Steven Ellis
Solution Architect, Red Hat New Zealand

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As developer of the MythTV based consumer appliance myPVR, Steven has leveraged his over 10 years experience with Linux, and 15 years experience of FOSS. OpenMedia was one of the first companies in the world to offer a truly consumer ready appliance based on MythTV.

His passion for FOSS comes from both his development and operational experience. As well as co-running OpenMedia he manages the IBM NZ Linux operational team, and looks after a number of large enterprise customers in the Asia Pacific market. This helps provide an interesting bridge between the contrasting worlds of the consumer versus large scale business.

Steven gives talks on FOSS at the Auckland Linux User Group, and has given presentations and organised tutorials for many of his employers including Optimation Limited and IBM NZ. He has also presented at a number of conferences including 2007 Open Source Developers Conference in Brisbane, Linux.conf.au 2008 in Melbourne, and Auckland BarCamp.