ApacheCon US 2003 Speakers

Brian Aker

Sessions: MySQL Clustering and Replication for the Web
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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.

Jean-Francois Arcand

Sessions: Tomcat 5 new features.

Jean-Francois Arcand is working for Sun Microsystems since 2000. He currently works on Jakarta Tomcat as well as SUN's Application Server. Before joining Sun, he has worked as a software architect for compagnies such as France Telecom, Microcell Telecom and HMS Software, in both Java and C++. Jean-Francois lives and works from home in Prevost, a very small city in Quebec where life is perfect..

Thies Arntzen

Sessions: PHP inside-out

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, Scalable Apache for Beginners
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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.

David Bau

Sessions: Inside Apache XMLBeans

David Bau is one of the original developers of XMLBeans, which he started because he could not find a complete XML Schema library in Java that met his needs. He has contributed to a spectrum of efforts ranging from the GPL'ed DQSD project to Microsoft's IE and .NET. He is currently a senior engineer at J2EE leader BEA Systems.

Stas Bekman

Sessions: 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.

Stephen Betts

Sessions: Localising BBC News for a Global Audience

Stephen Betts has worked for BBC News for four years. He has been Technical Lead for many projects, such as the General Election website and the BBC children's news website. Since 2002 he has led the Online Systems Development team for BBC News, which is responsible for the development of all applications deployed on the public-facing webservers.

Rich Bowen

Sessions: Apache authentication, Apache handlers with mod_perl, Apache performance, Introduction to the Apache Web Server, URL Mapping
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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.

Marcus Börger

Sessions: PHP 5 and databases

Marcus Börger is a freelancer located in Germany and is specialized on C/C++, Databases, UML, XML and of course PHP. To the PHP community he is also known as helly. He is one of the core developers and focused on the new OO features of PHP 5 and Zend Engine 2. Marcus 'hacks' around on all kinds of stuff for over 15 years now and is currently working for Ford Motor Company.

Kin-man Chung

Sessions: Jasper, the JSP compiler in Tomcat 5

I have been deveoping compilers and tools for over 15 years. I have been a committer on Jakarta Tomcat project for over 2 years, working primarily on the JSP compiler, Jasper.

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'.

John Coggeshall

Sessions: Creating Dynamic PDFs using PHP, HTML manipulation and data mining with Tidy, Making the most of PEAR and PECL

John Coggeshall is the Chief Technology Officer at Automotive Computer Services, specializing in building Web 2.0 applications for the auto industry. He got started with PHP in 1997 and is the author of three published books and over 100 articles on PHP technologies with some of the biggest names in the industry such as Sams Publishing, Apress and O'Reilly. John also is a active contributor to the PHP core as the author of the tidy extension, a member of the Zend Education Advisory Board, and frequent speaker at PHP-related conferences worldwide. His web site, http://www.coggeshall.org/ is an excellent resource for any PHP developer.

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.

Wesley D. Craig

Sessions: Open Source Web Single Sign On

Wesley D. Craig joined the University of Michigan in 1987, where he designed and wrote netatalk, an implementation of the AppleTalk protocol suite for the Unix operating system. He is currently the Senior IT Architect and Engineer for the University of Michigan Computing Environement. He manages RSUG, the team that runs the University's central LDAP directory, e-mail, and charged-for printing systems. Recent projects include radmind, a suite of tools for Unix and Macintosh filesystem management; and cosign, a web-based single sign-on system.

Thomas DeWeese

Sessions: Java Applications with Apache Batik

Thomas DeWeese is a Senior Software Engineer at Eastman Kodak Company, in Rochester New York where he has worked since 1994. Thomas has made contributions to the Java2D and Java Advanced Imaging APIs. He has also participated in the Jini Printing Working group. From 2001 to 2003 Thomas was Kodak's primary SVG Working Group Member. Thomas has also been a major contributor to the Apache Batik project, an OpenSource implementation of SVG in Java, since it's creation in late 2000.

John Fowler

Sessions: Looking Ahead: Challenges for Open Software

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.

