Terry lives in New York and Barcelona. He hates computers but loves programming; FluidDB is a natural consequence of these conflicting passions. He has 3 great kids who, after years of patience, are asking if they're "too small" to use FluidDB, and who also wonder if this is all going to work out. He owns 4 unicycles, was once a circus ringmaster, and likes books. He blogs occasionally, can easily be reached on Twitter @terrycojones, and has a home page here.

Terry was previously a postdoc in Zoology at the University of Cambridge (2004-07) where he spent time helping the WHO design part of the human influenza vaccine. He was also a part-time professor in CS at the Universitat de Pompeu Fabra (2005-06), CTO of Eatoni Ergonomics in New York (2000-04), a postdoc in Cognitive Science at UCSD (1998-99), CEO of Teclata in Barcelona (1996-98), and a postdoc and graduate fellow at the Santa Fe Institute (1992-96). He has a Ph.D. in CS from the University of New Mexico, an M.Math from the University of Waterloo, and a B.Sc. in CS from Sydney University.

Esteve was previously a Software Architect at BMAT (2006-07), a Software Architect at Scytl Secure Electronic Voting (2005-07), and a Software Engineer at AASIT (2004-05). He holds an M.Sc. in CS from the Open University of Catalunya, and a B.Sc. in CS from the University of Barcelona.

A fan of Free and Open Source software, he is the original author of txAMQP, he's an Apache and Thrift committer, has spoken at several conferences, such as PyCon US and EuroPython, regularly contributes to Twisted and likes participating randomly in many other projects.

He used to play the violin, the bass guitar and the piano (not at the same time!), but nowadays his only keyboard is soldered to a Thinkpad. Dreams of owning a Volkswagen minibus (T1, if possible), but meanwhile he resigns himself to play with his small collection of minibus miniatures.

Nicholas is a classically trained musician, philosophy graduate, teacher, writer and software developer. He runs the London Python code dojo and is active within the Android community. He tweets, blogs and still regularly performs music.

Nicholas was a senior teacher in an inner-city state secondary school but has extensive experience working with learners of all ages. A graduate of the Royal College of Music he also has an MA in Philosophy of Education and financed his MSc in Computing by writing reviews and articles for the UK edition of Computer Shopper.

Prior software development experience includes investment banking (Barclays Capital) a startup (Xmonic) and large public-sector projects (with the Council of Europe and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health)

Manuel is a Software Engineer from the University of Cauca in Colombia. He is passionate about programming and a fan of open source software. He contributes to projects such as GNOME and Mono. He is also the main author of Pixtream and MonoHotDraw.

Manuel blogs and tweets mostly about programming and politics. During his free time, he enjoys cycling, reading Manga and Sci-Fi, traveling and writing small video games for competitions like PyWeek.

Ali is a medical doctor, and computer programmer. He likes all things open source, loves innovation, and is an extremely serious person.

He gained his medical degree from Southampton University, before practising as an Anaesthesiologist for 6 years and maintains a Visiting Lecturer position at the Institute of Human Nutrition in Southampton.

He has been developing open source and commercial applications since releasing his first game for the Psion organiser in 1999. Since then he as authored a number of open source projects, including PIDA, Glashammer, and of course FOM, the Fluid Object mapper.

Pier André is a freelance developer from Canada who conceived of and wrote the FluidDB explorer application. He also created the FluidDB PHP library.

Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. In addition to Foo Camps ("Friends of O'Reilly" Camps, which gave rise to the "un-conference" movement), O'Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the Web 2.0 Summit, the Web 2.0 Expo, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the Gov 2.0 Summit, and the Gov 2.0 Expo. Tim's blog, the O'Reilly Radar, "watches the alpha geeks" to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim's long-term vision for his company is to change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators. In addition to O'Reilly Media, Tim is a founder of Safari Books Online, a pioneering subscription service for accessing books online, and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, an early-stage venture firm.

Esther Dyson

Investor and advisor

Esther is a long-time catalyst of start-ups in information technology in the US and other markets, including Russia. Since selling her company, EDventure Holdings, to CNET Networks in 2004, she has taken on challenges in private aviation and space as well as in health care. See her full bio for more detail.

Russell Manley

Investor and board member

Russell is Group communications and resources director at Semperian Ltd. in London. Before Semperian he was an Investment Director at Land Securities, also in London. He has a long and varied background in finance and operations, and sits on over 30 boards.

Nicholas Radcliffe

Investor and advisor

Nick is the founder of Stochastic Solutions Limited, which works on mathematical and algorithmic approaches to targeted marketing. He previously co-founded Quadstone Limited, CRM analytics software house, and spent 12 years building the company as CTO then CEO, before the company was acquired by Portrait Software. Nick has a Ph.D. in physics and remains a Visiting Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Edinburgh, and is an advisor to Scottish Equity Partners, a private equity firm.

Jamu Kakar

Advisor

Jamu lives in Barcelona. He is very lazy and strives to get the most benefit by putting in the smallest amount of effort possible. He is passionate about programming, test-driven development, and how people can work together on software projects to maximize fun and a side-effect to maximize productivity. He regularly contributes to Storm and Commandant, but is also doing quite a bit of work with cloud related technologies like EC2.

Jamu loves music of all kinds and has been playing the drum set for many years. He has played and performed with a number of bands. Be careful, if you get him going on about drums you'll have a hard time getting a word in edgewise or making him stop. You've been warned. He blogs about nerdy things and goes by @jkakar on Twitter.