Ean 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.