CANDIDATE FOR DIRECTOR

Ted Ts'o

I am honored to be nominated as a candidate for the USENIX board. If I am elected, my primary goal will be to continue the work which Jon "maddog" Hall has started in strengthening the ties of the Linux community to USENIX. Specifically, I believe the time is ripe to consider the creation of a USENIX Special Technical Group dedicated to Linux, recruiting leadership from the various regional Linux User Groups (LUGs) to head that STG. Many of these LUGs are thriving, but a national organization which these groups could tie into would be a Good Thing, both for the stronger, larger groups, and for the smaller groups that could especially benefit by having a national organization to provide them with support, access to speakers, etc. This is especially true now that the harder economic times have reduced the assistance which various Linux companies have been able to extend to various User Groups.

Of course, the world does not begin and end with Linux. I believe the USENIX board should encourage other communities of interest to become more active within USENIX (possibly leading to the formation of other STGs, where there is sufficient energy and enthusiasm), in the BSD world as well as in other non-OS-specific communities such as the XFree86, GNOME, and KDE communities. Both BSDCon 2002 and the X Windowing System track at the recent ALS conference represent a great start, and we should be doing even more in this direction. If elected, I look forward to working with the USENIX board to make these aims a reality.

Biography: Theodore Ts'o's first USENIX technical conference was the San Diego conference in January 1989. At that time, he was employed as a "Watchmaker," or Student Systems Programmer working on BSD 4.3 for MIT's Project Athena. He has been a Linux kernel developer since September 1991 (Linux version 0.10). Ted has served on several Freenix and Atlanta Linux Showcase program committees, and chaired the 2000 ALS Program Committee. He is a co-chair of the IPSec working group within the Internet Engineering Task Force. He also serves as a founding board member of the Free Standards Group, which is currently working towards standardizing the Linux ABI as part of the Linux Standards Base, as well as creating standards for Linux Internationalization. Ted is a Senior Technical Staff Member of IBM's Linux Technology Center.

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