Peter Scott makes his living running his own consulting business, teaching Perl and using it in enterprise infrastructure. He graduated from Cambridge University, England with a Master of Arts in Computer Science, and now lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife Grace, two cats (Jake and Elwood), and parrot (Archie), at least one of which also uses Perl.

Ed Wright is a Software Engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He holds a Master of Science degree in Engineering Mechanics and Astronautics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, a Master of Science in Physics from the University of Louisville, and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Auburn University. He currently leads the JPL Perl Users Group.