[Announce-nycbug] February 02, 2005 NYC*BUG Jan Schaumann: pkgsrc

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NYCBUG monthly meeting
February 02, 2005
Jan Schaumann: pkgsrc

6 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.