Sebastian Dziallas is an engineer who works on educations. As a packager and release engineer, he wrangles chaos into products. Past projects include the Fedora Design Suite of open-source multimedia authoring tools which debuted at SXSW 2011, the Sugar on a Stick spin which replaces $200 laptops with $10 thumbdrives and is used by over 4000 students and educators in classroom deployments and teacher training seminars across 3 continents, and One Laptop Per Child's operating system for the 2008 Give One, Get One program. His work has been covered by Wired, ArsTechnica, and Technology Review, among others.
When not creating educational software projects, Sebastian teaches others how to contribute to them. He taught the first release engineering course offered at Olin College and has published in both academic and technical venues about the use of open source community participation as a teaching tool, traveled around the world to teach workshops for college faculty on behalf of Red Hat's open source community team, authored several articles on gaming and Linux for the German computer magazine c't, and volunteers as the events coordinator for the Teaching Open Source community, where he regularly advises CS faculty on curriculum design and serves as a guest speaker for their classes.
These days, Sebastian splits his time between Boston and Hannover, occasionally blogging about his open source work when he's not writing film reviews or learning how to cook.