Michael Wechner is co-founder of Wyona and the original creator of various Open Source projects such as Apache Lenya, Yanel, Yarep and Yulup. Before entering the world of open source software he studied mathematical physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and was doing three years of basic research on computer simulations of dendritic growth at the Max-Planck-Institute. Michael organized the very first Open Source CMS conference together with Eric and co-founded OSCOM and also spends a lot of time with other Open Source Content Management Software. In 2004 he started Wyona Pictures. In 2006 he initiated the Yulup, Yanel and Yarep projects, content management software for creature comforts. Michael lives with his family in the countryside close to Zurich, Switzerland.