Michael Driscoll has been programming Python since the Spring of 2006 and has dabbled in other languages since the late nineties. He graduated from the University with a Bachelors of Science degree, majoring in Management Information Systems. Michael enjoys programming for fun and profit. His hobbies include Biblical apologetics, blogging about Python at http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/, and learning photography. Michael currently works for the local government, where he does programming with Python as much as possible. Michael was also a Technical Reviewer for Python 3: Object Oriented Programming by Dusty Phillips and Python Graphics Cookbook by Mike Ohlson de Fine (both by Packt Publishing).
Róman Joost discovered open source software in 1997. He is the project manager for user documentation for GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). Róman also helped with German internationalization of GIMP. He has been contributing to GIMP and Zope open source projects for eight years.
Róman has a Diplom-Informatiker (FH) from the University of Applied Sciences in Koethen (Anhalt). He has worked for Zope companies—Gocept GmbH & Co in Germany, Infrae in The Netherlands, and is currently working for a Zope company in Brisbane, Australia. For relaxation, he enjoys photography and digital painting with GIMP.
Tomi Juhola is a software development professional from Finland. He has a wide range of development experience from embedded systems to modern distributed enterprise systems in various roles such as tester, developer, consultant, and trainer.
Currently, he works in a financial company and shares this time between development lead duties and helping other projects to adopt Scrum and Agile methodologies. He likes to spend his free time with new interesting development languages and frameworks.
He has reviewed conference proposals, a Python development book, and has also published his own Master's theses on Agile embedded development.
Andrew Nicholson is a computer engineer with over fourteen years of professional experience in a broad range of computing technologies. He is currently a Technical Director with Infinite Recursion Pty Ltd.—a bespoke software engineering company located in Sydney, Australia. He is a passionate advocate and a participant in the free, libre, and open source software (FLOSS) community and has actively participated since 1999 contributing code, ideas, and energy in this engineering community. He was a Technical Reviewer for the book Python Testing: Beginner's Guide (2010), Packt Publishing.
Nicholson has a B.Eng (Computer) [Honours 1] from Newcastle University, Australia and a M.Eng (Wireless) with Merit from Sydney University, Australia.
Nicholson's biography can be read at http://www.infiniterecursion.com.au/people/.