James Lee

James Lee is a hacker and open-source advocate based in Illinois. He holds a master's degree from Northwestern University, and he can often be seen rooting for the Wildcats during football season. As founder of Onsight, Lee has worked as a programmer, trainer, manager, writer, and open-source advocate. Lee coauthored the recently published Hacking Linux Exposed, Second Edition, as well as Open Source Web Development with LAMP. He enjoys hacking Perl and has written many articles on Perl for Linux Journal. Lee also enjoys developing software for the Web, reading, traveling and, most of all, playing with his kids—who are too young to know why dad's favorite animals are penguins and camels.

Richard Dice

Richard Dice has worked in IT implementation, consulting, strategy and management for the past 15 years, which coincidentally was when he first started using Perl. Richard was the chair of the YAPC::NA 2005 conference and is currently the President of The Perl Foundation, the organization responsible for many of the administrative and legals functions within the Perl community. He holds a B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Western Ontario and an MBA from the Rotman School at the University of Toronto. He lives in Toronto with his wife, baby daughter and (very demanding) cat.