Front-End Development & Cyber Security are Adelina's main focuses and interests. The love for web programming and information security made her focus into those fields. Besides the main web programming languages she is practical with Python & Java. She also is a devoted Open-Source technology user and advocate.

Albert is a Web/App Designer based in Prishtina and Open Data Kosovo is where he spends his workdays. He loves design but what he loves the most is the psychology of design. This led him seek an another perspective how design works. Now his main focuses are user friendliness and user-centered design.

Alex Lakatos has been a Mozilla Representative Mentor and contributor to the Mozilla project for the past six years, based in London. JavaScript developer building on the open web, he has been pushing its boundaries every day. You can check out his github profile or get in touch on twitter. When he’s not programming, he likes to travel the world, so it’s likely you’ll bump into him in an airport lounge.

Alex has been testing open source software for the past 10+ years and has found thousands of bugs. He's been the installation test lead of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 during the entire lifecycle of the product. During the last few years he's been working more closely with upstream communities and experimenting with various testing tools and techniques.Alex likes to program in Python and Ruby and is the author and maintainer of several packages. Some more popular ones are django-s3-cache, django-chartit and Cosmic Ray.

Alex considers himself an all-round software engineer. Early on he has worked with embedded systems where he designed hardware as well as software for real-time systems. Later he moved into Telecom, creating software for mobile phone operators from various countries around the world. Moving on, he joined Amazon to work on the OpsWorks service, an infrastructure management tool. Recently he joined CoreOS to continue being on the cutting edge of infrastructure technologies. He's currently developing the next generation of Kubernetes deployment tooling.

Ardian is member of FLOSSK, an organization promoting FLOSS in Kosovo.He has been contributing to Fedora and Mozilla in promoting the opennessof the community and their ideology. Lately his is inspired to get the internets to Mount Everest.

Arion Banishta (17 y/o), study Computer Science and Engineering at High School at last year. He is Free Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS ) and Open Knowledge activist since 2014. The last couple of years, he's been working on promoting and developing Free and Open Source Software through Prishtina Hackerspace and FLOSSK – in general, promoting FLOSS in Kosovo and abroad. Also he is a programmer, a cyber security enthusiast, and work with 3D Printers, Open Hardware and DIYs As an active community guy he is part of some different NGOs and organizations as a Senior Member at Prishtina Hackerspace, Member for more than a two years at FLOSSK, Member at PEN, Mozillian at Mozilla and he's passionately developing Mozilla Community Kosovo He's one of the organizers of Software Freedom Kosova 16 the biggest annual FLOSS Conference in Balkans and other related (FLOSS tech) activities that happened since 2009 in Kosovo including Richard Stallman’s lecture in Prishtina.

Arjen Kamphuis worked for IBM as IT-architect in the '90's. From 2002 to 2010 he advised several European countries on IT-strategy, opensource and open standards. Since 2006 he helps secures the information systems of corporates, national government and NGO's. His work ranges from regular privacy-compliance and security-awareness up to countering espionage against companies, journalists and governments. To keep up technically Arjen is involved with the global hacker-scene and keeps in touch with (former)employees of spy agencies and other professionals who work at the front of critical infrastructure protection.In 2014 he co-wrote the handbook 'Information Security for Journalists' for the London Centre for Investigative Journalism that can be downloaded for free as Creative Commons material in several languages.

Besfort is founder and CEO of OpS-IN. OpS-IN is startup company focused in Spatial information and databases including GIS solutions. He was software developer in different companies. He is member of FLOSSK & HOTOSM. Open Data Advocate.

Boris is a young high school student, who's really passionate about Free Open Source culture. His first joined Open Labs at 28 February 2015 and ever since he started contributing to various open source projects such as Mozilla, Fedora, Wikipedia, Nextcloud. He then started to experiment with open source hardware such as Arduino. In 2016 he coorganized OSCAL, the first annual conference in Albania organized to promote software freedom, open source software, free culture and open knowledge. Gave talks at OSCAL 2015, Mozilla & Fedora Activity Days, MozAcademy, Mozilla Tech Speakers Training #2, WikiWeekend 2016. Sysadmin; beginner programmer

Brennan Novak is an informally trained hacker/maker who was formally trained at a prestigous design school before droping out. After over a decade of working and freelancing in entertainment, advertising, and startups Brennan ex-patrioted from those, as well as America. Now residing in Berlin he has been working on brining great design to open source by co-founding Mailpile, Open Source Design, as well as contributing to Qubes OS, Transparency Toolkit, and other privacy and encryption projects.

