Lynne Pope is a web technologist, writer, social and political activist and blogger. She has written technical manuals for companies as diverse as Bridgestone, Japan, Wurth International AG (Germany) and Drake International (Australia). In recent years her love of writing has morphed into user guides and how-to manuals for open source software with contributions made to Joomla!, WordPress and Mambo. Starting out with mainframes and system administration, she moved onto software development then management.