Simon Tennant
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Simon leads the buddycloud team and is an enthusiastic advocate of open source solutions. He also works with the XMPP Standards Foundation and is a recovering sysadmin. When he's not working to get buddycloud into the hands of as many users and developers as possible, he enjoys hiking and rock climbing.