Wim is the co-founder of Industrial-TSI.com and one of the first Eclipse advocates in the Netherlands. He is heavily involved in the integration of top level open source tools with commercial or bespoke applications. His special interest is in the use of Eclipse and Eclipse based tools to help developers produce better code in less time. Wim is also a trainer for the Eclipse Training Alliance. At his other company Remain.nl, Wim and his team have created plugins for Eclipse to fully support the software lifecyle for System-i based development environments.

MSc. Said Taaouati is a java software engineer at Remain BV. (RemainSoftware.com). He has more than four years experience that spans many fields in the fabulous Eclipse ecosystem. One of his favourite open source tools is BIRT. He integrated this Business Intelligence reporting tool with TD/OMS, a leading and innovative Object Management System software. He is very active supporting and integrating  BIRT and many other open source tools. He holds a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Utrecht University.

Martin Taal is an independent software consultant mainly working on data-centric business web applications. He has over 10 years experience in the IT-industry in different roles varying from functional architect to development manager, team lead and software developer. He is founder and lead of the EMF Teneo component and a contributor to the EMF CDO project. Next to his technical work Martin is active as a functional architect in ERP and business application environments with a primary interest in logistics, production planning, inventory management and product data modeling.

Maarten Meijer has a background in Industrial Design Engineering. He started to use Eclipse when he needed and created a dedicated IDE-like tools running on Mac and Windows set to facilitate web-based lighting calculations. He has since made contributions to the Eclipse Mylyn and ECF projects and is currently building a Generic SQL Connector for Mylyn. He also works as a consultant or trainer with companies that want to create RCP applications.