Brian (bex) Exelbierd is the Fedora Community Action and Impact Coordinator on behalf of the Open Source and Standards team at Red Hat. At Red Hat, Brian has worked as a technical writer, software engineer, content strategist and now as an Open Source community manager. Brian spends his day enabling the Fedora community by clearing road blocks and easing the way for the community to do great things. Before Red Hat, Brian worked with the University of Delaware as the Director of Graduate and Executive Programs in the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics and as a Budget Analyst. Brian’s background in software engineering stretches back years before his university work and includes stints at small, medium, large and governemental organizations. “Glue Code” is how a lot of Brian’s projects could be described. These are projects that fill in the interstitial spaces between large systems and provide continuity and ease of use. Follow him on Twitter @bexelbie or via his blog at www.winglemeyer.org.

Chris is polyglot freelance computer programmer who is the author of dozens of free projects and contributor to 100s of others. He has been an official Debian Developer since 2008 and is currently highly active in the Reproducible Builds project where he has been awarded a grant from the Core Infrastructure Initiative to fund my work in this area. In his spare time Chris avid classical musician and Ironman triathlete.

Professional software engineer and consultant.Daniel Pocock has developed enterprise grade solutions for some of the giants of the financial services industry, including secure connectivity for UBS (using Apache Camel, the first customer-facing WebRTC contact solution on Wall Street at Interactive Brokers, enterprise-wide real-time monitoring for Barclays Capital (based on Ganglia and a wide range of real-time financial trade capture and risk management solutions for Thomson Reuters. Despite the highly proprietary nature of these enterprises, Pocock has remained a champion of efficient, cost effective free and open source solutions to meet demanding business requirements.Pocock actively contributes to a range of free software projects with a focus on real-time communications (RTC) and VoIP, in particular, Lumicall, JSCommunicator, DruCall for Drupal, reSIProcate, Ganglia and Flactag. Pocock is the author of the RTC Quick Start Guide and is part of the team behind the O'Reilly book Monitoring with GangliaPocock is a Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora Developer and an OpenCSW package maintainer. He is a licensed radio amateur with the callsigns VK3TQR, M0GLR and HB9FZT

Daniele Scasciafratte, the Open Source Multiversal guy, he should work in his web agency, Codeat in Rome, and in the rest of the day collaborate in many opensource projects.

During the office hours for the WordPress world is a Core Contributor, plugin developer, project translator editor and WP Roma meetup co-organizer.

He fight with the superpower of a Mozilla Rep for an open web, is co-leading the participation team of Mozilla Italia and sometimes is an Italian gestures speaker.

Dashamir is a Computer Engineer with experience in software engineering, linux administration, network, configuration managment, documentation writing, etc.

Dimitar is an openSUSE Advocate from Bulgaria. In his free time he is spreading the word about it and helping others to adopt it.He works as a business intelligence/data integration consultant at a local Bulgarian company which is a main provider of solutions based on the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform for customers in finance, insurance, and etc. He also has experience with software by other vendors including Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, and Tableau.From an OSS perspective he is trying to keep up with the latest developments from Talend, Pentaho, CloverETL, and others. He believes that OSS can provide a reliable alternative to the status quo in various areas of life.

Elvis is a digital marketer and consultant. Though not a developer by trade he operates as a professional user and implementer of open source software throughout all his projects and consultancies.

Engjell Rraklli is an entrepreneur. He has a computer science degree and a big passion for game development. He started designing games at the age of 15 and at the age of 21 he started his entrepreneurial journey founding his own software development company. He is very passionate about games in general, studying the technical aspects also the business side of it. Another thing he is very found of is open source technology. He is an avid user of linux and of open source software like libre office, Godot Engine, jMonkey engine and so on so forth.

Full stack developer, open source addicted, mozilla tech speaker an community member

Geron Imeraj works in "Vivo Communications" for seven years. He began as "Technical Support representatives" (2009) and now works as "Network Administrator" (2014-2017). He is passionate about security, specifically Cyber Security, Cisco Systems and Fedora. He has good skills on CentOS servers, RadiusManager, Backup/Restore server based on BASH Scripting, intrusion detection etc. Geron is studing about the implementation of OpenSource routing/firewall systems to challenge himself and checking for new oportunities.

