Boone Gorges is a Core Committer for WordPress and a Lead Developer for BuddyPress. His consulting firm, Hard G, focuses on WP and BP development for universities and non-profits. A former academic, Boone has a special interest in the dynamics of free software communities, and the ethical implications of FOSS and the processes by which it’s created and maintained. He has lived in Chicago for the last three years but has not yet reconciled himself to the fact.