Ean Schuessler

Partner | Systems Visionary

Ean Schuessler is co-founder of Dallas-based digital media consultancy, Brainfood. He is a long-time participant in the Debian project and collaborated in the creation of the Debian Social Contract which inspired the Open Source Definition^[1]. Schuessler also served as President of Software in the Public Interest, an umbrella organization that holds property and provides other services for Debian and other Free Software organizations.

Ean has been a critical participant in the Free Java movement from the very beginning. Brainfood released its first commercial Java-based website on Acme.Serve in 1997, before Sun's Jeeves server hit the market. Ean was also an early maintainer of the Debian Kaffe package and currently is active in the Apache OFBiz effort to create a Free Software ERP system.

Ean recently volunteered with Open Source for America, serving as the Chairman of the technical committee. With the help of other committee members they built a sophisticated OFBiz based community management system.

In 2001 and 2002, Ean teamed up with Brainfood alumni Jerry Pommer and Eric Molitor to compete in Battlebots, achieving a ranking of 35 in the middle class weight group.

ean http://ping.fm/U6mXn Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:39:09 -0600

ean http://ping.fm/FF1pk Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:05:46 -0600

ean is discharging terrible and wonderous substances from his sinus cavity. The end, perhaps, in sight? Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:04:52 -0600

ean wonders if this could have crashed into that building in Austin... http://ping.fm/JD0lo Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:24:45 -0600

ean is resting, resting, resting. Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:36:59 -0600

ean is praying that he won't have a cold when he wakes up tomorrow. Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:19:47 -0600

ean is very, very irritated with the system intrusion community. Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:45:14 -0600

ean whoa! snowtastic! Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:49:44 -0600

ean looks with interest at http://ping.fm/J4zut Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:43:30 -0600

ean just saw Larry Lessig's talk and have to catch a plane. So long Campus Party! Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:59:24 -0600

ean drank so much Guarana and Espresso that he became telepathic... or autistic... hard to tell. Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:49:06 -0600

ean Stimulus watch is cool http://ping.fm/QU4I0 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:34:17 -0600

ean I demand that you look at this awesome art http://allfinearts.com/ Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:00:40 -0600

ean just got his visa straightened out and will be headed to Sao Paulo for Campus Party tomorrow! Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:36:42 -0600

ean Anybody investing in vice? http://ping.fm/Axwvc Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:42:53 -0600

ean wakes with almost no hangover into 2010... Yay! Fri, 1 Jan 2010 12:30:19 -0600

ean New OSFA mini-pitch video looking good... http://ping.fm/g1Wpp Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:31:46 -0600

ean alternates between telethon and supertramp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:49:00 -0600

ean jams "Rockin' into the Night" Wed, 9 Dec 2009 08:53:44 -0600

ean finds neat Dallas GIS stuff at http://ping.fm/4oSjF Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:53:50 -0600

ean sees what he will eat for breakfast on Friday... http://ping.fm/TMge3 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:48:37 -0600

ean manipulates postgis tables from qgis, wheeee! (why haven't I played with GIS much before this?) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:17:48 -0600

ean says you are dumb if you don't go to see Captured by Robots at the Double Wide tonight. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:18:03 -0600

ean wonders wtf is going on with Santa Rampage this year. Buses, tickets, details... p-leeze? Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:33:46 -0600

ean listens to os mutantes and writes proposals. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:59:00 -0600

ean has had about enough excitement for one day. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:37:38 -0600

ean repeatedly and sweatily presses the "launch" button while giggling madly. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:38:38 -0600

ean is stuck in the burbank airport Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:50:12 -0600

ean is slaving like a dog in LA until tomorrow. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:47:45 -0600

ean eats a big bowl of grilled salmon, rice pilaf and green beans. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:03:53 -0600

ean hates, hates, hates sinus infections. Tue, 3 Nov 2009 09:12:30 -0600

ean wonders what tools @mikojava uses to manage his various content delivery streams. Tue, 3 Nov 2009 08:05:04 -0600

ean Corn Mo interviews David Hanson about Disturbathon, great fun. http://ping.fm/3L4hf Sun, 1 Nov 2009 11:06:18 -0600

ean learns that CHE stands for Confoederatio Helvetica Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:43:19 -0500

ean is glad to be back in Texas. Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:35:36 -0500

ean just booked two tickets to New Orleans for Halloween weekend. Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:34:32 -0500

ean is in LA all week, so you LA peeps should give me a call. Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:50:57 -0500

ean sees a strange mix of west coast opensource talent and suited wonks at Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:07:41 -0500

ean encourages you to vote for his OFBiz SXSW panel: http://ping.fm/Rn5KJ Thu, 3 Sep 2009 10:19:58 -0500

ean grumbles while converting a .jks keystore to PEM format. Thu, 3 Sep 2009 01:34:19 -0500

ean is in the Dulles airport and could use some coffee. Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:24:58 -0500

ean was just awestruck by the Lincoln Memorial... which is obviously the idea. Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:31:52 -0500

ean listens to John Williams music from "Far and Away" in front of the Washington Monument Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:37:43 -0500

ean is walking around the classic DC sights to work off the margarita buzz the Mirth gang laid on him. Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:07:38 -0500

ean tries to find some lunch in the desolate American/Delta wing of Love Field. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:45:41 -0500

ean is wrestling with an ugly warehouse supplier set up. Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:41:19 -0500

ean wonders if time passes for a photon. Is everything happening at the same time for it? Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:02:54 -0500

ean would like to thank everyone for the overwhelming number of fine birthday wishes. Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:00:12 -0500

ean has a terrible post-birthday party hangover. Thanks to everyone who came by. I had a great time. Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:12:02 -0500

ean only saw one meteor last night. Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:56:18 -0500

ean just finished up some poached eggs and toast is back to working on the new back yard bar. Sun, 9 Aug 2009 11:34:58 -0500

ean just resized his mail server's storage volume but forgot to rescan the iscsi LUN size... uh oh. Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:01:44 -0500

ean is cooking down some fig and strawberry jam while he waits for his birthday baby brother to show up. Sun, 26 Jul 2009 07:09:47 -0500

ean had a beautiful but exhausting ride through the Oak Cliff Nature Preserve. Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:14:39 -0500

ean giggles at leaked Twitter docs on TechCrunch Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:01:51 -0500

ean listens to a great speech by Marissa Mayer at http://ping.fm/mfajn Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:47:59 -0500

ean loves his Android HTC Magic. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:43:07 -0500

ean Is now leaving the Facebook developer camp. Might maybe go to the afterparty later. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:27:57 -0500

ean is at the Dallas Facebook camp watching DropIO pimp their warez. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:44:55 -0500

ean waves goodbye to king of pop, prince of freaks, Micheal Jackson. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:21:45 -0500

ean Loves loves loves Nandina curry. Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:03:46 -0500

ean tries out some Thunderbird 3 beta 2 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:24:20 -0500

ean Is talking with Kim about jacking doublewide into the cybersphere. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:07:35 -0500

ean Shows Dariush how to use twitter so that he can help cause political instability in Iran. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:44:36 -0500

ean Is making a diterras style warm bread salad at home... But its just not the same. Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:02:56 -0500

ean Listens to phillip walker talk about twittering while jason cohen groans in pain. Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:46:23 -0500

ean admires the new www.brainfood.com with an associate on the phone. Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:51:46 -0500

ean wonders what the special at DiTerra's is tonight. Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:44:58 -0500

ean shows his Mom how Social Networks can update the Brainfood site. Tue, 9 Jun 2009 07:13:23 -0500

ean just got status updates working through ping.fm Tue, 9 Jun 2009 06:59:47 -0500