Prof. Chinmaya Singh Rathore has been a career educator and researcher for around four decades. He has worked as a faculty member at the Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad, India and as Professor in the Faculty of Information Technology and Quantitative Techniques at the Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal, India, where he also served as Dean. Prof. Rathore is passionate about empowering others to embrace the power of free and opensource computing.