Klaus Förster, an open source enthusiast, works at the Department of Geography of the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He has attended numerous SVG Open conferences as speaker, reviewer, and workshop leader, and contributed SVG modules to the free software projects PostGIS, GRASS GIS, and SpatiaLite.
Bernd Öggl, lecturer and system administrator at the University of Innsbruck, is the coauthor of a book on PHP and MySQL and has many years of experience programming web applications.