People

Elan Feingold
CTO and Co-Founder at Plex, Inc. Elan has been involved with the creation of innovative technology for over a decade. As Vice President of Technology of MusicStream, he lead the creation of a sophisticated Internet music platform which integrated music and social networking. Prior to that, Elan managed a team at Aravox Technologies responsible for developing software for Aravox’s proprietary VoIP firewall platform, and later assisted in the transfer of technology after Aravox was purchased by Alcatel. Before Aravox, Elan worked as Director of Engineering at AetherWorks creating a groundbreaking VoIP platform which unified ATM, ISDN, and other telephony protocols. Additionally, he was responsible for the design and creation of a cross-platform universal messaging client. During his time there, AetherWorks was acquired by Nx Networks. Elan holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University.

Elizabeth K. Joseph
Elizabeth K. Joseph is a Developer Advocate at IBM focused on IBM Z (mainframes!). Previously, she spent time working on Apache Mesos, and four years as a systems engineer on the OpenStack Infrastructure team and six years on the Ubuntu Community Council and has held various roles in the Ubuntu community and is the co-author of The Official Ubuntu Book, 8th and 9th Editions. At home in San Francisco, she sits on the Board of Directors for Partimus.org, a non-profit in the Bay Area providing Linux-based computers to schools in need.

Emma Marshall
Happiness Manager at System76

Eric Hendricks
The IT Guy --- Open Source Warrior, Linux Systems Engineer, Podcaster, Concert Lighting Designer Maintainer - Jupiter Broadcasting Peertube Social Media Coordinator - GNOME Foundation

Ethan Lee
Linux porter, developer of FNA, FAudio. FEZ, Transistor, Celeste, Streets of Rage 4, Dust: AET, Eversion, Apotheon, Rogue Legacy, VVVVVV, Dream Daddy, Owlboy and more.

Frank Karlitschek
Founder of Nextcloud. Free Software Developer, former KDE e.V. board member and advisor to the United Nations.

Gary Kramlich
Open Source Developer, Twitch Affiliate, Pidgin Lead Developer, IM Freedom Secretary.

Graham Christensen
Graham is a Nix and Rust developer, with a passion and focus on reliability in the lower levels of the stack. He founded Determinate Systems, Inc to support Nix adoption at your workplace.

Guus Sliepen
Guus is the main developer of tinc, a VPN daemon that automatically creates a full mesh between multiple nodes. He is also a Debian Developer, and is working on various other FOSS projects.