Biographies
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Dr. Maoke Chen is assistant researcher at the Network Research Center of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He obtained a PhD degree in Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2004. Since 1998 he has been working on China's IPv6 development and deployment. His current research interests include: large-scale routing management in IPv6 and multi-protocol environment; overlay and virtualized services; open index and search services in Internet applications. Dr. Chen is the local coordinator of the FLOSSWorld project in China. |
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Rishab Aiyer Ghosh leads several research projects on Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) at UNU-MERIT. He was one of the founders and is the current managing editor of First Monday, a peer-reviewed Internet journal that covers internet economics, law and technology. |
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Ruediger Glott worked from 1993 to 2000 at the Institute for Sociological Research (SOFI - Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut) of the University of Göttingen, working on a wide range of projects on quantitative and qualitative aspects of work in the service sector and on Internet-based collaboration of SMEs in Germany and the USA. He is experienced in qualitative as well as quantitative empirical work and participated in all kinds of work associated with the analysis of data sets and the execution of surveys. Since 2001 he has been at MERIT/Infonomics, where he played a key role in the design, execution and analysis of the EU-funded FLOSS developer and user surveys on free/open source software. |
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Martin Michlmayr has been involved in various free software projects for over 10 years. He used to be the Volunteer Coordinator for the GNUstep Project and acted as Publicity Director for Linux International. In 2000, Martin joined the Debian Project, and he was later elected Debian Project Leader (DPL) as which he acted for two years. Martin holds Master degrees in Philosophy, Psychology and Software Engineering, and started a PhD at the University of Cambridge in January 2004. His research focuses on quality management in free software projects. http://www.cyrius.com/ |
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Dr M Sasikumar graduated from IIT Madras (now Chennai) and did his
post-graduation from IISc Bangalore followed by Doctorate from BITS,
Pilani. He has been with CDAC Mumbai for the last 18 years, and currently
heads its Artificial Intelligence, Educational Technology and Open Source
Software divisions. He manages the Open Source Software Resource Centre,
setup as a joint initiative between IBM, CDAC and IIT Bombay. He has
ideated and guided a number of software development projects, been a
faculty in a number of courses, and closely associated with overall
management of CDAC Mumbai activities. He is also author of two books.
More details at: http://staff.cdacmumbai.in/sasi and http://the-little-sasi.livejournal.com |
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Ms. Julia Velkova has been working as IT Consultant in e-government related projects in Bulgaria. She actively participated in the development of e-government concepts and action plans within the Bulgarian Council of Ministers. She has vast experience in web development based on Free and open source software. Currently she is working within Internet Society Bulgaria as Technical Coordinator of the FLOSS related projects. In her spare time, she is localizing software and documentation related with the GNOME desktop. |