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Joachim Benjamins (Netherlands)

joachim@mensys.nl

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Ed Durrant (Australia)

Ed Durrant, attended one of the first ever high school courses on computing in the UK (back in the days of programs on punched cards!) and has followed that with a career in Computing and IT since then. Over 35 years in the industry, programming Mainframes, Midrange and PC based systems and going on to move into LAN management, systems analysis, architecture and solutions management. Ed...

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Sigurd Fastenrath (Germany)

Sigurd.Fastenrath@t-online.de

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...

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Evgeny Gorbunov (Russia)

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.

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Adrian Gschwend (Switzerland)

ktk@netlabs.org

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.

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Christian Hennecke (Germany)

hennecke@pointblank-edv.de

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...

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Uwe Hinz (Germany)

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...

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Detlef Horstmann (Germany)

Detlef Horstmann was born in 1955 in Essen (Germany). After his study of jurisprudence at the Bochum Universiy and his his legal clerkship he worked from 1985 till 1996 as an attorney at law in Essen. From 1996 on he ist partner of the law firm „Rechtsanwälte Lüders in Horstmann“ in Rostock and is specialized in criminal defense and administrative law. He works with Os/2 and eComStation since...

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Ernst Martin Kirschner (Germany)

Ernst Martin Kirschner is a long term user of OS/2. He begun with version 3 and is working with computers since 1979. In 1992 he start working as a software developer. He is interested in hard- and software and developed programs for single unit computer and Mainframe computer systems. He he is also interested in applications offside of main interest programs. Today he is employed as a Software...

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Roderick Klein (Netherlands)

rwklein@mensys.nl

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...

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Christian Langanke (Germany)

cla@clanganke.de

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....

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Keith Merrington (Netherlands)

ktmerrington@onsbrabantnet.nl

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...

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Michael Oehlhof (Germany)

teamruhr@oehlhof.de

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...

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David Saville (United Kingdom)

dave@deezee.org

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...

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Arne-Michael Törsel (Germany)

Arne-Michael.Toersel@fh-stralsund.de

  Arne-Michael Törsel studied business informatics and computational visualistics. He worked as a software developer for several years and is especially interested in quality assurance in the software development process. Currently he researches the application of model based testing to test automation for web applications.

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Sjoerd Visser (Netherlands)

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,...

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Wolfgang Wilms (Germany)

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