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Jeremy Jones is a software engineer who works for Predictix. His weapon of choice is Python, but he has done some shell, plenty of Perl, a touch of Java, is currently learning C#, and finds functional programming languages (especially OCaml) fascinating.He is the author of the open source projects Munkware, a multiproducer/multiconsumer, transactional, and persistent queuing mechanism, ediplex, an EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) parsing engine, and podgrabber a podcast downloader. All three projects were written in the Python language.Jeremy spends his spare time enjoying his family and doing a little writing. He lives in Conyers, Georgia, just east of Atlanta, with his wife, Debra; two children, Zane and Justus; a Lab named Genevieve (how Madelinesque).Opinions and views expressed by Jeremy are his own and not those of Predictix.Noah Gift is a software engineer at Racemi were he works on a revolutionary software product called DynaCenter. His favorite programming language is Python and lately he has been absorbed by Python Web Application Frameworks, Javascript, CSS, SQL Alchemy, and Cocoa Programming. On his to do list, are learning Erlang, Haskell, getting better at Objective C, switching to Z shell, writing some quality Artificial Intelligence code in the next 10 years and possibly creating some form of artificial life in his lifetime.He is currently the author of several open source projects including a Django web application called Diskbot, a rendering tool , and an automated software installation tool called osxsmartdeploy. He is currently collaborating on a TurboGears project called feestje, which aims to be the WordPress of group planning software. He own three macs: a macbookpro, a mac mini, and an IBook. His "intense" home infrastructure uses Open Directory running on his mini connected to several NFS volumes shared out from his Ubuntu and CentOS servers. His laptop is currently quad booting, RHEL 5, Ubuntu 7.04, Leopard Development and Tiger.He has worked at Caltech University as a Systems Administrator, and for several years in the animation industry at Disney Feature Animation, Sony Imageworks and Turner Studios. He has a Master's degree in Computer Information Systems from Cal State Los Angeles, and is an Apple Certified Systems Administrator and who also holds an LPI Level 1 certification.Noah spends his free time writing web applications in python, attending PyAtl, writing on his blog osxautomation, running, composing piano music, playing pickup basketball and ultimate frisbee, reading fiction, watching foreign films, and hanging out with his wife Leah and his new son Liam. He has run 2 marathons and decided running a half marathon this year sounds a little more fun. He is a recent transplant from Los Angeles, CA to Atlanta, GA, and has just learned to enjoy sweet tea and Barbecue.