A lot of work is put into preparing the ground for this event to take place. Here are the faces that help make it all happen.
In alphabetical order:
Andres Almiray / Άντρες Αλμιρέι (@aalmiray)
Stephen Chin / Στέφανος Τσιν (@steveonjava)
Stephen is the Lead Java Community Manager at Oracle, author of Raspberry Pi with Java, co-author of Pro JavaFX Platform, and JavaOne Content Co-Chair. He has keynoted numerous Java conferences around the world including JavaOne, where he is a 4 times Rock Star Award recipient. Stephen is an avid motorcyclist who has done several Pan-European evangelism tours, interviewing hackers in their natural habitat and posting the videos on http://nighthacking.com/. When he is not traveling, he enjoys teaching kids how to do embedded and robot programming together with his teenage daughter. Stephen is responsible for recording the content of JCrete® sessions and publish them in his nighthacking blog.
Rabea Gransberger / Ραμπέα Γκρανσμπέργκερ (@rgransberger)
Rabea studied computer science and got a diploma in 2008. She is co-leading the software development department and is working as a software engineer on various projects at MEKO|S. Her main focus is on keeping the code base clean and on designing the backend framework for the RCP, RAP and Tabris based product ‘OTIS’. Additionally she contributes to Open Source projects in her spare time. You’ll find Rabea participating and speaking at conferences around Europe where she enjoys learning new development practices and methodologies. Besides software development she likes to participate in and watch sports. Rabea is responsible for organising the schedule in WikiEducator as well as the content, among other things.
Marc R. Hoffmann / Μάρκος Χόφμαν (@marcandsweep)
Marc has over 10 years of Java programming experience and is the leading expert in bytecode coverage analysis. Since 2008, he has been working on Java-based railway control systems at mtrail in Berne, Switzerland. He is the creator of EclEmma project which won the “Best Open Source Eclipse-Based Developer Tool“ – Community Award in 2008 and also the lead contributor to the JaCoCo Code Coverage engine. He is a Java champion since 2014. Marc has been a big supporter of the JCrete unconference since the beginning and especially our beer contributor among many other things.
Heinz Kabutz / Χαΐνζ (Χαράλαμπος) Κάμπουτζ (@heinzkabutz)
Heinz is the mastermind behind The Java Specialists’ Newsletter. He has a PhD in Computer Science. Heinz has programmed significant portions of several large Java applications and has taught Java to thousands of professional programmers. He is a regular speaker at all the major Java conferences. Heinz was chosen as a Java Champion by Sun Microsystems, the inventors of Java, for his work in advancing Java. He is the author of a number of courses, including Java Specialist Master, Design Patterns and Concurrency Specialist. Heinz is the chief disorganizer for JCrete®, which among other things involves sampling food from lots of tavernas to find good venues for our meals.
Ioannis (John) Kostaras / Ιωάννης Κωστάρας (@jkost7)
John has graduated from Informatics Department of University of Athens. He also holds a Master of Science in Telecommunications from the Electronics Systems Engineering department of Essex University and a Master of Arts in Management Studies from Essex University. Ioannis is a software architect and has been a Java developer since JDK 1.0 was released. One of the many applications he has written for the industry, developed in NetBeans RCP, was awarded the 2012 Duke’s Choice Community Choice Award. He is also member of the NetBeans Dream Team. You may read his blog about Java and about NetBeans RCP. Among other things, he is responsible for the excursions at the hottest Java conference on earth, JCrete® and he is also organising JCrete4Kids.
Kirk Pepperdine / Kερκ Πεππερντάιν (@kcpeppe)
A Java Champion since September 2005, Kirk is a primary contributor to javaperformancetuning.com, which is widely regarded as the premier site for Java performance tuning information, and is the coauthor of Ant Developer’s Handbook . He has been heavily involved in application performance since the beginning of his programming career and has tuned applications in a variety of languages: Cray Assembler, C, Smalltalk, and, since 1996, Java technology. He has also worked on building middleware for distributed applications.
Kirk began his career in biochemical engineering and has researched high-performance liquid chromatography for Ottawa University and the National Research Council of Canada. He worked with Cray supercomputers at the Canadian Department of Defense, as a consultant at Florida Power & Light, and has been a senior consultant with GemStone Systems. He is currently an independent consultant and an editor at TheServerSide.com. Kirk does “Kirk” in JCrete®!
Giorgos Saslis / Γιώργος Σασλής (@gsaslis)
Dmytro Vyazelenko / Δημήτρης Βιαζελένκο (@DVyazelenko)
Dmitry is a Java developer interested in concurrency, performance and lock-free programming. You may read his blog Ideas Not for Sale. He is responsible for applying the Open Space methodology in JCrete®, among many other things.