Rants from inside the padded walls

Michael Neale (Twitter, Blog)
Michael lives and works in the Blue Mountains, Australia (just outside of Sydney). He is married and spends most of his time explaining things to his Daughter. He works for CloudBees, and you can contact him on the JBoss Rules mailing list, or via instant messaging. He is also in the #drools room in irc.codehaus.org most of the time.
Max Rydahl Andersen (Twitter, Blog)
Max is originally from Denmark, but the last years he lived and worked out of Neuchatel in Switzerland. He got involved in Hibernate in the early days, started working for JBoss and then lately got to work on JBoss Tools and Developer Studio. Has a tendency to get too much email and read them all and at the same time read news about anything as an addiction.
Emmanuel Bernard (Twitter, Blog)
Emmanuel hangs out in Paris, France after being some years in Atlanta, USA. Work on all the annotations driven frameworks around Hibernate, Hibernate Annotations, Search and Validator. He enjoys economy, physics, good food from all over the world, travel, wine, snowboarding, hiking, understanding the world, arguing for the pleasure of it and a few other things.