ApacheCon 2001 Speakers

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 works on the MySQL Database Engine and spends the rest of his time working on Apache, MySQL and Perl modules, which include mod_layout and the Apache streaming services module, mod_mp3. He coauthored the "Running Weblogs with Slash" book for O'Reilly. In the past, he has been involved with projects ranging from creating datawarehouses for the Army Engineer Corps to The Virtual Hospital, which was one of the first and largest online medical repositories. He spent several years working on the Slash site engine for Slashdot. He currently works for MySQL as the Director of Architecture. He lives in Seattle, Washington with his dog Rosalynd.

Ashutosh Aman

Sessions: Apache and Tomcat: Backbone of a Successful Application Service
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Mr. Ashutosh Aman is presently working as an E-Solutions Consultant with KSoft Systems Inc, USA. He is a Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 platform and has several years of experience in administering and managing Java technology enabled solutions. He has a Bachelor of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, INDIA and Master of Science from University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

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.

Thies Arntzen

Sessions: 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.

Stephen Auriemma

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Stig Bakken

Sessions: The PHP Extension and Application Repository
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Stig Bakken works for Fast Search & Transfer in Trondheim, Norway, is married and has two daughters. He has been contributing to PHP development since late 1996, and has been a member of the PHP Group from its inception. His major contributions to PHP are the Oracle and XML support, the PHP manual framework, the UNIX build system and recently PEAR.

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.

Stas Bekman

Sessions: Getting Started with mod_perl, Improving script and handler performance under mod_perl
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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.

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 upon Win32 in the round, Writing Apache Filters
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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.

Rich Bowen

Sessions: Introduction to the Apache Web Server
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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.

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/>.

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.

Philippe M. Chiasson

Sessions: Building a Web Development Environment with Apache, mod_perl, C
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Philippe M. Chiasson is an open-source developer, spending most of his time working on mod_perl, an ASF project to open up the power of the apache API to Perl developers. He is a member of the ASF and currently works for ActiveState.

Eric Cholet

Sessions: 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.

Ken Coar

Sessions: Closing/Wrapup Session, 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'.

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.

James Duncan Davidson

Sessions: 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".

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.

Ralf S. Engelschall

Sessions: Security Solutions with SSL
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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.

Roy Fielding

Sessions: State of Apache

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.

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.

Christian Gross

Sessions: A look at the Apache 2.0 APR

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.

Ceki Gülcü

Sessions: Log4j, A Logging Package for Java
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Ceki Gülcü has over twelve years of development experience, including eight in the Java language. He holds a MS degree in Computer Science from Ecole Politechnic Federale of Lausanne. He is the founder of the log4j project and the author of The complete log4j manual. His interests include cryptography, anonymity, fair-exchange protocols and reliable systems at large.

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

Vincent Hardy

Sessions: Introduction to the Batik Project

Vincent is an Apache member, one of the founders of the SVG Batik project at Apache and the Batik team contact. He is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems Inc., where he is part of the XML technology center. Vincent represents Sun in the W3C's SVG Working Group and is currently a W3C fellow in the W3C office in Sophia Antipolis, France. Vincent is the author of papers and a book on the Java 2D API.

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: Managing the Apache HTTP server with SNMP, QoS management of Internet services

Harrie currently is a developer of the Sync4j group. Sync4j is the open-source mobile application framework which is based on SyncML and builds upon his experience building an Enterprise quality Web-based Calendar server. He also maintains the SNMP module for PHP and is the author of the SNMP module for Apache, an extension for retrieving and managing the status of an Apache Web server via the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). He was also co-editor of the WWW-MIB (RFC 2594) defined in the System Application MIB working group of the IETF.

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.

Britt Johnston

Sessions: 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.

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.

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.

Daniel Lopez Ridruejo

Sessions: Apache projects overview

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Raphaël Luta

Sessions: Building an Enterprise Information Portal with Jetspeed

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

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.

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.

Craig McClanahan

Sessions: Migrating Apache JServ Applications to Tomcat, Recommendations for Java-Based Web Application Architectures, The Tomcat Servlet Container

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).

Brian Moon

Sessions: Caching Dynamic Web Content to Increase Dependability and Performance

Brian Moon has been working with the LAMP platform since before it was called LAMP. He is a programmer and systems administrator for dealnews.com. He has made a few small contributions to the PHP and Apache projects. He is the founder and lead developer of the Phorum project, the first PHP/MySQL message board ever created.

Peter Moulding

Sessions: Planning and programming for cross platform

Peter has 25 years experience building interactive systems and 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.

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.

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.

Glenn Nielsen

Sessions: 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.

Giacomo Pati

Sessions: Apache Cocoon 2 - What's new

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.

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.

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. 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 GN step, 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.

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.

David Rolsky

Sessions: Introduction to Mason

Dave Rolsky has been a professional Perl programmer since the the ol' bubble days of 1999. He has worked on a number of open source Perl projects including the Perl DateTime Project and Alzabo. Since the summer of 2000, he has been part of the Mason core development team. In October of 2002, O'Reilly and Associates published Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason, co-authored with Ken Williams. Since September of 2004, he has been working as a member of the development team for Socialtext, Inc.

Rich Roth

Sessions: Apache (by itself) does not a Web site make
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Rich Roth, CEO of TnR Global, has been a developer in the computer field for 35 years, a kernel level programmer and a user of Unix, the Internet, and on-line services from their inception. His various ventures currently operate over 2,000 web sites, all based on LAMP (Apache, Linux, Perl or PHP and MySQL). He drove the Apache Gui Dev project (gui.apache.org) and developed of apache-tools.org. He put his first web server online in 1994 and was an early user of Linux and Apache, including Red Hat's first commerce web site (1995) and the first fully automated remote CGI system at i-depth.com (online 1996 and still running).

William A. Rowe Jr.

Sessions: Apache upon Win32 in the round
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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.

George Schlossnagle

Sessions: 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: mod_backhand: internals explained, 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.

Matt Sergeant

Sessions: AxKit - An XML Application Server 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

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: 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 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.

Sander Temme

Sessions: Measuring and Enhancing Apache Performance

Sander Temme is an Enterprise Solutions Engineer for a security company whose clients include Fortune 500 companies, financial services companies and government agencies. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and is active in the httpd, Infrastructure and Gump projects. Sander is owned by Murphy, the wonder cat.

Rodney Thayer

Sessions: 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.

Doug Tidwell

Sessions: Building Web Services with Apache, Rub-a-dub-dub-dubya: SOAP and the Web
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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.

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 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: 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 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.

Dirk-Willem van Gulik

Sessions: 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 is a senior partner at the http://www.asemantics.com/.

Sander van Zoest

Sessions: Audio and Apache

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.

Nathan Wallace

Sessions: PHP: Hackers Paradise Revisited

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.

Phillip Wherry

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

Phillip Wherry has been involved professionally with Internet applications since 1989 and Web application design and 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, several home banking systems, and an integrated subscription-based content delivery system based on open-source tools. 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 Director of IT Operations for Leap Wireless, Inc.

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.

Thomas Wouters

Sessions: Performance-tuning Apache
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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

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.