Daniel Spector
Catalyst IT

Daniel Spector has been professionally involved with open source to some-extent-or-another for about a decade. The official “loudmouth (ex)Yank agitator” at Catalyst IT, New Zealand’s biggest open source developer http://www.catalyst.net.nz, Daniel has run the “Open in the Public Sector” miniconf at Linux.conf.au a couple of times, helped produce the “NZ Open Govt Data Barcamp & Hackfest, worked on Wellington’s “Public ACTA” event and is extremely active in promoting OPEN (source, data, government and access), and fights – tirelessly and, alas, constantly – for internet freedom and an absolute ban on software patents.