Founder and President of Free Software Foundation, United States National Academy of Engineering membership

Richard is a free software developer and activist, he is the founder of the GNU Project and the author of the GNU General Public License. He is the principal author of the GNU Compiler Collection and wrote the GNU Symbolic Debugger, GNU Emacs, and various other programs for the GNU operating system. He has received numerous awards, including the Association for Computing Machinery Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award, the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates.

Vice President & Chief Technical Officer, SINA.com

Marshall Kirk McKusick is a computer scientist, known for his extensive work on BSD, from the 1980s to FreeBSD in the present day. He was president of the USENIX Association from 1990 to 1992 and again from 2002 to 2004, and still serves on the board. He is also on the editorial board of ACM Queue Magazine. He is known to friends and colleagues as "Kirk".

McKusick received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Cornell University, and 2 M.S. degrees (in 1979 and 1980 respectively) and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984.

He lives in California with Eric Allman, his domestic partner since graduate school. McKusick is an avid wine collector and the temperature and vital statistics of his house and wine cellar are available on the web from his homepage.

Founder of HTP and MNM Project, Pinoeer of Free Software Movement in China

Guido van Rossum is the creator of Python, one of the major programming languages on and off the web. The Python community refers to him as the BDFL (Benevolent Dictator For Life), a title straight from a Monty Python skit.

He moved from the Netherlands to the USA in 1995, where he met his wife. Until July 2003 they lived in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC with their son Orlijn, who was born in 2001. They then moved to Silicon Valley where Guido now works for Google (spending 50% of his time on Python!).

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hoodong.com

Now Pan Haidong is leading a team running the largest Chinese encyclopedia in the world, www.hoodong.com. He wae once Chief Information Officer of Asiaec.com, the biggest E-commerce website of office supplies in China. During studying in United States Pan Haidong was the chairman of Harvard China Comment Community, and held the international annual conference which attracted the Chinese and American mass-medias attention. Haidong was the president of MIT Manpower Forum and set off a wave of going back to China among students abroad, thus interviewed by Xinhua News Agency and The People's Daily as an outstanding student in America. Pan Haidong obtained doctor degree from Boston University and master degree from Tsinghua University. Earlier Mr Li got bachelor degree from Beijing Science and Technology Institute. Pan Haidong is also one of committees of All-China Youth Federation on the 9th term and the member of Student Studying Abroad Council.

General Manager, SINA Interactive Community Department

Director-general of Chinese Information Processing Society of China, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Research fellow of Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science

Ni Guangnan, Han nationality, was born in 1939 from Zhenhai, Zhejiang Province, China. He graduated from Southeast University and firstly suggested and realized that taking use of imagination in Chinese inputing. Ni Guangnan was the first chief engineerer of the corporation of Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science, the forerunner Lenovo Group and led the development of Lenovo Chinese system and Lenovo PC. He achieved twice the first-grade State Scientific and Technological Progress Prize in 1988 and 1992. Lenovo's Chinese name is from the imagination Chinese system. Ni Guangnan was honored the first Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Vice President and Editor of HZ Books in China Machine Press

Wen Lifang has been working on editing and publishing industry for more than twenty years and directed the press of many classic books in mainland of China like Bruce Eckel's "Thinking in Java", Bjarne Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language", Hennessy & Patterson's "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" and so on.

Since 1993, Management Consultant

Since 1999, Venture Capitalist (investment into MySQL in 2001)

Since 2004, Researcher at Helsinki University of Technology

Since 2005, COSS (Center for Open Source Solutions)-Global board and advisory board positions (Finland, Spain, USA, China)

Li Gong is Chairman and CEO of Mozilla Online Ltd., the Beijing-based subsidiary of the Mountain View, California, headquartered Mozilla Corporation. Mozilla Online’s mission is to promote the vision of the Mozilla Foundation and promote the adoption of the Firefox browser.

Born and raised in Beijing, Li obtained BS/MS at Tsinghua University and a PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK. He started his career as a researcher, and served as chairman and program chairman of a number of IEEE and ACM conferences. In 1996 he left SRI International (in Menlo Park, California) to join the newly formed JavaSoft division at Sun (in Cupertino,California) where he was Chief Java Security Architect and became a Distinguished Engineer and later a senior engineering director and headed engineering for JES and JXTA before returning to Beijing in 2001 to found Sun’s Engineering and Research Institute (ERI) where he served as General Manager. He joined Microsoft in 2005 as General Manager to head up MSN in China. He joined Mozilla in 2007 to found Mozilla Online Ltd.

Li has 13 issued US patents, co-authored 3 books (published by Addison Wesley and O’Reilly) and many technical articles, and received the 1994 Leonard G. Abraham Award given by the IEEE Communications Society for “the most significant contribution to technical literature in the field of interest of the IEEE.” He was named one of the 2003 China New Economy People by China Internet Weekly and Sina.com, and received the China Open Source Movement Leadership Award in 2003 given by CCID and the China Software Industry Association. He was the founding Beijing chapter chair of TEEC (Tsinghua Entreprenuer and Executive Club) until 2007.