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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0">
<listitem>
<para>Bruce D. Evans (1991 - 2019; RIP 2019)</para>
<para>Bruce was a programming giant who made FreeBSD his
home.</para>
<para>Back before FreeBSD and Linux there was Minix, a toy "unix"
written by Andy Tannenbaum, released in 1987, sold with complete
sources on three floppy disks, for $99.</para>
<para>Bruce ported Minix to the i386 around 1989.</para>
<para>Linus Torvalds used Minix/386 to develop his own kernel, and
Bruce was the first person he thanked in the
release-announcement.</para>
<para>When Bill Jolitz released 386BSD 0.1 in 1992, Bruce was
listed as a contributor.</para>
<para>Bruce co-founded the FreeBSD project, and served on core.0,
but he was never partisan, and over the years many other
projects have benefitted from his patches, advice and
wisdom.</para>
<para>Code reviews from Bruce came in three flavours, "mild",
"brucified" and "brucifiction", but they were never personal: It
was always only about the code, the mistakes, the sloppy
thinking, the missing historical context, the ambiguous
standards - and the style(9) transgressions.</para>
<para>Because Bruce gave more code reviews than anybody else in
the history of the FreeBSD project, the commit logs hide the
true scale of his impact until you pay attention to
"Submitted by", "Reviewed by" and "Pointed out by".</para>
<para>Being hard of hearing, Bruce did not attend
conferences.</para>
<para>The notable exception was the 1999 BSDcon in California,
where his core team colleagues greeted him with "We're not
worthy!" in Wayne's World fashion.</para>
<para>Twenty years later we're still not.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Kurt Lidl (2015 - 2019; RIP 2019)</para>
<para>Kurt first got involved with BSD while it was still a
project at the University of California at Berkeley. Shortly
after personalized license plates became available in Maryland,
he got "BSDWZRD".</para>
<para>He began contributing to FreeBSD shortly after the
conception of the project. He became a FreeBSD source committer
in October 2015.</para>
<para>Kurt's most well known FreeBSD project was
&man.blacklistd.8; which blocks and releases ports on demand to
avoid DoS abuse. He has also made many other bug fixes and
enhancements to DTrace, boot loaders, and other bits and pieces
of the FreeBSD infrastructure.</para>
<para>Earlier work included the game XTank, an author on RFC 2516
<link xlink:href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2516">"A Method
for Transmitting PPP Over Ethernet (PPPoE)"</link>, and the
USENIX paper <link
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>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Frank Durda IV (1995 - 2003; RIP 2018)</para>
<para>Frank had been around the project since the
very early days, contributing code to the 1.x line
before becoming a committer.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Andrey A. Chernov (1993 - 2017; RIP 2017)</para>
<para>Andrey contributions to &os; can not be overstated. Having
been involved for a long there is hardly an area which he did
not touch.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Jürgen Lock (2006 - 2015; RIP 2015)</para>
<para>Jürgen made a number of contributions to &os;,
including work on libvirt, the graphics stack, and QEMU.
Jürgen's contributions and helpfulness were appreciated by
people around the world. That work continues to improve the
lives of thousands every day.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>&a.alexbl.email; (2006 - 2011; RIP 2012)</para>
<para><link
xlink:href="http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?pid=159801494">Alexander</link>
was best known as a major contributor to &os;'s
<application>Python</application> ports and a founding member of
&a.python; as well as his work on
<application>XMMS2</application>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>&a.jb.email; (1997 - 2009; RIP 2009)</para>
<para><link
xlink:href="http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+ogb/In+Memoriam">John</link>
made major contributions to FreeBSD, the best known of which is
the import of the &man.dtrace.1; code. John's unique sense of
humor and plain-spokenness either ruffled feathers or made him
quick friends. At the end of his life, he had moved to a rural
area and was attempting to live with as minimal impact to the
planet as possible, while at the same time still working in the
high-tech area.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>&a.jmz.email; (1994 - 2009; RIP 2009)</para>
<para><link
xlink:href="http://www.obs-besancon.fr/article.php3?id_article=323">Jean-Marc</link>
was an astrophysicist who made important contributions to the
modeling of the atmospheres of both planets and comets at
<link xlink:href="http://www.obs-besancon.fr/">l'Observatoire de
Besançon</link> in Besançon, France. While
there, he participated in the conception and construction of the
Vega tricanal spectrometer that studied Halley's Comet. He had
also been a long-time contributor to FreeBSD.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>&a.itojun.email; (1997 - 2001; RIP 2008)</para>
<para>Known to everyone as <link
xlink:href="http://astralblue.livejournal.com/350702.html">itojun</link>,
Jun-ichiro Hagino was a core researcher at the
<link xlink:href="http://www.kame.net/">KAME Project</link>,
which aimed to provide IPv6 and IPsec technology in freely
redistributable form. Much of this code was incorporated into
FreeBSD. Without his efforts, the state of IPv6 on the Internet
would be much different.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>&a.cg.email; (1999 - 2005; RIP 2005)</para>
<para><link xlink:href="http://www.dbsi.org/cam/">Cameron</link>
was a unique individual who contributed to the project despite
serious physical disabilities. He was responsible for a
complete rewrite of our sound system during the late 1990s.
Many of those who corresponded with him had no idea of his
limited mobility, due to his cheerful spirit and willingness to
help others.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>&a.alane.email; (2002 - 2003; RIP 2003)</para>
<para><link
xlink:href="http://freebsd.kde.org/memoriam/alane.php">Alan</link>
was a major contributor to the KDE on FreeBSD group. In
addition, he maintained many other difficult and time-consuming
ports such as <application>autoconf</application>,
<application>CUPS</application>, and
<application>python</application>. Alan's path was not an easy
one but his passion for FreeBSD, and dedication to programming
excellence, won him many friends.</para>
</listitem>
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