[Celinux-dev] Embedded Linux community profile nominees?

[Michael Opdenacker]

Hi Bill,
> I'm about to send out an email requesting interviews to a group of
> Embedded Linux hackers.  I'd like solicit requests from the community
> at large about who you feel should be profiled on the new elinux wiki?
> Please state reasons in your reply why you feel your nominee should
> be profiled.
>
> Note that your request can be for a profile of a hacker, company,
> device, or any other person or thing that you feel contributes to the
> Embedded Linux community in some significant way.
Here are a few names I'm thinking about for future interviews:

    * Rob Landley, the former maintainer of Busybox.
      He also contributes to other projects and is well aware of Free
      Software issues in general (you can ask him about the GPL v3 in
      particular).
    * Russell King, the arm-linux maintainer.
      A major contributor to running Linux on embedded systems. I'm sure
      lots of people would like to know him better.
    * Fabrice Bellard, qemu's main developer.
      qemu is key to embedded system development (in particular through
      the Scratchbox project) and learning. Some of its code is also
      used in mainstream kernel virtualization (KVM). Fabrice is also
      the creator of the ffmpeg program and libavcodec library, which is
      key to multimedia support in userspace.
    * Wolfgang Denk, u-boot's main developer and author of the ELDK
      (Embedded Linux Development Kit).
      A major contributor to our community, who should have very
      interesting views and experience to share.
    * Dan Kegel, the creator of crosstool, used by so many developers in
      our community.
    * Matt Mackall: LinuxTiny, Ketchup (eases the management of kernel
      source versions), Mercurial...
      A key kernel hacker and bloat-hunter with a strong awareness of
      the requirements of small systems.
    * Dave Brownell: Linux USB core (including gadget support), OMAP
      processor support...
      A big contributor too!
    * LinuxDevices.com Rick Lehrbaum and Henry Kingman.
      Their website is an essential resource for our community. They
      have a unique and long term perspective on our community and industry.

Just my too cents. Of course, this is just my perception from my own 
experience. I'm sure lots of other names are worth mentioning.

Cheers,

    Michael.

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