. He regularly speaks at conferences and is writing a book on the Internet and application development.

Ceki Gülcü

Sessions: Log4j, A Logging Package for Java
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Ceki Gülcü has over ten years of development experience, including six 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. His interests include cryptography, anonymity, fair-exchange protocols and reliable systems at large. See http://qos.ch for more info.

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

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 one of the founders of the SVG Batik project at Apache and he represents Sun in the W3C's SVG Working Group (his daytime job is to be a member of Sun's XML Technology Center). Vincent is the author of papers and a book on the Java 2D API. When he is not working on the Batik code, test or documentation, Vincent loves to write new sample files for the project because.... SVG is really, really, really fun!

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.

Harrie Hazewinkel

Sessions: Apache 2.0 for multi protocol usage, Managing the Apache HTTP server with SNMP, QoS management of Internet services

Harrie is the author of the SNMP module, 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. At this moment Harrie is part of the engineering team of Covalent Technologies.

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.

Bill Hilf

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

Don Hsi

Sessions: Running ASP & ASP.NET with Apache

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

Sterling Hughes

Sessions: Extending PHP 4, PHP and XSLT, The Top 7 Mistakes in PHP programming

Sterling Hughes is a freelance programmer, working developing applications on the Unix platform in C, C++, Perl, Java and PHP. He is the author of "The PHP Developer's Cookbook", and a developer on the PHP project, who's contributions include authoring the XSLT extension. He can be reached at sterling@php.net .

Bill Humphries

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

Bill Humphries (www.whump.com) has been developing web applications since 1995. His main interests include XML for data and documents, web services, and the wireless web. His weblog (www.whump.com/moreLikeThis/) covers XML, web development and related issues. He is a client development software engineer at 2Roam (www.2roam.com) in Redwood City, California, where he assists businesses in taking their existing web sites and applications to the wireless web. Bill holds a Master of Science in Economics from the University of Wisconsin. He also prides himself on being platform agnostic, running MacOS, Linux and Win2K on his home network.

Jim Jagielski

Sessions: ApacheCon Europe 2000 Closing Session, ApacheCon Europe 2000 Opening Session, Running a Successful Web Hosting Company, The future of Apache after 2.0, Web Hosting for Fame and Fortune

Jim's been active on the 'Net since the early 80's, starting as editor of the A/UX FAQ. He worked on the NCSA server and joined the Apache Group at a very early stage, where he focused on portability and the configuration and build process. Just about any Open Source project you can think of (named, sendmail, perl, xntpd, GNU, smail, *BSD, ...) Jim's hacked on and contributed to. He also "handles" the Apache section of Slashdot. As well as being a core member of the Apache Group, Jim serves as Executive V.P. and Secretary of the Apache Software Foundation. His real job is as the CTO of Zend Technologies.

Britt Johnston

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

Bill Jones

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

Ian Kallen

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

Manoj Kasichainula

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

Manoj is one of the primary developers for Apache 2.0. He has also dabbled in such fields as distributed application development in Java, secure e-commerce, and Mobile IP.

Kristof Kloeckner

Sessions: IBM and Open Source - A software agenda

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

Craig Kohtz

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

Matthew Langham

Sessions: Building multi-channel SOAP clients using CASA
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Matthew Langham is the technical director of the open source group at S&N AG in Paderborn Germany. S&N develops software for financial institutions in Germany and has a long history of Internet based solutions. Matthew heads the development team currently using Cocoon as a base for a commercial XML/XSL based application server "sunShine". He has written various articles for German computing magazines and also a German book on UUCP based "Email und News" back in 1993.

Ben Laurie

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

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

Graham Leggett

Sessions: New mod_proxy features and uses for httpd 2.0

Graham Leggett is a software developer working on Apache httpd 2.0. He is responsible for the major portions of the mod_proxy design, and is working on a caching module for httpd.

