Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 08:28:43 +0200 From: Joel Dahl <joel@automatvapen.se> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Restructure the Contributors article Message-ID: <1126506523.582.18.camel@dude.automatvapen.se>
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I'd like to move the Donors gallery in the Contributors article to the
end of this article. This outdated list of early donors probably isn't
what people seeking information here are looking for.
Objections?
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- <sect1 id="donors">
- <title>Donors Gallery</title>
-
- <para>The FreeBSD Project is indebted to the following donors and would
- like to publicly thank them here!</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para><emphasis>Contributors to the central server
- project:</emphasis></para>
-
- <para>The following individuals and businesses made it possible for
- the FreeBSD Project to build a new central server machine, which
- has replaced <hostid role="fqdn">freefall.FreeBSD.org</hostid> at
- one point, by donating the following items:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>&a.mbarkah; and his employer, <ulink
- url="http://www.hemi.com/">; Hemisphere Online</ulink>,
- donated a <emphasis>Pentium Pro (P6) 200MHz CPU</emphasis>
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><ulink url="http://www.asacomputers.com/">ASA
- Computers</ulink> donated a <emphasis>Tyan 1662
- motherboard</emphasis>.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Joe McGuckin <email>joe@via.net</email> of <ulink
- url="http://www.via.net/">ViaNet Communications</ulink> donated
- a <emphasis>Kingston ethernet controller.</emphasis></para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Jack O'Neill <email>jack@diamond.xtalwind.net</email>
- donated an <emphasis>NCR 53C875 SCSI controller
- card</emphasis>.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Ulf Zimmermann <email>ulf@Alameda.net</email> of <ulink
- url="http://www.Alameda.net/">Alameda Networks</ulink> donated
- <emphasis>128MB of memory</emphasis>, a <emphasis>4 Gb disk
- drive and the case.</emphasis></para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><emphasis>Direct funding:</emphasis></para>
-
- <para>The following individuals and businesses have generously
- contributed direct funding to the project:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Annelise Anderson
- <email>ANDRSN@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU</email></para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>&a.dillon;</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><ulink url="http://www.bluemountain.com/">Blue Mountain
- Arts</ulink></para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><ulink url="http://www.epilogue.com/">Epilogue Technology
- Corporation</ulink></para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>&a.sef;</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><ulink url="http://www.gta.com/">Global Technology
- Associates, Inc</ulink></para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Don Scott Wilde</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Gianmarco Giovannelli
- <email>gmarco@masternet.it</email></para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Josef C. Grosch <email>joeg@truenorth.org</email></para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Robert T. Morris</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>&a.chuckr;</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Kenneth P. Stox <email>ken@stox.sa.enteract.com</email> of
- <ulink url="http://www.imagescape.com/">Imaginary Landscape,
- LLC.</ulink></para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Dmitry S. Kohmanyuk <email>dk@dog.farm.org</email></para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><ulink url="http://www.cdrom.co.jp/">Laser5</ulink>; of Japan
- (a portion of the profits from sales of their various FreeBSD
- CDROMs).</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><ulink url="http://www.mmjp.or.jp/fuki/">Fuki Shuppan
- Publishing Co.</ulink> donated a portion of their profits from
- <emphasis>Hajimete no FreeBSD</emphasis> (FreeBSD, Getting
- started) to the FreeBSD and XFree86 projects.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><ulink url="http://www.ascii.co.jp/">ASCII Corp.</ulink>
- donated a portion of their profits from several FreeBSD-related
