Contributors
TILL ADAM spent his youth studying philosophy, comparative literature, American studies,
and musicology while making a living as a musician. Having failed to become rich and famous
that way, he went for a M.Sc. in maths, computer science, and business. Some years of
contributing to Free Software, in particular KDE, taught him to program, which led to his
employment at Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, where he now coordinates the KDE- and Free
Software-related activities of the company, among other things. Till lives with his wife and
daughter in Berlin, Germany.
JIM BLANDY maintained GNU Emacs for the Free Software Foundation from 1990 to 1993,
and released Emacs version 19 with Richard Stallman. He is one of the original designers of
the Subversion version control system. He has also contributed to the CVS version control
system, the GNU Debugger (GDB), the Guile extension language library, and an Emacs made
for editing gene sequences. He now works for the Mozilla Corporation on SpiderMonkey,
Mozilla’s implementation of the JavaScript programming language. Jim lives in Portland,
Oregon with his wife and two daughters.
MIRKO BOEHM has been a KDE developer since 1997, and was a member of the KDE e.V. board
from 1999 to 2006. He is a business graduate from Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg,
Germany. In his private life he tries to stay away from computers by reading books printed on
real paper and spending time with his family. He currently works at Klarälvdalens Datakonsult
AB in Berlin, Germany, where he specializes in cross-platform and embedded software
development.
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