Aaron is a community music teacher, co-founder of Snowdrift.coop (a long-struggling and principled platform working to solve economic coordination dilemmas around FLO public goods), and an activist and volunteer in several other areas. Originally from Ann Arbor, MI; he now lives in Oregon City with his wife, dog, and two kids.

Adam is a kind and savvy FOSS enthusiast. He’s been in tech for over 20 years: building, producing, coding, debugging, architecting, leading, managing, debugging some more, lecturing, writing, administering and securing systems and processes, ensuring privacy and compliance; in markets of all maturities, sizes, and scales; startups to big enterprise. He’s most proud of his family, growing Mifos, founding SeaGL, selling C-SATS, and writing a FOSS book about self-hosting FOSS.

Adam is privileged and lucky to have given talks and workshops at a handful of conferences (LFNW, SeaGL, LibrePlanet, OSCON, FOSSY) and various other engagements.

I’m Allison Cao, a student at Tumwater Middle School. I have started a few projects such as a pamphlet that helps young girls with knowing more about their periods, and I've recently developed my own web app called DrugScan that can identify whether a drug is addictive or not from just a simple image.

I like robotics, drawing, manga, kendo, math, and I have a YouTube channel with 4.6k subscribers that displays my drawings! I hope to inspire other people to make a difference in the world, regardless of what they know or do not know.

Andrew is a long time software developer and Linux user who tinkers with a variety of fabrication tools in his free time.

Anjan Momi is an Sxmo maintainer and postmarketOS contributor.

A long time free software contributor, Ariadne was one of the original developers of Alpine Linux, contributing the x86_64 port in the late 2000s. Since then, she has contributed to additional Alpine ports, as well as maintenance of core Alpine system utilities including apk-tools, ifupdown-ng, libucontext and pkgconf. Professionally, she is one of the founders of Edera, a Kubernetes security company. She is also the creator of the Wolfi GNU/Linux distribution which is growing in popularity in the containers space, powering the commercial Chainguard Images product.

.Y.Amihud ( aka Blender Dumbass ) is a Jewish Filmmaker and Freedom Activist from Israel. He was born in Ukraine. He is using Free Software and GNU / Linux operating system. He is fighting against the copyright industry to make Free Culture actually Free. As well as he is fighting against things like Paternalism which are the core of most freedom tampering problems.

Bri Hatch (currently a Founding Engineer at Dropzone AI) is a command line geek and Open Source contributor and proponent. He has been automating, securing, and breaking into systems since before he traded his Apple ][+ for his first Unix machine.

Australian developer, speaker, and serial community conference organizer, who presently lives in the United States.

He serves as a Director of the Python Software Foundation, and is co-organizer of the acclaimed North Bay Python conference, a boutique one-track conference run in unusual venues — include an old vaudeville theater, and more recently a barn on a farm — in Petaluma, California.

Christopher is also a contributor on the open source Pants build system, helping make Python’s testing, correctness, and style tools accessible and fast for developers, no matter how big their codebase.

Craig came to work for the Free Software Foundation as a Copyright and Licensing Associate at the end of 2018. Prior to the FSF, Craig worked as a PC/Network Technician for the City of Eugene, Oregon for twelve years. Besides the desire to see free software thrive, Craig also envisions a world where everyone's inner light shines bright.

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Deb Nicholson is the Executive Director at the Python Software Foundation, the non-profit steward of the Python programming language. She has previously served the open source ecosystem through her work at the Open Source Initiative, Software Freedom Conservancy, and the Open Invention Network. She lives with her husband and her lucky black cat in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

der.hans is a technology and entrepreneurial veteran.
As a volunteer der.hans endeavors to help build community through FLOSS conference and user group leadership.

dh was co-chair of Open Source Career Day (OSCD) at Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) and chair of the Finance and Partnership committees for SeaGL.

dh presents and gives career counseling sessions at large community-led conferences (SCaLE, SeaGL, Tux-Tage, Kielux, GeekBeacon Fest, FOSSASIA, LCA, LFNW, Tübix, OLF ) and many local groups. dh is chairperson of the Phoenix Linux User Group (PLUG) and founder of the Free Software
Stammtisch.

Currently Hans manages a team of database support engineers.

