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Contents

• President
• Vice President
• Directors

Anything with a question mark (?) is a notation indicating a guess and information is still needed from the candidate. This page will be updated when more specific information arrives.

President

• Ian Kluft
  • home page: http://www.kluft.com/~ikluft/
  • member of sbay.org since 1993
    • founder
    • Coordinator 1993-2003
    • President 2004
    • co-author of sbay.org's by-laws
  • member of SVLUG since 1997
    • assisted with the meeting facilities and directions to meetings since 1998
    • co-coordinator of "Linux10" Linux 10th anniversary celebration in Aug 2001
  • member of Stratofox since 2002
    • co-founder
    • led the team that recovered the first amateur rocket launched to space in May 2004
  • member of West Valley Amateur Radio Association since 1992
    • President in 1996-1997
    • member of the Board of Directors, 1998-2003
  • licensed Extra class Amateur Radio operator, callsign KO6YQ
  • Level 2 certification in High-Power Rocketry
  • C coder since 1983
  • Unix user since 1984
  • Linux user since 1992
    • wrote netmask support patch for Linux kernel 0.99.8 (initial Net code was hard-coded for Class C networks)
    • ported first e-mail server (smail) to Linux, 1992 - proved Linux was viable as an e-mail server
    • maintained initial smail binaries for Slackware and Debian distributions
    • one of the first 10 developers on Debian Linux project in 1994
    • participant in Gizmocopter, 1999-2001 - project won contest in 2001 to demonstrate embedded Linux systems
    • currently user of Fedora Core Linux
  • Perl coder since 1992
  • Apache HTTPD admin since 1995
    • author of mod_mime_magic included with Apache HTTPD
  • Masters Degree in Computer Science from California State University, Chico, 1991
  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from California State University, Chico, 1988
  • participant of on-campus clubs while at CSU Chico, including president of the Chico Computer Club (1985-1986), ACM Student Chapter (1987), and Chico State Flying Club (1989)
  • occupation: Software Engineer
  • continuous resident of Silicon Valley since 1990, native of the Bay Area

Vice President

• Heather Stern
  • home page: http://starshine.org/star/
  • member of sbay.org since 1998(?)
    • co-author of sbay.org's by-laws
  • member of SVLUG since 1997(?)
    • web team member since 1998
  • member of BALUG since 1997(?)
    • webmaster since 1998(?)
  • member of Bay-LISA - the Bay Area Large Installation System Administrators since (?)
    • member of the Board of Directors since (?)
  • member of U.S.S. Augusta Ada (a group for Star Trek and Open Source enthusiasts)
    • founder
  • participant in local Science Fiction conventions
  • occupation: Linux/BSD System Administrator, Consultant

Directors

• John Delaney
  • member of SVLUG since 2000(?)
  • member of IEEE Silicon Valley Chapter
    • President (?)-(?)
• Ian Maclure
  • member of sbay.org since 2000
  • member of SVLUG since 1999
    • regular participant at installfests
  • occupation: Aerospace Engineer
    • Code if necessary but not necessarily a coder
    • Enthusiast for things airborne
  • BSc ( Math, Eng Sciences ), Mount Allison U, 1977
  • BSME, Queens U, 1980
  • resident of Sunnyvale off and on since 1992
• Justin Rocha
  • Linux user since 1997
  • member of SVLUG since 2001
  • member of CPLUG since 2001
  • member of sbay.org since 2003
  • member of Stratofox since 2003
    • Assistant Coordinator, 2004
  • Former Developer of Source Mage GNU/Linux
    • Webmaster
    • Mailing List/IRC/Server Admin
    • Grimoire Guru
  • Developer of Enlightenment
  • licensed Technician class Amateur Radio operator, callsign KG6SGU
  • occupation: College Student (Computer Science)
• Bill Ward
  • home page: http://bill.wards.net/
  • member of PenLUG since 2003
    • founder
    • President since 2003
  • member of SVLUG since 2001
    • Vice President, elected for 2005-2006
  • occupation: Software Engineer