Joe Gregorio

Sessions: Extending HTTP Authentication
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Joe Gregorio, President, BitWorking, Inc, is an active member in the Atom and RSS community. He is the author of the RESTLog API, the Comment API, the draft RFC for the AtomAPI and the creator of the open source news aggregator Aggie, and publishes the site WellFormedWeb.org.

Ceki Gülcü

Sessions: What is new in log4j version 1.3?
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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.

Hartmut Holzgraefe

Sessions: WebDAV server implementation with Apache and PHP
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Hartmut Holzgraefe PHP Developer, Author ... Hartmut started 'real' coding the hard way back in 1988 by writing his first production use UNIX device driver after playing around with home computers and BASIC for some years. He now holds university diplomas in both electric engineering and computer science / bioinformatics. His two theses were about handwritten character recognition and distributed robot control using neural network components. Hartmut started using (and patching) PHP C source and documentation in late 1999 while writing a customizable webmail client for Bertelsmann Telemedia. For the last three years he has been working for Six offene Systeme GmbH in Germany, developing content management and customer relationship solutions. He also did a lot of PHP bugfixing, extending and documentation during this time, so improving the platform his applications where built upon. Lately he has been working on PHP WebDAV, PECL_Gen for the creation of PHP extension code out of XML based description files and on the next issue of the first german PHP book.

Sterling Hughes

Sessions: PHP inside-out
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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.

Will Iverson

Sessions: Using Tomcat to build Desktop Applications

Will Iverson served as Developer Relations Manager for the VisualCafé group at Symantec, as the Java & Runtimes Product Manager at Apple Computer and has led Cascade Technology Group, a private consulting firm, since 1999. He has spoken at a variety of technical conferences including JavaOne, MacWorld, ComDex, and more on behalf of a variety of companies including Symantec, Apple Computer, Sun Microsystems, and Canal+ Technologies. He is the author of the recently published O'Reilly book, 'Mac OS X for Java Geeks.'

Nick Kew

Sessions: Building smart markup-aware applications with Apache modules
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A veteran systems and software developer, with a longstanding enthusiasm for the potential of an information infrastructure to transform our lives. In addition to running my own company, WebThing Ltd, I am currently involved with W3C as invited expert and with Apache as a developer. Apart from my apache.org page http://www.apache.org/~niq/, my websites relevant to Apache are apache.webthing.com (many modules available) and www.apachetutor.org (tutorials for developers). I am also working on a book on developing Apache modules, to be published around the end of 2005.

Rasmus Lerdorf

Sessions: Do you 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, XML at the ASF: The XML, WS, and Cocoon projects
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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

Howard Lewis Ship

Sessions: Beginning Tapestry: Java Web Components

Howard Lewis Ship is the creator of, and lead developer for, two Jakarta projects: the Tapestry web application framework, and the HiveMind services and configuration microkernel. Over the span of his career, he has worked on a number of database-driven client/server applications using a variety of technologies and programming languages, and has been actively developing web applications using Java since 1997. He started programming in BASIC and 6502 assembly language at age 13 and never looked back. Howard is the author of "Tapestry in Action" (Manning Publications), the definitive guide to Tapestry 3.0. He has spoken about Tapestry, HiveMind and Open Source at JavaOne, TheServerSide Symposium, and the NoFluffJustStuff symposium series.

Elena Litani

Sessions: Apache XML Parser: Xerces2 and Xerces C++

Elena Litani is a software developer working for IBM. For the last couple of years, she has been a member of the W3C Document Object Model (DOM) Working Group, working on the DOM Level 3 specification. Since 2000 Elena has been an active contributor to the Apache Xerces2 project, working on the XML Schema and DOM Level 3 implementations in Xerces.

Daniel Lopez Ridruejo

Sessions: ASP.NET on Unix with mod_mono, Securing Apache

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.

