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Mike Shaver
Mike Shaver


Mike Shaver is a founding member of mozilla.org and lead technologist who has earned free reign to meddle in almost anything he likes from licensing and organizational issues to platform architecture and software development. His greatest contribution to the Mozilla project to date is (??)
Mike Shaver is a founding member of mozilla.org, and has been deeply involved in virtually every aspect of the Mozilla project, from license issues and organizational policy to technical architecture and software development. With more than a decade of involvement in open-source development, Mike is a sought-after speaker and advisor to a wide variety of projects and organizations.  His technical contributions to Mozilla include JavaScript exceptions and components, WebDAV, prototype Mono/XPCOM bridging, significant work in the Mozilla XPCOM Component model, performance and architecture work in RDF, and most recently leadership of calendaring infrastructure development.


''please, if you don't know what you're doing, do not write about my employment status -- thanks!''
In addition to his Mozilla work, Mike has sat on the advisory board for Ximian Inc. (originally Helix Code, later acquired by Novell), built privacy and electronic-cash software at Zero Knowledge Systems, and developed the recovery and failover capabilities for the high-performance Lustre clustered filesystem.


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Axel Hecht
Axel Hecht


A member of Mozilla Europe’s board of directors, Axel Hecht started contributing to Mozilla in 1999, working on XSLT. He has been the module owner of RDF since 2004, steering the development of this backend component towards standards compliance, performance and applicability to web applications. His focus is in developing Mozilla as a platform for web applications as well as lightweight, cross-platform and localizable applications on the client. Axel also started the European annual developer meetings in 2000 and has been a central figure in the European developer community ever since. Recently, he participated in bringing localizations of Firefox into Concurrent Versions System (correct?), integrating platform and application development communities with the localization communities around the world.  
A member of Mozilla Europe’s board of directors, Axel Hecht started contributing to Mozilla in 1999, working on XSLT. He has been the module owner of RDF since 2004, steering the development of this backend component towards standards compliance, performance and applicability to web applications. His focus is in developing Mozilla as a platform for web applications as well as lightweight, cross-platform and localizable applications on the client. Axel also started the European annual developer meetings in 2000 and has been a central figure in the European developer community ever since. Recently, he participated in bringing localizations of Firefox into the primary source repository, integrating platform and application development communities with the localization communities around the world.  


Axel received a degree in physics from the University of Stuttgart and a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Kiel. He is now with the Department of Applied Mathematics at Humboldt University in Berlin.
Axel received a degree in physics from the University of Stuttgart and a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Kiel. He is now with the Department of Applied Mathematics at Humboldt University in Berlin.
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