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Massimo Di Pierro is an associate professor at the School of Computing of DePaul University in Chicago, where he directs the Master's program in Computational Finance. He also teaches courses on various topics, including web frameworks, network programming, computer security, scientific computing, and parallel programming. Massimo has a PhD in High Energy Theoretical Physics from the University of Southampton (UK), and he has previously worked as an associate researcher for Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Massimo is the author of a book on web2py, and more than 50 publications in the fields of Physics and Computational Finance, and he has contributed to many open source projects. He started the web2py project in 2007, and is currently the lead developer.

Richard Gordon has 30 years of experience in agile web development and industrial design-automation software. He has a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Science Baccalaureate with honors from Brown University. His career spans microprocessor design at AT&T Bell laboratories, electronic-design-automation, software development at Mentor Graphics and Tera Systems, which he founded. He is the founder and lead YAK at YAKiToMe! Co., the Internet's first text-to-speech SaaS portal.

Michele Comitini is a programmer, a consultant, and an entrepreneur, with 20 years of experience in the field of open source software development. Michele has worked with many of the top Information and Communication Technology (ICT) companies in Italy. His skills include the ability to program in many languages and some of the most popular web frameworks. Michele was a Linux early adopter, and he has developed a deep knowledge of the Linux/Unix operating systems as well as its use in embedded systems. Michele is the owner and CEO of GliscoS.R.L., a consulting and development firm that is specialized in mission critical or highly customized software. His customers are mostly companies in the ICT and in the financial sectors.

Pablo Martn Mulone is a full-time web developer and software designer. He co-runs his own company located in Argentina, which is dedicated to bring IT solution to libraries, archives, and government in matter of documentary preservation. He has an extensive experience in FLOSS projects and associated tools. He is the creator of instant2press and CMS/ blog that is developed in web2py framework. His company created the patrimoniosf. gov.ar heritage database, which was built for the state government of Santa Fe.

Jonathan Lundell leveraged a background in the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, into an exciting career in computer systems design. These days, he uses web2py to provide cloud services to his iOS apps, written for Lobitos Creek. He's getting used to Objective-C, but can't help wishing that Steve Jobs had been a Python fan.