- books to the FreeBSD project.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><ulink url="http://www.yokogawa.co.jp/">Yokogawa Electric
- Corp</ulink> has generously donated significant funding to the
- FreeBSD project.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><ulink url="http://www.buffnet.net/">BuffNET</ulink></para>;
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><ulink url="http://www.pacificsolutions.com/">Pacific
- Solutions</ulink></para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><ulink url="http://www.siemens.de/">Siemens AG</ulink>
- via Andre Albsmeier
- <email>andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de</email></para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Chris Silva <email>ras@interaccess.com</email></para>
- </listitem>
-
- </itemizedlist>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><emphasis>Hardware contributors:</emphasis></para>
-
- <para>The following individuals and businesses have generously
- contributed hardware for testing and device driver
- development/support:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>BSDi for providing the Pentium P5-90 and
- 486/DX2-66 EISA/VL systems that are being used for our
- development work, to say nothing of the network access and other
- donations of hardware resources.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><ulink url="http://www.compaq.com">Compaq</ulink>;
- has donated a variety of Alpha systems to the FreeBSD
- Project. Among the many generous donations are 4
- AlphaStation DS10s, an AlphaServer DS20,
- AlphaServer 2100s, an AlphaServer 4100, 8 500Mhz
- Personal Workstations, 4 433Mhz Personal Workstations,
- and more! These machines are used for release
- engineering, package building, SMP development, and general
- development on the Alpha architecture.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>TRW Financial Systems, Inc. provided 130 PCs, three 68 GB
- file servers, twelve Ethernets, two routers and an ATM switch for
- debugging the diskless code.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Dermot McDonnell donated the Toshiba XM3401B CDROM drive
- currently used in freefall.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Chuck Robey <email>chuckr@glue.umd.edu</email> contributed
- his floppy tape streamer for experimental work.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Larry Altneu <email>larry@ALR.COM</email>, and &a.wilko;,
- provided Wangtek and Archive QIC-02 tape drives in order to
- improve the <devicename>wt</devicename> driver.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Ernst Winter <email>ewinter@lobo.muc.de</email> contributed
- a 2.88 MB floppy drive to the project. This will hopefully
- increase the pressure for rewriting the floppy disk driver.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><ulink url="http://www.tekram.com/">Tekram
- Technologies</ulink> sent one each of their DC-390, DC-390U
- and DC-390F FAST and ULTRA SCSI host adapter cards for
- regression testing of the NCR and AMD drivers with their cards.
- They are also to be applauded for making driver sources for free
- operating systems available from their FTP server <ulink
- url="ftp://ftp.tekram.com/scsi/FreeBSD/"></ulink>.</para>;
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Larry M. Augustin contributed not only a
- Symbios Sym8751S SCSI card, but also a set of data books,
- including one about the forthcoming Sym53c895 chip with Ultra-2
- and LVD support, and the latest programming manual with
- information on how to safely use the advanced features of the
- latest Symbios SCSI chips. Thanks a lot!</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Christoph Kukulies <email>kuku@FreeBSD.org</email> donated
- an FX120 12 speed Mitsumi CDROM drive for IDE CDROM driver
- development.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Mike Tancsa <email>mike@sentex.ca</email> donated four various
- ATM PCI cards in order to help increase support of these cards as
- well as help support the development effort of the netatm ATM
- stack.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><emphasis>Special contributors:</emphasis></para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para><ulink url="http://www.osd.bsdi.com/">BSDi</ulink>; (formerly Walnut Creek CDROM)
- has donated almost more than we can say (see the 'About the FreeBSD Project'
- section of the <ulink url="&url.books.handbook;/index.html">FreeBSD Handbook</ulink> for more details).
