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NameTitleEmail
Jeff GerhardtHostjeff@thelinuxshow.com
Kevin HillHostkhill@thelinuxshow.com
Arne FlonesHostarne@thelinuxshow.com
Doc SearlsHostdoc@ssc.com
Russ PavlicekHostpavlicek@linuxadvocacy.net



Jeff Gerhardt's Broadcasting Bio
Way back in the mid 1990's Jeff was an almost weekly guest of "Ken Rutkowski's Week Ender TTalk Show" and also a regualr on the "Al and/or Ed Show" (Alan Lerner and Ed Curran) both on WLS radio "The Big 89" in Chicago. Jeff Gerhardt had been in the background as a technical information resource on such issues as UNIX/Linux(r), Y2K, Internet Telephony and Video, and Broadband applications.

During a period (late 1997) when Jeff was not allowed to be involved in the ISP business (after one of the ISPs he was involved with was sold); Kevin Hill and Gerhardt created the idea behind The Linux Show and were soon testing the concept as a daughter program to Rutkowski's TTalk. By mid 1998 the show was running a regular schedule.

Jeff Gerhardt describes himself as an inventor and entrepreneur. Jeff is known for his entreprenurial creativity having worked on the development of a major CAD system and one of the first PC based point of purchase systems. As a technologist he is probably best known for his work with The Tandy Color Computer and later the development of the award wining "KidCam(tm)" Internet Video Security System,

Jeff is no stranger to the Internet community. Gerhardt is a regular speaker at Internet related conferences. The internet and online computing is Gerhardt's first passion when it comes to technology. While a student at Illinois State University getting paid $1.90 and hour to haul boxes and rolls of cable for "some computer thing", Gerhardt was bitten by the on-line bug by being exposed to Arpa and the Plato Network. It was a life changing experience for the person who was at college studying to be a biologist.

Gerhardt has never retreated from that passion. Gerhardt worked as an assistant Sysop to one of the Compuserve SIGS for Tandy, The COCO SIG. Later Gerhardt was an operator of two differnet BBS systems. And as the Internet era rolled along, Gerhardt has been involved with the creation of, or managment of three different ISPs. Jeff was on the board of directors of the legendary ISP WorldWide Access (now Verio), one of the very first ISPs in the US to open. Jeff was executive VP in an ill fated DSL ISP/CLEC, Pinnacle Communications. And Jeff is still in in love with the ISP business and operates a small ISP, IbssNet.Com

Gerhardt first became exposed to "Linux on Intel" in 1995 as an alternative to Sun Solaris for web hosting technology for the ISP business. As a user and proponent for the development of Linux(r) ever since, Jeff has fallen into the role of one of the cadre of "advocate/cheerleader" of the greater world wide Linux(r) community. That role has fit well and Gerhardt as he now considers himself too old (and eye sight to bad) to sit at a consol and hack code.

Gerhardt lives in Naperville Illinois with his wife (and well known banking executive), Carol Gerhardt. They have a daughter, Liz (age 13) and two Siberian Huskies. In his spare time Gerhardt teaches college level technology classes at Northwestern Business College and is re-learning to play the guitar after putting it down 30 years ago.

Kevin Hill
Kevin is an intelligent creative "freak" with a background in internet programming. Eclectic is the word that comes to mind when you get to know Kevin, because of his diverse interests in things like techno music, strange cultures and trivia of all sorts. There is almost no subject he can not articulate. He attended the University of Illinois, majoring in Computer Engineering. In Gerhardt's words, "he one of the smartest guys I know, and that is saying something with the people I hang with, too smart for his own good really."

While previously working at WorldWide Access (WWA is now Verio) as a system programmer, developing web based unix administration tools, Hill met up with Gerhardt and the course of histroy was changed for both men. Hill joined a development team to work with Gerhardt on the creation of a ground breaking "on demand video server". This project manifest itself in the form of a product then called "KidCam" which was a internet video based security system. The system was the first of its kind, and allowed parents to select live camera feeds on demand placed in strategic locations around a school or day care. The product was very well received and won awards at major internet expos. The PR generated by the product gained international attention for the ISP (it was bought six months later) as well as made Hill and Gerhardt "semi-famous" in geek circles.

Hill worked side by side with Gerhardt on the creation of The Linux Show and has been with Gerhardt since day one of the show. Hill is also the partner with Gerhardt in the small ISP Ibssnet.Com. "Ibss may be small," says Hill, "but do not underestimate our little company as we do specialty hosting for a couple very large corporations, one being an ecommerce back office application for one of the largest retailers in the world."

Hill is also a Network Engineer at one of the most important research facilities in the world, The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia Illinois. But he can not talk about that.

Hill has been working with linux since 1995, and before that was developing software on Amigas, NeXTs, as well as earlier free unices such as freebsd and minix.

Arne Flones
Arne was a teacher and director of the computer lab at Wichita Business College and also at Cowley County Community College. In the busines community, Arne has been everything from an acoustical engineer to a systems analyst/developer for a plethora of firms that includes; Lodgistix, Professional Applications, Inc., Boeing Military Airplane Company and the Michigan Bell Telephone Company.

Projects Arne has worked on include; development of major applications in the "Hospitality" industry, developed multi-tasking point of sale system for a retail chain, vertical market analysis program for financial planners, and designed and implemented sonic test series for the newly re-engined (at least at the time) KC-135R Stratotanker.

Arne is very well known for his skills at seeing through the "BS" of an issue, and his commitment to the truth. He has frequently "ruffled the feathers" of many a supposed IT pundit.

Doc Searls
The senior editor for Linux Journal, the premier Linux Magazine, and one of the four "ringleaders" of The Cluetrain Manifesto. He also runs The Searls Group, a Silicon Valley marketing consultancy. The Searls Group began as the PR side of Hodskins Simone and Searls, one of Silicon Valley's more successful advertising and public relations agencies. HS&S was sold to Publicis Technology in early 1998. Doc has been writing on technology and other issues for most of his life. His byline has appeared in OMNI, PC Magazine, The Sun, Upside, and many other publications. He reviews books on technology subjects for The Globe & Mail, Canada's national newspaper. His own Web 'zine is Reality 2.0, where a few versions of his work for other publications are also collected. Reality 2.0 essays are divided into four series: Linux For Suits, Positions, Flack Jacket and Milleniana.

Russell Pavlicek
Russell Pavlicek is a 20 year veteran of the computer industry and a Linux user since 1995. He is currently the Open Source columnist for InfoWorld Magazine and does freelance work for a number of Linux news sites. He is also a regular speaker at various Open Source conferences in the US and does Linux consulting as time permits.




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