Strata Rose Chalup (M3, M6) began as a fledgling sysadmin in 1983 and has been leading and managing complex IT projects for many years, serving in roles ranging from Project Manager to Director of Network Operations. She has written a number of articles on management and working with teams and has applied her management skills on various volunteer boards, including BayLISA and SAGE. Strata has a keen interest in network information systems and new publishing technologies and built a successful consulting practice around being an avid early adopter of new tools, starting with ncsa_httpd and C-based CGI libraries in 1993 and moving on to wikis, RSS readers, and blogging. Another MIT dropout, Strata founded VirtualNet Consulting in 1993.

Chip Salzenberg (M1, M4) is a well-known figure in the Perl and free/open source communities. Chip's been working with, and on, free and open source software for 20 years, and specifically Perl for over 15 years. In 1996 and 1997, Chip was project manager ("pumpking") for Perl 5.4, a release widely praised for its high quality. Chip teaches and has been published on Perl and other subjects. During the day he masquerades as a mild-mannered, spam-fighting programmer at Cloudmark, Inc.; but his secret identity is Architect of the Parrot virtual machine.