Speaker Name
Marcus Bauer
Bio
Marcus Bauer has been using Linux since 1994 starting with the 0.99
kernels. Since then he has developed a passion for Open Source and done
lots of advocacy in the business world. This resulted in an OTC trading
system based on Linux at the Budapest stock exchange and later on in
the design and development of the first German IPO bank based on Linux.
In 2002 he made his first steps into the Linux embedded world and has
been fascinated since. Especially the combination of GPS location based
services and GSM networking has become his field of expertise.
Consequently he was one of the first adopters of the Openmoko phone
seeing the big potential of this hardware in the VAR markets.
Nowadays he works for Bearstech.com on "hackable devices" and his
open source project is tangogps.org, a map and nav application for phones
and netbooks.
In his freetime Marcus enjoys cooking with his friends, going out into
the nature, hiking in the mountains and riding his bicycle.