Lawrence Rosen
Founder
General Counsel and Secretary, Open Source Initiative

Lawrence E. (Larry) Rosen is both an attorney and a computer specialist. As an attorney Larry's specialty is technology, but he is also a skilled litigator and negotiator, and is a legal advisor to individuals and companies throughout the world. He also has extensive experience teaching computer programming and has been a department and product manager in the computer and communications industry.

Larry is very involved in the open source community. He is the general counsel and secretary of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), and served as its executive director. OSI reviews and approves major open source licenses, several of which were written by Larry. OSI manages and promotes the Open Source Definition for the good of the community, specifically through the OSI Certified open source software certification mark and program. Larry often publishes and speaks around the world on open source licensing and patent issues

Larry received his bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. He then pursued a master of computer science degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his law degree from Santa Clara University.

Bruce Perens
Senior Research Scientist for Open Source with George Washington University

Bruce Perens is a leader in the Free Software and Open Source community. He is the creator of the Open Source Definition, and founder or co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, the Linux Standard Base, Software in the Public Interest, and No-Code International. Bruce is also a Senior Research Scientist for Open Source with George Washington University's Cyber Security Policy Research Institute and an elected director of Software in the Public Interest, Inc.

Bruce is series editor of the Bruce Perens' Open Source Series line of books with Prentice Hall PTR publishers. The books sell well in retail stores even though their texts are released under an Open Source license. Previously, Perens spent two years with HP as Senior Global Strategist for Linux and Open Source, and was president of Linux Capital Group, a venture fund that specialized in Linux.

Glenn Otis Brown
Executive Director
Creative Commons

Glenn Otis Brown has been Executive Director of Creative Commons since Summer 2002. Before that, he served as Assistant Director. Glenn is also a lecturer at Stanford Law School, where he teaches a class on Creative Commons and free and open-source software licensing with Lawrence Lessig.

Before coming to Creative Commons, Glenn clerked for the Honorable Stanley Marcus on the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Miami, where he worked on the Wind Done Gone copyright appeal, among other cases. Glenn has also worked stints at The Economist's Washington D.C. bureau, reporting on general U.S. news during the 2000 elections, and at Digital Age, a New York public TV show hosted by Andrew Shapiro, where he was assistant producer for a season.

Glenn graduated from the University of Texas at Austin (B.A. 1996, summa) and Harvard Law School (JD, 2000, magna).

Stacey Quandt
Robert Frances Group
Master of Ceremonies

Stacey Quandt is a Senior Business Analyst and Open Source Practice Leader with the Robert Frances Group where she covers key market trends important to IT vendors and corporate users of Linux and open source technologies. Prior to joining the Robert Frances Group she established Quandt Analytics. She has also been a principal analyst at the Open Source Development Labs and an industry analyst at Forrester Research. At Giga Information Group, a subsidiary of Forrester Research, she created the firm's Open Source Research Competency and advised Fortune 1000 customers with published research and tactical and strategic advice on Linux.

John H. Terpstra
PrimaStasys, Inc.,
Introduction and Conclusion Speaker

John H. Terpstra is CTO and President with PrimaStasys, Inc., a company that mentors information technology companies and facilitates profitable change in business practices. He works with businesses to realign information technology practices with business goals.

John is a member of the formation committee of the Desktop Linux Consortium, a long term member of the Samba-Team (a major Open Source project), and a well known contributor and visionary in the open source community with a very active commercial focus. He is also a member of the Open Source Software Institute Advisory Board. John has worked with the Linux Standards Base, Li18nux (now OpenI18N.Org), the Linux Professional Institute, and is a best selling author of:

• The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556
• Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216
• Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971
• OpenLDAP by Example, ISBN: 0131488732

Previously, John worked with The SCO Group (previously Caldera Inc.) and TurboLinux Inc. in vice presidential level positions.

Andrew Updegrove
Gesmer Updegrove LLP
Closing Summary Speaker

Andrew Updegrove, a co-founder and partner of the Boston law firm of Gesmer Updegrove LLP, has been structuring and representing technology consortia since 1988. He has worked with over 65 such organizations and has been retained by many of the largest technology companies in the world to assist them in forming standard-setting and promotional consortia. Andy has written and spoken extensively on the topics of consortia and standard setting, has given testimony to the United States Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission on the same topics, and has filed “friend of the court” briefs on a pro bono basis with the Circuit Court of Appeals, Supreme Court, and Federal Trade Commission on leading standards litigation. He is also a member of ANSI’s National Standards Strategy Committee.

Andy launched www.consortiuminfo.org, a website intended to be the most detailed and comprehensive online resource addressing the topics of consortia and standard setting. He also produces the Consortium Standards Bulletin, a monthly e-Journal of news and analysis in the standard setting area that now has thousands of subscribers. Besides working with consortia, he has a broad range of experience in representing both mature and emerging high technology companies in all aspects of their legal affairs.

Jonas Jacek
Managing Director
JABZ - Usability and Open Source Design

Jonas Jacek is the Managing Director of JABZ, an agency specialised in search engine friendly open source development, usability and design. He is highly active within the Open Source community. The economist and advertising merchant is often called a specialist for search engine friendly Open Source software and a Usability Guru. He was a special nominee for the Dr.G.Wolf Price (marketing) in 2004 and winner of many open source design contests. He currently works as an economic journalist, writing about how larger companies can profit from the usage of Free- and Open Source Software.