Till Schummer:  His PhD thesis focused on Design Patterns for group formation and maintenance.  Since March 2002 Member of the scientific staff at the Distributed Systems Division at the Fern Universitat in Hagen.  Interests cover: distributed systems, operating systems, CSCW (computer supported collaborative work), and distributed software development.

Stephan Lukosch:  During his graduation he developed a platform called DreamObjects.  DreamObjects simplifies the development and management of shared data objects that are necessary to enable collaboration among distributed users. DreamObjects is an extension of DreamTeam, which is a platform for the development of synchronous, collaborative applications.  Since August 2003, Assistant Professor for ‘Distributed systems for cooperative working/learning environments’ at the University of Hagen.