Talk Details

"Use the Source, Luke"

Name Alan Cox

Organisation

Website http://zenii.linux.org.uk/diary/

Scope General

Topic Encouraging Indian contributors

Type talk

Abstract How does free software actually get written ? What are the processes actually happening and how do you take part in them ?

In introduction to getting involved in free software and the way development and maintenance is handled. As well as program code this talk will also look at the important supporting activities that are so often overlooked.

Pre-requisites None

Profile Alan Cox is heavily involved in the development of the Linux kernel. He maintained an old branch (2.2.x), and his own versions of the previous stable branch (2.4.x) (signified by an "ac" in the version, for example 2.4.3-ac1). He was commonly regarded as being the "second in command" after Linus Torvalds himself, although this has changed over time.

Cox is employed by Red Hat and lives in Swansea, Wales. He is an ardent supporter of programming freedom, and an outspoken opponent of software patents, the DMCA and the CBDTPA.