The International Computer Science Institute is pleased to present the following talk: Building and Running an Open-Source Community: The FreeBSD Project Marshall Kirk McKusick, PhD Thursday, October 26, 4:00 p.m. ICSI, 1947 Center Street, 6th Floor Lecture Hall Berkeley, CA Talk Abstract: The BSD community started at the University of California at Berkeley in the late 1970's. Through the 1980's the BSD software was developed and released from Berkeley. In 1992, Berkeley made its final release, 4.4BSD-Lite, an open-source version of BSD. Since that time, independent development has continued by the FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, and Dragonfly projects. This talk will trace the history and structure of the BSD community from its start as a small group of paid staff at Berkeley up through the thousands of volunteer developers that make up the FreeBSD Project of today. It will describe how the development structure set up at Berkeley was expanded to create a self-organizing project that supports an ever growing and changing group of developers around the world. Biographic Note: Marshall Kirk McKusick writes books and articles, consults, and teaches classes on UNIX- and BSD-related subjects. While at the University of California at Berkeley, he implemented the 4.2BSD fast file system, and was the Research Computer Scientist at the Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) overseeing the development and release of 4.3BSD and 4.4BSD. His particular areas of interest are the virtual-memory system and the filesystem. One day, he hopes to see them merged seamlessly. He is a past president of the Usenix Association. For more information about ICSI, see: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/about For directions to ICSI, see: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/about/location.html ICSI Seminars mailing list http://mailman.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/seminars-list