<p>Lo&iuml;c Dachary has been involved with Free Software since 1987 when he

started distributing GNU tapes to the general public in France.  His first

contact was with GNU Emacs and in 1989 with GCC which he used to port a

Unix System V kernel to a embeded motorola 68030 motherboard.  He

currently works as a developer

for <a href="http://outflop.me/">OutFlop</a>, a company providing services

and software to operate poker rooms.  He

created <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/">Savannah</a>, the GNU forge, in

2001 to provide a Free alternative to proprietary forges. As a president

of FSF France, he provides technical and legal resources to French Free

Software developers. Loic Dachary is also a honorary member

dedicated to Free Software with over 5,500 members.</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