Italo Vignoli is a founder and a team member of The Document Foundation, focused on marketing, communications and media relations. He is a spokesman for the project, which he represents at open source conferences around the world. In 2014, he has founded Associazione LibreItalia, the not for profit which groups the Italian LibreOffice community. In 2016, he has been elected to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) board of directors.Italo has been advocating free open source software since 2004, when he has entered the OpenOffice community to handle marketing and media relations, in Italy and worldwide. Since then, he has been in charge of OpenOffice until 2010 and then of LibreOffice since 2010.Italo is a communications consultant with over thirty years of experience in the field of high technologies, a member of Ferpi - the Italian Association of Public Relation Professionals - and a visiting professor of high tech marketing, public speaking and public relations in universities and post-graduate courses.Italo Vignoli has a Degree in Humanities at the University of Milan, and Master Degrees in Marketing, Public Relations and Journalism at different US and Italian universities.

Jan-Christoph Borchardt is an open source designer focused on Nextcloud and Open Source Design.

John has been programming since 1977, and started using GNUemacs since around 1987, which makes his configuration file older than some people with PhDs. He hopes he is still learning, and is happy to share the delights of the most powerful editor and user interface program.

Marc Balmer is a long time contributor to open source software. He has developed many subsystems for the various BSD operating systems, wrote a lot of Software in the Lua space and is a frequent speaker at international conferences. He runs his own software development compay micro systems in Switzerland and is a former lecturor and member of the board of the institute HyperWerk of the Basel University of Applied Sciences.

Marcus Streets is the Programme Director for the Core Infrastructure Initiative at the Linux Foundation. The CII was founded just over three years ago as a response to the HeartBleed bug. It aims to support Open Source projects focused on Security as well as tools that improve overall coding standards and projects such as Reproducible Builds.Prior to joining the CII he worked in commercial cryptography for the last 20 years, mostly on firmware for the Thales nShield Hardware Security Module. He co-wrote the KMIP standard and has worked on GlobalPlatform Standards for the Trusted Execution Environment.

Marie Gutbub, born 1990 in France, studied cultural journalism at the Berlin University of the Arts. After graduating with a thesis about the sustainability of new online media she got involved with privacy groups in Berlin. Since 2014, Marie has organized CryptoParties in Berlin and across Europe to spread the movement through talks and workshops. She also teaches information security for journalists at several universities and conferences. Marie, a former volunteer for the Tor Project, has been involved in running several campaigns and events about privacy, human rights, whistleblowing and journalism, including the Logan CIJ Symposium 2016 in Berlin with the Centre for Investigative Journalism. Her articles have been published in Der Freitag, Le Monde and Rue89, among others. She is currently leading the #IamWikileaks campaign for the Courage Foundation.

Marios is a long-term Wikipedian. He is one of the developers of AutoWikiBrowser (AWB) a semi-automated MediaWiki editor designed to make tedious or repetitive editing tasks quicker and easier. He is a Mathematician with Msc in the Foundations of Informatics and currently a phD candidate in Data Security. He was worked as research assistant at the Universities of Duisburg-Essen and Oldenburg. His programming knowledge includes C++, C# and Python. He is currently residing in Greece.

Matthias Kirschner is President of FSFE. In 1999 he started using GNU/Linux and realised that software is deeply involved in all aspects of our lives. Matthias is convinced that this technology has to empower society not restrict it. While studying Political and Administrative Science he joined FSFE in 2004.He helps other organisations, companies and governments to understand how they can benefit from Free Software -- which gives everybody the rights to use, understand, adapt and share software -- and how those rights help to support freedom of speech, freedom of press or privacy.Matthias loves playing with his baby son, and in his spare time assists in wilderness first aid seminars, enjoys comics like XKCD and Transmetropolitan; Monty Python and Die Ärzte.

