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<title>Contributors to FreeBSD</title>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
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<abstract>
<para>This article lists individuals and organizations who have
made a contribution to FreeBSD.</para>
</abstract>
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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>
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<title>FreeBSD Project Staff</title>
<para>The FreeBSD Project is managed and operated by the following groups of
people:</para>
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<sect1 id="staff-core">
<title>The FreeBSD Core Team</title>
<para>The FreeBSD core team constitutes the project's <quote>Board of
Directors</quote>, responsible for deciding the project's overall goals
and direction as well as managing <link linkend="staff-who">specific
areas</link> of the FreeBSD project landscape.</para>
<para>(in alphabetical order by last name):</para>
&contrib.core;
</sect1>
<!-- The following is the staff listing. -->
<sect1 id="staff-listing">
<title>Other &os; Teams</title>
<para>The &os; project delegates certain individuals to work
on various teams according to project needs. The following
list contains the current information on those individuals and
their designated areas:</para>
&contrib.staff;
</sect1>
<!--
This list is sorted by last name, not by entity or tenure.
-->
<sect1 id="staff-committers">
<title>The FreeBSD Developers</title>
<para>These are the people who have commit privileges and do the
engineering work on the FreeBSD source tree. All core team members are
also developers.</para>
<para>(in alphabetical order by last name):</para>
&contrib.committers;
</sect1>
<sect1 id="staff-doc">
<title>The FreeBSD Documentation Project</title>
<para>The <ulink url="&url.base;/docproj/index.html">FreeBSD
Documentation Project</ulink> is responsible for a number of different
services, each service being run by an individual and his
<emphasis>deputies</emphasis> (if any):</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Documentation Project Architect</term>
<listitem>
<para>&a.doceng;</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Handbook Editor</term>
<listitem>
<para>&a.doc;</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>FAQ Editor</term>
<listitem>
<para>&a.doc;</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>News Editor</term>
<listitem>
<para>&a.www;</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>In the Press Editor</term>
<listitem>
<para>&a.jkoshy;</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>FreeBSD Really-Quick NewsLetter Editor</term>
<listitem>
<para>Chris Coleman <email>chrisc@vmunix.com</email></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Commercial Gallery Editor</term>
<listitem>
<para>&a.remko;</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>User Groups Editor</term>
<listitem>
<para>&a.grog;</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>FreeBSD &java; Project</term>
<listitem>
<para>&a.patrick;</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="staff-who">
<title>Who is Responsible for What</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><ulink
url="&url.base;/docproj/index.html">Documentation
Project Manager</ulink></term>
<listitem>
<para>&a.doceng;</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>CVSup Mirror Site Coordinator</term>
<listitem>
<para>&a.cvsup-master;</para>
<para>which includes:</para>
<para>&a.kuriyama; (responsible),</para>
<para>&a.jdp; (advisor)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>FTP/WWW Mirror Site Coordinator</term>
<listitem>
<para>&a.mirror-admin;</para>
<para>which includes:</para>
<para>&a.kuriyama;,</para>
<para>&a.kensmith;</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Localization</term>
<listitem>
<para>&a.ache;</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Postmaster</term>
<listitem>
<para><hostid role="domainname">FreeBSD.org</hostid> Postmaster
team <email>postmaster@FreeBSD.org</email>, which includes:</para>
<para>David Wolfskill</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="&url.articles.releng;/index.html">Release
Coordination</ulink></term>
<listitem>
<para>&a.re; headed by &a.murray;</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Public Relations &amp; Corporate Liaison</term>
<listitem>
<para>Seat open</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="&url.base;/security/index.html">Security
Officers</ulink></term>
<listitem>
<para>&a.security-officer; headed by &a.nectar;</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="&url.base;/support.html#cvs">Source
Repository Managers</ulink></term>
<listitem>
<para>Principal: &a.peter;</para>
<para>Assistants: &a.markm;, &a.joe;</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Website Management</term>
<listitem>
<para>&a.www;</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="&url.base;/ports/index.html">Ports
Manager</ulink></term>
<listitem>
<para>&a.portmgr;</para>
<para>which includes:</para>
<para>&a.kris;,</para>
<para>&a.marcus;,</para>
<para>&a.linimon;,</para>
<para>&a.eik;,</para>
<para>&a.krion;,</para>
<para>&a.erwin; (secretary)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Standards</term>
<listitem>
<para>&a.wollman;</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>XFree86 Project, Inc. Liaison</term>
<listitem>
<para>&a.rich;</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="&url.base;/support.html#gnats">GNATS
Administrators</ulink></term>
<listitem>
<para>&a.ceri;</para>
<para>&a.keramida;</para>
<para>&a.linimon;</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Bugmeisters</term>
<listitem>
<para>&a.ceri;</para>
<para>&a.keramida;</para>
<para>&a.linimon;</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="&url.base;/donations/index.html">Donations Liaison Office</ulink></term>
<listitem>
<para>&a.donations;</para>
<para>which includes:</para>
<para>&a.mwlucas</para>
<para>&a.nsayer</para>
<para>&a.obrien</para>
<para>&a.rwatson</para>
<para>&a.trhodes</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="contrib-corealumni">
<title>Core Team Alumni</title>
<indexterm><primary>core team</primary></indexterm>
<para>The following people were members of the FreeBSD core team during
the periods indicated. We thank them for their past efforts in the
service of the FreeBSD project.</para>
<para><emphasis>In rough chronological order:</emphasis></para>
&contrib.corealumni;
</sect1>
<sect1 id="contrib-develalumni">
<title>Development Team Alumni</title>
<indexterm><primary>development team</primary></indexterm>
<para>The following people were members of the FreeBSD development team
during the periods indicated. We thank them for their past efforts
in the service of the FreeBSD project.</para>
<para><emphasis>In rough chronological order:</emphasis></para>
&contrib.develalumni;
</sect1>
<sect1 id="contrib-derived">
<title>Derived Software Contributors</title>
<para>This software was originally derived from William F. Jolitz's 386BSD
release 0.1, though almost none of the original 386BSD specific code
remains. This software has been essentially re-implemented from the
4.4BSD-Lite release provided by the Computer Science Research Group
(CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley and associated academic
contributors.</para>
<para>There are also portions of NetBSD and OpenBSD that have been
integrated into FreeBSD as well, and we would therefore like to thank
all the contributors to NetBSD and OpenBSD for their work.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="contrib-additional">
<title>Additional FreeBSD Contributors</title>
<para>(in alphabetical order by first name):</para>
&contrib.additional;
</sect1>
<sect1 id="contrib-386bsd">
<title>386BSD Patch Kit Patch Contributors</title>
<para>(in alphabetical order by first name):</para>
&contrib.386bsd;
</sect1>
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