Find Hans on the Fediverse/Mastodon - https://floss.social/@FLOX_advocate

Duane is the Director of Collaborative Engineering at Capital One. His organization focuses on developing internal and external collaborative development practices through open source and InnerSource. He is the creator of the FOSS Contributor Fund framework, and loves helping organizations get involved in funding and sustaining their open source dependencies. Duane is a force of chaotic good using his high stats in intelligence and charisma to advocate for the open source community. If you encounter him in forested areas, he will share his fire, drink, and philosophy.

nerd & maker of many hobbies

Elior used to do computer stuff. Now he does rabbi stuff. He also studied Anthropology, Linguistics, and History at UC Berkeley, which was kinda fun.

Elizabeth K. Joseph is a Linux systems administrator who now leads the Open Source Program Office for IBM Z where she works with the community to explore Linux and z/OS workloads on mainframes. In the course of her career, she's worked on Raspberry Pis and Sun SPARC systems, so working on non-x86 architectures full time was a natural fit. She has previously worked on distributed systems and has written books on Ubuntu and OpenStack.

Helin Cao, PhD, co-founded a few open source projects and an AI startup. Now, full time in large language model application development.

Jeff Silverman was born in Portland Oregon which was a good thing as his mother was there simultaneously. He wanted to be a stand-up comedian but computers pay better. Jeff has a BS in physics and he likes to BS in physics.
He got his first paying job as a computer programmer in 1975 and retired in 2023. He is currently a grandfather and he is teaching his grandsons calculus, which he estimates will take about 15 years.
Jeff received a black belt certificate in computer security from Coding Dojo in May, 2022.

A professional code twiddler. The computers work better after I’ve added code to them more often than the alternative.

Johannes Ernst is a technologist, founder and organizer. He's been building user-centric technology for decades. His company, Dazzle Labs, supports organizations considering adopting open social media technologies. He's also the co-organizer of FediForum, the unconference for the Fediverse, and lead developer of FediTest.

Dr. Kaylea Champion studies how people cooperate to build public goods like GNU/Linux and Wikipedia, including what gets built and maintained -- and what doesn't. She has a background in system administration and tech support. She received her PhD in Communication from the University of Washington in 2024. A Linux user since 1994, she enjoys tromping through the woods, smashing goblins, and cooking for a crowd.

Keegan Justis is a seasoned Senior DevSecOps Engineer with a wealth of experience in cloud computing, security, artificial intelligence, and software development. He excels in ensuring reliable and scalable systems while driving innovation and efficiency in IT operations. Passionate about continuous learning, Keegan shares his insights through his blog on Medium. Beyond his professional expertise, he is an avid reader and traveler.

Originally an Electrical Engineer, Kenneth fell into Internet infrastructure and network engineering through a long series of events involving the phrase "hold my beer," including building his own Autonomous System (AS7034), building a global anycast DNS server (NS-global.zone), building the Fremont Cabal Internet Exchange in Fremont, California, and ultimately working in the Technical Assistance Center for Arista Networks.

Nikolay Sivko, co-founder and CEO of Coroot, aims to simplify troubleshooting in production for developers. He is passionate about Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, observability, and open source. Previously, he was the head of the Engineering group at a large technology company and founded an observability tool development company in Russia, which he successfully acquired. Currently, he resides in Turkey, focusing on developing a startup with an international market orientation.

Paul is a freelance software developer in Portland, Oreogon. He has built applications with Postgres since 2010 and is the author of several extensions. His Postgres contributions include work on GiST indexes, multiranges, and SQL:2011 application-time features.

Rachel is a long-time nerd and denizen of the internet, learning to form community without social media! A proud career-switcher, she has worked for tech companies small and large since 2014 and has been happily plugging away at Fastly for the last several years as an SRE on the Certificate Authority project. A staunch advocate of community and locality, Rachel now uses skills learned from many years of co-organizing Portland’s PyLadies chapter and participating in many community-oriented technology user groups toward something completely different. She and her partner live in Portland, OR, going to too many Burning Man events (not possible) and training for simply too many races of all kinds (also not possible). You can reach Rachel at her

Ria Farrell Schalnat works with the Open Program Office of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. This role combines her prior lives as a computer programmer, lawyer and adjunct professor specializing in intellectual property subjects including open source. She has guided initiatives in patent portfolio management, intellectual property due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, software licensing, workflow and process management. Ria is served for two years as President of CincyIP, a local bar association dedicated to intellectual property education. She also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati School of Law and University of Dayton School of Law on subjects including Patent Litigation, Cyberspace Law and Open Source Lice

Richard Littauer is an organizer of SustainOSS and CURIOSS, the Interim Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation, and a PhD student at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington. As a full-stack developer and open source community consultant, he has interfaced with thousands of different projects in dozens of communities. He likes birds.

