Markus Feilner

Markus Feilner is a seasoned Linux expert from Regensburg, Germany. He has been working with free and open source software since 1994, as a trainer, consultant, author and journalist. His first contact with UNIX was a SUN cluster and SPARC workstations at Regensburg University (during his studies of geography).

Since the year 2000, he has been publishing many books and courseware used in Linux trainings all over the World. Among that were three books for Packt (Two on OpenVPN, one on Scalix Groupware). In the same year he founded his own Linux consulting and training company, Feilner IT. He was working as a trainer, consultant, and systems engineer at Millenux, Munich, where he focused on groupware, collaboration, and virtualization with Linux-based systems and networks.

Until 2015, he had been deputy editor-in-chief at German Linux-Magazine, where he was writing about Open-Source-Software for both printed and online magazines, including the Linux Technical Review and the Linux Magazine International (US, UK, AUS).

Today the Conch diplomat, Minister of the Universal Life Church and Jedi Knight, owner of lunar property holds several nationalities and is employed as Team Lead of the SUSE Documentation Team in Nürnberg. He is regularly giving keynotes, workshops, lectures and presentations at tech and political conferences in Germany.

He is interested in anything about geography, traveling, photography, philosophy (especially that of open source software), global politics, modern science, arts and literature, but always has too little time for these

hobbies.