John Buckman Email & Phone Number

Decent Espresso is making a new home espresso machine. My goal is the amazing drink quality found in Italian professional espresso machines such as La Marzocco, but in a machine made for your home. My heroes are Synesso and Slayer, two Seattle-based espresso machine companies innovating amazingly in the professional barista market. I hope to do the same.

High end, royalty free, indie music, available for license by monthly subscription.

MoodMixes provides background music to restaurants, shops and hotels.

London, GB

I'm a member of the Advisory Council of the Open Rights Group, a London, England based lobby for citizen rights on the Internet. http://www.openrightsgroup.org/

BookMooch is a community for exchanging used books. See http://bookmooch.com

Magnatune is an online music service. Every month, hundreds of independent musicians send us their music. We pick the best 3% and give the public truly unlimited access to what we've found. We are a fair-trade service, and split revenue 50/50 with our musicians.

San Francisco, CA, US

I was chairman of the board of directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation http://eff.org - defending your freedoms in the information age!

This Finnish company is trying to build a web site which helps people collaboratively make feature films, in the same way as the film Star Wreck was made (by many of the same people involved). Also provided funding for the film Iron Sky, which is the next film by the Star Wreck producers.

Mountain View, CA, US

In February 2006, I was elected to the board of directors of the Creative Commons (creativecommons.org), an organization that applies open source philosophy to other media, such as music, writing and film. Specifically, CC issues "open" licenses that millions of others use to grant generous rights to their creations.

The MetaBrainz Foundation is a 501.(c).3 tax-exempt non-profit based in San Luis Obispo, California that operates the MusicBrainz project.MusicBrainz is a user maintained community music metadatabase. Music metadata is information such as the name of an artist, the name of an album and list of tracks that appear on an album. MusicBrainz collects this.

Emeryville, CA, US

Lyris sells email list server software (Lyris ListManager), and antispam software (MailShield). In April of 2005, I sold Lyris and am no longer involved with the company.

This was my first real post-college company. I hired some programmers, and together we wrote TILE, a program to convert Lotus Notes databases into web sites. I also wrote InfoMagnet, a Windows desktop program for finding and using Internet discussion groups.

US

Wrote software to make ad sales proposals, also software to analyze Nielsen ratings. Discovery used Lotus Notes and was making a big investment in their web site, so I struck on my own to write TILE, a Notes->Web conversion program.

Personally wrote most of the software which ran the Yale University Health Services, including patient records, visits, doctor's notes, major medical claim tracking, and lab tests. All on a MAI Basic 4 minicomputer.

Wrote software demonstrating possible uses of hardware devices that will be released in upcoming years: Yale received free samples of upcoming equipment but no software or applications supported it yet, and Yale wanted to see what potential uses the equipment had.

Responsible for operating the check signing machine, filing and re-typing failing punch cards, mounting tapes into tape drives, teaching the word processing class to secretaries.

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