Meet the Team

Daniel James

Daniel James is the director of 64 Studio Ltd, and the original director of the linuxaudio.org consortium. He is based in the UK and formerly worked on LinuxUser & Developer magazine, serving as Editor from the autumn of 2005 until early 2007. He has also contributed articles on music recording and related technology to Linux Format and Sound on Sound magazines.

Free Ekanayaka

Free Ekanayaka lives in Italy, and is the technical architect of 64 Studio's GNU/Linux distribution products. A Debian Developer and the leader of Debian's multimedia project, he was previously the maintainer of the AGNULA/DeMuDi distribution. Free is also the maintainer of the 64 Studio Platform Development Kit (PDK), our automated distribution production and version control tool.

Tim Hall

Tim Hall is a GNU/Linux documentation author and professional musician, based in the UK. He is writing a book on Python, to be published by Apress, and has also contributed tutorials on creative applications to LinuxUser & Developer magazine. He is currently preparing a solo tour, but in the meantime you can hear his music on LastFM.

Quentin Harley

Quentin Harley is a hardware and software engineer based in South Africa, who is currently recording and producing classical music projects. He also masters albums for fellow audio engineers, and builds his own microphones. He codes in C and C++, and has contributed to projects including the 64 Studio distribution, GnoTime and GnomeCDMaster.

Andy Farnell

Andy Farnell is a DSP expert, software developer and audio engineer based in the UK. Apart from designing synthesisers and working with well-known musicians, he has experience of GNU/Linux system programming and broadcast production. He has written the definitive textbook on procedural audio, and lectures on synthesis at colleges including SAE London.