Jeff McAffer, Founder. Jeff leads the Eclipse Equinox OSGi, RCP and Orbit teams and is the Founder of Code 9. He is one of the architects of the Eclipse Platform and a co-author of The Eclipse Rich Client Platform book. He is a member of the Eclipse Project PMC, the Tools Project PMC and the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors. Jeff is currently interested all aspects of Eclipse components from developing and building bundles to deploying, installing and ultimately running them. Previous lives include being a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM and work in distributed/parallel OO computing as well as expert systems, meta-level architectures and a PhD at the University of Tokyo.

Chris Aniszczyk, Principal Consultant. Chris is the technical lead for the Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) project and Principal Consultant at Code 9. Chris tends to be all over the place inside the Eclipse community by committing on various Eclipse projects. He sits on the Eclipse Architecture Council and the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors. Chris’s passions are blogging, software advocacy, tooling and anything Eclipse. He’s always available to discuss open-source or Eclipse over a frosty beverage.

Scott Lewis. Scott is the project lead for the Eclipse Communication Framework, an Eclipse Foundation project to provide communications APIs for team collaboration and inter-process communication. Scott has been a committer with the Eclipse Foundation for ~3 years now, and has previously served as a committer representative on the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors. His technical interests are in distributed systems and more specifically in real-time collaboration and communication applications. He also has a passion for using open processes in policy development as well as software development.

Ian Bull. Ian is the component lead for Zest, the Eclipse visualization framework and an avid proponent of Model Driven Engineering (MDE). Ian has studied how MDE can play a role in the design and generation of information visualizations. His interests include software architecture, component oriented design, human-computer interaction and just about everything related to software engineering. Ian holds a PhD from the University of Victoria.