Kyle Hutson is a Networking Consultant for Network Resource Group, Inc. in Manhattan, Kansas, where he designs, implements, and fixes computers and networks for small businesses. His networking career spans 15 years, and has included UNIX, Linux, Novell, Macintosh, and Windows networks. Kyle stumbled upon IPCop while looking for a replacement for a broken firewall appliance. Since then, he has installed it for several clients. He remains active on the IPCop-user mailing list.

Lawrence Bean fell out of Computer Science and into Music Education in his sophomore year of college. He graduated from the University of Maine with a Bachelor's in Music Education in 1986 and had a ten year career as a Choral Music Educator in the Kennebunk, Maine school system. His large non-audition groups won silver at the Events America Choral Festival and his select group was featured on Good Morning America and in Yankee Magazine for its annual performances of traditional Christmas carols at the highly acclaimed Kennebunkport Christmas Prelude. Throughout his music tenure he maintained his involvement in computers as the unofficial "computer dude" for Kennebunk Middle School, as well as integrating the use of computer applications throughout all aspects of the music education program. He fell back into Computer Science with the offer of a position as Technology Coordinator at SU#47 in greater Bath, Maine. For the last ten years he has taught teachers how to teach using technology in the classroom as well as creating and managing all aspects of the technology program from hardware repair to network design to database management. He completed his Masters in Computer Science at the University of Southern Maine in 2006.

Throughout his technology tenure he has maintained his involvement in music by bringing the Maine All-State Auditions into the 21st century with on-line applications, judging, and results processing. Outside of work and school, his 16-year career with The Management barbershop quartet brought two albums, a district championship, three trips to the international competition stage, Barbershopper of the Year for the Northeastern District, and the national MENC/SPEBSQSA Educator of the Year award. In his spare time he presents workshops and seminars on technology integration in education, has guest-directed more than half the district music festivals in Maine, created an "open-source" student information system for use by small Maine schools, and recently had an original 8-part a capella composition premiered by the University of Maine Singers. Lawrence lives with his very patient wife Betsy in Saco, Maine.