Jan Schaumann speaks in new york city ! come on down

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.