Stefano Mazzocchi

Sessions: How the Apache Software Foundation works, Past, present and future of the Apache Cocoon project, Virtual Community Dynamics

Stefano Mazzocchi is a research scientist working on semantic web technologies for the SIMILE project in affiliation with the Digital Library Research Group at the MIT Libraries. He is also known for his open source activities withing the Apache Software Foundation of which he's been a member since 1999, a director between 2003 and 2005 and is now serving at the chair of the Apache Labs project. There, he's is mostly known for having started the Apache Cocoon project. He has also participated in several expert groups within the Java Community Process, such as the Servlet API, the Java XML API and more recently the Java Content Repository API. His research interests include data interoperability, knowledge management, software usability, data mining, user interface design and software engineering.

Craig McClanahan

Sessions: Building Web Applications with the Struts Framework, Tomcat 5 new features.

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).

Kevin McGowan

Sessions: Open Source Web Single Sign On

Kevin joined the University of Michigan's central IT group in 1996 as a teacher and programmer. Currently he is the technical lead and manager of the University's webmaster team. His recent projects include: ldapweb, a friendly web interface to the campus LDAP directory; kpasswd.cgi; and cosign, a web single sign-on system.

Chris McManaman

Sessions: Using Xalan to achieve application interoperability.
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Chris McManaman is a Business Integration Architect with RCG Information Technology. He is an Oracle Certified DBA and a Sun Certified Java Programmer. His primary expertise is identifying and providing data and application integration solutions to the energy industry.

Glenn Nielsen

Sessions: Tomcat Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting

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.

Steven Noels

Sessions: Introducing Apache Cocoon
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Steven Noels is co-founder of Outerthought, a geek-level technical XML, Java and Open Source competence center focused on Apache Cocoon. Steven is a Cocoon and Forrest committer, and is known for his especialy lousy time management. Besides all that, he's chairing the Belgian XML User Group, and likes organizing events such as the Cocoon GetTogether. He maintains a weblog at http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/

Andrew Oliver

Sessions: Jakarta POI or "Maybe we shouldn't ingore the 10,000 lb Gorilla"
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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.

Joyce Park

Sessions: Mod_pubsub: asynchronous publish and subscribe messaging with httpd

Joyce Park is co-author of the Wiley book _PHP Bible_, and co-lead of the mod_pubsub project. Adam Rifkin is co-founder of KnowNow, Inc. and co-lead of the mod_pubsub project.

Mark Pilgrim

Sessions: The Atom API
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Mark Pilgrim is the author of Dive Into Python, a free Python book for experienced programmers, and Dive Into Accessibility, a free book on web accessibility techniques. He works for MassLight, a Washington DC-based training and web development company, where, unsurprisingly, he does training and web development. But he lives outside Raleigh, North Carolina, because it's warmer.

Chris Pirillo

Sessions: RSS Elements and Versions, The Death of Email Marketing

Ask yourself: "How did Chris Pirillo parlay Lockergnome from a single Windows-centric newsletter into a series of daily tech-related mailing lists, best-selling books, digital how-to guides, a revenue-generating meme, radio show, annual conference, television gig, top ranking on Google for his first name, and a well-trafficked blog?" He didn't do it alone, and some of those secrets will be revealed at ApacheCon US 2003.

Martin Poeschl

Sessions: Torque and OJB - the Apache persistence frameworks

Martin Poeschl is senior developer at ANECON, developing web-applications in Java. He is member of the Jakarta PMC and involved in the development of Torque, OJB, Turbine and several other Apache projects.

Ovidiu Predescu

Sessions: Cocoon control flow

Ovidiu is a software engineer with Google, where he spends his time working on solving interesting problems. He has been involved in open-source development since 1994, including the Objective-C support in GCC, the design and development of major components of the GNUstep system, XSLT processing and debugging support in Emacs, Cocoon and many others.

Jason Purdy

Sessions: Developing Web Applications with CGI::Application
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Jason Purdy is the IT Manager of Journalistic, Inc., publisher of the award-winning publications QSR Magazine and Fine Books & Collections Magazine, as well as other online initiatives. He is responsible for helping to formulate business plans, oversee and help implement the necessary applications as well as perform post-mortems to evaluate success and next steps. Jason earned his BS in Mathematical Sciences (Computer Science) at UNC-Chapel Hill and has had a varied career track, working with a .com startup (AuctionRover.com), small companies (Stingray/Rogue Wave Software, Goto.com) and large (Trilogy, IBM and Data General). Jason lives in Apex, NC with his wife, Casey and daughters, Meredith and Eleanor.

