LEAP: GNU/Linux-Equipped Astronauts Project: Who's Who

This is the list of who's doing what, as far as I know. It's far from complete; this is just the names of people who have introduced themselves, more or less.

In The Future this list will be better-organized, and will indicate credit where credit is due. I was beginning to put names of more active members closer to the top, but now it's in alphabetical order. Do you have an opinion on how best to recognize contributions, here?

Larry Augustin

PhD/EE; President of VA Software

Chris Black

Software developer

Paul Black

Software developer, PhD at NIST.

Ron Broberg

Software developer, Lockheed Martin SPADOC software support

Douglas Carmichael

Matt Chapman

Software developer

Gerry Creager

Has worked at Johnson Space Center.

Bill Currie

Jakob Dalsgaard

Software developer (and has a Thinkpad identical to mission hardware!).

Vladimir Dergachev

PhD student, Software developer.

Mark Gallagher

Suggested a logo idea: a penguin in a spacesuit.

Barend Garvelink

Created the LEAP Banner.

Damon Getsman

Software developer

Georg Glas

Suggested a contact at NASA for us.

Alexey Goldin

"interested in using laptops for lab work"; recommended connecting with the Linux Lab Project

Ehrhardt le Grange

Software developer.

Matt Grund

Software Engineer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. (DSP, real-time data acquisition)

Benedikt Heinen

Software developer

Gerald Kropitz

Brian C. Lane

Electronics, Embedded Software and GNU/Linux

Frank Langbein

Creator of the NTeX package; offered many useful suggestions about contacting the right people (e.g. the Planetary Society). Translated the official documents to PDF.

Matt Liggett

Experienced C and Perl developer.

Mark Mann

Image/Signal Processing Developer.

Will Marchant

Member of Shuttle Amateur Radio EXperiment (SAREX) team, in contact with astronauts.

Raphael Marvie

Does distributed object database work on the Arena project.

Scott Miller

GIMPed up some logos for LEAP. Programs in Java.

Dave Minter

Software developer, C++ etc. Created some logos (which see!).

David Mullins

Designer of the Trans-Atlantic Balloon Gondola; former IT manager of a major disk drive manufacturer.

Nathan Myers

Fearless Leader pro tem, Web page maintainer, Standard C++ expert

Tim Nelson

Matthew Panetta

Developer

Charles Esteban Paul

Digital imaging expert, X server expert.

Steven S. Pietrobon

Engineer; Suggested doc conversion tool, http://wheel.compose.cs.cmu.edu:8001/cgi-bin/browse/objweb

Aaron T Porter

Keeper of the mailing list server.

Greg Propf

Software developer; suggested a logo idea: penguin on a flying saucer.

Jose Renau Ardevol

Software developer, GNU/Linux kernel hacker (SMP, parport), System administrator (GNU/Linux/Sun/NT/HP)

Chip Richards

Software developer skilled in system software, process control, graphics

Douglas Ridgway

Pointed out that GNU/Linux has been used on a Thinkpad in orbit, as was mentioned in an issue of Linux Journal. (Which one?)

Candido (Kan) Rodriguez

Software Developer (asm/C/C++)

Alejandro Rojo Alvarez

Software developer, experienced with X and serial programming.

Bill Rugolsky

Craig Sawyer

Offered mailing list setup; converted docs to HTML.

Sonja G. Schirmer

PhD/Math; Working with Frank L. on an introductory letter.

Mike Sharkey

Software developer (C++/X11/collaborative software)

Rafael Skodlar

Syadmin, GNU/Linux user, member of National Space Society

Shachar Tal

Suggested our project name, LEAP; offered to host mailing list.

John Trammell

Physics grad student, software developer.

Matt Wagner

Developer

Robert Wallace

NASA Technology-Transfer specialist.

Riley Williams

Software developer

Chris Wright

Python/Tk developer

James Youngman

Embedded systems engineer, offered to help with porting.

I have not put in e-mail addresses, to keep down the spam level down to a dull roar. If you want anything changed, please write to me. If your name's not here, please tell me what to put here. If you're not on the mailing list yet, please add yourself.