Dave is a professional network tech (CCIE #3590), who has been playing with wireless networking (for fun) since 2001. He's been involved with piertopier.net from it's very earliest days, and is mainly responsible for nagging people about routing protocols and documentation, and drawing pictures with way too much detail on them.

Dave lives in Hove with his partner (baby on the way), cat, and far too much obsolete hardware. He's presented to the BCS about piertopier.net.

Tom is WiFi enthusiast and keen Sailor to pay for it he finds himself working as a Physics and Electronics Technician at a local college. Though he came in late to the piertopier.net project, he's been trying to make up for it. He maintains the usage statistics and is good at the physical side of the network. Soldering, climbing trees, building power supplies etc.

Tom lives at Node 7, though can frequently be found on the beach, with either his laptop or his boat. Tom's homepage is here.

Alex is Managing Director of Moving-edge.net, the ISP that supports and sponsors Piertopier; he is also a member of the group in his own right. Not the most technical of members he regards his useful skills as technical translation for luddites, shameless self promotion, and helping piertopier.net find new opportunities. Some of the opportunities he has brought to the project include the Audio and Heist nodes and the Glastonbury field project.

He has recently married Sarah, piertopier's PR guru, who he met on Brighton beach although not wirelessly.

Alec is IT Manager for Dataline Software, where he spends his time nurturing Cisco equipment and a rackful of servers. A black belt in Cat5-macramé, he can still remember how to write C code and was responsible for writing the software running on the wind sensor.

Alec lives in Burgess Hill with his wife and son, and has been on the Technical team since the project's inception. He does site surveys, keeps the website up and running, and is obsessed with running PierToPier on smaller and smaller hardware.

Chris is a Java programmer who has been involved with community networking in Brighton since 2001. He was jointly responsible for the original piertopier.net concept and the poor pun that is the name, and has been involved ever since. He has touched on many areas, and recently was part of the technical team at Glastonbury. Other time commitments have, however, curtailed his evolvements, but he is shortly starting a new, more local, job and has Good Intentions (tm) of actually spending some of his newly acquired free time on the project.

Benjamin has been involved with PierToPier since the beginning and while he has now moved away from Brighton is still (occasionally) involved with the project. He was part of the technical team at Glastonbury - an experience from which his laptop has only just recovered. He enjoys hiding VW van keys - as well as the challenge of making stubborn bits of kit talk to each other.

Benjamin is about to move to a new life in London, where he will be working as IT Manager for a well regarded media company - which will hopefully enable him to return to Brighton as often as he'd like.

Sarah runs Electric Exposure, a professional communications consultancy specialising in public relations, sales and marketing. With seven years' experience of working within the Internet industry Sarah understands the importance of the Internet for her own business and is therefore well placed to write and distribute news & press releases detailing piertopier.net's achievements.

She is a firm believer in the ethos behind piertopier.net and loves living by the sea where this left of centre free community project flourishes.

Richard Grimwood builds wired networks for a living as technical director of Moving-edge.net. His contributions to piertopier have been sporadic with a certain element of beer motivation. He has done his bit up ladders and with soldering irons. Whilst a lot of his free time and effort went into the Glastonbury project prior to deployment he choose what some might call a 'light touch' approach throughout the event. Excuses being mainly due the prescence of his 1 year old son James for the first few days followed by a lot of very necessary sleeping for the remainder. Some more detailed ramblings might one day appear here.