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<info><title>Contributors to FreeBSD</title>
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<pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
<releaseinfo>$FreeBSD$</releaseinfo>
<abstract>
<para>This article lists individuals and organizations who have
made a contribution to FreeBSD.</para>
</abstract>
</info>
<sect1 xml:id="donors">
<title>Donors Gallery</title>
<note>
<para>As of 2010, the following section is several years out-of-date.
Donations from the past several years appear
<link xlink:href="&url.base;/donations/donors.html">here</link>.
</para>
</note>
<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 <systemitem class="fqdomainname">freefall.FreeBSD.org</systemitem> at
one point, by donating the following items:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>&a.mbarkah.email; and his employer, <link xlink:href="http://www.hemi.com/"> Hemisphere Online</link>,
donated a <emphasis>Pentium Pro (P6) 200MHz CPU</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><link xlink:href="http://www.asacomputers.com/">ASA
Computers</link> donated a <emphasis>Tyan 1662
motherboard</emphasis>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Joe McGuckin <email>joe@via.net</email> of <link xlink:href="http://www.via.net/">ViaNet Communications</link> 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 <link xlink:href="http://www.Alameda.net/">Alameda Networks</link> 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.email;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><link xlink:href="http://www.bluemountain.com/">Blue Mountain
Arts</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><link xlink:href="http://www.epilogue.com/">Epilogue Technology
Corporation</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>&a.sef.email;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><link xlink:href="http://www.gta.com/">Global Technology
Associates, Inc</link></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.email;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Kenneth P. Stox <email>ken@stox.sa.enteract.com</email> of
<link xlink:href="http://www.imagescape.com/">Imaginary Landscape,
LLC.</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Dmitry S. Kohmanyuk <email>dk@dog.farm.org</email></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><link xlink:href="http://www.cdrom.co.jp/">Laser5</link> of Japan
(a portion of the profits from sales of their various FreeBSD
CDROMs).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><link xlink:href="http://www.mmjp.or.jp/fuki/">Fuki Shuppan
Publishing Co.</link> 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><link xlink:href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/">ASCII Corp.</link>
donated a portion of their profits from several FreeBSD-related
books to the FreeBSD project.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><link xlink:href="http://www.yokogawa.co.jp/">Yokogawa Electric
Corp</link> has generously donated significant funding to the
FreeBSD project.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><link xlink:href="http://www.buffnet.net/">BuffNET</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><link xlink:href="http://www.pacificsolutions.com/">Pacific
Solutions</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><link xlink:href="http://www.siemens.de/">Siemens AG</link>
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><link xlink:href="http://www.compaq.com">Compaq</link>
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.email;,
provided Wangtek and Archive QIC-02 tape drives in order to
improve the <filename>wt</filename> driver.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Ernst Winter (<link xlink:href="http://berklix.org/ewinter/">Deceased</link>)
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><link xlink:href="http://www.tekram.com/">Tekram
Technologies</link> 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 <uri xlink:href="ftp://ftp.tekram.com/scsi/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.tekram.com/scsi/FreeBSD/</uri>.</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>&a.kuku.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><link xlink:href="http://www.osd.bsdi.com/">BSDi</link> (formerly Walnut Creek CDROM)
has donated almost more than we can say (see the 'About the FreeBSD Project'
section of the <link xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/index.html">FreeBSD Handbook</link> for more details).
In particular, we would like to thank them for the original
hardware used for <systemitem class="fqdomainname">freefall.FreeBSD.org</systemitem>, our primary
development machine, and for <systemitem class="fqdomainname">thud.FreeBSD.org</systemitem>, 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 <link xlink:href="http://www.interface-business.de/">interface
business GmbH, Dresden</link> has been patiently supporting
&a.joerg.email; 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><link xlink:href="http://www.bsdi.com/">Berkeley Software Design,
Inc.</link> 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>
<sect1 xml: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 xml: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 reverse chronological order:</emphasis></para>
&contrib.corealumni;
</sect1>
<sect1 xml: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 reverse chronological order:</emphasis></para>
&contrib.develalumni;
</sect1>
<sect1 xml:id="contrib-portmgralumni">
<title>Ports Management Team Alumni</title>
<indexterm><primary>portmgr team</primary></indexterm>
<para>The following people were members of the FreeBSD portmgr team during
the periods indicated. We thank them for their past efforts in the
service of the FreeBSD project.</para>
<para><emphasis>In rough reverse chronological order:</emphasis></para>
&contrib.portmgralumni;
</sect1>
<sect1 xml:id="contrib-develinmemoriam">
<title>Development Team: In Memoriam</title>
<indexterm><primary>development team</primary></indexterm>
<para>During the many years that the FreeBSD Project has been in
existence, sadly, some of our developers have passed away.
Here are some remembrances.</para>
<para><emphasis>In rough reverse chronological order of their
passing:</emphasis></para>
&contrib.develinmemoriam;
</sect1>
<sect1 xml: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 xml:id="contrib-additional">
<title>Additional FreeBSD Contributors</title>
<para>(in alphabetical order by first name):</para>
&contrib.additional;
</sect1>
<sect1 xml:id="contrib-386bsd">
<title>386BSD Patch Kit Patch Contributors</title>
<para>(in alphabetical order by first name):</para>
&contrib.386bsd;
</sect1>
<index/>
</article>