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New FreeBSD Core Team Elected

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BSD Conference, Monterey, CA, October 18, 2000 The FreeBSD Project +announced today the election of a new Core Team, the project's management +oard. This marks the first occasion on which the team has been selected +y means of an election among the project's developers. Joining the Core +eam as new members are Greg Lehey, Warner Losh, Mike Smith, and Robert +atson. Re-elected members are Satoshi Asami, David Greenman, Jordan +ubbard, Doug Rabson, and Peter Wemm.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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."

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Elected Core Team Members

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Satoshi Asami is a co-founder and CTO of DecorMagic, Inc., and is in +charge of the FreeBSD Ports Collection.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Warner Losh has been porting NetBSD's pccard code to FreeBSD and has +been FreeBSD Security Officer for the past two years.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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About FreeBSD

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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.

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More information may be found at +http://www.FreeBSD.org/.

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Press Contact

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Jordan Hubbard
+The FreeBSD Project
+925-682-7859
+jkh@FreeBSD.org

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