People

Please Add Yourself

FOLKS IN ACADEMIA

Dave Eckhardt - Carnegie Mellon University

• Computer Science (OS, Networks)
• http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~davide/

YAMANASHI Takeshi - 9.nashi AT gmail DOT com - Tokyo Institute of Technology

• Administrating computer systems at Titech
• User registration form system running on Plan 9
• Member of TIP9UG

Kenji Arisawa - Aichi University

• http://plan9.aichi-u.ac.jp/

FOLKS IN INDUSTRY

Marina Brown marina at surferz dot net

• Mainly a unix admin but falling in love with Plan9

Brantley Coile - brantley AT coraid DOT com - Athens, GA. Also here at Coraid are Sam Hopkins and Ed Cashin.

• Plan 9 based storage product selling well
• Used Plan 9 first in early 1990.
• Developed PIX firewall on Plan 9.
• Plan 9 is still our development base for our new startup
• http://www.coraid.com

Geoff Collyer - geoff AT plan9 DOT bell-labs DOT com

• simplifying administration of complex sites
• probably will be working on drivers
• first contact with Plan 9 in 1992 or 1993; owner of a 2e licence

Bruce Ellis - brucee AT 9netics DOT com - 9Netics/Rangboom

• Chief Software Architect for Rangboom
• Windows IFS (Installable Filesystem) to 9P gateway
• 9ee

Charles Forsyth - forsyth AT vitanuova DOT com - www.terzarima.net

• powerpc compilers and kernel (for BeBox port)
• amd64 compiler suite
• use it day in, day out, out of day

Erik Quanstrom - quanstro AT coraid DOT com

• storage drivers: aoe, ahci, marvell orion
• network drivers: intel gigabit and 10gbe pcie drivers, myricom 10gbe driver
• direct ata commands
• moving history between fileservers
• diskless ken's fileserver
• upas scalability

Steve Simon - steve AT quintile DOT net

• client file servers: netware, cifs, ldap, webDAV, snmp, cvs
• u9cpu (cpu client for unix) - ssh but exports local environment
• video processing tools & a little language to control them (rc won't do)

Anthony Sorace - anthony AT strand1 DOT com - Strand 1

• Maintaining and enhancing the pq database.
• Working on telecom services using Inferno, Plan 9, and related tools.
• Working to help Plan 9 and friends play well with others.

Skip Tavakkolian - 9nut AT 9netics DOT com - 9Netics/Rangboom

• Inspired by Plan 9, came up with the concept for Rangboom
• Works on and in Plan 9 everyday.
• Owner of a 2nd ed. Plan9 license

Eric Van Hensbergen (ericvh) - ericvh AT gmail DOT com - IBM Austin Research Lab

• Tech-transfer to Linux (v9fs, plan9ports, etc.)
• Plan 9 Hypervisor Support
• PowerPC 64-bit Plan 9 Support
• PROSE Project (9p resource sharing library OS)
• Blue Gene Port

Jeff Sickel - jas AT corpus-callosum DOT com

• Influenced by Plan 9 and Inferno, used extensively to build an aero-acoustic levitator.
• 9p for 16-bit dsPIC
• Enjoys 2nd ed. Plan 9 books on the shelf

John Floren - jfloren.net - Sandia National Labs

• 64-bit kernel hacking
• Exascale computing

FOLKS ELSEWHERE

Federico G. Benavento (fgb) - benavento AT gmail DOT com - Law/Arts student - Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Abaco's author
• Getting the job done
• Using Plan 9 since 2002
• /n/sources/contrib/fgb

Peter A. Cejchan (++pac) - pac7 AT post DOT cz- biologist @ Academy of Sciences, Prague, CZ

• Imaging, biology, chemistry
• 60+ APE ports, some native development
• Plan 9 user since 3e
• serving The neXt archive of Plan 9 stuff

Chris Collins (kuroneko) - chris AT collins DOT id DOT au - Tech Support, Ursys Pty Ltd, AU

• Porting to sparc/mips/whatever he has spare
• Interested in OS design
• Random hacking

Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> - Vancouver, Canada

• email (better IMAP client and server support)
• typesetting tools (chem, simple integration of 3rd-party Postscript fonts)
• boat stuff: NMEA 183 and 2000 file servers; sailboat racing performance analysis and strategy tools; charting software
• ham radio bits (logging software, propagation analysis, radio control)
• implement the (good) missing bits from 2e (and 10ed UNIX)

uriel - uriel(@)berlinblue.org- Stockholm, Sweden

• cat-v.org nut.
• werc cms maintainer.
• Aesthetics.
• Spread the Plan 9 ideas, style and philosophy.
• Build a more active and involved community.
• Random hacking.

ChrisGarrod at gmail.com - SanDiego California - 20070518.1655 GMT

• a very slow learner of Plan9 -- since about 1995 after attending a seminar at UCSD by Ken Thompson
• "Linux is an inferior clone of Unix"
• "Plan9 is Unix without root # the fundamental flaw of Unix"
• Thank you Bell Labs, iou++

Joel “chesky” Salomon — JoelCSalomon at Gmail.com — Cooper Union, New York, NY

• Electrical Engineering undergraduate
• Irritating the professor of the Operating Systems course with, “but Plan 9 handles this so much better…” ☺
• http://www.tip9ug.jp/who/chesky

Vester "Vic" Thacker - vester.thacker AT gmail DOT com

• Interested in Plan 9 security and software development

james francis toy iv -- nil@opensesame.st

• ACPI
• Plan 9 port to OLPC XO-1 (see Tim Newsham as well)

Eli "echoline" Cohen - echoline AT gmail DOT com

• Computer Science student at Eastern Oregon University
• Trying to write a driver for the EeePC (could use help on this)
• Plan9 reminds him of his homeworld
• http://eli.neoturbine.net

David du Colombier - djc AT 9grid DOT fr - Paris, France

• 9grid.fr's maintainer
• Using Plan 9 and Inferno since 2004
• Interested in OS research
• Random hacking

sl - stanley DOT lieber AT gmail DOT com

• Using Plan 9 daily as main programming/text processing environment
• 3270 screen scraping/web interface written in rc(1)
• Askeladd blog/bookmarking/pastebin software written in rc(1)
• Hosting werc based site with rc-httpd on Plan 9
• /n/sources/contrib/sl