Ben Collins (programmer)
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Ben Collins is a former NASA Langley Research Center[1] engineer and was the Debian Project Leader[1][2][3][4][5] from April 2001 to April 2002;[6][7][8][9] having previously stood in 1998.[10] He was succeeded in that role by Bdale Garbee. In September 2004 Collins founded SwissDisk along with his brother Ken Collins.[11] He worked for Canonical Ltd[12] as the Linux kernel team leader for Ubuntu.[13][14][15][5] Collins grew up in Virginia, United States,[13] and has three children.[2]
Collins previously worked at Winstar Communications during 2000–2001.[5][16] He became maintainer of the IEEE 1394 "Firewire" subsystem in the Linux kernel.[17]
As of 2009[update] Collins worked for Bluecherry as a Linux kernel programmer for their MPEG encoder cards.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Interview with Ben Collins, the new Debian Project Leader". Linux Gazette (66). May 2001. http://linuxgazette.net/issue66/correa.html. Retrieved 2012-02-01.
- ^ a b "Interview with Ben Collins, DPL". Debian Planet. 2001-01-02 04:39. Archived from the original on 2005-04-29. http://web.archive.org/web/20050429152255/http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=413. Retrieved 2012-02-11.
- ^ "Ben Collins". Corporate Information. SwissDisk. 2011. http://www.swissdisk.com/corporate. Retrieved 2012-02-11.
- ^ Orlowski, Andrew (2002-06-25). "Debian boost as Sun buys SPARC edge start-up". The Register (San Francisco). http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/06/25/debian_boost_as_sun_buys/. Retrieved 2012-02-11.
- ^ a b c Maduro, Roger A. (2011-09-09). "Open Health News" (slides). San Diego. p. p.2. http://www.openhealthtools.org/boardmeetingmaterials/OHT-BM-2011-09-08/Presentations/OpenHealthNews_2011_09_09.ppt. Retrieved 2012-02-11. "Had to create our own enterprise version of Linux (Ben Collins, elected Debian Team leader and later core developer of Ubuntu Linux)."
- ^ a b "Ben Collins joins Bluecherry". Bluecherry. 2009-11-25. Archived from the original on 2011-12-16. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zkL0_pJe5lQJ:forums.bluecherrydvr.com/old//index.php%3F/blog/2/entry-4-ben-collins-joins-bluecherry/.
- ^ Zacchiroli, Stefano (2011-03-21). "Since then — 12 Debian Project Leaders (DPL)" (slides). Debian: 17 years of Free Software, "do-ocracy", and democracy. Taipei. p. p.7. http://upsilon.cc/~zack/talks/2011/20110321-taipei.pdf. Retrieved 2012-02-11.
- ^ Bretton, A.J. (2001-04-02). "Debian Gets New Chef". Client Server News (G2 Computer Intelligence). Archived from the original on 2009. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-76435110.html. Retrieved 2012-02-11.
- ^ Debian Documentation Team (2005-08-10). "Leadership" (slides). A Brief History of Debian. http://files.bullgr.org/ebooks/linux/en/project-history.en.pdf.
- ^ "This week in Linux history". LWN.net. 2001-12-13. http://lwn.net/2001/1213/history.php3. Retrieved 2012-02-11. "Three years ago … The Debian Project … leader election began, with Joseph Carter, Ben Collins, and Wichert Akkerman running"
- ^ Mellor, Chris (2009-10-19 12:40). "Swissdisk suffers spectacular cloud snafu". The Register. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/19/swissdisk_failure/. Retrieved 2012-02-11. "started in September 2004 by brothers Ben and Ken Collins and was bought out by Next-Star in December that year."
- ^ Larabel, Michael (2008-08-21). "Ubuntu 8.10 To Use Linux 2.6.27 Kernel?". Phoronix. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjY2Nw. Retrieved 2012-02-11.
- ^ a b "Ben Collins". Behind Ubuntu. November 2006. Archived from the original on 2007-01-10. http://web.archive.org/web/20070110032905/http://behindubuntu.org/interviews/BenCollins/. Retrieved 2012-02-11.
- ^ Shuttleworth, Mark (2006-01-14). "Virtual wundermachines". Here be dragons. http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1. Retrieved 2012-02-11. "Ben Collins, the Ubuntu kernel maintainer,"
- ^ "Ben Collins". Conferences. O'Reilly Media. 2007. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/ubuntu/view/e_spkr/3663. Retrieved 2012-02-11.
- ^ Bretton, A.J. (2001-04-09). "Third Time's a Charm.". Client Server News (G2 Computer Intelligence). http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-76435181.html. Retrieved 2012-02-11.
- ^ "Beyond markets and firms: The emergence of Open Source networks". First Monday (journal) 10 (5). 2005-04-03. http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1237/1157. "They maintain their own subsystem, … Ben Collins (firewire),"
[edit] External links
- Ben Collins' platform for the 2001 Debian project leader election
- Ben Collins' Launchpad page
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Debian Project Leader April 2001 – April 2002 |
Succeeded by Bdale Garbee |
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