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| + | Timo Jyrinki graduated from Helsinki University of Technology and has M.Sc. in Communications Engineering. Timo has been working in Nomovok as a Team Leader & Software Developer from 2005. Before that in TUT / DMI & NRC. Automatic Speech Recognition and TTS related work; Nokia / NRC. Master's Thesis, TKK / TML. Assistant on Multimedia Tools -course; Nokia / NRC. Development of language identification algorithms; F-Secure Corporation, Technical Writer Trainee; Sonera Corp.. Technical Support Specialist. | ||
| + | His area of interest is Communities: Debian, demoscene, FSF Europe, GNOME, Openmoko, Ubuntu, Wikipedia and Technologies: GNU/Linux on x86 and ARM platforms, human-computer interaction, multimedia, devices for impaired senses, localization, LaTeX, embedded devices, wiki technologies and content. | ||
| + | For more info: http://users.tkk.fi/~tajyrink/ | ||
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Henri Bergius
Henri Bergius is a former Viking based in the Nordic country of Finland. When he is not exploring the cave cities of Georgia or running with bulls in Pamplona, Bergie works on web services built on top of the Midgard toolkit. His company Nemein provides web solutions for several major companies in Finland and abroad.
After half decade of regular web development, Henri got involved with free software in 1999 when he coordinated the public release of the Midgard content management system. Since then he has been actively working on integrating standards like RSS and Microformats into the system and traveling the world advocating for interoperation between open source CMSs.
When duties allow, Bergie escapes the crunch to explore the hills of Lapland or rides his classic motorcycle. He is also an amateur pilot.
Anne Østergaard
Anne Østergaard holds a Law Degree from The University of Copenhagen. After a decade in government service, international organizations, and private enterprise she is presently an Libre Software entrepreneur. Anne is member of the GNOME Foundation.
As a Fellowship Member of FSFE Anne is working against the legalisation of software patents in Europe. Anne is also working for free and open standards and file formats, Libre Software in education, in the health care sector, and FLOSS as development aide, privacy on the Internet and more women active in the ICT sector.
Anne Østergaard's interests lies in the area of the long-term strategic issues of Free Software in the social, legal, research, and economic area of our global society.- Information Communication Technologies are important to the individual citizen's life and personal possibilities in the information society in order to obtain, and secure democratic freedom rights.
Timo Jyrinki
Timo Jyrinki graduated from Helsinki University of Technology and has M.Sc. in Communications Engineering. Timo has been working in Nomovok as a Team Leader & Software Developer from 2005. Before that in TUT / DMI & NRC. Automatic Speech Recognition and TTS related work; Nokia / NRC. Master's Thesis, TKK / TML. Assistant on Multimedia Tools -course; Nokia / NRC. Development of language identification algorithms; F-Secure Corporation, Technical Writer Trainee; Sonera Corp.. Technical Support Specialist. His area of interest is Communities: Debian, demoscene, FSF Europe, GNOME, Openmoko, Ubuntu, Wikipedia and Technologies: GNU/Linux on x86 and ARM platforms, human-computer interaction, multimedia, devices for impaired senses, localization, LaTeX, embedded devices, wiki technologies and content. For more info: http://users.tkk.fi/~tajyrink/
