In 1995, Karl Fogel and Jim Blandy co-founded Cyclic Software, the first company offering commercial CVS support. In 1997 he added support for anonymous read-only repository access to CVS, and in 1999 wrote "Open Source Development With CVS" (Coriolis). From 2000-2006, he worked for CollabNet, Inc, managing the creation and development of Subversion, an open source version control system written from scratch by CollabNet and a team of open source volunteers. In 2005 he wrote "Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project" (O'Reilly Media, also online at producingoss.com). After a brief stint as an Open Source Specialist at Google in 2006, he left to become full-time editor of QuestionCopyright.org. He continues to participate in various open source projects, including Subversion and GNU Emacs.

Ari Jaaksi runs Nokia's Linux and Open Source based software strategy and development, including the Maemo platform and Internet Tablet OS. Jaaksi is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology, Tampere, Finland.

Sandro Morasca is a Professor of Computer Science at the "Dipartimento di Scienze della Cultura, Politiche e dell'Informazione" of the Universitá degli Studi dell'Insubria in Como, Italy. In the past, he was an Associate Professor and Assistant Professor at the "Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione" of Politecnico di Milano in Milano, Italy. He was a Faculty Research Assistant and later a Visiting Scientist at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Maryland at College Park. Sandro Morasca has been carrying out research in the Software Engineering field in Empirical Software Engineering, Specification of Concurrent and Real-time Software Systems, Software Verification, and Open Source Software, and has published over 20 journal papers and 40 conference papers.
Sandro Morasca has been involved in a number of national and international projects. He has served on the PC of several international conferences. He has organized METRICS 2005 in Como as General Chair. Sandro Morasca serves on the Editorial Board of "Empirical Software Engineering: An International Journal" ( http://www.springerlink.com/content/100262/) and IJSEIA ( http://www.sersc.org/journals/IJSEIA/).