John Anderson - Systems Architect |
| John has been writing software since high school, when
he programmed one of the world's first PDP-11's. Since then, he earned
a Ph.D. in Zoology at the University of Washington, co-founded Solaster
Software Corporation, wrote WriteNow, the award-winning word processor
for Macintosh, managed the application software department at NeXT
Software, and wrote code for many Silicon Valley companies. After
all this he still loves programming and is excited to be part of the
development team at the Open Source Applications Foundation. |
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Grant Baillie - Software Development Engineer |
| Grant Baillie comes
to OSAF by way of NeXT and Apple, where his most recent project has been the Mail client in Mac OS X. At
OSAF he'll be
working in the Services Group on sharing and other projects. In his
spare time, he can be found pedalling up and down various peaks in
the
Bay Area on his road bike. |
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Philippe Bossut - Development Manager, Applications
Group |
| Philippe came to programing by way of Geology. He earned a PhD
in Image
Sciences from Ecole des Mines de Paris and went on spending his career
building and delivering desktop applications, some of them you may
have
used (MS Office, Internet Explorer for Mac OS X) and some you may
not
(Live Picture, LivePix). He'll bring to OSAF his passion for the
end
user and his experience in shipping desktop applications that the
rest
of us can use. When not working on computers, Philippe loves nothing
more than spending time with his family, picking up stones and fossils
on his hikes and pondering the deep existential questions his 5 years
old daughter Camille keeps asking him. |
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Dave Cowen - System Administrator |
| After 10 years providing support and product development for Internet and telecommunications applications at ExecPC, Voyager.net, and the companies that came thereafter though mergers and acquisitions, Dave Cowen came to OSAF to keep the servers humming, the desktops running and the network flowing. Dave is also an avid movie buff, author of the FAQ for Terry Gilliam's film Brazil, and a regular voter in the Skander Halim Memorial Movie Survey. |
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Matthew Eernisse -
Web Development Engineer
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| Matthew brings a somewhat eclectic background to his
position at OSAF -- as an undergrad he studied English Lit
and Biology. After a stint living in Japan, he returned
home to find everyone talking about this 'Internet' thing.
A taste of the World Wide Web led to endless hours in front
of a computer, a master's degree in Instructional Technology,
and a ride on the dot-com startup tain. He worked for seven
years for e-learning companies KnowledgeWire and Eduneering,
building Web-based applications, and watching browsers slowly
get better and better. He places the blame for his career
in programming squarely on the 'View Source' menu option in
Netscape 2. Matthew plays drums and speaks fluent Japanese. |
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Reid Ellis - Application Development |
| Reid has been frustrated with iCal's shortcomings and is looking forward to scratching that itch. He has worked on medium- and large-scale applications, such as Roxio's "PhotoSuite" and Alias' "Maya" and "Sketchbook Pro", as well as open source projects like BZFlag and iJournal. Reid will be working in a secret OSAF Underground Bunker in Toronto, Canada. |
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Jeffrey Harris - Software Development Engineer |
| In an attempt to avoid the inevitable bliss of life in the Bay Area, Jeffrey left the University of Michigan's physics program and joined Dancing Rabbit where he learned a whole lot about building egalitarian community. Now that he's succumbed to the attraction of California, he's ecstatic not to be working for a soulless company and works in the applications team on recurrence, iCalendar interop, and whatever else his comrades-in-coding suggest. In his spare time, Jeffrey sings in Sacred and Profane, tries to remember how to cook for groups smaller than 10, and plays ultimate frisbee. |
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Pieter Hartsook - Marketing Specialist |
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The token marketing guy on the team, Pieter started out as a librarian and became interested in using personal computers in libraries back in the early 80's. He found computers were much more fun than books and he's been involved with them ever since. These days sharing information over the Internet is even more fun than computers. He thinks helping make a successful open-source collaborative "killer app" at OSAF is very cool. |
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Aparna Kadakia - Quality Assurance Manager |
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Aparna was fascinated by all the open source development
projects while working at Netscape. She started out as a QA lead
at Netscape and later became QA manager at other Silicon Valley
ventures where she defined QA processes for large scale enterprise
projects. OSAF is her first contribution to the open source world.
She will be doing testing for the Chandler project and defining
QA processes for enhancing the overall quality of the release. |
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Mitch Kapor - Design, Product Management |
| Mitch Kapor is the Chair of OSAF. Previously, he founded
Lotus
Development corporation and co-founded the Electronic Frontier
Foundation. |
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Brian Kirsch - E-mail Framework Software Engineer |
| Brian is OSAF's "go to" person for making email happen
in Chandler. This includes everything from an architectural role in
deciding how to integrate email to evaluating existing code for communicating
with e-mail servers, making fix/build decisions, and hooking these
to the networking and data repository frameworks. Brian has worked
with a variety of companies including Excite@Home, Zaplet, Macrovision,
Razorfish, STMicroElectronics, and Nickelodeon. He is very excited
to be dedicating himself fulltime to open source as the “Email
Guy” for Chandler. In addition to coding, Brian is an accomplished
musician who has shared bills with Meshell Ndegeocello, Jonathan Richmond,
the Rebirth Brass Band, Blind Boys of Alabama, and Bonnie Raitt. In
November 2003, Brian got to live every musician’s fantasy touring
with Carlos Santana as his opening act. |
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Randy Letness - Server Developer |
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| After working with Cosmo at his last employer Randy decided he couldn't pass up the opportunity to work with our great team in a unique organization. He graduated from Rice University in Houston, Texas with a degree in Electrical Engineering, and after drawing transistors in his VLSI class decided he would much rather work with software. Since then he has been working in Austin, Texas developing enterprise software using J2EE technologies. Newlywed since January 2006, he says, "My beautiful wife and I are ready to go back to San Pedro, Belize, where we had our honeymoon." He will be working from Austin, TX with the Cosmo team on the many exciting upcoming features. |
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Ted Leung - Development |
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| Ted has been swamped by his personal information since
as long as he can remember, and is eager to help Chandler come to
life, so he can feed it all of his stuff. Since its founding in 1999,
Ted has been involved with the Apache Software Foundation's XML project,
serving as its chairman for two years between 2001 and 2003. Ted is
really excited to be working on Chandler and to be involved with another
flavor of open source. He'll be working in the "OSAF Home Office
on Bainbridge Island". |
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Sheila Mooney - Program Manager |
| Sheila has been working in the software
industry for over 13 years at companies including Microsoft, Wells
Fargo and several startup ventures. She comes to OSAF from RelayHealth,
an ASP providing secure messaging services between doctors and patients.
