About the Reviewers

Róman Joost first learned about open source software in 1997. He has contributed to multiple open source projects in his professional career. Roman is currently working at Red Hat in Brisbane, Australia. In his leisure time, he enjoys photography, spending time with his family, and digital painting with GIMP.

Hugo Solis is an assistant professor in the physics department at the University of Costa Rica. His current research interests include computational cosmology, complexity, and the influence of hydrogen on material properties. Hugo has vast experience in languages, including C, C++, and Python for scientific programming and visualization. He is a member of the Free Software Foundation and has contributed code to some free software projects. Hugo has contributed to Mastering Object-oriented Python and Kivy: Interactive Applications in Python as a technical reviewer and is the author of Kivy Cookbook, Packt Publishing. He is currently in charge of the IFT, a Costa Rican scientific nonprofit organization for the multidisciplinary practice of physics (http://iftucr.org).

I'd like to thank my beloved mother, Katty Sanchez, for her support and vanguard thoughts.