2009 OLF Speakers
2009 Keynotes
Columbus, Ohio – Ohio LinuxFest is celebrating 40 years of UNIX! To celebrate, Ohio LinuxFest’s will touch on both ends of 40 years of history this year. Ohio LinuxFest is proud to announce that M. Douglas McIlroy and Shawn Powers as keynote speakers for this year’s Ohio LinuxFest.Dr. McIlroy developed UNIX pipes and UNIX tools such as spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak and tr. DR. McIlroy pioneer component based software engineering. A mathematician and engineer, as well as a programmer Dr. McIlroy was at the head of Bell Laboratories Computer Techniques Research Department, contributing to the birth of UNIX.
Shawn Powers is an editor for Linux Journal, a collector of vintage Garfield coffee mugs, the Technology Director for a school in northern Michigan, a video podcaster, a writer, slightly overweight, father of 3 girls, and an avid Star Trek fan. Not necessarily in that order. Sadly, he's most often noted as, 'The guy with the funny hair.
Other Notable Speakers
OLF 2009 has the return of popular speakers such as:
- Dr. Peter Salus
- Bdale Garbee
- Elizabeth Garbee
More speakers to be announced later.
Peter H. Salus is an aged technological historian. Among his books are "A Quarter Century of UNIX," "Casting the Net," and (most recently) "The Daemon, the Gnu and the Penguin."
Bdale first contributed to Free Software in 1979, has a long history of involvement in the Debian distribution, and is Chief Technologist for Open Source and Linux at HP. His primary hobby seems to be turning all of his other hobbies in to open source projects.
Elizabeth developed an early interest in open source, installing her first Debian machine (with some help!) at age 9. Since then, her main computing interest has been graphics manipulation and digital art. Aside from computers, Elizabeth is a dedicated student who is passionate about music, and enjoys reading comic books.