Andreas Girardet
Open source advocate
Coming from a University background, Andreas was involved in the early development of commercial Internet services providers in system administration and management from 1995 to 2002. He is the founder of the New Zealand Linux distribution "Your Operating System" (Yoper), one of the more successful desktop Linux distributions.
Andreas has worked in the largest New Zealand Linux migration project at Air New Zealand for IBM as technical lead. His past employers were The Internet Company of New Zealand, Telecom XTRA, IBM Global Services and Novell. Andreas is also involved in SuSE development and is an enthusiastic and passionate supporter of the Open Source/Linux movement. He holds an MA in Philosophy and enjoys chess.