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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
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<!-- $FreeBSD$ -->
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<itemizedlist xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0">
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<listitem>
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<para>Kurt Lidl (2015 - 2019; RIP 2019)</para>
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<para>Kurt first got involved with BSD while it was still a
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project at the University of California at Berkeley. Shortly
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after personalized license plates became available in Maryland,
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he got "BSDWZRD".</para>
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<para>He began contributing to FreeBSD shortly after the
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conception of the project. He became a FreeBSD source committer
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in October 2015.</para>
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<para>Kurt's most well known FreeBSD project was
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&man.blacklistd.8; which blocks and releases ports on demand to
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avoid DoS abuse. He has also made many other bug fixes and
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enhancements to DTrace, boot loaders, and other bits and pieces
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of the FreeBSD infrastructure.</para>
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<para>Earlier work included the game XTank, an author on RFC 2516
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<link xlink:href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2516">"A Method
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for Transmitting PPP Over Ethernet (PPPoE)"</link>, and the
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USENIX paper <link
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xlink:href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenix-winter-1994-technical-conference/drinking-firehose-multicast-usenet-news">"Drinking from the Firehose: Multicast USENET News"</link>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Frank Durda IV (1995 - 2003; RIP 2018)</para>
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<para>Frank had been around the project since the
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very early days, contributing code to the 1.x line
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before becoming a committer.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Andrey A. Chernov (1993 - 2017; RIP 2017)</para>
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<para>Andrey contributions to &os; can not be overstated. Having
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been involved for a long there is hardly an area which he did
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not touch.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Jürgen Lock (2006 - 2015; RIP 2015)</para>
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<para>Jürgen made a number of contributions to &os;,
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including work on libvirt, the graphics stack, and QEMU.
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Jürgen's contributions and helpfulness were appreciated by
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people around the world. That work continues to improve the
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lives of thousands every day.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>&a.alexbl.email; (2006 - 2011; RIP 2012)</para>
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<para><link
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xlink:href="http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?pid=159801494">Alexander</link>
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was best known as a major contributor to &os;'s
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<application>Python</application> ports and a founding member of
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&a.python; as well as his work on
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<application>XMMS2</application>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>&a.jb.email; (1997 - 2009; RIP 2009)</para>
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<para><link
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xlink:href="http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+ogb/In+Memoriam">John</link>
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made major contributions to FreeBSD, the best known of which is
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the import of the &man.dtrace.1; code. John's unique sense of
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humor and plain-spokenness either ruffled feathers or made him
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quick friends. At the end of his life, he had moved to a rural
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area and was attempting to live with as minimal impact to the
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planet as possible, while at the same time still working in the
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high-tech area.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>&a.jmz.email; (1994 - 2009; RIP 2009)</para>
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<para><link
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xlink:href="http://www.obs-besancon.fr/article.php3?id_article=323">Jean-Marc</link>
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was an astrophysicist who made important contributions to the
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modeling of the atmospheres of both planets and comets at
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<link xlink:href="http://www.obs-besancon.fr/">l'Observatoire de
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Besançon</link> in Besançon, France. While
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there, he participated in the conception and construction of the
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Vega tricanal spectrometer that studied Halley's Comet. He had
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also been a long-time contributor to FreeBSD.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>&a.itojun.email; (1997 - 2001; RIP 2008)</para>
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<para>Known to everyone as <link
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xlink:href="http://astralblue.livejournal.com/350702.html">itojun</link>,
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Jun-ichiro Hagino was a core researcher at the
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<link xlink:href="http://www.kame.net/">KAME Project</link>,
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which aimed to provide IPv6 and IPsec technology in freely
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redistributable form. Much of this code was incorporated into
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FreeBSD. Without his efforts, the state of IPv6 on the Internet
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would be much different.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>&a.cg.email; (1999 - 2005; RIP 2005)</para>
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<para><link xlink:href="http://www.dbsi.org/cam/">Cameron</link>
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was a unique individual who contributed to the project despite
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serious physical disabilities. He was responsible for a
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complete rewrite of our sound system during the late 1990s.
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Many of those who corresponded with him had no idea of his
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limited mobility, due to his cheerful spirit and willingness to
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help others.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>&a.alane.email; (2002 - 2003; RIP 2003)</para>
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<para><link
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xlink:href="http://freebsd.kde.org/memoriam/alane.php">Alan</link>
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was a major contributor to the KDE on FreeBSD group. In
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addition, he maintained many other difficult and time-consuming
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ports such as <application>autoconf</application>,
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<application>CUPS</application>, and
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<application>python</application>. Alan's path was not an easy
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one but his passion for FreeBSD, and dedication to programming
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excellence, won him many friends.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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