Carsten Emde has spent more than 25 years as a software developer, system integrator and software consultant for industrial computer systems. Among others, he is specialized on real time, video and image processing. Since founding the Open Source Automation Development Lab (OSADL) in 2005, he is serving the organization as general manager. Carsten has been speaking regularly at conferences, seminars and workshops on technical and legal aspects of using, programming and conveying the Linux kernel and related Open Source software.