Tony Atkins is an administrator and developer with nearly 15 years experience developing and supporting web applications. He currently works as a Senior Support Engineer in the Amsterdam office of Atlassian. Previously, Tony worked at both UHI and Virginia Tech supporting their use of educational technologies like Blackboard and Sakai. Prior to that, he was the Technical Director of the Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech, where he developed the ETD-db, an open source system for managing theses and dissertations. He has also contributed to the book "Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Sourcebook for Educators, Students, and Librarians".

Steven Swinsburg is a Software Engineer at the Australian National University. He holds a Master's Degree in Information Technology and a Bachelor of Science Degree, both from the University of New England, Australia. Steve also operates his own Sakai consultancy business, 'Flying Kite', providing Sakai development and integration services to clients in the Australasian region, as well as overseas. Steve has been involved with the Sakai community since 2006 and is an active member of the Technical Coordination Committee, the Maintenance Team, the Kernel Team and the Security Working Group. Steve has written over a dozen articles on Sakai best practices and how-tos, and regularly blogs about Sakai related developments. In 2008, he had a paper on Sakai in distance education published in the Australian ascilite journal. In recognition of his contributions, Steve was selected as a Sakai Foundation Fellow in 2009.

Margaret Wagner is a senior technical writer at the University of Michigan. She has been involved with the Sakai Project since its earliest predecessors, UM.CourseTools, UM.WorkTools, and CHEF, were developed, and she wrote the original help guides for these applications. Margaret is also the editor of the Sakai Newsletter, which is received by members of the Sakai Community around the world every two weeks. Margaret attended Whitman College, University of Colorado, and University of Michigan, where she studied linguistics and piano performance.