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<p></p>
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<h3>New FreeBSD Core Team Elected</h3>
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<p><b>BSD Conference, Monterey, CA, October 18, 2000</b> The FreeBSD Project
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announced today the election of a new Core Team, the project's management
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board. This marks the first occasion on which the team has been selected
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by means of an election among the project's developers. Joining the Core
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team as new members are Greg Lehey, Warner Losh, Mike Smith, and Robert
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Watson. Re-elected members are Satoshi Asami, David Greenman, Jordan
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Hubbard, Doug Rabson, and Peter Wemm.</p>
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<p>FreeBSD Project co-founder and continuing Core Team member Jordan
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Hubbard expressed excitement over the results, <cite>"For the first time
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since the FreeBSD project was formed, open elections have determined
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the composition of its core team and set an important precedent
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whereby any developer can now become part of the project's
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leadership."</cite> The new core team also well-represents FreeBSD's
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diverse and highly skilled group of international developers, with
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expertise ranging from RAID filesystem and device-driver development
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to extensive security backgrounds.</p>
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<p>New Core Team members were elected from and by the FreeBSD committers
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team, the formal development staff of the FreeBSD project. Committers
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have direct access to the FreeBSD source repository, and perform the
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majority of software development associated with the project. Until this
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point, the Core Team was a self-selected board providing architectural and
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administrative direction.</p>
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<p>This summer, the committers voted to move to a democratic model allowing
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the project to adapt to the changing development requirements of the open
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source operating system community. However, with over half of the prior
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Core Team re-elected from the old team, strong continuity exists.</p>
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<p>Departing Core Team member Poul-Henning Kamp said, <cite>"I'm
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very proud of what we have done together in the Core Team over the last
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8 years. The new Core, and the fact that they are elected by the
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committers, means that the project will be much more responsive to
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change in the future."</cite></p>
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<p>The changing of the guard in project leadership comes amid good feelings,
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Kamp indicated: all past Core members will continue on with the project
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with increased emphasis on development, <cite>"Now I get to spend more time on
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the FreeBSD source code instead of on project management."</cite></p>
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<h3>Elected Core Team Members</h3>
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<p><b>Satoshi Asami</b> is a co-founder and CTO of DecorMagic, Inc., and manages
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the FreeBSD Ports Collection.</p>
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<p><b>David Greenman</b> is a co-founder of the FreeBSD Project and is currently
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President of TeraSolutions, Inc., a company that manufactures Internet
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servers and RAID storage systems.</p>
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<p><b>Jordan Hubbard</b> is a co-founder of the FreeBSD Project as well as its
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public relations officer and release engineer. He is also Vice President
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for Open Source Solutions at BSDi.</p>
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<p><b>Greg Lehey</b> is an Open Source Researcher with Linuxcare; he has spent
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most of his professional career in Germany, where he worked for
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computer manufacturers such as Univac, Tandem, and Siemens-Nixdorf.
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He is the author of the Vinum volume management and RAID software for
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FreeBSD, has been involved in the FreeBSD SMPng project, and is the
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author of Porting Unix Software and The Complete FreeBSD.</p>
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<p><b>Warner Losh</b> has been porting NetBSD's pccard code to FreeBSD and has
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been FreeBSD Security Officer for the past two years.</p>
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<p><b>Doug Rabson</b> is a co-founder of Qube Software Ltd., which specializes
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in 3D graphics technology. His work on FreeBSD includes the alpha and
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ia64 ports, and he was the main architect for FreeBSD's device driver
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framework.</p>
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<p><b>Mike Smith</b> is Principal Engineer in BSDi's Open Source Solutions group
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and has been active in the FreeBSD developer community as a developer
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resource, OEM liaison, sometime architect and device driver author.</p>
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<p><b>Robert Watson</b> is a research scientist at NAI Labs, working on network
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and operating system security research. His contributions to the
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FreeBSD Project include work on trusted operating system extensions
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(<a href="http://www.trustedbsd.org">TrustedBSD</a>),
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security architecture, and work on the security-officer team.</p>
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<p><b>Peter Wemm</b> has been involved with FreeBSD since the early days of the
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ISP Industry in Australia and has since relocated to the US to work as
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a Software Engineer for Yahoo!, Inc. His involvement in FreeBSD
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includes management of the FreeBSD source code repository and kernel
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development.</p>
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<h3>About FreeBSD</h3>
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<p>FreeBSD is a liberally-licensed open source operating system with its
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origins in BSD Net/2 and 4.4 Lite, the Berkeley Software Distributions
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developed at the University of California at Berkeley until 1994. It
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is developed and maintained by a global organization of paid and
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volunteer contributors. FreeBSD is distinguished by its high
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performance networking and filesystem support, and is widely used
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among Internet service providers, including industry-recognized
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companies such as <b>Yahoo!</b>, <b>above.net</b>,
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and <b>Verio</b>. FreeBSD is also
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frequently used as a platform for embedded networking devices,
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including products from <b>IBM</b>, <b>Inktomi</b>, <b>Juniper Networks</b>,
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and <b>Network Alchemy - a Nokia Company</b>.</p>
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<p>More information may be found at
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org">http://www.FreeBSD.org/</a>.</p>
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<h3>Press Contact</h3>
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<p>Jordan Hubbard<br/>
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The FreeBSD Project<br/>
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925-682-7859<br/>
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<a href="mailto:jkh@FreeBSD.org">jkh@FreeBSD.org</a></p>
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<h3># # #</h3>
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<p>BSD is a registered trademark of Berkeley Software Design, Inc. Other
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trademarks are property of their respective owners. BSD technologies were
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originally developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its
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contributors.</p>
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