From owner-freebsd-announce Tue Oct 17 14:49:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (winston.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.27.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2989237B4C5 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 14:49:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9HLneA65337 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 14:49:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com) To: announce@freebsd.org Subject: New FreeBSD Core Team Elected Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 14:49:40 -0700 Message-ID: <65333.971819380@winston.osd.bsdi.com> From: Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org BSD Conference, Monterey, CA, October 18, 2000 - The FreeBSD Project announced today the election of a new Core Team, the project's management board. This marks the first occasion on which the team has been selected by means of an election among the project's developers. Joining the Core Team as new members are Greg Lehey, Warner Losh, Mike Smith, and Robert Watson. Re-elected members are Satoshi Asami, David Greenman, Jordan Hubbard, Doug Rabson, and Peter Wemm. FreeBSD Project co-founder and continuing Core Team member Jordan Hubbard expressed excitement over the results, ``For the first time since the FreeBSD project was formed, open elections have determined the composition of its core team and set an important precedent whereby any developer can now become part of the project's leadership.'' The new core team also well-represents FreeBSD's diverse and highly skilled group of international developers, with expertise ranging from RAID file system and device-driver development to extensive security backgrounds. New Core Team members were elected from and by the FreeBSD committers team, the formal development staff of the FreeBSD project. Committers have direct access to the FreeBSD source repository, and perform the majority of software development associated with the project. Until this point, the Core Team was a self-selected board providing architectural and administrative direction. This summer, the committers voted to move to a democratic model allowing the project to adapt to the changing development requirements of the open source operating system community. However, with over half of the prior Core Team re-elected, strong continuity exists. Departing Core Team member Poul-Henning Kamp said, ``I'm very proud of what we have done together in the Core Team over the last 8 years. The new Core, and the fact that they are elected by the committers, means that the project will be much more responsive to change in the future.'' The changing of the guard in project leadership comes amid good feelings, Kamp indicated: all past Core members will continue on with the project with increased emphasis on development, ``Now I get to spend more time on the FreeBSD source code instead of on project management.'' Elected Core Team Members Satoshi Asami is a co-founder and CTO of DecorMagic, Inc., and is in charge of the FreeBSD Ports Collection. David Greenman is a co-founder of the FreeBSD Project and is currently President of TeraSolutions, Inc., a company that manufactures Internet servers and RAID storage systems. Jordan Hubbard is a co-founder of the FreeBSD Project as well as its public relations officer and release engineer. He is also Vice President for Open Source Solutions at BSDi. Greg Lehey is an Open Source Researcher with Linuxcare; he has spent most of his professional career in Germany, where he worked for computer manufacturers such as Univac, Tandem, and Siemens-Nixdorf. He is the author of the Vinum volume management and RAID software for FreeBSD, has been involved in the FreeBSD SMPng project, and is the author of Porting Unix Software and The Complete FreeBSD. Warner Losh has been porting NetBSD's pccard code to FreeBSD and has been FreeBSD Security Officer for the past two years. Doug Rabson is a co-founder of Qube Software Ltd., which specialises in 3D graphics technology. His work on FreeBSD includes the alpha and ia64 ports, and he was the main architect for FreeBSD's device driver framework. Mike Smith is Principal Engineer in BSDi's Open Source Solutions group and has been active in the FreeBSD developer community as a developer resource, OEM liaison, sometime architect and device driver author. Robert Watson is a research scientist at NAI Labs, working on network and operating system security research. His contributions to the FreeBSD Project include work on trusted operating system extensions (TrustedBSD), security architecture, and work on the security-officer team. Peter Wemm has been involved with FreeBSD since the early days of the ISP Industry in Australia and has since relocated to the US to work as a Software Engineer for Yahoo!, Inc. His involvement in FreeBSD includes management of the FreeBSD source code repository and kernel development. About FreeBSD FreeBSD is a liberally-licensed open source operating system with its origins in BSD Net/2 and 4.4 Lite, the Berkeley Software Distributions developed at the University of California at Berkeley until 1994. It is developed and maintained by a global organization of paid and volunteer contributors. FreeBSD is distinguished by its high performance networking and file system support, and is widely used among Internet service providers, including industry-recognized companies such as Yahoo!, above.net, and Verio. FreeBSD is also frequently used as a platform for embedded networking devices, including products from IBM, Inktomi, Juniper Networks, and Network Alchemy - a Nokia Company. More information may be found at http://www.FreeBSD.org/. Press Contact Jordan Hubbard The FreeBSD Project 925-682-7859 jkh@FreeBSD.org --- BSD is a registered trademark of Berkeley Software Design, Inc. Other trademarks are property of their respective owners. BSD technologies were originally developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors. This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-announce Wed Oct 18 21:56:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from vnode.vmunix.com (vnode.vmunix.com [209.112.4.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92BD337B4C5 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 21:56:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by vnode.vmunix.com (Postfix, from userid 1005) id DD43BE; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 00:56:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vnode.vmunix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C232849A13 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 00:56:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 00:56:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Coleman To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Subject: Daemon News Print edition. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org We printed a special edition for BSDCon, and sent most of them to the Con, however I have saved 125 copies for those who didn't get to go. I know its not very many, but our funds were limited and we didn't know what kind of a response we would get. Its a 32 page glossy paper with a full color cover. It contains this months articles plus a couple from previous months. However, if you want a copy of the magazine you can purchase it from the Daemon News Mall for $1.50 plus shipping. That is less than what we paid to get them printed, so hurry and order, they won't last long. http://mall.daemonnews.org/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=832 Show them to your friends and co-workers and see if you can help us get advertisers. If we can find the advertisers we will continue to print these. Chris Coleman Daemon News http://www.daemonnews.org Bringing BSD together This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message