“ Foreign affairs junkie with background in economics and investment analysis. Interested in expanding into OSINT. I'd be willing to take responsibility for starting a DC area meetup - would anyone else assist with discussion planning? ”

“ Hi my name is : Carmen ”

“ Greetings, my name is Andreas and I am from Athens, Greece originally. Becoming a diplomat has been a life long dream for me. This is a great group and opportunity to meet new and different people with different backgrounds and experiences. ”

“ Is it time to trade in the training wheels? ”

“ I'm 28 years old, I got out of the Army a little over a year ago, and I work for a nonprofit in Arlington, now. I'm looking forward meeting-up. See you soon! <ws45ol@yahoo.com> ”

“ I want local Unix Meetups because I want to meet other UNIX users. Plain and simple. ”

“ I'm joining to find out more about the Intelligence Community and have thought provoking conversations about US Intelligence. I eventually want to be employed by the Government and I think I could learn a lot from these meetings! ”

“ I am with Mosaic, Inc. a smalll business that is focused on the IC and enabling new capabilties into this space through highly educated, senior engineers with clearances. ”

“ Hello. I'm based in Northern Virginia and focusing my professional efforts in Competitive Intelligence and Open Source Intelligence. ”

“ I am a retired Foreign Service Officer, now working for a company that will soon (May 2005) become a part of SAIC. I am working on contracts for INSCOM, interested in developing technical solutions for actionable intelligence problems, and integrati ”

“ I am a recent grad school graduate currently working for the U.S. Department of Energy who is looking to move into intelligence or national security field. ”

“ Hi, my name is James Fleming. I live in Arlington. I am an IBMer but a liberal arts major. I am a change mgmt/strat planner for various intel community organizations. I am in process of finishing a PhD in pub. policy with a focus on red teaming ”

“ I have over 40 years experience in intelligence. I am presently a contractor analyst in DOD. I was previously with the State Dept, the Library of Congress, and the US Army. I served in Vietnam. I have MS and MA degrees. I ”

“ I am new to the OSINT community, but very interested and want to learn more. ”

“ Developer of www.trackingthethreat.com open source intelligence site and the Sentinel TMS threat management software system (www.sentineltms.com). EVP of FMS Inc. in Vienna, VA. ”

“ Exploitation of deep web, semantic processing, interaction of sensemaking and software, strategic environmental scanning, business ecosystem monitoring, general cognitive work process design ”