[Announce-nycbug] NYC*BUG February Meeting: Jan Schaumann on NetBSD's pkgsrc

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February Monthly NYC*BUG Meeting: http://www.nycbug.org

February 02, 2005
Jan Schaumann: pkgsrc

6-8 pm, Soho Apple Store at 103 Prince Street
The NetBSD Packages Collection (pkgsrc) is a framework for building 
third-party software on NetBSD and other UNIX-like systems, currently 
containing nearly 5000 packages. It is used to enable freely available 
software to be configured and built easily on supported platforms.

Jan Schaumann works as a System Administrator in the Department of 
Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ, 
USA, where he manages a large, almost homogenous NetBSD environment in 
an academic environment; runs clustered High Performance Computing 
Facilities based on NetBSD; ports and maintains NetBSD pkgsrc tools and 
packages on non-NetBSD platforms such as IRIX and Linux; teaches 
classes in UNIX programming and System Administration. (Other 
activities he enjoys that he unfortunately does not get paid for 
usually involve a board often in combination with some form of H20.)

Jan holds a BS and MS in Computer Science and joined the NetBSD Project 
as a developer in January of 2002. Within the NetBSD Project, he is a 
member of the Communication Executive Committee, leads the www team and 
-- after having ported the pkgsrc tools to IRIX -- finds himself 
maintaining the infrastructure for this platform as well as numerous 
packages.

Trying to make him move out of NYC, where he lives together with his 
wife, would be a futile endeavor. Jan can be reached at jschauma -at- 
netmeister -dot- org.