Charles Uchu Strader Charles is one of the founders of GAIA Host Collective and has more than twelve years of experience managing web & email servers and working with web site developed on a variety of platforms. Platform expertise includes FreeBSD, Debian, Windows and application languages: PHP, Perl, Javascript, ASP, Cold Fusion. Charles' works hard to keep his computer work inline with his cooperative and environmental goals and is therefore involved with many community organizing activities including: Facilitator and Board Member of the Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy, President of the Board at Institute for Environmental Awareness and founding member of the Valley Alliance of Worker Cooperatives.

Benjamin Bradley Benjamin has been working with computers and developing software applications for over 15 years. He earned a Computer Science degree at the University of Texas at Austin in 2002. Benjamin worked in the corporate world for a few years before joining Gaia Host Collective in early 2007. Benjamin's goal is to live intentionally, and working with Gaia Host gives him the opportunity to support a company whose work is in line with his values. Benjamin's interests are in facilitating cooperation and collaboration, moving towards global sustainability, and participating in the re-growth of community.

Matthew King Matthew has been working in collectives for over 20 years now, mainly as a bookmonger and community organizer. His first collective was Left Bank Books in Seattle, WA, where he worked from 1990 to 1999. Since then he was been working with Food For Thought Books in Amherst, MA. He has been doing web design since about 1995 when he first put the Left Bank catalog online. Since then he has continued to help people get online via his not-for-profit web design project homemadejam.org. He is excited to be working with GAIA Host, who he recently joined in the summer of 2011.

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