- In particular, we would like to thank them for the original
- hardware used for <hostid
- role="fqdn">freefall.FreeBSD.org</hostid>, our primary
- development machine, and for <hostid
- role="fqdn">thud.FreeBSD.org</hostid>, a testing and build
- box. We are also indebted to them for funding various
- contributors over the years and providing us with unrestricted
- use of their T1 connection to the Internet.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>The <ulink url="http://www.interface-business.de/">interface
- business GmbH, Dresden</ulink> has been patiently supporting
- &a.joerg; who has often preferred FreeBSD work over paid work, and
- used to fall back to their (quite expensive) EUnet Internet
- connection whenever his private connection became too slow or
- flaky to work with it...</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><ulink url="http://www.bsdi.com/">Berkeley Software Design,
- Inc.</ulink> has contributed their DOS emulator code to the
- remaining BSD world, which is used in the
- <emphasis>doscmd</emphasis> command.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </sect1>
-
<!--- XXX top level "staff" group vs additional contributors
<title>FreeBSD Project Staff</title>
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&contrib.386bsd;
</sect1>
+
+ <sect1 id="donors">
+ <title>Donors Gallery</title>
+
+ <para>The FreeBSD Project is indebted to the following donors and would
+ like to publicly thank them here!</para>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><emphasis>Contributors to the central server
+ project:</emphasis></para>
+
+ <para>The following individuals and businesses made it possible for
+ the FreeBSD Project to build a new central server machine, which
+ has replaced <hostid role="fqdn">freefall.FreeBSD.org</hostid> at
+ one point, by donating the following items:</para>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>&a.mbarkah; and his employer, <ulink
+ url="http://www.hemi.com/">; Hemisphere Online</ulink>,
+ donated a <emphasis>Pentium Pro (P6) 200MHz CPU</emphasis>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink url="http://www.asacomputers.com/">ASA
+ Computers</ulink> donated a <emphasis>Tyan 1662
+ motherboard</emphasis>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Joe McGuckin <email>joe@via.net</email> of <ulink
+ url="http://www.via.net/">ViaNet Communications</ulink> donated
+ a <emphasis>Kingston ethernet controller.</emphasis></para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Jack O'Neill <email>jack@diamond.xtalwind.net</email>
+ donated an <emphasis>NCR 53C875 SCSI controller
+ card</emphasis>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Ulf Zimmermann <email>ulf@Alameda.net</email> of <ulink
+ url="http://www.Alameda.net/">Alameda Networks</ulink> donated
+ <emphasis>128MB of memory</emphasis>, a <emphasis>4 Gb disk
+ drive and the case.</emphasis></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><emphasis>Direct funding:</emphasis></para>
+
+ <para>The following individuals and businesses have generously
+ contributed direct funding to the project:</para>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Annelise Anderson
+ <email>ANDRSN@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU</email></para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>&a.dillon;</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink url="http://www.bluemountain.com/">Blue Mountain
+ Arts</ulink></para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink url="http://www.epilogue.com/">Epilogue Technology
+ Corporation</ulink></para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>&a.sef;</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink url="http://www.gta.com/">Global Technology
+ Associates, Inc</ulink></para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Don Scott Wilde</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Gianmarco Giovannelli
+ <email>gmarco@masternet.it</email></para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Josef C. Grosch <email>joeg@truenorth.org</email></para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Robert T. Morris</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>&a.chuckr;</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Kenneth P. Stox <email>ken@stox.sa.enteract.com</email> of
+ <ulink url="http://www.imagescape.com/">Imaginary Landscape,
+ LLC.</ulink></para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Dmitry S. Kohmanyuk <email>dk@dog.farm.org</email></para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink url="http://www.cdrom.co.jp/">Laser5</ulink>; of Japan
+ (a portion of the profits from sales of their various FreeBSD
+ CDROMs).</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink url="http://www.mmjp.or.jp/fuki/">Fuki Shuppan
+ Publishing Co.</ulink> donated a portion of their profits from
+ <emphasis>Hajimete no FreeBSD</emphasis> (FreeBSD, Getting
+ started) to the FreeBSD and XFree86 projects.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink url="http://www.ascii.co.jp/">ASCII Corp.</ulink>
+ donated a portion of their profits from several FreeBSD-related
+ books to the FreeBSD project.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink url="http://www.yokogawa.co.jp/">Yokogawa Electric
+ Corp</ulink> has generously donated significant funding to the
