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Michael Stone
mstone
Projects: Rainbow, Build system, Fedora/Debian compromises, Internships

Michael was recruited in the summer of '07 to realize parts of Bitfrost. He is presently occupied with the task of driving OLPC releases.

(Minor interests: error handling, communications security, and development tools.)

 
Sj
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About: avid practitioner of synchronized flamethrowing.

Contact: sj >at< laptop / _sj_ on IRC

Current projects:

 
Chris Ball
cjb

Chris has been with OLPC since mid 2006. He wrote the sugar activities Pippy and Words, was part of the team who developed WikiBrowse, and maintains OLPC's "ohm" power manager.

 
Dafydd Harries
daf

Daf works on Sugar's communications infrastructure as part of the Collabora team. He loves to see people building shared activities for the XO.

 
Collabora
Collabora

Collabora Ltd. is a software consultancy contracted by OLPC to assist with the design and implementation of OLPC's Presence and real-time Collaboration goals. Here is its current work statement.

Collabora employs some great folks like Daf, Guillaume, and Sjoerd. It is directed in part by Rob McQueen. Michael is Collabora's OLPC Liaison.

 
Bryan Berry
Bryan Berry
Projects: School Server, Bishwamitra Pilot, Bashuki Pilot, managing volunteers and herding cats

Bryan works for OLE Nepal as a systems administrator. He has been involved in OLPC since summer of 2006 and is focused on Nepal's deployments.

 
Morgan Collett
morgs

Morgan formerly worked for Collabora, and has worked on contract for World Wide Workshop Foundation and OLPC. He has worked on Presence Service (including the sugar.presence API), Chat, Read, HelloMesh, Connect, Poll Builder and Story Builder.

 
Mel Chua
Mel Chua

Mel is an itinerant hack of all trades who can juggle and solder surface-mount chips, and is working on being able to do both simultaneously. Works within grassroots, electrical/software engineering (support/QA at 1cc), (engineering) education, and sociology (focused on academic cultures). More narcissism is available here.

 
Yamandú Ploskonka
Yamaplos
Projects: XO_Solar, Aymara Fest, the list for OLPC discussion in Spanish, and all things ICT4D Bolivia

Messing with OLPC since January 2008, Yama has managed to use his journalist dirty tricks to bug everyone within reach with requests for full disclosure and user-developer communication, and TUE, this later being something nobody has ever heard of or ever wants to. Currently in Austin, Texas, on his way to Bolivia. Runs bolinux.org, which has been accurately described as a one-man Linux community

 Edward Mokurai Cherlin

Ah haz teh bestest toyz

Projects: Haitian Kreyòl and Cambodian Khmer localization; documentation; language support (keyboards, IMEs, fonts); San Francisco Bay Area bid for PyCon2010; Illinois HB5000, The Children's Low-Cost Laptop Act; Open Source Management; any functions necessary for the success of the Laptop that are out of scope for OLPC.