Orges Çiço holds a "laurea" (a.k.a. MSc) in Computer Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy and is currently a PhD Candidate at Tirana University in the Department of Statistics and Applied Informatics. His PhD field topic is in Cloud Computing Business Solutions and Cloud Software Reliability concerning Fault Tolerant Techniques.Currently he is a Full Time Lecturer at Canadian Institute of Technology (CIT) and the Director of the Metropolitan Incubator Center (MI) (NGO part of the University Metropolitan Tirana).His research interest are related to Cloud Computing Software Systems mainly concerning their reliability and fault tolerance. Most of the publications have been done recently during the last 3 years of his PhD in international conferences: ● ÇIÇO Orges, DIKA Zamir, “Performance and load testing of cloud vs. classic server platforms (Case study: Social network application)”, IEEE Embedded Computing (MECO), 2014 3rd Mediterranean Conference on, 15 – 19 June 2014, pp 301 -306● ÇIÇO Orges, DIKA Zamir, “Models and Techniques to evaluate system and software reliability based on software reliability engineering methodology. Case study: Attitude Control System, In Proceedings of the 10th Annual South-East European Doctoral Student Conference, DSC 2014, Thessaloniki, Greece.● Orges ÇIÇO, Luada TORO, Kristjano MONKA “Development of a Virtual Device Driver for a Multicore Embedded Systems Hosting Multiple Operating Systems”, International Conference: “Information systems and technology innovations towards a digital economy” ISTI 2013 (Best Paper Award)● Orges ÇIÇO, Silvia SADUSHI, Suela KODRA “Business Planner Mobile Application Development Through Kivy Platform”, International Conference: “Information systems and technology innovations towards a digital economy” ISTI 2014● ÇIÇO Orges, DIKA Zamir, “Temporal and data diversity fault tolerant techniques used to increase reliability for Google Cloud Applications. Case Study: Windfarmdesigns”, International Journal of Science, Innovation and New Technology, June 2015 ● ÇIÇO Orges, DIKA Zamir, “Developing Reliable IoT Systems For Improving Quality Of Life Through The Exploitation of Cloud, Mobile and BLE Based Technologies. Case Study: SunProtect UV”, 7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “Information Systems and Technology Innovations: the New Paradigm for a Smarter Economy”, ISTI 2016 Orges has started his Lecturing Career at Epoka University since 2012 and has been involved since then in other Universities by teaching topics such as Operating Systems Introduction and Design, Software Engineering, Introduction to Computer Science and OO Programming as well as Distributed Programming. He has also held a strong correlation to Software Industry, by providing outsourcing services to Norwegian Market in close collaboration with Google Engineers. Many of the projects are related to Google Cloud Applications and Mobile development.

Renata Gegaj is a Computer Science student with a passion for open source technologies and Human–computer interaction (HCI). She is involved in several activities with the local FLOSS community in her country. Renata recently completed an internship with Outreachy where she worked on usability testing for GNOME.

Riccardo is the founder of WikiToLearn and an enthusiastic open source developer. Furthermore, he is a physicist, designer and a community manager, based in Milano, Italy.

Roman is working in Red Hat from 2014. He is mostly converting good music to Ruby code with a bit of JavaScript for ManageIQ team.

Sopot Çela has been working with Java since the day he graduated from the Universiteti Politeknik i Tiranes (Technical University of Tirana) in 2010. First with server back-end applications and then as a core developer of the Eclipse open source project.In April 2015 he joined Red Hat to work full time as an open source Eclipse developer and Fedora packager. His main work areas are working on the core platform components of Eclipse Platform and include packaging Eclipse for Fedora. Technology-wise his main experience is Java development, design patterns, dependency injection containers, language support etc.He frequently speaks at Eclipse conferences throughout the world about new and cool features of Eclipse.

I am an Albanian Business Informatics student, finishing my master studies in Information Systems at the University of Tirana. Iam a hacktivist of Open Labs, passionate about Open Source and the philosophy of transparency and cooperation that FLOSS represents. I have been working on promoting FLOSS in Albania and Fedora Localization Project to bring everything around Fedora closer to the local users.I am also focused on drawing attention on  woman empowerment issues in open technology and culture.

Thomas Levine is a dada artist interested in sleep. He has been writing free software for about twelve years.

Zacharias started contributing to the Project when he was just 16 years old. He is a representative of the project and entrusted with the duties of the regional treasurer for the EMEA region. His interests lie in software engineering, including web and mobile technologies, showing particular interest in Ruby and Javascript. He is currently studying at the the University of the Aegean in Samos, Greece