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Shawn M Moore is a Boston-based Perl hacker. Shawn divides his time
between working for Best Practical and learning Japanese. He's a big fan
of object-oriented theory which led him to becoming a core contributor
to the Moose project, adding such features as parameterized roles. Or
maybe it was the other way around! He occasionally teaches an eight-hour
Intro to Moose course.

Ingy döt Net is a hacker who started programming in Assembler on
punchcards, switched over to Perl and has since become enlightened to
the goodness of all the OSDC languages and the people who hack, support
and evangelize them. He is one of the creators of YAML, a major CPAN
contributor, the father of Acmeism and is drinking a double americano as
you read this.

Ingy is a citizen of the Earth who currently lives in Seattle and visits
Taiwan every chance he can. He loves to make things DRY.

Robbie Cheng is the author of the book "ZK: Ajax without the Javascript Framework". He is a software developer at Potix Corporation, and the principle developer of ZK Android and ZK Forum. Recently, he become a ZK evangelist, and has been invited to give speeches at Google Developer Day and Mobile Monday, as well as published many articles on the Internet.

Paul Bakaus is a UI architect living in Germany. He's the creator and project lead of jQuery UI and works for the open source company, Liferay, in a full-time sponsored position to jQuery UI. He's responsible for the overall direction of jQuery UI and he enjoys speaking about his user interface work in many places of the world. He's also a member of the jQuery team and takes part in the discussion of the overall direction of the jQuery project. In the past, he was largely responsible for creating the jQuery dimensions plugin (which is now part of the jQuery core) and worked together with Stefan Petre on the rich effects and components library Interface.

Ray Chen is a Google Software Engineer based in Taipei. He is the tech lead of several projects in Google, and most of his recent interests are in mobile computing. Before joining Google, Ray worked for fabless IC design house and was a lead in DTV middleware.

Vivek Ratan (vivekr@yahoo-inc.com) is the Architect of the Grid Computing
group at Yahoo! Bangalore. He graduated with a Masters degree in Computer
Science from the University of Washington, Seattle, and has spent many years
working in research labs, startups, and large Enterprises in various areas
of distributed computing.
The Grid Computing group at Yahoo! Bangalore focuses on Grid frameworks that
scale to thousands of machines and handle peta-bytes of data. The group is
especially involved in the development of the Open Source Hadoop platform
and its deployment within Yahoo!.

Masayoshi Takahashi is an web application programmer in Twinspark Co. Ltd. He is also Rubyist since 1997, and the founder and leader of Nihon Ruby no Kai (Japan Ruby Group).

Lukhnos is the co-founder of the OpenVanilla Project (openvanilla.org), an open-source input method collection and framework.

Nate Koechley is a Yahoo! front-end engineer and designer based in San Francisco. When he’s not helping design and build the open-source Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library he edits the YUIBlog, promotes accessibility, defines Yahoo! Graded Browser Support policies, writes occasionally at his personal blog, and presents at conferences across the globe.

Aaron is a member of the open source Apache Software Foundation and has developed J2EE and Eclipse RCP applications for Global 100 companies including Siemens and Sony Electronics. When not developing open source or commerical software, Aaron enjoys adventures with his lovely wife, Jenny, and their young daughter Maeli in China.