Hans Dieter Pearcey

Dieter has been playing with computers since he was six years old. He fell in love with Perl while trying to write an IRC bot and with Linux when it wiped out his boot partition. Ten years later, there's room in his heart for Javascript, RubyRuby is a dynamic, reflective, general purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. Ruby originated in Japan during the mid-1990s and was initially developed and designed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto., and Solaris, but Perl's still on top. Outside of computers, he enjoys soccer, frisbee, camping, reading, and beer.

Dieter has come out of a system administration background to a solid understanding of software engineering. Previously, at IC Group (pobox.com, listbox.com), he built a majority of the infrastructure, from the core mail handling and antispam functionality to user-facing web applications. As technical lead, he encouraged a culture of participation in the open sourceOpen source software is computer software for which the human-readable source code is made available under a copyright license (or arrangement such as the public domain) that meets the Open Source Definition. community.