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<p>Jeremy Allison is one of the lead developers on the Samba Team, a
group of programmers developing an Open Source Windows compatible file
and print server product for UNIX systems. Developed over the Internet
in a distributed manner similar to the Linux system, Samba is used by
all Linux distributions as well as many thousands of corporations and
products worldwide. Jeremy handles the co-ordination of Samba
development efforts and acts as a corporate liaison to companies using
the Samba code commercially.</p>
<p>He works for Google, Inc. who fund him to work on improving Samba and
solving the problems of Windows and Linux interoperability.</p>
<h2>Kate Chapman</h2>
<p>Kate Chapman is Chief Technology Officer of the Cadasta Foundation,
leading the organization’s technology team and strategy. Cadasta
develops free and open source software to help communities document their
land rights around the world. Chapman is recognized as a leader in the
domains of open source geospatial technology and community mapping, and an
advocate for open imagery as a public good. Over the past 15 years she’s
worked on geospatial problems of all kinds, including tracking malaria
outbreaks, mapping private residences for emergency response, and even
analyzing imaginary items used in geospatial games. Chapman co-founded the
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and served as the organization’s first
Executive Director. She currently serves as the Chairperson of the Board of
Directors of the OpenStreetMap Foundation.</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