Our members come in all sorts of different shapes and sizes and skills. But one thing unites them all: they’re lovely!

Permanent Desk Users

These are the people you will see if you pop by to say hello or use a co-working-hot-desk.

Nathan Day

Ben Gibbs

http://bobop.co.uk | ben@bobop.co.uk | @bobop

Ben is a freelance Web Developer specialising in WordPress and Ruby On Rails development. He is a founding member of FlyThe.Coop and is currently the Secretary.

Skills:

• HTML
• CSS
• PHP
• MySQL
• Flash
• Ruby On Rails
• WordPress Specialist

Paul Robinson

Chris Mills & Patrick Lauke

Chris Mills – http://dev.opera.com | cmills@opera.com | @chrisdavidmills

Chris Mills works for Norwegian browser vendor Opera Software, where he:

• Promotes/evangelises Opera technologies and open web standards
• Educates people on web design best practices through online and printed material, and talks/lectures
• Tests nascent web standards and helps provide feedback and fix bugs
• Liaises with users/developers and helps them solve web-related problems

Outside work he loves gaming, beer and rock and roll. He plays drums in the mighty Conquest of Steel

Skills:

• HTML/semantics
• CSS
• Accessibility
• Mobile web knowledge
• Knowledge of nascent web standards such as HTML5 and CSS3
• Copy writing
• Editing and proof reading

Stephen Mount

Sam Easterby-Smith

Julian Skidmore

julian@flythe.coop

Julian Skidmore is an embedded software/hardware engineer with over 10
years of experience in mobile phones, digital comms and computer
peripherals. He develops innovative educational and/or environmental
devices for niche markets.

Skills:

• Platforms: OS X/Linux/Symbian OS/RTOS
• Components: USB/Baseporting/Device Drivers/TCPIP/Wireless/Graphics/SD
• Languages: C/C++/Java/Objective-C/Assembler
• Architectures: Arm/Cortex/Avr/8051

Other Members

These people believe in what we’re up to and most likely will use a co-working-hot-desk from time to time.

Paul Drummond

www.pauldrummond.co.uk | info@pauldrummond.co.uk

Paul focusses on web development, design & illustration.

Guy Dickinson

Tim Dobson

Francis Fish

francis.fish@pharmarketeer.com | @fjfish

Francis is an Agile / TDD consultant and a Software Team Mentor

Skills:

• Ruby on Rails / PHP / OSS
• Test-Driven Development
• Back-end database analysis & design

Ian Moss

Katherine Powlesland

Kevin Rutherford

Richard Smedley

Andrew Threlfall