Elizabeth K. Joseph
Elizabeth K. Joseph is a Developer Advocate at IBM focused on IBM Z (mainframes!). Previously, she spent time working on Apache Mesos, and four years as a systems engineer on the OpenStack Infrastructure team and six years on the Ubuntu Community Council and has held various roles in the Ubuntu community and is the co-author of The Official Ubuntu Book, 8th and 9th Editions. At home in San Francisco, she sits on the Board of Directors for Partimus.org, a non-profit in the Bay Area providing Linux-based computers to schools in need.

Emma Marshall
Happiness Manager at System76

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Heather Ellsworth
Heather is a Software Engineer on Canonical's Ubuntu Desktop Team, a GNOME Foundation Member, and former Purism Librem 5 Documentation Engineer. She is also a former experimental high energy physics researcher at CERN working on the Atlas Detector and Higgs boson.

Jackie DeVore
reluctant artist & writer. frequent gamer & bunny lover. often covered in tattoos & last night's makeup. one third of horror podcast Sirens of Scream. loves ghosts.

Jacob Roecker
Jacob Roecker currently holds a position as an IT project manager, is a Bronze Star Medal recipient, a graduate of Utah State University with a Bachelor's Degree in Speech Communication, an Eagle Scout, and was honored as Utah State University's "Man of the Year" in 2008. Also a hobby author and creator of ParkingThought.

Jason Spisak
Award Winning Actor in Games, Film, Television, and Animation Jason Spisak has brought to life hundreds of characters across all genres and media

Jill Bryant Ryniker

Jim Salter
Jim Salter is an author, public speaker, small business owner, mercenary sysadmin, and father of three—not necessarily in that order. He got his first real taste of open source by running Apache on his very own dedicated FreeBSD 3.1 server back in 1999, and he's been a fierce advocate of FOSS ever since. He's the author of the Sanoidhyperconverged infrastructure project. He's contributed to websites such as Ars Technica on everything from Wi-Fi to NAS distributions to next-gen filesystems.

Josh Lowe
Creator of Edublocks and Python developer extrordinaire, editor of Micro:bit magazine and co-host of MintCast.

Kyle Rankin
Chief Security Officer and Vice President at Purism. Former Tech Editor and columnist at Linux Journal. He is the author of Linux Hardening in Hostile Networks, DevOps Troubleshooting, The Official Ubuntu Server Book, Knoppix Hacks, Knoppix Pocket Reference, Linux Multimedia Hacks and Ubuntu Hacks, and also a contributor to a number of other O'Reilly books. Rankin speaks frequently on security and open-source software including at BsidesLV, O'Reilly Security Conference, OSCON, SCALE, CactusCon, Linux World Expo and Penguicon.

Martin Wimpress
Passionate open source advocate, Linux 🐧 enthusiast & podcaster 🎤 Lives in 🇬🇧 with his wife & daughter. Works for @Canonical making @Ubuntu & @snapcraftio.