Rasmus Lerdorf

Sessions: Introduction to PHP, Introduction to PHP, Scripting the Web with PHP

Rasmus Lerdorf has been designing large-scale UNIX-based solutions since 1989. In the Open Source community, he is known mostly as the creator of the PHP scripting language. He also sits on the Board of Directors of the Apache Software Foundation, is a member of the Apache-core team, and has contributed to a number of Apache-related projects. Prior to joining Linuxcare, Rasmus was at IBM in Raleigh and before that, Bell Global Solutions in Toronto.

Donald Leslie

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

Ted Leung

Sessions: Everything you always wanted to know about XML parsing, Everything you always wanted to know about XML parsing
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Ted Leung is currently the principal of Sauria Associates, LLC. He was the technical lead for the IBM XML4J parser which served as the initial code base for the Java version of xml.apache.org's Xerces parser. In addition to XML, Ted has worked on handheld computing, compound document architectures, and object-oriented databases.

Daniel Lopez Ridruejo

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

No bio available.

Raphaël Luta

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

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

Doug MacEachern

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

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

Christopher Manly

Sessions: An Architecture for Apache Install Management

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

Costin Manolache

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

Jeff Martin

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

Stefano Mazzocci

Sessions: Adding XML capabilities with Cocoon, Adding XML capabilities with Cocoon, Toward the Semantic Web: a view of XML from outer space
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No bio available.

Craig McClanahan

Sessions: Authentication and Access Control in Web Applications, Building Web Applications with the Struts Framework, Migrating Apache JServ Applications to Tomcat, Migrating Apache JServ Applications to Tomcat, Perspectives on the Jakarta Project, Recommendations for Java-Based Web Application Architectures, The Tomcat Servlet Container

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Michael Meyer

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

Jordi Montserrat

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

Brian Moon

Sessions: Caching Dynamic Web Content to Increase Dependability and Performance, PHP Users Unite

I have been involved with web devlopment since 1997. I got my start in Perl and PHP. I am employed full time as the senior developer for dealnews.com, Inc. I am also the founder and lead developer for Phorum, an Open Source message board written in PHP.

I have written chapters in the books "Professional Apache" and "Professional PHP" both from Wrox Press. In addition I have written an article for PHPBuilder.com about running Apache and PHP on Windows for development use.

I am the developer of ApacheManager, an application for Windows that allows you to control Apache from the System Tray.

Ryan Morgan

Sessions: Writing Protocol Modules for Apache 2.0

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

Peter Moulding

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

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

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

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

Peter's articles appear everywhere. Some PHP articles are on phpbuilder.com.

Chuck Murcko

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

Chuck Murcko has been involved in liberated software development for about 20 years. He currently works on proxy connection pooling.

Lee Nackman

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

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

William Nagy

Sessions: Infrastructure for Web Services

No bio available.

Glenn Nielsen

Sessions: Tomcat Server and Application Security, Tomcat Server and Application Security

Glenn Nielsen is the Unix Programming Coordinator for the Missouri Research and Education Network, University of Missouri System. Glenn has 18 years programming experience which includes developing commercial software for the Amiga computer. Glenn authored the code which implements the Java SecurityManager in Tomcat 3.2 and Tomcat 4.0. Glenn has authored five JSP tag libraries for the Jakarta-taglibs project and the JSP tag library for the Jive open source message forum.

George Paolini

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

Giacomo Pati

Sessions: Apache Cocoon 2 - What's new, Apache Cocoon 2 - What's new
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I'm looking back on 20 years of IT experience in the financial and software industries. The last five years I've worked on large datawarehousing and web application/publishing project. I've joined the Apache Cocoon project more that a year ago. Since December 2000 I'm member of the board of Otego Inc. which is a XML and Open Source consultancy company in Switzerland.

