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John is a retired educator who has been involved with personal computers since 1980. He has used OS/2 since version 2 and has been an OS/2 advocate ever since. He was actively involved with the Kitchener-Waterloo OS/2 Users Group for a number of years and is the current President of Warpstock Corporation.
As Managing Member of Arca Noae, LLC, Lewis directs the premier OS/2-focused development and marketing company in the United States. He has been active professionally in the IT field since 1987. His experience with OS/2 dates back to version 2.0, which became the first OS/2 workstation OS rolled out in his accounting & systems integration firm of Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC.
As Managing Member of Arca Noae, LLC, he is actively engaged in OS/2 consulting and product development for the Company, including its flagship ArcaOS OS/2 distribution.
Lewis holds multiple professional certifications from Novell and CWNP, and serves as Treasurer on the Board of Warpstock Corporation.
Neil is an OS/2 and eComStation consultant and a reseller for Arca Noae and eComStation. He lives in Santa Cruz, California, and uses OS/2 and eComStation computers in the home office. He first programmed OS/2 version 1.2 on an IBM PS/2 model 80.
Roderick Klein has worked at Mensys B.V. on OS/2 from 2001 until 2014. He started using OS/2 when the Warp 3 beta from IBM came out. Working on further improving the IT infrastructure of Mensys and providing support internally and to customers, he also worked on eComStation development, support, research and new projects. He was president and liaison officer of VOICE, and member of the Dutch HCC OS/2 gg and its helpdesk. He is now President of the OS/2 VOICE foundation.
Jan has been working on OS/2 since 1988 and was hired by IBM to work on OS/2 1.0 Extended Edition for a few years. For a major Dutch bank, he worked on architecture, system integration and OS2 software development. In 2001 he founded Fsys Software to continue development of the DFSee utility and continues developing this milti-platform tool on OS/2 using C.
Gregg is currently retired. He was the chief of podiatry at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. He also just happens to have been an OS/2 user since 2.1. He assists with the development of FM/2, lSwitcher and eFTE. He also assisted in the early work updating the USB stack and has contributed fixes to several other projects.
Martín Itúrbide is the OS2World.com NewsMaster since the year 2000. He obtained a B.S. in Computer Science from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador at 1999. He is currently living in Quito, Ecuador (South America) and he has been using OS/2 since 1995. His interest is on open source software and collaborative participation for the OS/2-eCS platform. When he is not "Dreaming in Technicolor" about a full OS/2 open source clone, he works offering SOA integration solutions and process automation (BPM) implementations in Ecuador.
Alex Taylor is a software designer who has been using OS/2 for two decades. He specializes in interface design, internationalization, and fonts. He recently completed a Master's degree on the use of technology in globalizing education, and currently lives in Canada.
Mr. Reed has more than thirty years developing software for OS/2. He began his career with the U.S. Treasury Department developing Windows software for top level management. While working for the Treasury department full time, Mr. Reed began developing software for the OS/2 platform. O/S Black Jack was released in the fall of 1992. In 1994, he released OS/2 Poker. Mr. Reed received an award from IBM in recognition of delivering OS/2 Black Jack for OS/2 version 2.0. In 1992, Mr. Reed was recruited by IBM to develop OS/2 software for utility companies looking to modernize systems and software. Today, Mr. Reed has completed OS/2 Poker version 2.0. Version 2.0 incorporates many new features and modern graphics.
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