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About the OSDC Inc. Executive
Scott Penrose has been a full time developer for 15 years and has been developing in Linux for 12 years. He works full time for Editure, who produce excellent education access software for the Internet.
Over time, Scott has produced many Open Source applications and libraries: from load limiters written in C for Apache; to parallel port controllers in Perl; to soaring navigation software in C++ for the pocket PC. His passions are abstraction, writing APIs for things in Perl and more recently, internationalisation.
Scott is currently working his largest Open Source adventure - zaltana.org - which will change the way that web applications are integrated. He is deeply involved in the Open Source community and is president of Melbourne Perl Mongers and the Open Source Developers' Conference.
When he is not at home or work, Scott lurks around - or rather above - Benalla in his glider.
Isaac Sutcliffe.Photo courtesy of byte.
Ben Balbo was born in Germany, grew up in the UK, lives in Melbourne and likes Guinness.
While he isn't drinking Guinness (which is most of the time in Melbourne, as it just doesn't taste the same), he earns a living as a PHP developer and trainer, security consultant and Open Source developer. He also drinks a fair amount of coffee.
He has been known to talk in public about web development related topics, which comes as part of the package of being on the committee of both the Melbourne PHP User Group and Open Source Developers' Club. Although he wouldn't admit this, his participation at this level is secretly only in order to go to restaurants or pubs after the meetings.
When he doesn't work, Ben enjoys snowboarding, riding his motorbike and spending weekends in the countryside. The latter is made even more enjoyable through the liberal lighting of camp fires, and the prerequisite chopping of wood with his shiny new chainsaw.
Fellow coffee drinking, beer swilling, chainsaw wielding security consultants should register their interest in Ben's latest multi-level marketing programme by posting highly articulate and thought provoking comments at benbalbo.com.
Richard Jones is Bluebox Devices' lead OpenGL developer with 12 years broad experience working with multiple languages (though focusing on Python these days) and tools in 3d graphics, web-based management systems, data archive, metadata systems, business systems, e-commerce and communications. I have previously developed web-based content management, user interfaces and support systems for Common Ground, a Publisher and Conference Manager, eKit.com, a telecommunications service provider for travellers, and Bizar Software, developing online store software.
I was an early adopter of the World Wide Web, implementing the Bureau of Meteorology's website in the early 1990s. I'm also very active in Open Source communities, developing several software systems (eg Roundup Issue Tracker and others) that are widely used, and contributing to the core Python and OpenGL-based technologies that I use at the day job.
Richard's other home on the Internet is www.mechanicalcat.net/richard.
Tony Smith is a career computer systems analyst and designer, was a technical commentator for computer trade press in the 1980s, became expert in PostScript to lead a business that introduced desktop publishing to Australia in the late 1980s, organised and presented at professional development events for the micro computer industry in the 1980s and re the Internet subsequently, consulted to Australian Government agencies on education technology policy in the 1990s.
Having sworn off ever learning another programming language for the second time, Tony discovered Perl and in 1998 commenced development of TransForum, a momentarily leading-edge but never quite finished threaded forum. That led to a widening involvement with open source technologies which he has been applying to the Internet needs of longstanding clients ever since.
MSc (Melbourne, Science in Society), BSc (Melbourne, Math/Stat/Comp). Informal student of complex systems and philosophy since 1986. Experimented with cellular automata since 1983. Presented programming of 'Tick Tock' evolving network at OSDC 2004. Presenting academic papers on complex systems and philosophy in 2007 at Stellenbosch, Surfers Paradis and Auckland. Former organiser of community-based sport, lower grade cricketer and SCUBA diver.
Photo courtesy of Paul Fenwick.