Ben Balbo was born in Germany, grew up in the UK, lives in Melbourne and likes Guinness. While he isn’t drinking Guinness (which is most of the time in Melbourne, as it just doesn’t taste the same), he earns a living as a jack of all web trades. He also drinks a fair amount of coffee.
He has been known to talk in public about a variety of topics, which comes as part of the package of being an organiser for both the Melbourne PHP Users Group and BarCamp Melbourne and on the committee of the Open Source Developers’ Club. Although he wouldn’t admit this, his participation at this level is secretly only in order to go to restaurants or pubs after the meetings.
