Linux Online is currently the work of a small group of people. Working from our homes, we each work in our own area to support the site.

Staff mail addresses on this page are for contacting these individuals regarding their specific contributions to Linux Online. If you want to submit content, report broken or out of date links or have any suggestions, questions or comments about the site, please send mail to our webmaster.

Here are the people who make up the Linux Online team:

• Michael McLagan, General Manager
• Michael Jordan, Web Developer

Each has provided us with a small personal biography:

• Michael McLagan

  Michael began working with computers in 1979 at the prompting of a family friend. Learning how to play and then modify the original Star Trek game on a Heathkit H8 was his first exposure to computers. Over the course of the next 4 years he tuned his skills on the Apple ][ series.

  Starting work in the field in 1983 as a consultant to small business and local school boards, he expanded his areas of knowledge to include a very wide gambit of hardware, software and digital circuitry. During his ongoing work he has worked as a project manager, system analyst, programmer, circuit designer and at other related tasks. Areas of expertise include Linux, OS/2, and Windows 3.1. He has also done extensive work in developing drivers for various PC boards.

  Initially getting involved with Linux in late 1992 as a replacement for UUPC (a UUCP implementation for IBM PCs) with more services, it quickly became evident that Linux would grow into a force to be reckoned with. Believing that someone needed to step forward and take on the task of promoting Linux to the world at large, he registered linux.org in May 1994.

  Michael's duties at Linux Online include assembling, installing and configuring computers, monitoring and maintaining the network, developing support applications, writing marketing materials, coordinating advertising sales, and overseeing business administration.

  Michael may be contacted at Michael.McLagan (at) linux.org. You can also view his resume.

• Michael Jordan

  Michael is our webmaster. He received a BA in history with teaching certification from St. Anselm College, Manchester, NH in 1987. When he wasn't busy studying or teaching history he learned how to use the first Macs and IBM PCs. He met his lovely wife while she was on a teacher exchange program between the school in Spain where she worked and the New Hampshire school where he was teaching. The couple relocated to Spain in 1990 where Michael has been ever since. He opened and ran an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) school, Academia Boston, and wrote CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) programs for use in the school using a variety of programming languages.

  Michael began using Linux in 1997 when he installed an intranet at school for the purpose of converting the CALL programs to HTML/CGI for use on the Web. That same year he began offering those programs to Spanish speakers all over the world on the his English learning web site. He left the school in January of 2001 to devote time to promoting Linux and to developing applications for language learning. The fruits of his labors can be seen at the Lexica Language Institute website

  Michael's been the webmaster since March of 2000. He also interviews people in the Linux community, lets his opinion be known in our op-ed section, is author of the Linux courses here on site.

  Michael can be contacted at Michael.Jordan (at) linux.org