John Goerzen has been a member of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system development team since 1996 and has been writing software for the last 15 years. He is interested in operating systems, programming languages and networking and has worked with diverse sets of each.

Aside from Debian, John spends a lot of time writing software. Two of his most well-known works are network-enabled programs written in Python. OfflineIMAP is a bidirectional mail synchronization program written with laptop users in mind, and PyGopherd is a multiprotocol web and Gopher server. Both use Python's unique features to support a modular architecture and both offer extreme flexibility.

John has written many books, including the 800-page Linux Programming Bible. His articles have appeared in various magazines and he has served as technical editor for several books. He also founded the Air Capital Linux Users group and is a frequent speaker there.

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