Nicholas du Preez

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 Michael Fletcher

Michael has been dabbling on and off in linux for the last 8 years, and in the last year he has totally stopped using that "other" OS.  He is currently changing careers from chemical engineering to paramedics and will be starting his studies in September 2008.  Michael is the average desktop user and does very little programming, but is striving to make the linux home desktop experience the best one there is by continually trying new software and advocating the joys of linux. Michael started his linux experience with RedHat, then Fedora, followed by SimpleMEPIS and finally settled on Ubuntu.

Personal Blog: http://www.mgfletcher.com/

Sameer Morar

Sameer started using linux in 1999. He thinks it was either Slackware or Redhat. Soon thereafter, he moved over to Debian, and bowed down to apt's super moo powers (apt-get moo). He has used Ubuntu since it was called 'NoNameYet', and loves it because of the fantastic 6 monthly release cycle. He prefers to do things in the command line, and thinks that Gnome is sexy. He is a slave to python, but acknowledges C#'s elegance, and C's simplicity.

Personal Blog: http://smorar.kicks-ass.net/

Quinn Reynolds

Back in the rinderpest, Quinn used to wear a lot of black, Doc Martens, hair down to his ass, and listen to alarmingly loud music that sounded to normal people like kittens being liquidized. This lifestyle naturally brought him into contact with his fair share of illicit and morally questionable things. Fortunately, it also brought him into contact with the Linux OS, in the form of the excitingly free (as in beer) Red Hat 6. Later, he accidentally got some university degrees and was dragged kicking and screaming into respectable society, where he continues to use Linux in the form of the excitingly free (as in speech) Ubuntu, even though his employers would really rather he used Mr Gates' products instead. Quinn's interests lie in scientific and high performance computing, building cheap clusters using FOSS and commodity hardware, and effective workplace functionality in mixed Windows-Linux environments. 

Personal Blog: http://www.quinnreynolds.com/

Neil Robinson

"Aren't these multiple desktops incredible?" said Stu, Neil's brother. Neil wasn't all that impressed, but slowly the light of open source was shone into the darkness of Neil's proprietary software world by various people at university. He eventually tried an installation of Red Hat 7.2, but it disagreed with him and was swiftly purged from his system. When Red Hat 8.0 came out, Neil tried again. This time Linux stuck.
Neil currently uses the Ubuntu flavour of Linux, but doesn't understand why it's a flavour since no-one he knows eats penguins.
Neil once ran "rm -rf" as root. He was happy to note that nothing held in the RAM of his system was deleted, at least not until he turned the PC off in dismay.

Personal Blog: http://thewafflegroup.wordpress.com/

Bradley Whittington

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Kyle Whittington

Kyle was thrown into the deep end in 2002 when his best friend helped install FreeBSD on to his PC. After spending a year in the then "desktop-less" BSD world, he moved on to Gentoo Linux. He compiled source code for two years before moving to Ubuntu and stayed with it for the last four years. Currently he's the system administrator for a film company working on a fully hand drawn animated feature film, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Having run his own business selling computers, his own business doing render farm management consulting for Johannesburg based animation companies, he's the type of guy who's itching to break the mould and start something spectacular. Currently mostly experienced in *Ubuntu and Fedora Core flavours of Linux.

Personal Blog: http://www.ducklight.net/