Getting Started with Open Source Development
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About the authors<br />
Rachna Kapur is the development manager for open source technologies at the IBM India<br />
software labs. She works <strong>with</strong> a team driving value propositions for IBM® Data Servers in<br />
the open source world. She brings 8 years of experience developing drivers in the health<br />
care and database domain.<br />
Mario Briggs is the architect for the open source offerings for the IBM Data Servers, which<br />
includes Ruby/Rails, Python/Django/SqlAlchemy, Hibernate, Spring, iBatis & PHP. Mario<br />
has almost 11 years of experience in software development <strong>with</strong> many years in the area of<br />
data access, relational engines and application-database performance.<br />
Tapas Saha is a graduate in electronics and communication engineering from Techno<br />
India, Kolkata, India. He joined IBM in 2007, as an open source software developer.<br />
Presently, he is working as a functional verification tester for DB2® for Linux®, UNIX®, and<br />
Windows®.<br />
Ulisses Araújo Costa is a software engineer finishing his MSc in Formal Methods and<br />
Intelligent Systems. He loves functional programming and open source methodologies. He<br />
is a pro-active individual who loves to be connected to academic initiatives, like the open<br />
source support center at the University of Minho and the DB2 student ambassador group at<br />
the same university.<br />
Pedro Carvalho is a Software Engineering student at the University of Minho in Portugal.<br />
Aside from school, he has developed an interest in systems administration and team<br />
leading. He has been strongly engaged in local student organizations, mainly in the<br />
creation of an open source software group. He is currently working in a research<br />
scholarship in the area of language engineering and several Web development projects.<br />
Raul F. Chong is the DB2 on Campus program manager based at the IBM Toronto<br />
Laboratory, and a DB2 technical evangelist. His main responsibility is to grow the DB2<br />
community around the world. Raul joined IBM in 1997 and has held numerous positions in<br />
the company. As a DB2 consultant, Raul helped IBM business partners <strong>with</strong> migrations<br />
from other relational database management systems to DB2, as well as <strong>with</strong> database<br />
performance and application design issues. As a DB2 technical support specialist, Raul<br />
has helped resolve DB2 problems on the OS/390®, z/OS®, Linux®, UNIX® and Windows<br />
platforms. Raul has taught many DB2 workshops, has published numerous articles, and<br />
has contributed to the DB2 Certification exam tutorials. Raul has summarized many of his<br />
DB2 experiences through the years in his book Understanding DB2 - Learning Visually <strong>with</strong><br />
Examples 2nd Edition (ISBN-10: 0131580183) for which he is the lead author. He has also<br />
co-authored the book DB2 SQL PL Essential Guide for DB2 UDB on Linux, UNIX,<br />
Windows, i5/OS, and z/OS (ISBN 0131477005), and is the project lead and co-author of<br />
many of the books in the DB2 on Campus book series.<br />
Peter Kohlmann manages the DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows Product Planning Office.<br />
His team is responsible for requirements management, business analytics, tactical<br />
planning, technology demonstration and customer relationship management. He is also the<br />
original developer and the design lead for the Technology Explorer for IBM® DB2® open
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