Gianugo Rabellino

Sessions: Generating beautiful PDF files with FOP, Porting CMS applications to WebDAV and Cocoon

Gianugo Rabellino is Chief Executive Officer of Sourcesense, Europe's leading Open Source systems integrator. He has been at the forefront of the Open Source movement in Europe, founding the first official Italian Linux organization in 1994, and launching Orixo, the consortium of European Open Source companies. A Member of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), Rabellino serves as Vice President of the Apache XML Project Management Committee, is a committer on several ASF projects including Cocoon, Xindice, and Jackrabbit, as well as mentor of the River project currently in development at the ASF Incubator. His highly charismatic presentations on topics such as Enterprise Open Source adoption, next-generation opportunities in Open Source, and building Open Development communities draws enthusiastic audiences at all levels at industry-leading events including JavaOne, Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise, and ApacheCon.

Garrel Renick

Sessions: Parallel Development and Hosting using Apache, Tomcat, and MySQL

I have worked in the IT field for the last decade. Previous work includes application support, technical writing, and help system design. My current work focuses on application design for MOREnet--the Missouri Research and Educational Network and part of the University of Missouri system. I assist in the design and support of an e-mail, web site, and web applications hosting solution for state government, universities, colleges, K12 schools, libraries, and other affiliates that are connected to MOREnet's statewide network.

Mark Roth

Sessions: JavaServer Pages 2.0 Technology: The Community Delivers!
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Mark Roth is a member of the Java(tm) 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition team. He has contributed to a number of key specifications and implementations and is currently a co-lead for the JavaServer Pages(tm) specification version 2.0.

Sam Ruby

Sessions: Building a Web service from SOAP to Nuts
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Theo Schlossnagle

Sessions: 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.

Cliff Schmidt

Sessions: Mangling data with XSLT
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Cliff has served as Apache's Vice President for Legal Affairs since 2005 and has provided licensing and legal policy assistance to other leading open source organizations, such as the Eclipse Foundation, Free Software Foundation, Open Source Initiative, and ObjectWeb Consortium. He has consulted for numerous small and large software companies throughout Europe, North America, and the Middle East on intellectual property issues, privacy policies, export controls, open source business strategy, and community development. Cliff also serves on Apache's Board of Directors and on the project management committees for both Apache’s Incubator project and Eclipse’s Technology project, where he helps oversee and assist new projects to each organization.

Henning Schmiedehausen

Sessions: What's new in the Jakarta Turbine 2.3 Web application Framework, Writing a web application with Jakarta Turbine 2.3

Henning Schmiedehausen is a team member on a number of Apache Java projects. He works as a freelance consultant, architect and software developer using the J2EE platform and admits under torture that he can program in PHP and perl. When not sitting in front of a computer, Henning enjoys traveling with his wife around the world, sports (both active and passive) and moonlights as a 11th level barbarian at his local D&D group. He currently has the pleasure of serving as a board member and a director of the Apache Software Foundation.

Doc Searls

Sessions: Apache and Do-It-Yourself IT (DIY-IT)

Doc is Senior Editor of Linux Journal and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto. He is a popular speaker, presenter, and writer and his Web log is avidly read on a daily basis by thousands of people.

Chris Shiflett

Sessions: PHP Attacks and Defense

Chris Shiflett is an internationally recognized expert in the field of PHP security and the founder and President of Brain Bulb, a PHP consultancy that offers a variety of services to clients around the world.

Chris is a leader in the PHP community, and his involvement includes being the founder of the PHP Security Consortium, the founder of PHPCommunity.org, a member of the Zend PHP Advisory Board, and an author of the Zend PHP Certification.

A prolific writer, Chris has regular columns in both PHP Magazine and php|architect. He is also the author of the HTTP Developer's Handbook (Sams) as well as the highly anticipated Essential PHP Security (O'Reilly).