Jason Pepin

Sessions: Web Presence by 5pm

I work for CNA Life Insurance Company in Nashville, TN as a Unix Administrator. For the past two years I have been tasked with helping to develop, maintain, and enhance our web infastructure. We have several external consumer web sites and internal web applications running the Apache web server. Each site or app runs off a seperate Apache instance, about a dozen production instances. We are currently in the process of migrating our existing IIS web sites to Apache. We even have a production web site using Stronghold and Tomcat. I have been working hard over the last year in demonstrating to our Management the ease and reliability of Apache. These factors have been successful in phasing out IIS in favor of Apache in our environment.

Benjamin Pharr

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

Mike Pogue

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

Martin Pool

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

Ovidiu Predescu

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

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

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

Mandar Raje

Sessions: Design and Implementation of the Tomcat Servlet Engine

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

Tobias Ratschiller

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

Gerald Richter

Sessions: Embperl - Building dynamic Websites with Perl, Embperl - Building dynamic Websites with Perl
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Gerald Richter is a programmer and networkadministrator. Since 5 years his main working area are internet-technics and his focus is on Apache, Perl and mod_perl. He is the author of Embperl and activly involved in the mod_perl project.

Javier Rodriguez

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

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

David Rolsky

Sessions: Introduction to Mason

Dave Rolsky has been a professional Perl programmer for the past two and a half years. He has worked on a number of open source Perl projects, including several Perl modules and Alzabo, a data modelling and RDBMS-OO mapping tool. Since the summer of 2000, he has been part of the Mason core development team. Professionally, he has worked as an employee and contractor for a variety of companies, most recently for O'Reilly's software division.

Rich Roth

Sessions: Apache (by itself) does not a Web site make

Rich Roth, CEO of On-the-Net, has been in the computer field for 30 years, is a kernel level programmer and a user of Unix, the Internet and on-line services from their inception. He is shepard of gui.apache.org and developer of apache-tools.org He put his first web server online in 1994 and was an early user of Linux and Apache, including Redhat's first commerce web site (1995) and the first (online 1996 and still running) fully automated remote CGI system at i-depth.com His various ventures operate over 600 web sites, All this based on Apache and Linux, and many, mysql database.

William A. Rowe Jr.

Sessions: Apache upon Win32 in the round, Apache/WinNT: Security, security, wherefore art thou, security?, i18n: Apache Speaks on Windows
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William's numerous contributions to Apache include enhancements to the Win32 port, including CGI and Service control, native NT Unicode file system support, user support on Apache related newsgroups, and speaker at ApacheCon Europe 2000. As a member of the ASF and the Apache httpd and APR projects, and a member of the Apache Dream Team at Covalent Technologies, his work on Apache continues in areas such as the integration of Apache 2.0 with the Win32 security model and native WinNT API. William started his career in the stealth programming force outside of corporate MIS, where he developed an array of customized and revenue document imaging systems for Rand McNally. Between his work for Rand McNally and now Covalent, he has provided consulting services in data translation, application integration and Web interface services.

George Schlossnagle

Sessions: Scalable Internet Architectures, Scalable Internet Architectures
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George Schlossnagle is the author of mod_log_spread, a distributed logging module for Apache, and APC, a compiler cache for PHP4. When not working on open-source projects, George is the Director of Operations for Community Connect, Inc., and co-owner of OmniTI, Inc where he designs and maintains systems and database architectures for some of the web's largest sites.

Theo Schlossnagle

Sessions: Backhand - a load balancing module for Apache, mod_backhand: internals explained, mod_backhand: Resource Allocation and Content Intelligence, Scalable Internet Architectures, Spread as an Infrastructure for the Future of Clustered Apache Services., The Backhand Project: load-balancing and monitoring Apache Web clusters
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Theo Schlossnagle is currently pursuing his PhD at The Center for Networking and Distributed Systems at The Johns Hopkins University. Current research includes resource allocation techniques in dynamic models and distributed file systems. Theo is the author and maintainer of the mod_backhand load-balancing module for Apache and the initiator of the Backhand Project. For food, he provides scalable network/system/service architecture engineering through OmniTI, Inc.

