- Jeremy Allison
Samba
jallison@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
-
Jeremy Allison is one of the lead developers on the Samba
Team, a group of programmers developing an Open Source
Windows™ compatible file and print server product for
UNIX systems. Developed over the Internet in a
distributed manner similar to the Linux system, Samba is
used by multinational corporations and educational
establishments worldwide. With a wide background in UNIX
and Windows NT systems, Jeremy has been working on Samba
since its origin in 1993, and is currently adding support
for the Windows NT Domain controller protocols into
Samba. He works for Silicon Graphics, which funds his
work on Samba.
http://www.samba.org - Eric Allman
Sendmail, Inc.
eric@sendmail.org -
Eric Allman was the original author of sendmail and
continues to lead sendmail.org, the worldwide team of
volunteers that maintains and supports the Open Source™
product. He was the Chief Programmer on the INGRES
database management project and an early contributor to
Berkeley UNIX, authoring syslog, tset, the troff -me
macros, and trek in addition to sendmail. He received a
Master of Science degree in Computer Science from
University of California, Berkeley in 1980. He was a
principal designer of the first commercial client/server
implementation and of database user and application
interfaces at Britton Lee, Inc. (later Sharebase). He
contributes a monthly column titled "Eye on E-Mail," to
Boardwatch Magazine.
http://www.sendmail.org
http://www.sendmail.com - Larry M. Augustin
VA Research
lma@varesearch.com - Larry Augustin founded VA Research in 1993 while a
graduate student at Stanford University. Described by
Salon Magazine as a "slightly harried" Linux "holy warrior,"
Larry says his real claim to fame is entering
the Linux business instead of joining his fellow Stanford
students David Filo and Jerry Yang in starting Yahoo.
Working from his dorm room on weekends, Larry built his
company’s first workstation in 1993 and by 1995 had
established VA in Mountain View, California. A strong
supporter of the open source philosophy, he is committed
to bringing its spirit of innovation and creativity to
the marketplace. Augustin is a member of the Linux
International Board of Directors and the author of
numerous books and technical papers. Augustin holds a PhD
in Electrical Engineering and MSEE from Stanford
University. http://www.varesearch.com
- Fred Baker
IETF
fred.baker@cisco.com - Fred Baker is a Cisco Fellow and IETF Chair. At Cisco
Systems, his primary interest area is the improvement of
Quality of Service for best effort and real time traffic.
In addition to product development, as a Cisco Fellow, he
advises senior management of industry directions and
appropriate corporate strategies. His principal standards
contributions have been to the IETF, but he has
contributed to ITU'’s H.323, and to such industry
consortia as WINSOCK II and the ATM Forum. In the IETF,
he has contributed to Network Management, Routing, PPP
and Frame Relay, the Integrated and Differentiated
Services architectures, and the RSVP signaling protocol.
http://www.ietf.org - Mitchell Baker
Netscape Communications
mitchell@netscape.com - Mitchell Baker joined Netscape in the fall of 1994. She
has been involved in most of Netscape's licensing
initiatives, and wrote the Netscape and Moz Public
Licenses. A lawyer by training (but not necessarily by
personality) she nevertheless maintains a strong affinity
for the open source movement.
http://www.netscape.com -
Brian Behlendorf
O'’Reilly & Associates, Apache Group
brian@apache.org - Brian Behlendorf is a co-founder of the Apache Web Server
Project and Chief Technology Officer, New Ventures at
O'’Reily & Associates. His recent endeavors include
crafting strategic and technical directions for C2Net, a
cryptography and web server software company, as well as
coordinating content for the ApacheCon conference. He was
co-founder and CTO at Organic Online, one of the first
Web design and engineering consulting firms. Brian co-
founded the VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling language)
effort, and has assisted several IETF (Internet
Engineering Task Force) working groups, particularly the
HTTP standardization effort. Before starting Organic
Online, Brian was the first Chief Engineer at Wired
Magazine and later HotWired.
http://www.apache.org - Steve Burbeck
IBM
sburbeck@us.ibm.com - Steve Burbeck is a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM'’s
Network Computing Software Division. Prior to joining
IBM, he worked at Apple Computer and two start-up
companies specializing in object-oriented software. His
appreciation for open-source software began in the 60's
before the proprietary package software paradigm
dominated the industry, and he welcomes the increased
consumer choice offered by its resurgence.
http://www.ibm.com - Steve Byrne
Java-Linux Port
sbb@gnu.org - Steve Byrne is presently the leader of the Blackdown Java
Porting Team, which is a group of volunteers who provide
high quality ports of the latest Java platform
implementations for Linux, and has been working with
various Java projects since 1996. Steve has been a
supporter of free software (and now open source software)
for over 10 years, including creating and contributing a
Smalltalk programming language implementation to the Free
Software Foundation’s GNU project.
