I’m a FreeBSD Core Team member, as well as member of the security officer and release engineering teams. Several years ago, I founded the TrustedBSD Project. I’ve recently left a position as Senior Principal Scientist at SPARTA (previously McAfee Research, NAI Labs) in order to work on a PhD at the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. You may also be interested in looking at Robert Watson’s Home Page or Robert Watson’s Cambridge Home Page, which contain, respectively, information on my personal and academic activities.

If you’re running FreeBSD and have a Meteor (meteor) or Brooktree (bktr) video capture card, you might be interested in AATV for FreeBSD, which renders your TV/video input in a ASCII using the aalib library.

The FreeBSD Netperf Project is working on improving network performance as part of the SMPng Project. I maintain a personal Netperf web page, including patches and log, as well as other useful pages like my KTR on FreeBSD page which discusses tracing locks, context switches, etc.

The OpenBSM Project provides an open source implementation of Sun’s Basic Security Module (BSM) audit API and file format. OpenBSM has been integrated into FreeBSD as of version FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE.

Brooks Davis is a Engineering Specialist in the High Performance Computing Section of the Computer Systems Research Department at The Aerospace Corporation. He has been a FreeBSD user since 1994, a FreeBSD committer since 2001, and a core team member since 2006.

He earned a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from Harvey Mudd College in 1998. His computing interests include high performance computing, networking, security, mobility, and, of course, finding ways to use FreeBSD in all these areas. When not computing, he enjoys reading, cooking, brewing and pounding on red-hot iron in his garage blacksmith shop.

Warner Losh has been a BSD developer for the past 12 years and an active contributor to the open source community for the past 17.

Mr. Losh maintains the PC Card and CardBus software in FreeBSD, serves on the FreeBSD Core Team, mediates project disputes, improves kernel infrastructure, and keeps his collection of NEC-PC9821 machines alive. Mr. Losh has contributed code to NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Linux/mips. Outside of open source, Mr. Losh works in Boulder, Colorado, building high-precision time and frequency systems for Timing Solutions, which uses FreeBSD in embedded and semi-embedded systems.

Dru Lavigne is a network and systems administrator, IT instructor, author and international speaker. She has over a decade of experience administering and teaching Netware, Microsoft, Cisco, Checkpoint, SCO, Solaris, Linux, and BSD systems. A prolific author, she pens the popular FreeBSD Basics column for O’Reilly and is author of BSD Hacks and The Best of FreeBSD Basics.

She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Source Business Resource, a free monthly publication covering open source and the commercialization of open source assets. She is founder and current Chair of the BSD Certification Group Inc., a non-profit organization with a mission to create a standard for certifying BSD system administrators.

Kris Moore became familiar with the FreeBSD Operating System back in 1996, while working at a small ISP. Several years later he started the PC-BSD project, which aims to be a functional desktop, which is powerful enough for technical users, and easy enough to use for “casual” computer users at the same time.

Kris has been working on PC-BSD since 2004, and recently has been able to become a full-time developer for the system. Kris enjoys working on “usability” code for the desktop, and also loves to spend time tinkering with new hardware concepts.

Kip Macy has been a FreeBSD user since 1997 and a committer since 2005. His development interests center on FreeBSD and virtualization. His latest efforts involve work on the UltraSparc T1 hypervisor, Xen, and VMI.

Pawel Jakub Dawidek is a FreeBSD committer.

In the FreeBSD project, he works mostly in the storage subsystems area (GEOM, file systems), security (disk encryption, opencrypto framework, IPsec, jails), but his code is also in many other parts of the system.

Pawel currently lives in Warsaw, Poland, running his small company.

Murray Stokely has served the FreeBSD Project as a core team member, release engineer, and handbook editor. Professionally, he has worked for Walnut Creek CDROM, BSDi, Wind River Systems, and now serves as vice president of FreeBSD Mall, Inc. Interests include documentation architecture, release engineering, and advocacy.

Software engineer with particular interest and experience in operating system development on embedded devices running Linux, BSD, and any number of real-time operating systems (eCos, RTEMS, vxWorks,…).

Experienced in kernel and userspace development. Strong background in networking (BSD sockets), including experience with wireless (802.11, zigbee) networking.

Derives masochistic pleasure from fiddling with toolchains. Has a tendency to become addicted to shiny technologies. Enjoys all things simple and elegant.

Philip Paeps’s Specialties: Bootloaders, operating systems, device drivers, networking (development), wireless devices, embedded devices.

Josh Paetzel is an open source user, system administrator, advocate, and contributor.

Having his request to “learn unix” answered with FreeBSD 2.1.5 CDs being sent in the mail from a friend, Josh immediately recognized FreeBSD as a more powerful solution than windows 95/DOS, reinstalled his desktop and never looked back.

Professionally he is the sole proprieter of BSD Unix Consulting, LLC, providing BSD-based services to businesses that have a need for stable and robust solutions.

As a volunteer Josh started and runs TCBUG (Twin Cities BSD User Group) and is a fairly active FreeBSD ports contributor/maintainer and occassional docs contributor, as well as random question answerer on various mailing lists and IRC. He also provides the management for PC-BSD’s infrastructure.

Zach Loafman is a secret agent at Isilon.

Kris Kennaway has been a FreeBSD committer since 1999, is a former FreeBSD Security Officer, and is currently a member of portmgr, the Port Management Team. He currently spends most of his FreeBSD time working on QA of FreeBSD and of the Ports Collection, and sending annoying emails to port maintainers. In his other life he is a theoretical physicist at the University of Toronto.