Brandon Amos is a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University with research interests in machine learning and computer vision. He is a Linux and LaTeX enthusiast and actively releases research and hobby projects on the open source community at http://github.com/bamos.
Jan Baier is a young system engineer and administrator from the Czech Republic. He holds a master's degree in computer science from the Czech Technical University, Prague. In his spare time, he teaches Unix/Linux basics. He is a cofounder of amagical.net, a company that focuses on delivering information systems to small and medium companies. He tries to boldly go where no one has gone before, and he believes in the true power of open source.