3 These are our current members
5 Also, check out [[The_Mission]].
7 ## [[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton|lkcl]]
9 * Hardware Experience: assembly-level programming, gate-level
10 circuit design, PCB design, reverse-engineering, embedded systems
11 design and programming, software engineering, standards development,
12 libre project management and more.
13 * Ethical Technology Specialist. Identifies socio-economic imbalances and
14 works out if there's an ethical way in which technology can help. If that
15 technology doesn't exist, creates it.
16 * Interests: varied and including particle physics, Medieval and Folk music, and writing poems.
17 * website: [[http://lkcl.net]]
18 * github: doesn't have one (because github is a proprietary non-free service),
19 runs his own git servers, manages projects (several), entirely in a libre
20 fashion, including managing the server(s).
21 * Availability: full-time
23 ## [[Yehowshua Immanuel]]
25 * Experience in HDL projects, PCB design, and drivers
26 * Interests: Compilers, HDL Tooling, Signal Processing, Mathematics,
28 * Website: [[https://yehowshuaimmanuel.com]]
29 * Github: [[https://github.com/BracketMaster]]
30 * Availability: 6hrs/wk
32 ## [[Jacob Lifshay|programmerjake]]
34 * FOSS Software Developer, Hardware Designer, Original Author of Kazan (one of our GPU drivers, also a software-rendered Vulkan implementation that works on most CPUs)
35 * Built a working RV32I CPU and VGA core that runs a 3D game in 3 weeks: [[https://github.com/programmerjake/rv32]]
36 * Built an algebraic numbers library: https://crates.io/crates/algebraics
37 * Built a (non-official) reference implementation of IEEE 754-2019 (binary floating-point): [[https://crates.io/crates/simple-soft-float]]
38 * Interests: Computer Graphics, Compilers, Simulation, Rust-lang, Anime, Astrophysics, Electronics, Computer Design, Chemistry, Nuclear Physics, Cellular Automatons, Video Game Software Engineering, High-performance Computing
39 * GitHub: [[https://github.com/programmerjake]]
40 * Availability: full-time
42 ## [[Tobias Platen|tplaten]]
44 * Copyleft Software Developer, Hardware Designer and Reverse Engineer
45 * Interests: varied and including speech synthesis and cosplay.
46 * website: [[https://www.platen-software.de/tobias/]]
47 * github: doesn't have one using notabug instead
48 [[https://notabug.org/isengaara]]
49 * Availability: Outside normal working hours.
51 ## Yann Guidon (whygee)
53 * Experience: Processor architecture : designer of
54 F-CPU project since 1999 [[http://f-cpu.org]]
55 YASEP (16- & 32-bits real-time controller) [[http://yasep.org]]
56 YGREC8 (8-bits microcontroller) [[http://ygrec8.com]]
57 * Interests: Designer of electronic circuits circuits for industrial
58 and artistic applications with dedicated workshop for PCB prototyping
59 with wide range of technologies Algorithmics, including data
60 compression, signal processing (sound & picture), optimisations,
63 ## [[Michael Nolan|mnolan]]
65 * Experience/Interests: Hardware design, compiler design, formal
66 verification, low level/embedded programming, RF electronics, amateur
68 * Website: [[https://n4abi.com]]
69 * Github: [[https://github.com/C-Elegans]]
70 * Availability: ~10hrs/wk (mostly MWF 9am-12pm Eastern Time)
74 * Embedded software engineer
75 * Interests: niche platforms, embedded, servers, graphics
76 * github: [[https://github.com/clbr]]
77 * Availability: part-time
79 ## [[Veera Kumar|veera]]
81 * Software developer, programmer and small system administrator
82 * Knowledge in using Redhat, Fedora, Debian and few others
83 * Have experience building a custom Linux distribution based on LFS/CLFS
84 * Experience in Shell, C, Awk, Perl, Python, Lua, HTML, CSS, PHP
85 * Develop websites, run VPS on Linux
86 * Build open source softwares from source and test and use it
87 * Website [[http://www.vkten.in]]
88 * Availability: part-time
90 ## [[Jock Tanner|jock_tanner]]
92 * Expertise: Python developer, full-stack web developer (6+ years)
93 * My code: [[https://github.com/dmelnichuk/]], [[https://github.com/jock-tanner/]]
94 * GNU/Linux user/administrator
95 * Hobbies: electronics, real-time systems, digital music & sound processing, embedded systems, FPGA, retro computing
96 * Availability: ~20hrs/week
97 * Time zone: UTC+10:00
99 ## [[Alain Williams|addw]]
101 Alain's website: <http://phcomp.co.uk>
103 ## [[Cesar Strauss|Cesar_Strauss]]
105 * Experience: Data acquisition and control for scientific instruments
106 * Programming of microcontrolers and FPGAs
107 * Digital circuit design
108 * Availability: Outside normal working hours.
110 ## [[Cole Poirier|cole]]
112 * Trying to learn and organize stuff
113 * GitHub: [[https://github.com/colepoirier]]
114 * Availability: full-time
116 ## [[Sanjay A Menon|Sanjay]]
118 * Skills: Verilog, C/C++, Python, TCL & PERL
119 * Github Profile: [[https://github.com/Sanjay-A-Menon]]
120 * LinkedIn Profile: [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjay-menon-91791815a]]
121 * Availability: ~6hrs/week
123 ## [[Samuel A Falvo II]]
125 * Experience in amateur HDL projects (Kestrel-3 homebrew computer
126 concept; VDC-II core), Verilog (but not System Verilog), newbie at PCB
127 design. Extensive experience with test-driven development, Python,
128 assembly language for a wide variety of CPUs including RISC-V, and Forth.
129 Very comfortable with nMigen, but still learning things.
130 * Interests: Forth, Common Lisp, Scheme, assembly language,
131 {Astro|Semiconductor-}physics, astronomy, martial arts, furry (character: black dragon; name: "Vertigo").
133 - https://hackaday.io/project/170581-vdc-ii ,
134 - https://kestrelcomputer.github.io/kestrel/ ,
135 - http://chiselapp.com/user/kc5tja/repository/kestrel-3/index
136 * Public Repositories:
137 - https://github.com/sam-falvo ,
138 - https://github.com/kestrelcomputer
139 * Availability: approximately 20 hrs/wk, circumstances permitting.