As the technical project manager she helped streamline the design
and development process, managed project scheduling and planning activities
and acted as the liaison to a 23 person offshore team. She is very
excited to be participating in her first open source project. When
not working, Sheila can be found trying to achieve Middle Earth domination
playing Lord of the Rings Risk, perfecting her barista skills or watching
hockey. |
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Brian Moseley - Server Developer |
| Brian is finally settling down at OSAF
after having ping-ponged between the SF Bay Area, New York, and Melbourne,
Australia since Y2K. His previous tours of duty include Covalent
and Critical Path, where he led a team creating a web-based personal
information manager, stoking his interest in all things email, calendar,
and even LDAP (tho he'll only admit it when pressed). He's been begging
anyone who'll listen to let him build a calendar server. |
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Katie Capps Parlante - Design, Development |
| At OSAF, Katie is immersing herself in all things Calendar. A programming veteran of various Silicon Valley adventures, she's excited about working on an open-source, standards-based product her friends can use. |
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Mikeal Rogers - QA Engineer |
| Addicted to Unix-based system and open source since the age of 13, Mikeal joins OSAF from a long history at RealNetworks. While at RealNetworks Mikeal was a QA Engineer for Helix Server and the QA Project Lead for Helix Client which included the RealPlayer releases for Mac and Windows. Mikeal is a QA Engineer on Chandler and his first task is to continue driving and expanding CATS. |
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Bobby Rullo - Server Developer |
| Bobby Rullo comes to OSAF
from New York where he has worked for the last eight years developing
software in diverse areas such as the apparel,
marketing and textile industries. He is eager to be a producer of
open
source software, having been an enthusiastic consumer for some time.
Bobby plays Brazilian instrumental music on guitar and speaks faltering
Portuguese. |
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Morgen Sagen - Development |
| Since his first UNIX programming class at the age of 10, Morgen
has been making computers do fun things at several Bay Area companies.
His quest for better information management software has led him to
OSAF, where he is involved with architecture, development, and administration. |
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Bryan Stearns - Software Engineer |
| Bryan comes to OSAF by way of Microsoft, Excite@Home, Classifieds2000, Apple, and the first computer store in the world. He's happy to be working with Donn again in the Applications team (after their long-ago stint together on the original Mac team), and he's excited about working in OSAF's open development process. |
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Mike Taylor - Build Tools & Setup Engineer |
| Mike "Bear" Taylor has always
been interested in the work required behind the scenes delivering
an application to users. He officially joins the team at OSAF after
volunteering on the project almost from the beginning. His role as
Build Tools & Release Engineer is to help tame the complexities
of building a product in three distinct environments. |
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Heikki Toivonen - Development Manager |
| Heikki has been fascinated with structured
documents since the birth of the web as we know it. He spent several
years in providing solutions for large corporations struggling with
document management. Lately software security has become one of his
major interests. He got hooked on Open Source with Mozilla, and has
been an active developer in the project since 1998. He worked for
Netscape before joining OSAF. |
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Travis Vachon - Software Engineer
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| Travis comes to OSAF straight from Williams College, a small liberal arts college nestled in the hills of Berkshire County, Massachusetts. His first brush with open source software came from a 2005 Google Summer of Code grant during which he worked with the GNOME desktop project. After senior thesis work related to the Xen Virtual Machine Monitor and an internship with OSAF's Chandler Platform team, he is thrilled be joining OSAF's Cosmo Sharing Server team. In addition to being a full time college student, Travis's pre-OSAF life involved 7 summers as a camp counselor, the last two of which he spent teaching rock climbing and facilitating a ropes course. He hopes to continue this passion by exploring the local climbing from Pine Canyon to Yosemite. |
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Andi Vajda - Object Persistence
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| Wouldn't it be nice if we could just persist objects
as we think of them and then get them back as we need them? Yeah,
right. Well, you know there're ways to do this ... Andi's skills in
cross-platform development span the Web, PCs, UNIX workstations and
mainframes. He brings to the development team his skills in object
oriented design, Internet technologies, threaded and distributed systems,
artificial intelligence, language processing and GUI design. |
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Mimi Yin - UI Designer |
| I love all things to do with information,
especially maps. I think aliased text can be beautiful and believe
that one day, MoMA will add an Interface gallery to their Design wing.
I will be working hard to construct an elegant and intuitive visual
metaphor for Chandler's user interface. When I get stuck, I dance
and move around to get the blood circulating back into my head. My
current visual artist obsession is Sol LeWitt. |
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