Timo Schmidt

Sessions: Multilingual Information Processing based on UTF-8 character encoding
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Timo Schmidt has worked as a professional software developer at CyberSolutions GmbH, Munich and is presently working as a freelancer. His last project was a multilingual web-based user interface written in PHP.

Matt Sergeant

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

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

Peter Simons

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

James Smith

Sessions: Secure Authentication in an Insecure Environment
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James Smith graduated from Texas A&M University in the spring of 2000 with a B.S. in Math and Physics. He is currently working for TAMU as a system administrator and programmer (unix) focusing on the central E-Mail system, directory service, and helping research and develop a public key infrastructure for TAMU.

Alfred Z. Spector

Sessions: The Web and Technology Fusion

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

Greg Stein

Sessions: A Fireside Chat about WebDAV, WebDAV and Apache, WebDAV and Apache, WebDAV and Apache
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Greg Stein is an independent software developer spending much of his time with open-source projects, such as Subversion, WebDAV for Apache, and Python. Between 1996 and 1998, Mr. Stein worked at Microsoft as a Development Manager, in the Commerce Server and Site Server groups. He was also a co-founder and the Corporate Technologist of eShop, one of the first electronic commerce software companies, before its acquisition by Microsoft in 1996.

Jon Stevens

Sessions: Turbine: Building Model 2+1 Web Applications

Jon Stevens is a recognized expert on integrating the Java language with Apache Web server software, is a founding member of the Open Source Java Apache and Jakarta Apache Projects, and frequently speaks at trade conferences. He currently is working on an Open Source Issue/Bug tracking system for Collab.Net called Scarab that is based on the Java Apache technologies he helped develop. Before coming to Collab.Net, he was one of the 3 founding members of Clear Ink Corporation, a Creative Internet Strategy company.

Bill Stoddard

Sessions: Apache 2.0 for Windows, Apache on Windows

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

Perry Stone

Sessions: Apache on VMS
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Patricia Sueltz

Sessions: Sun's Apache Initiatives

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Zeev Suraski

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

Jonathan Swartz

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

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

Sander Temme

Sessions: Measuring and Enhancing Apache Performance, Web Traffic Burstiness: Why Benchmarks Are Wrong
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Sander Temme hails from Amsterdam, the Netherlands where he obtained a Masters degree in Experimental Physics. After completing his education he went on a round-the-world trip in an attempt to unlearn everything he just learned. He currently works for Covalent Technologies in San Francisco where he applies his knowledge of statistical data analysis to web performance measurement. Sander is owned by Murphy, the wonder kitten.

Randy Terbush

Sessions: ApacheCon Europe 2000 Closing Session, ApacheCon Europe 2000 Opening Session, What is "open-source" and why should my business care about it?
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Randy Terbush is a director and treasurer of the Apache Software Foundation, a founding member of The Apache Group, and chief technology officer of Covalent Technologies, Inc. Randy has been participating in open-source projects since the late 1980s and brings sincere interest in the relationship of open-source projects and corporate software development environments.

Rodney Thayer

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

Geoff Thorpe

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

Doug Tidwell

Sessions: Building Web Services with Apache, Managing your Web site with Cocoon, Rub-a-dub-dub-dubya: SOAP and the Web

Doug Tidwell is a Senior Programmer at IBM. He regularly speaks on XML, Java, and security topics at conferences and user group meetings. His job as a Cyber Evangelist to help people evaluate and implement new technologies. He holds, with special gloves, a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University and a Bachelors Degree in English from the University of Georgia.

John Tigue

Sessions: mod_autoindex meets XML

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

Stipe Tolj

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

Jon Travis

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

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

Jeff Trawick

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

Gregory Trubetskoy

Sessions: mod_python, mod_python
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Dirk-Willem van Gulik

Sessions: Basic Plumbing: Configuring Apache as a Router, Proxy or Gateway, Taming Daemons - scaling your site, Why Logging is a Complete Nightmare
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Dirk-Willem van Gulik is a director of the Apache Software Foundation and a longtime contributor to the Apache projects. He currently works for Covalent Technologies as Vice President of Research and Advanced Technologies.

