Fiore Basile is a programmer, system administrator, creative, entrepreneur, and maker. Since 1996, he has served as a project manager, consultant, and technology officer in industrial and research projects of varied sizes across Italy and Europe. He has worked in the fields of cultural heritage, e-health, digital preservation, multimodal interfaces, and web and mobile publishing. During his career, he has also started two IT start-ups, held workshops at international conferences and events, and has been interviewed by national and international press. His work experience allowed him to build a broad expertise in systems, web and mobile software development, open source and open hardware, embedded programming, and electronics. He's currently conducting research on wearable technologies, affective computing, and smart connected devices. He also works as the coordinator of FabLab Cascina, a digital fabrication laboratory in the middle of Tuscany.
Charalampos Doukas is a researcher and an IoT maker. He started playing with sensors and Arduinos in 2008 when trying to capture and transmit vital signs. He is passionate about combining different hardware systems with software and services using the Internet. He helps in spreading knowledge about open source software and hardware by organizing sessions in workshops and conferences.
He has built many projects around home monitoring and automation. He contributes hardware nodes for Node-RED and has also authored the book, Building Internet of Things with the Arduino, CreateSpace.
When Charalampos is not playing with sensors and actuators, he manages European research projects at CREATE-NET in Trento, Italy.
Francis Perea is a professional education professor at Consejería de Educación Junta de Andalucía in Spain with more than 14 years of experience.
He specializes in system administration, web development, and content management systems. In his spare time, he works as a freelancer and collaborates, among others, with ñ multimedia, a small design studio in Córdoba, working as a system administrator and main web developer.
He also collaborated as a technical reviewer on the book, SketchUp 2014 for Architectural Visualization, Thomas Bleicher and Robin de Jongh, Packt Publishing.
When he is not sitting in front of a computer or tinkering in his workshop, he can be found running or riding his bike through the tracks and hills in Axarquía County, where he lives.