project. Based on his experiences there, he

wrote <a href="http://producingoss.com/">Producing Open Source Software: How

to Run a Successful Free Software Project</a> (O'Reilly, 2005), which is a

highly-cited resource in the open source community. After a brief stint as an

Open Source Specialist at Google in 2006, he left to found

QuestionCopyright.org. In addition to QuestionCopyright.org, he also serves

as Open Civics Development Specialist at Civic Commons and sat on the board

of the Open Source Initiative. Fogel now serves as the chairperson of the

Evaluations Committee.</p>

<h2>Mark Galassi</h2>

<p>Mark Galassi has been involved in the GNU project since 1984. He

currently works as a researcher in the International, Space, and Response

division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he has worked on the

HETE-2 satellite, ISIS/Genie, the Raptor telescope, the Swift satellite,

and the muon tomography project. In 1997 Mark took a couple of years off

from Los Alamos (where he was previously in the ISR division and the

Theoretical Astrophysics group) to work for Cygnus (now a part of Red Hat)

writing software and books for eCos, although he continued working on the

HETE-2 satellite (an astrophysical Gamma Ray Burst mission) part time. Mark

earned his BA in Physics at Reed College and a PhD from the Institute for

Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook.</p>

<h2>Mike Hostetler</h2>

<p>Mike Hostetler is an inventor, entrepreneur, programmer and proud

father. Having worked with web technologies since the mid 1990's, Mike has

had extensive experience developing web applications with PHP and

JavaScript.  Currently, Mike works as the Founder and CEO of appendTo, LLC,

the company dedicated to jQuery, based in Denver, Colorado. Heavily

involved in Open Source, Mike is an alumni of the jQuery Core team,

participates in the QCubed PHP5 Framework project, and participates in the

Drupal project. When not in front of a computer, Mike enjoys hiking,

fly-fishing, snowboarding and spending time with his family.</p>

<h2>Bradley M. Kuhn</h2>

<p>Bradley M. Kuhn began his work in the Free Software Movement as a

volunteer when, in 1992, he became an early adopter of the popular

GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to various Free Software

projects.  He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator and

software development consultant for Westinghouse, Lucent Technologies, and

numerous small companies.  He also spent one year teaching Advanced

Placement Computer Science (using GNU/Linux and GCC) at Walnut Hills High

School in Cincinnati.  In January 2000, he was hired by the Free Software

Foundation (FSF), and he served as its Executive Director from March 2001

until March 2005, when he left FSF to join the Software Freedom Law Center