Sander van Zoest

Sessions: Audio and Apache, Audio and Apache, High-Performance Dynamic Pages with Templates, XML, and mod_perl, XML and I18N

Sander is a late night developer in San Diego, US working on Perl, XML and in the online audio space. He also enjoys working on server infrastructures, performance, horizontal scalability, working in the home studio and collecting as many tunes as possible.

Anil Vijendran

Sessions: Design and Implementation of the Tomcat Servlet Engine

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

Nathan Wallace

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

Sanjiva Weerawarana

Sessions: Infrastructure for Web Services

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

David Welton

Sessions: mod_dtcl - fast and light web scripting

David Welton is the author and maintainer of mod_dtcl, as well as the chief worker behind the Apache Tcl project. A native of Eugene, Oregon, he now lives in Padova, Italy where he works as a freelance consultant with open source software.

Phillip Wherry

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

Phillip Wherry has been involved professionally with Internet security since 1989 and Web application security since 1995. In these roles, he has been responsible for Web application security architecture and implementation for a number of high-visibility, high-value projects including the first online equity trading system deployed in Europe and several home banking systems. He led the project team responsible for implementation of an Apache-based single-sign-on authentication, authorization, and auditing system at a major U.S. pharmaceutical company. Mr. Wherry has also led training programs in security topics such as distributed application security and public-key cryptography for development organizations worldwide. He current serves as Vice President of Technology (Network Systems) for Spotcast Communications, Inc.

Mike Whitaker

Sessions: 250M pageviews a month: a case study of a high traffic site

Mike Whitaker is System Architect for CricInfo Ltd, one of the world's largest single-sport websites. In the past he's also ported a CAD/CAM modeller to various Unix platforms (including one of the first HP PA2-RISC machines in the world) and worked as postmaster at the UK's largest ISP. In his spare time he runs a small recording studio, an IRC network and the odd Science Fiction convention. He's married to a computer-literate cricket-loving veterinary surgeon, and has a 18 month old son and three cats.

Mark Wilcox

Sessions: Apache and LDAP
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Mark Wilcox is the Web Administrator and LDAP guru for the University of North Texas, where he co-designed the Bulk Communication System (BCS). BCS uses LDAP, the Web and Email to create an official notification system between the university and students. Mark is the author of the book "Implementing LDAP" by Wrox press, a Champion of the Quarter for Netscape, and a frequent contributer on many LDAP mailing lists and newsgroups.

Mark Wilcox

Sessions: Apache and LDAP

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

Jim Winstead

Sessions: World domination heroes series: PHP

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Cliff Woolley

Sessions: Bucket Brigades: Data management for Apache 2.0
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Cliff Woolley is a graduate student at the University of Virginia. He has been administering Apache-based web servers since 1997 and has been involved with web development since 1996. He spends much of his time contributing to various Open Source projects, particularly Apache 2.0 and APR.

Thomas Wouters

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

William Wright

Sessions: EJB containers for Apache?

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Geoffrey Young

Sessions: mod_perl: world domination redux, Transitioning to mod_perl Handlers, World domination heroes series: mod_perl
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Geoff is currently an Applications Engineer with Covad Communications in Media, PA. He has written scores of mod_perl handlers, the most useful of which can be found on CPAN. In addition to being a frequent contributor to the mod_perl community, Geoff compiles a weekly summary of the mod_perl mailing list and is lead author for "The mod_perl Developer's Cookbook" forthcoming from Sams. When not programming or writing he is busy spending time with his wife and daughter, slowly rebuilding their house a room at a time.

Carsten Ziegeler

Sessions: Building multi-channel SOAP clients using CASA
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Carsten Ziegeler is chief architect and consultant of the open source group at S&N and a certified Apple WebObjects Trainer. His main topics are web application design and object oriented component development. Besides his participation in several open source and freeware projects, he is an active committer of the Apache Cocoon 2 project.

John Zukowski

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

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