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

“ 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'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 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. ”

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

“ 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. ”

“ 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 ”

“ 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 ”

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

“ The International Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) MeetUp is intended to bring together the seven intelligence tribes to share information about the seven standards and seven issues, as well as any other locally-desired topics. Seven tribes include natio ”

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

“ Retired US NAVY Cryptologist, 15+ years defense contractor experience as technologist, program manager and technical advisor ”

“ Trained as a librarian and musicologist. Have worked in both public and academic libraries. Stopped out to have a family. Would like to career-change to intelligence research and/or analysis since my husband's return from military attache duty. ”

“ 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. ”