Mark Locklear is a web developer at the eXtension Initiative and has 20 years of IT experience including network administration, quality assurance, and software development. He is an Adjunct Instructor at Asheville Buncombe Technical Community College and is passionate about education and teaching students software development. Simon St.Laurent is Senior Editor at O'Reilly Media, Inc., focusingprimarily on JavaScript and web-related projects. He is co-chair of theFluent and OSCON conferences. He's authored or coauthored booksincluding Introducing Elixir, Introducing Erlang, Learning Rails 3,XML Pocket Reference, Third Edition,, XML: A Primer, and Cookies. Edd Dumbill is a technologist, writer and programmer based in California.

He is the program chair for the O'Reilly Strata and Open Source Convention Conferences. He was the founder and creator of the Expectnation conference management system, and a co-founder of the Pharmalicensing.com online intellectual property exchange. A veteran of open source, Edd has contributed to various projects, such as Debian and GNOME, and created the DOAP Vocabulary for describing software projects. Edd has written four books, including O'Reilly's "Learning Rails". He writes regularly on Google+ and on his blog at eddology.com. Eric J.

Gruber makes stuff for the web and is the eGov coordinator for Lawrence, KS.