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Sigurd has been using OS/2 (Warp 3) since 1995, the time he bought his first PC (a pre-installed 486 DX2/80 VOBIS PC). Since then he has used this system for private use, while not having any programming skills. Sigurd's goal is to run OS/2 and eComStation natively on modern hardware as long as possible. Therefore, he used the program UpdCD (created by Zsolt Kadar) and created a...

Thorolf started in 1985 with hardware development and assembler programming on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, later on with a Sinclair QL (32-bit). In 1993 he got his first 386-compatible system and got in touch with DOS, Minix, Linux and since 1994/95 (after upgrading his PC to 8MB RAM) with IBM OS/2 Warp 3.He worked several years as a system administrator for OS/2 networks at an IBM subsidiary. By now...

Evgeny Gorbunov is responsible for the production of about thirty software products for the eComStation platform (applications and drivers). He is going to share the experience of the eCo Software team with european users and developers.

Adrian Gschwend is founder and webmaster of netlabs.org. He works as a Unix and network specialist and teaches network security at Swiss universities and companies.

Christian Hennecke has been Editor-in-Chief of the German edition of the VOICE Newsletter since August 2000 and took over responsibility for both language editions in January 2004. He was heavily involved in the translation of several applications and tools to German, e.g., eComStation, XWorkplace, Maul Desktop Publisher, and NewView. After Warpstock Europe 2006, he became one of the founding...

Uwe Hinz has been a member of the OS/2 User Group Dresden since 2004 and is employed at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW). Starting with Z80-Computers in 1985 for controlling experiments in materials science, he made first steps in DOS, programming with Assembler, QuickBasic, and Pascal some years later. From 1993 to 2000, he coded for a number of...

Roderick Klein has been working at Mensys, the European distributor of eComStation, since 2001. He started using OS/2 when the Warp 3 beta from IBM came out. Working on futher improving the IT infrastructure of Mensys and providing support internally and to customers, he also works on eComStation development, support, research and new projects. He is president and liason officer of VOICE, and...

Thomas Klein started to use OS/2 back in 1993 rather accidentally when he came across a 2.11 edition at a shop sellout. He gave it a try and became passionate about it ever since back then. He is probably known best as a long-term contributor of the VOICE Newsletter especially for his development article series "DrRexx or how I learned to stop worrying and love REXX." He was Chairman...

Peter Koller started his career by designing computers in the early 80's and started using OS/2 at version V2.10. He has been developing applications for this operating system since 1995. From 1997 onwards, he has concentrated his efforts on Maul Publisher, a professional-level desktop publishing application that is constantly being improved by Peter. Besides being one the last professional...

Christian Langanke has been using OS/2 and eComStation for over fifteen years and since then dealt with topics from installation and software distribution via network integration of OS/2 and eComStation systems and applications up to intra-/internet and host connectivity. He is the author of the well-known Wireless LAN Monitor as well as of many other freeware, which is available on his homepage....

Keith Merrington has been in computing since punched cards were used as input, and computers were made from discrete components. He has worked for various computer companies such as ICL English Electric, Philips Office Computer Systems, and Philips Microprocessors both in the commercial and technical side. He built his first computer soldering the chips in by hand, back in the 80's based on a...

Michael Oehlhof started to use OS/2 with Warp 3 Connect. Since 1999 he is a member of Team OS/2 Ruhr e.V. In 2005 Michael created an installation package for Apache, MySQL, and PHP called AMPOS2 (now AMP4eCS). With this package and some research work he got the Content Management System TYPO3 running on OS2. The project TYPO3 goes eComStation was started together with Roland Schmalenberg, and...

Dave has been messing with computers for many more years than he cares to think about. Started, as it seems many OS/2 users did, with IBM Mainframes, having been MVS Systems programmer for years, it was MVS where he got his first exposure to REXX. He "speaks" Fortran, BAL (IBM Assembler), REXX, C, Perl & various Unix shell scripts and has a nodding acquaintance with several more...

Roland Schmalenberg joined the non-commercial use of OS/2 in 1996 with Warp 3 Connect together with the challenge to realize a web-site for a non-profit organisation. Since 1998 he is a member of TeamOS/2 Koeln/Bonn e.V. and one of the founder of the ThinClient-Project using IBM 8364-S20 Netstations. In 2005 he focused together with Michael Oehlhof on the TYPO3 goes eComStation project to make...

First preferring typewriters over computers, Andreas joined the scene in 1993 with an Atari ST. In 1995, he started with Warp 3, having a great interest in creating TeX documents and enhancing LaTeX styles. The EPM editor was best-suited for that task. After having made some EPM macro changes, he felt the wish to release them. Anreas and Christian Langanke ...

Bart van Leeuwen has been using OS/2 and eComStation for more then 15 years. He worked briefly for IBM and then started his own company. Now Bart van Leeuwen works as a firefighter in Amsterdam and in his spare time contributes a lot to the development and coordination of the development of eComStation.

Sjoerd Visser (1960) is an OS/2 user since Warp 3 (1994). He is a regular contributer to the Dutch Draad/2 magazine. Being a occupational and environmental physician, he never worked in the IT sector. He now works in child psychiatry, leaving him to spent more time to other things. Most of his OS/2 network knowledge arose by trial and error, when he tried to enjoy the integrating (network,...