Trent Shue

Sessions: ObjectWeb/JOnAS J2EE Application Server and Apache projects

Trent Shue is a Senior Project Manager for Bull Information Systems in Phoenix, Arizona. He has 23 years of industry experience in systems development, application development and databases. For the past 3 years Trent has managed the development of J2EE-related products, including managing a team of developers contributing to Objectweb in the areas of JOnAS, J2EE Connector Architecture and Transaction Management.

Bruce Snyder

Sessions: The State of Apache Geronimo
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Bruce Snyder is a veteran of enterprise software development and a recognized leader in open source software. Bruce has experience in a wide range of technologies including Java EE, Enterprise Messaging and Service Oriented Integration. In addition to being a principal with Organic Element, Bruce is also an Apache Member, a co-founder of Apache Geronimo and a developer for Apache ActiveMQ, Apache Camel, Apache ServiceMix. Bruce serves as a member of various JCP expert groups, is the co-author of Professional Apache Geronimo, Beginning Spring Framework 2 both from Wrox Press and is currently co-authoring Apache ActiveMQ In Action for Manning Publications. Bruce lives in beautiful Boulder, Colorado with his family.

Greg Stein

Sessions: Subversion: Version Control Rethought, 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.

Sander Striker

Sessions: Apache 2.0 modules: development and debugging
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Sander Striker is an independent consultant and a member of the Apache Software Foundation. He is an active member of the Apache HTTP Server, Apache Portable Runtime and Subversion communities.

Sander Temme

Sessions: Apache and Zeroconf Networking, Shoehorning Apache Onto Your Box: System Sizing Tips

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.

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 2 mod_ssl tutorial, Apache mod_rewrite, the Swiss Army Knife of URL manipulation, Troubleshooting Apache configurations

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.

Adam Trachtenberg

Sessions: XML in PHP 5

Adam Trachtenberg is the Manager of Technical Evangelism at eBay, where he preaches the gospel of the eBay platform to developers and businessmen around the globe. Before eBay, Adam co-founded and served as Vice President for Development at two companies, Student.Com and TVGrid.Com. At both firms, he led the front- and middle-end web site design and development. Adam began using PHP in 1997, and is the author of "Upgrading to PHP 5" and coauthor of "PHP Cookbook," both published by O'Reilly Media. He lives in San Francisco, and has a B.A. and M.B.A. from Columbia University.

Michael Wechner

Sessions: Content Management with Apache Lenya

Michael Wechner is co-founder of Wyona and the original creator of Lenya, a CMS based on Cocoon. Before entering the world of open source software he studied mathematical physics at ETH and was doing three years of basic research on computer simulations of dendritic growth. He co-founded OSCOM and also spends a lot of time with other Open Source Content Management Systems.

Casey West

Sessions: Advanced Apache Administration with Perl
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Casey West is a six year veteran specializing in Open Source based high-availability web development. He's spend most of his time hacking on Perl 5 and Perl 6 development, as well as random contributions to other OSS projects. At pair Networks he is a Software Developer working on services for nearly 150,000 hosted websites.

Jim Winstead

Sessions: Writing a PHP Extension

Jim Winstead is the lead web developer for MySQL AB, one of the core PHP group members, and a member of the Apache Software Foundation.

Mark Womack

Sessions: What is new in log4j version 1.3?

Mark Womack has been developing software for over 13 years. He has been developing in Java for the past 5 years, focusing on web application development. He has been an active committer for the Apache Logging Services log4j project since April 2002, contributing features for the upcoming v1.3 release. He is also the PMC Chair for the Logging Services Project.

Cliff Woolley

Sessions: Apache 2.0 modules: development and debugging
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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.

Geoffrey Young

Sessions: Why mod_perl 2.0 Sucks, Why mod_perl 2.0 Rocks, Writing Tests with Apache-Test

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.

Carsten Ziegeler

Sessions: The Cocoon Portal: More than the Portlet API (JSR 168)
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Carsten Ziegeler is senior developer for JEE and portal applications at Day Software. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and is participating in several open source projects for more than ten years. Carsten is a member of the Cocoon and the Portals PMC and is playing a major role in the development of the Apache Cocoon project.