+ FreeBSD project.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink url="http://www.buffnet.net/">BuffNET</ulink></para>;
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink url="http://www.pacificsolutions.com/">Pacific
+ Solutions</ulink></para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink url="http://www.siemens.de/">Siemens AG</ulink>
+ via Andre Albsmeier
+ <email>andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de</email></para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Chris Silva <email>ras@interaccess.com</email></para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><emphasis>Hardware contributors:</emphasis></para>
+
+ <para>The following individuals and businesses have generously
+ contributed hardware for testing and device driver
+ development/support:</para>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>BSDi for providing the Pentium P5-90 and
+ 486/DX2-66 EISA/VL systems that are being used for our
+ development work, to say nothing of the network access and other
+ donations of hardware resources.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink url="http://www.compaq.com">Compaq</ulink>;
+ has donated a variety of Alpha systems to the FreeBSD
+ Project. Among the many generous donations are 4
+ AlphaStation DS10s, an AlphaServer DS20,
+ AlphaServer 2100s, an AlphaServer 4100, 8 500Mhz
+ Personal Workstations, 4 433Mhz Personal Workstations,
+ and more! These machines are used for release
+ engineering, package building, SMP development, and general
+ development on the Alpha architecture.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>TRW Financial Systems, Inc. provided 130 PCs, three 68 GB
+ file servers, twelve Ethernets, two routers and an ATM switch for
+ debugging the diskless code.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Dermot McDonnell donated the Toshiba XM3401B CDROM drive
+ currently used in freefall.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Chuck Robey <email>chuckr@glue.umd.edu</email> contributed
+ his floppy tape streamer for experimental work.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Larry Altneu <email>larry@ALR.COM</email>, and &a.wilko;,
+ provided Wangtek and Archive QIC-02 tape drives in order to
+ improve the <devicename>wt</devicename> driver.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Ernst Winter <email>ewinter@lobo.muc.de</email> contributed
+ a 2.88 MB floppy drive to the project. This will hopefully
+ increase the pressure for rewriting the floppy disk driver.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink url="http://www.tekram.com/">Tekram
+ Technologies</ulink> sent one each of their DC-390, DC-390U
+ and DC-390F FAST and ULTRA SCSI host adapter cards for
+ regression testing of the NCR and AMD drivers with their cards.
+ They are also to be applauded for making driver sources for free
+ operating systems available from their FTP server <ulink
+ url="ftp://ftp.tekram.com/scsi/FreeBSD/"></ulink>.</para>;
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Larry M. Augustin contributed not only a
+ Symbios Sym8751S SCSI card, but also a set of data books,
+ including one about the forthcoming Sym53c895 chip with Ultra-2
+ and LVD support, and the latest programming manual with
+ information on how to safely use the advanced features of the
+ latest Symbios SCSI chips. Thanks a lot!</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Christoph Kukulies <email>kuku@FreeBSD.org</email> donated
+ an FX120 12 speed Mitsumi CDROM drive for IDE CDROM driver
+ development.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Mike Tancsa <email>mike@sentex.ca</email> donated four various
+ ATM PCI cards in order to help increase support of these cards as
+ well as help support the development effort of the netatm ATM
+ stack.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><emphasis>Special contributors:</emphasis></para>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink url="http://www.osd.bsdi.com/">BSDi</ulink>; (formerly Walnut Creek CDROM)
+ has donated almost more than we can say (see the 'About the FreeBSD Project'
+ section of the <ulink url="&url.books.handbook;/index.html">FreeBSD Handbook</ulink> for more details).
+ In particular, we would like to thank them for the original
+ hardware used for <hostid
+ role="fqdn">freefall.FreeBSD.org</hostid>, our primary
+ development machine, and for <hostid
+ role="fqdn">thud.FreeBSD.org</hostid>, a testing and build
+ box. We are also indebted to them for funding various
+ contributors over the years and providing us with unrestricted
+ use of their T1 connection to the Internet.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The <ulink url="http://www.interface-business.de/">interface
+ business GmbH, Dresden</ulink> has been patiently supporting
+ &a.joerg; who has often preferred FreeBSD work over paid work, and
+ used to fall back to their (quite expensive) EUnet Internet
+ connection whenever his private connection became too slow or
+ flaky to work with it...</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink url="http://www.bsdi.com/">Berkeley Software Design,
+ Inc.</ulink> has contributed their DOS emulator code to the
+ remaining BSD world, which is used in the
+ <emphasis>doscmd</emphasis> command.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </sect1>
</article>
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