- Wayne Caccamo
Hewlett Packard
WAYNE_CACCAMO@HP-Cupertino-om5.om.hp.com - Wayne is currently heading up HP's newly formed Open
Source Solutions Operation. Wayne has been with HP for 10
years in various marketing positions within the
enterprise systems group. Wayne holds an MBA from Yale
University.
http://www.hp.com - Ken Coar
IBM, Apache Group
Ken.Coar@Golux.Com - Ken Coar has been writing software since the 1970s, but
he has only been involved with free software for the last
few years. He has made a few minor submissions to various
packages, but the bulk of his contributions have been to
the Apache project, of which he has been a core developer
since 1997.
http://www.apache.org - David R. Conrad
Internet Software Consortium
drc@iengines.net - David "Randy" Conrad has been involved with the Internet
for 16 years and is now the Executive Director of the
Internet Software Consortium, administering ISC’'s non-
profit business and managing the software development for
ISC’s open source projects including BIND, DHCP, and INN.
Previously, he was tasked with creating and then becaming
the first Director General of the Asia Pacific Network
Information Center (APNIC), the Internet registry for the
Asia and Pacific Rim regions, and was employee 007 at the
first commercial service provider in Japan, Internet
Initiative Japan, Inc.
http://www.isc.org - L. Peter Deutsch
Aladdin Software
- L. Peter Deutsch is best known as the principal author of
Ghostscript, a commercial-quality implementation of the
PostScript language, and of the licensing approach that
allows it to be distributed with an Open Source license
while also supporting a successful commercial licensing
business. He was also the principal author of the first
commercial-quality JIT compiler for a high-level language
(Smalltalk) based on a portable Virtual Machine
definition. In 1993, he was a co-recipient of the ACM
Software System Award, for work on the Interlisp software
development tools.
- Roy T. Fielding
Apache Group
fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu - Roy T. Fielding is a co-founder of the Apache HTTP server
project and member of the Apache Group, while at the same
time being a doctoral student in Information and Computer
Science at the University of California, Irvine. In
addition to Apache, he has created open source projects
for WWW access log analysis (wwwstat), multi-owner
maintenance of distributed webs (MOMspider), and client
protocol libraries for the perl and Ada95 (libwww-perl
and libwww-ada95) programming languages. Fielding
authored the Internet standard for Uniform Resource
Identifiers (URI) and is the primary author of the
current version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol
(HTTP/1.1).
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/ - John Gilmore
EFF
gnu@toad.com - John Gilmore is an entrepreneur and civil libertarian. He
was an early employee of Sun Microsystems, and co-founded
Cygnus Solutions, the Electronic Frontier Foundation
(EFF), the Cypherpunks, and the Internet's "alt" newsgroups. He has
twenty-five years of experience in the
computer industry, including programming, hardware and
software design, management, and investment. He is a
significant contributor to the worldwide open source
(free software) development effort.
His advocacy efforts on encryption policy aim to improve
public understanding of this fundamental technology for
privacy and accountability in open societies. He led the
team that built the world'’s first published DES Cracker
for EFF. He is a board member of the Internet Society,
the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and C2Net Inc.
http://www.eff.org - Dick Hardt
ActiveState Tool Corp.
DickH@ActiveState.com - Dick Hardt has been working in the commercial software
industry since Windows 1.03. He was instrumental in Perl
5 development efforts on the Microsoft Windows platform
and is currently President and CTO of ActiveState Tool
Corp., the leader in Perl tools and services.
http://www.activestate.com - Chris Herrnberger
Linux Development Studio
chrish123@sympatico.ca - Chris Herrnberger was formerly the Manager of Emerging
Technologies with Corel Computer, where he was
responsible for creating and launching the Netwinder
Project; a joint open source and commercial venture. He
is currently launching his own consultancy, Linux
Development Studio. The Studio provides project
management, strategic planning and marketing services to
clients interested in developing an integrated business
model including open source and commercial concepts.
http://www.linuxstudio.com - Alexandre Julliard
Wine
julliard@lrc.epfl.ch - Alexandre Julliard is the leader of the Wine project. In
his other life he is managing the embedded software
development at Lightning Instrumentation in Lausanne,
Switzerland. He holds a diploma in computer science from
the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
- Tom Kalil
White House National Economic Council
kalil_t@a1.eop.gov - Tom Kalil is Special Assistant to the President for
Economic Policy, and the "“point person"” for the White
House National Economic Council on most technology and
telecommunications issues. He is the author of articles
on distributed learning, the Administration’s National
Information Infrastructure agenda, "levraging cyberspae,"
U.S.-Japan S&T cooperation, and nuclear
strategy, and a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations, the IEEE, the ACM, and the Internet Society.