Scott has been full-stack developer for longer than the term "full-stack developer" has been around. In that time, MySQL was the only constant in his development stack. He is passionate about sharing what he has learned on his coding journey so others may learn from his mistakes.

Sean has a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, specializing in design of mechanical systems, from the University of Irvine, California. He is currently studying permaculture design.
He worked as an associate mechanical design engineer for Max Q Systems - formerly an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for aerospace industry. He served as the GreenHab Officer at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS). He is also a contributor for the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) open standards working group, Tetra Bio Distributed (US non-profit organization) developing open-source hardware medical/PPE devices, and the Mach 30 Foundation developing the distributed open-source hardware framework (DOF)

Sen is a "jack-of-all-trades" software developer, longtime linux hobbyist and hardware tinkerer with an interest in embedded linux systems, crimp tooling, and Vanilla Javascript.

Professional software engineer for over 7 years, hobbyist programmer since I was a kid. I enjoy programming in Rust and spend too much time tweaking my nix configs.

Eternal tinkerer with a background in polsci and a passion for compsci

What began as a hobby has evolved into a true passion. Now a software developer with more than 5 years of experience, in her spare time, Susan volunteers as an organizer for both the Calgary Software Crafters and the Software Developers of Calgary. Additionally, she actively contributes to the weekly mob programming sessions with Approval Tests.

Timmy is passionate about the philosophy of FLO (Free/Libre/Open) software. He is happy to be using GNU/Linux for his musical compositions and performances. He loves to tell others about his great experiences with FLO software. Timmy's music is inspired by FLO technologies including GNU/Linux, Matthew Autry's skip-fretting, and Kite guitar. These technologies have connected him with notes outside of modern standard tuning. Rather than being limited to just one tuning, Timmy's music is inspired by both the harmonic series and various edos beyond just 12edo (standard tuning). He finds a unique sound from the intersection between ancient tuning theory, modern music technology, and a FLO philosophy.

Toby Betts has been breaking and, when possible, fixing computers since childhood. He has worked as a system administrator, a service engineer, a site reliability engineer, a security analyst, and a free and open source software consultant for mid- to large-sized businesses for over 20 years. His main interests are system security, free cryptography, and fun file systems.

Tristan Damron is the founder of the geoCML Project. He is a former product engineer at Esri, and has spent many years teaching computer science to K12 students.

Tyler Menezes is the Executive Director at CodeDay, where he works to provide welcoming and diverse opportunities for under-served students to explore a future in tech and beyond.

Born in Canada but raised in the Pacific Northwest, he briefly attended the University of Washington before dropping out to start a Y Combinator and venture-backed social video startup in 2011. This, combined with stints working in machine learning at Microsoft Research and as a programmer at several Seattle startups, led to his work finding data-driven solutions to increasing CS diversity and enrollment since 2014.

Vagrant is a free software developer involved in the the Debian and GNU Guix projects, a system administrator for an ARM build farm for Reproducible Builds, and gets thrown around repeatedly as a hobby. You can find vagrant on social networks such as the OpenPGP web of trust and various bug tracking systems!

VM (Vicky) Brasseur is an award-winning free/open source advocate and corporate strategist, international keynote speaker, and writer. She’s the author of Forge Your Future with Open Source and Business Success with Open Source, both published by Pragmatic Bookshelf. Aside from articles in various publications, she also writes about FOSS, business, and their intersection on her blog, {anonymous => ‘hash’};.

William Guo, WhaleOps CEO, Apache Software Foundation Member, Apache DolphinScheduler PMC Member, Apache SeaTunnel Mentor. As an influencer in the open source world, he initiates the ClickHouse Chinese Community. He has been selected as 33 Chinese Open Source Pioneers and China's Open Source Outstanding Pioneers.

William Guo graduated from Peking University and used to work as the Big Data Director of Lenovo Research Institute and the General Manager of Wanda E-commerce Data Department. At the same time, He is also actively volunteers in technical open-source communities, such as Presto, Alluxio, Hbase, etc.