About the Author

ANDY CHANNELLE is a writer, designer, and educator. He has written on the subject of Linux, open source, and other technical stuff since 2000 and teaches new media and journalism students at the University of the West of England. He writes regularly for publications, including Linux Format and Mac Format in the UK, and has had work published all over the world.

In the past, Andy has worked as a magazine editor, TV and film reviewer, technical author, information architect, new media consultant, web designer, and strawberry picker.

More recently, Andy has become involved with the production end of new media with a number of small-scale intranet projects at the University of the West of England and the deployment of a community-based web site for Spike Island (http://www.spikeisland.org.uk) built using Drupal and a variety of other open source software.

On those occasional moments when not working, Andy likes playing the drums and guitar, reading novels and books on the history of science or philosophy, and losing at games of Mario Kart. He's been in the middle of writing a ground-breaking novel since 1999.