http://www.whitehouse.gov - Charles Marker
Silicon Graphics
marker@sgi.com - Charles is a Director of Engineering at SGI where he is
responsible for Linux development. Charles has been with
SGI since 1988, where has been involved in both
development and management of various platform and
operating systems projects.
http://www.sgi.com - Kirk McKusick
BSD
mckusick@mckusick.com - Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick writes books and articles,
consults, and teaches classes on UNIX- and BSD-related
subjects. While at the University of California at
Berkeley, he implemented the 4.2BSD fast file system, and
was the Research Computer Scientist at the Berkeley
Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) overseeing the
development and release of 4.3BSD and 4.4BSD.
http://www.mckusick.com - Cliff Miller
Pacific HiTech
cliff@turbolinux.com - Cliff Miller co-founded Pacific HiTech, makers of
TurboLinux, in 1992 after teaching on the faculties at
the Saga Medical School in Japan and Zhejiang University
in China. A former National Science Foundation Graduate
Fellow and American Electronics Association Research
Fellow at Fujitsu’s Research Laboratory in Kawasaki,
Miller is an expert in Asian languages. He speaks fluent
Japanese, Mandarin and Macedonian.
http://www.turbolinux.com - Sam Ockman
Penguin Computing
ockman@penguincomputing.com - Sam Ockman is President of Penguin Computing, a company
devoted to
producing the "World’s Most Reliable Linux Systm." Sam was one of five
people who coined the term Open Source. He writes a
monthly column on
Linux, organizes speakers on Open Source for the Bay
Area, was an editor
of Open Sources and has taught a class on Perl at
Berkeley Extension.
http://www.penguincomputing.com - Greg Olson
Sendmail, Inc.
greg@sendmail.com - Greg Olson is President and CEO of Sendmail, Inc, which
he founded with Eric Allman in 1997. He previously served
as Vice President of Marketing for Integrated Systems,
Inc, the largest provider of software and services to the
embedded computer systems industry. Olson joined ISI
after six years at Sybase, the world‚s sixth largest
software developer, where he held Vice President
positions in Product Strategy, Tools Products, and
Strategic Planning during a period when the company grew
in revenue from $80 million to $1billion. Olson joined
Sybase from Britton Lee, Inc. where he held positions of
Chief Technical Officer, VP of Marketing, VP of Customer
Services and Director of Software Development. His depth
in distributed systems software came from Summit Systems,
Inc, a spin-off from Xylog, where he developed subsystems
of a distributed operating system for office automation
and lead the system integration team. Olson is a 1980
graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz,
where he received a Bachelors degree in Information
Sciences.
http://www.sendmail.com - Tim O'Reilly
O'Reilly & Assoiates
tim@oreilly.com - Tim O’Reilly is founder and president of
O'’Reilly &Associates. In addition to publishing pioneering books
like Ed Krol's Whole Internet User’s Guide and Catalog
(selected by the New York Public Library as one of the
most significant books of the twentieth century), Tim was
a force in the popularization of the Internet. His
company’s Global Network Navigator site (GNN) was the
first true commercial site on the World Wide Web, and
inspired the development of the Mosaic browser, Netscape,
and many of the developments that followed. O
O'’Reilly'’s Songline Studios affiliate continues to pioneer new
content developments on the web. Tim has written and
edited numerous books on computer topics. He also
conceived an award-winning series of travel books,
published by O'’Reilly affiliate Traveler' Tales, and a
line of consumer medical books, Patient-Centered Guides.
http://www.oreilly.com - John K. Ousterhout
Scriptics Corporation
ouster@scriptics.com - John K. Ousterhout is CEO of Scriptics Corporation and
the creator of the Tcl scripting language. Ousterhout is
a Fellow of the ACM and has received many awards,
including the ACM Software Systems Award, the ACM Grace
Murray Hopper Award, the US National Science Foundation
Presidential Young Investigator Award, and the U.C.
Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award.
http://www.scriptics.com - Sameer Parekh
C2Net, OpenSSL
sameer@bpm.ai - Sameer Parekh is the Founder and CTO of C2Net Software,
the leading provider of commercial Apache-based web
solutions. He was also a founder of the OpenSSL project,
although he is not a core team member. In addition,
Sameer is Director of Operations for the CryptoRights
Foundation, a non-profit aimed at providing cryptography
education to human rights workers worldwide.
http://www.c2.net - Christine Peterson
Foresight Institute
peterson@foresight.org - Christine Peterson is Executive Director of Foresight
Institute, a nonprofit organization which supports making
software more reliable and secure through Open Source
development. She coined the term "Open Source software"
to communicate these benefits to a wider user base, and
now directs her Open Source efforts toward increasing
cooperation within the OSS community itself.
http://www.foresight.org - Eric S. Raymond
Open Source Initiative
esr@thyrsus.com - Eric S. Raymond is a long-time open source developer and
one of the leading theorists and evangelists of the
movement. His paper "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"
helped persuade Netscape to open up the Mozilla source code.
