Eric Glasser graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in Engineering Science after three years as a junior. Within Engineering Science, Eric focused on technology and systems development. During his last two years at Vanderbilt, Eric started a company called Virtual Newsroom, based around building a process and content management system for newspapers called Virtual Newsroom. After releasing Virtual Newsroom as an open source project Eric started a web development and consulting company working with small and medium-sized businesses. For the last year Eric has operated his web development business managing both local and outsourced teams of developers. Eric also worked with an angel investor at their startup company "Launch.it" as a technology specialist in New York. Eric has experienced working a wide variety of companies, and the challenges of both starting and operating a business.

Ayesh Karunaratne is a freelance PHP/Drupal web developer from Kandy, Sri Lanka. He is currently following a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from University of Colombo.

He has more than four years of experience in PHP, and he has been involved in many PHP related websites as a backend developer, performance analyst, security reviewer, and architectural designer. He has taken part in one of the most appreciated e-government solutions in the United States. He is also the leader of Drupal Sinhalese translation team to bring Drupal to native Sinhala-speaking people in Sri Lanka.

He also spends his leisure time writing blog posts about web development and freelancing tips. Apart from his technical interests, he loves swimming, hanging out with friends, hiking, and watching movies.