Gilad Ben-Yossef
 
 
 
 
Gilad Ben-Yossef is the cofounder and CTO of Codefidence Ltd. and has been assisting
OEMs make use of free and open source software in commercial products and
services since 1998. He is also cofounder of Hamakor, an NPO devoted to the promotion
of FOSS in Israel, and a founding organizer of “August Penguin,” an Israeli community
FOSS conference.
Gilad is a member of the Israeli chapter of Mensa, the Israeli Information Technology
Association, and the Israeli chapter of the Internet Society. He holds a B.A. in computer
science from Tel-Aviv Jaffa Academic College.
When not trying to make FOSS software do something the authors never intended,
Gilad likes to scuba dive, read science fiction, and spend time with his wife, Limor, and
his two adorable girls, Almog and Yael.