About the Conference Chairs

Jon Bosak of Sun Microsystems organized and led the working group that created XML, and he continues to oversee the development of the XML family of standards as Chair of the W3C XML Coordination Group. He is a founding member of OASIS and was a primary force behind the development of the DocBook standard for Unix and Linux documentation.

Tim Bray works in the areas of system design, performance optimization, programming, lecturing, writing, and editing. He has experience in the workings of software, the Internet, documents, management, and financing. Tim serves as a member of the World Wide Web Consortium's XML Working Group and has co-edited the XML 1.0 and XML Hyperlinking specifications through their first several drafts. He has served as editor of The Gilbane Report, Technical Editor of XML.com, and is a Seybold Fellow.

David Megginson of Megginson Technologies, currently co-chairs the W3C XML Core Working Group and serves as a member of the W3C's XML Coordination Group. He led the initiative that created SAX, the Simple API for XML, and organized the XMLNews initiative, which promotes the use of open standards for the exchange of news and information. David has been a Linux user since 1993 and has been writing free software for over a decade.