I'm postgraduate student at Urals State University (department of mathematics), Russia. During my university years i worked heavily with different open source projects (PVFS, FreeBSD), and for two years i was Sun Campus Ambassador at my university. It is a great pleasure to work on this project with young developers and researchers, helping youth make a real step forward in building their own community of the future.

My name is Carlos Alberto Guzman Lucio, I study Telematics Engineering in the Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipas,Mexico. I like play video games, soccer, read, and of course all open source. Actually I work in Sun Microsystems like Campus Ambassador.I have collaborated in several projects and events to promote the open source. About the Digital Open I think that is the opportunity to innove the Technology.If you need something about your work, I can help you with you proyect.

Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul, Brazil
My name is Diogo Luiz Böhm, a 22 years old guy from Santa Cruz do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. I’m currently studying Computer Science at UNISC, where I’m working as a department server manager, dealing with professors’ demands on software, configuration and assuring that everything runs smoothly on our few Solaris and Linux servers. I’m also working as the Sun Campus Ambassador at UNISC, showing how students can achieve best results with Sun technology, guiding them through the course. I’m also developing an online tactical game in my free time, which is almost finished. This is my blog, where I’ll talk about how I’m using technology, mostly open source, to achieve my goals, and I hope my posts can help you to achieve yours.

The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Hani Morsi is a graduate student at the American University in Cairo, currently working on an MA in Economics in International Development. Hani's research and advocacy interests are in the realm of open technology and knowledge, grassroots information activism, social networking and entrepreneurship, and technology-driven development projects. Hani is the founder of AUC’s chapter of the international student organization, Students for Free Culture. Hani’s diverse interests include adventure sports (especially mountain biking), foreign languages, independent travel, and writing.

Hani blogs at hanimorsi.com

Peking University, Beijing, P.R.China
Jerry (Zhen Tao), who is currently undertaking postgraduate degree in School of Software and Microelectronics in Peking University. His first exploration into programming been taken when he was a kid, with strong enthusiasim in coding simultaneously. Up to the present, he has been involved in a bunch of software projects during those past years, and earned Sun Certified Web Component Developer, Java Programmer and Solaris Administrator certificates. At present, he is in charge of onging involvement in community construction and technology outreach in campus. He likes playing basketball and table tennis. His blog site is: http://maoa.cn/blog/

EarlySail, India

Pankaj Jain has been the Vice President of Engineering since EarlySail’s foundation (www.earlysail.com).

Since 1996, Pankaj has delivered software products and services in the area of Real-time Messaging, Telecommunications, Wireless, and Voice-based service automation at telecommunication giants such at AT&T, Verizon and Siemens. He has also worked at leading venture backed US companies.

Pankaj is a hands-on techie in the domain of Mobile and Enterprise Application domain with ample operational knowledge.

My name is Alejandra Gaviria I live in Argentina and I am Geology student at the University of Buenos Aires. I am a Linux Happy user and I have collaborated in several projects to promote Youth participation in social issues through ICT's and arts. I think that the resources and opportunities offered by the ICT's are very useful to raise awareness on different issues specially among the young people.

RouteGuru, India
Piyush is a young entrepreneur and co-founded an innovative product startup RouteGuru that pioneered landmark intelligent driving directions service in India—with a patent pending technology. Piyush embraces overall vision, strategy, partnership/alliances, marketing and client relationships at RouteGuru.

Prior to RouteGuru he helped Accenture India with the acquisition of a Norwegian startup and also served as the techno-business consultant for Telenor (Norway) and BP (Aberdeen) while with Accenture Services, Bangalore. Later he moved to Accenture R&D Labs for an innovative product idea that won a National competition.

Piyush co-founded an offshore product development startup Stendek R&D at Kochi while he was studying his degree at the University and served clientele worldwide. Piyush has also been the chief mentor to a few startups in Delhi region and also associated with various incubators and E-cells at various institutions of repute in India e.g. NSIT, IIT, AMITY, IIMs and Delhi Business School. He also extends advanced product development workshops to Engineering students in Delhi region.

Institut Sains Dan Teknologi Akprind, Indonesia
One of the Informatic Engineering student of Institute Science anda technology Akprind Yogyakarta (ISTA), w3hol is nick name that he used in internet. now he was active in Jogja OpenSolaris UserGroup (Indonesia) and Indonesia Linux user. "Open source makes us more advanced because we are not only the passive but we become active and the user know what's happening on the system that runs" the argument when he asked "what the benefits of open source?" Blog : http://w3hol.wordpress.com/