http://ww.opensource.org - Chip Salzenberg
Open Source Initiative
chip@perlsupport.com - Chip Salzenberg is a director of the Open Source
Initiative. He started programming twenty years ago, and
is now also an instructor, consultant, and writer. Chip
is perhaps best-known in the Open Source community as
manager of, and primary contributor to, Perl 5.004
-- first version of Perl that has never suffered a CERT
security advisory. Chip is now the driving force behind
the "Topaz" project, a complete reimplementation of Perl
that he intends will become Perl 6. Chip teaches Perl and
other software subjects, provides commercial support and
general consulting for Perl users; writes a column for
The Perl Journal, and is co-writing with Randal Schwartz
a Perl book to be published by O’Reilly and Associates.
http://www.perlsupport.com - Janet Smith
Informix
janets@informix.com - Janet Smith holds the position of Director, Product
Marketing and Management at Informix Software, Inc. Her
responsibilities include implementing Linux marketing
strategies as well as providing solutions to product and
strategic issues concerning Linux. Smith began her career
with Arthur Andersen & Co, joined Tandem Computers in
1989, and in 1994 joined Informix as a Program Manager.
Promoted to Senior Development Manager in Product
Development, Janet was the Engineering Manager
responsible for the first enterprise-ready database to be
ported to Linux.
http://www.informix.com - Gavriel State
Corel
gavriels@COREL.CA - Gavriel State is in charge of Linux Applications
development at Corel Corporation. At Corel, Gavriel has
spearheaded efforts to use WINE as a portability solution
for moving Win32 applications to Linux. Prior to his
involvement with Linux, Gavriel lead the CorelDRAW for
Macintosh development team.
http://www.corel.com - Jon S. Stevens
Java-Apache Project
jon@clearink.com - Jon Stevens is an active member of the Java-Apache
Project. He is a founder of Clear Ink, Corp. where he is
currently working as a Web Engineer developing a variety
of Java Servlet based Internet applications.
- Michael Tiemann
Cygnus Solutions
tiemann@cygnus.com - In 1989 Michael Tiemann founded Cygnus Solutions, the
first company with a business built around Open Source
technologies. Michael is a true visionary and pioneer in
the Open Source movement. Michael began making
contributions to the software development community
through his work on the GNU C compiler (which he ported
to the SPARC and several other RISC architectures), the
GNU C++ compiler (which he authored), and the GDB
debugger (which he enhanced to support the C++
programming language and ported to run on the SPARC).
Unable to convince any existing companies to offer
commercial support for this new "Open Source" software,
he co-founded Cygnus Solutions, the leader in Open Source
Software.
http://www.cygnus.com - Linus Torvalds
Linux
- Linus Torvalds created the Linux OS in 1991, while he was a
student in Finland. He currently works for Transmeta
Corporation.
- Guido van Rossum
Python
guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US - Guido van Rossum is Python'’s author. He created the
language in the early 1990s at CWI in Amsterdam (the
National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer
Science in the Netherlands), responding to an inner
desire for a more elegant and powerful scripting
language. He now lives and works in Reston, Virginia, for
CNRI (the Corporation for National Research Initiatives).
At CNRI, he heads a research group working on a framework
for mobile agents written in Python, and is technical
director of the Python Consortium, an international
consortium hosted by CNRI, formed to promote and further
the development of Python.
http://www.python.org - Larry Wall
Perl
larry@wall.org - Larry Wall originally created Perl while a programmer at
Unisys. He now works full time guiding the future
development of the language as a researcher and developer
at O'’Reilly & Associates. He is the principal author of
the bestselling Programming Perl, known colloquially as
"the Camel book." In addition to Perl, Wall developed the
rn news reader, the patch program, metaconfig (a program
that writes Configure scripts), and the warp space-war
game, the first version of which he wrote in BASIC/PLUS
at Seattle Pacific University.
http://www.perl.com - Tim Wilkinson
Kaffee, Transvirtual Technologies, Inc.
tim@transvirtual.com - Tim Wilkinson is the founder and CEO of Transvirtual
Technologies, based in Berkeley, California. Tim received
his PhD in computer science from City University, London,
in 1993. Transvirtual aims to provide a commercial
alternative to Sun’s Java products as well as a complete
Java clone to the Open Source community.
http://www.transvirtual.com - Jamie Zawinski
mozilla.org
jwz@mozilla.org - Jamie Zawinski is one of the coordinators of mozilla.org,
the project developing the open source version of
Netscape Navigator. He was one of Netscape's earliest
employees, writing the Unix-specific parts of Netscape
Navigator, and designing the initial version of the
Netscape mail/news reader. Before Netscape, he was
responsible for Lucid Emacs (now known as XEmacs.).
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