Meet John Scott. He is a systems engineer in Alexandria, Virginia. Scott has worked extensively on open source software policy for the US government and military--and helped found MIL-OSS and Open Source for America. See what else he does.
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Congratulations to our 2011 People's Choice Award winner, David Doria. David is working toward his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, specifically in the field of computer vision and image processing. Read more about David and his contributions to opensource.com.
Seth joined opensource.com in October with a post about Novacut. Since then, he's been sharing his knowledge of Kdenlive in an ongoing open video editing series that has been very popular with our readers. Ant there's more on the way. He's an independent multimedia artist and free culture advocate. We'd like to thank Seth for his current and future contributions. You've never seen open video editing like this before!
Meet Scott Nesbitt. He's a freelance writer and consultant in Toronto, Canada. He uses open source tools for more than 85 percent of the work he does. He's idealistic about more getting more open data from our governments. Nesbitt also contributes to FLOSS Manuals by helping to document open source projects. We hope you enjoy getting to know Scott. Read more.
Meet Paul Booker. He's a web developer in Birmingham, England and a contritor to Mozilla. He is a big fan of Drupal and helps edit the about:mozilla newsletter. We hope you enjoy getting to know Paul. Read more.
Meet Peter Borsa. He's a student at the University of Debrecen in Hungary. He is passionate about Drupal and Fedora. We hope you enjoy getting to know Peter and finding out what he thinks the biggest challenges to openness are and why he chooses the open source way. Read more.
Craig is the CIO of The Myfreedom Group. He is an avid computing and Linux fan who has served time in corporate IT. He's achieved the Rock Star role by commenting and participating in our community. Craig shared with us that it's such a rarity to see a non-technical site about open source with such great contributors and discussion. He's jumped right into conversations like this one.
Drew has been with us since day 1. He visits the site on a daily basis and often contributes to our community in the comments. "Dragonbite" has some great knowledge to share--whether it's participating on an open thread or commenting on one of our polls, he's always out there sharing, contributing, and adding value to our community.
Steve began his Open Source efforts by creating a class at RIT that taught students to make educational games for the OLPC XO/Sugar platforms and fired by student enthusiasm for HFOSS activities has shepherded the 2 largest POSSEs on record, built a model of student engagement that has been presented at several academic and industry conferences and had some of the best times of his academics career. FOSS@RIT efforts have been covered in OLPC and FOSS@RIT--Education innovation the open source way, The Course-to-Co-op Lifecycle: OpenInnovation@RIT, OVC evolution, a snapshot of a student HFOSS work-in-progress, Games for life: Girl Scouts, games, and the open source way.
Luke is the founder of GovFresh and lives in the San Franscisco Bay Area. He promotes open government and his most recent addition to opensource.com highlights lesson learned in building a scalable open government process.
