ApacheCon US 2002 Speakers

Greg Ames

Sessions: Apache 2.0 Filters

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.

Thies Arntzen

Sessions: Making efficient use of Oracle8i through 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.

Aaron Bannert

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

Stas Bekman

Sessions: mod_perl 2.0, mod_perl 2.0 By Example
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Stas Bekman is an ASF member, an author of the mod_perl guide, a monthly columnist at perl.com and ApacheWeek. He has co-authored the Practical mod_perl book for O'Reilly and Associates, Inc. He can be reached at stas@stason.org.

Rich Bowen

Sessions: Apache authentication, Apache handlers with mod_perl, URL Mapping: Directory indexing, Content negotiation, and URL rewritin
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Rich Bowen is the Web Database Programmer for Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky. Rich is the author of Apache Cookbook and The Definitive Guide to Apache mod_rewrite. He is a member of the Apache documentation project and of the Apache Software Foundation.

Ugo Cei

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

Sean Chittenden

Sessions: mod_ruby: An Introduction and Overview

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

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 often gave his toys away. He has extensive experience in component architectures and XML using Java and for the past three+ years has been actively developing the Xerces-J XML parser. He was the lead architect for the Xerces2 parser and has recently moved back from Japan.

Ken Coar

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

Roger Collins

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

Ben Collins-Sussman

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

Mark Cox

Sessions: Apache Security Secrets Revealed

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

Todd Cranston-Cuebas

I'm the senior technical recruiter at Ticketmaster. Normally, you'll find me on the web as GeekHunter. Check out my "Geek Hunting" blog at http://www.dailydoodle.com/blog/geekhunting.html. Cool stuff: open-source, perl, php, workflow solutions, soccer, illustration and design, and playing my ukulele (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AtomicUkes/). Email: tcc@ticketmaster.com

Shane Curcuru

Shane's day job is Applications Architect for IBM's Extreme Blue intern program and University Recruiting teams. He also volunteers at the ASF on the Public Relations and Conferences committees.

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 Expand Beyond Corp., the worldwide leader in mobile software for enterprise management. Derek has authored many books and articles, including "Broadband Internet Access for Dummies" and has spoken at conferences nationwide including JavaOne and CAWorld.

Roy Fielding

Sessions: waka: a replacement for HTTP

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

John Fowler

Sessions: Sun and Apache: A Bright Future

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

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

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

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

Paul Fremantle

Sessions: Building an open source Service Oriented Architecture with WSIF

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

Santiago Gala

Sessions: Developing Commercial Products on top of O-S Software
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Santiago Gala is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and VP of the Apache Portals project. He owns High Sierra Technology, dedicated to consultancy and development in telecommunications and software technologies. URL: http://www.hisitech.com/. Teaches AI and Software Engineering in the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, and blogs in Spanish

Zak Greant

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

Christian Gross

Sessions: Advanced Web Services Using Axis, Managing Content using Apache Cocoon, Writing Programs for Apache Jakarta

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

Kip Hampton

Sessions: XML Publishing With AxKit

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

Erik Hatcher

Sessions: Ant - The Only Bug You Want Near Your Software

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

Sterling Hughes

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

Jim Jagielski

Sessions: Happy Trails: Migrating to Apache 2.0

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

Ben Laurie

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
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Graham Leggett is a software developer working on Apache httpd and apr. He is responsible for the major portions of the mod_proxy design, and is working on stabilising the LDAP support within httpd and apr.

Rasmus Lerdorf

Sessions: Introduction to PHP

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

Ted Leung

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

Daniel Lopez Ridruejo

Sessions: Apache Projects Overview, Setting up a secure server with Apache and mod_ssl

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

Craig McClanahan

Sessions: Building Web Applications with the Struts Framework, What's New in Struts 1.1

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

Rob McCool

Sessions: TAP: Building a Machine Web

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

Chuck Murcko

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

Glenn Nielsen

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

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

Tim O'Reilly

Sessions: Watching the Alpha Geeks

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

Andrew Oliver

Andrew C. Oliver is President of SuperLink Software, Inc., a consultant for the JBoss Group, LLC and a member of the Apache Software Foundation. He has an obscene interest in binary constructs and founded the Jakarta POI project.

Victor Orlikowski

Sessions: An Introduction to the Bean Scripting Framework

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

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. Most sites utilize their own Apache instance but we do use virtual hosts as well. We are currently in the process of migrating our existing IIS web sites to Apache. We also utilize Stronghold for most of our secured websites. I have been working hard over the last couple of years in demonstrating to our Management the ease and reliability of Apache. These factors have been successful in phasing out IIS in favor of Apache in our environment.

Gerald Richter

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

William A. Rowe Jr.

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

Lynn Schaper

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George Schlossnagle

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

Theo Schlossnagle

Sessions: Backhand: understanding and building HA/LB clusters, Scalable Internet Architectures
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Theo Schlossnagle is a Principal Consultant at OmniTI Computer Consulting where he designs and implements scalable solutions for highly trafficked sites and other clients in need of sound, scalable architectural engineering. He is author of Scalable Internet Architecture published by Sams. Theo is the author and maintainer of the mod_backhand load-balancing module for Apache, an author and maintainer of the Backhand Project and an active participant in a plethora of open source projects.

Timo Schmidt

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

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

Kurt Schrader

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

Peter Simons

Sessions: FastCGI -- The Forgotten Treasure

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

Greg Stein

Sessions: Using WebDAV with Apache, WebDAV and Apache
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Greg Stein is an engineering manager at Google, where he manages the Blogger development team. Outside of work, he is the current Chairman of the Apache Software Foundation, and spends a lot of time with Subversion, WebDAV, and Python projects. Previously, Greg worked as a director of engineering at CollabNet where he managed the Subversion project and releases of CollabNet's SourceCast product. Prior to that, Greg worked at Microsoft on the commerce server and site server products.

Zeev Suraski

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

Darin Swanson

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Richard Thieme

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

Doug Tidwell

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

Mads Toftum

Sessions: Apache mod_rewrite, the Swiss Army Knife of URL manipulation

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

Stipe Tolj

Sessions: Apache as a WAP Server
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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.

Sander van Zoest

Sessions: Audio and Apache, Link Rot: How to sustain the dynamic web., XML and I18N

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

Paul Weinstein

Sessions: Securing Web Access with a Private Certificate Authority

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

David Welton

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

Mike Whitaker

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

Jim Whitehead

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

Mark Wilcox

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

Cliff Woolley

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

Thomas Wouters

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

Geoffrey Young

Sessions: Object-Oriented mod_perl

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