People
Infrastructure Architect
Lance Albertson joins the Oregon State University Open Source Lab as the Infrastructure Architect bringing extensive experience in large scale academic computing environment and Open Source Community involvement. Lance comes to the lab from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas where he was responsible for over 30,000 faculty/staff and student email and system accounts as well as serving as the advisor for the Linux Users Group. Lance's involvement in the Open Source Community started in 2003 with the Gentoo Linux distribution. As a leader within the Gentoo Community, Lance has served on the Foundation, has held the position of Operational Manager for the Infrastructure team, and is a developer and maintainer for several core infrastructure packages.
Lance can be reached at lance-at-osuosl-dot-org
Project manager
Greg has spent the last 15 years working on various telecommunications and distance education projects within the State of Oregon. Greg's current project is building online teaching and learning tools for the Oregon Department of Education's Oregon Virtual School District project.
You can read more on Greg's blog at http://blogs.osuosl.org/gchaix.
When not at a keyboard, Greg is often found on two wheels playing BikeFriz.
Greg can be reached at gchaix-at-osuosl-dot-org
Director, OSU Open Source Lab
Since November 2010, Curt has served as Director of the Open Source Lab (OSL) and associated K-12 outreach activities. During his tenure as OSU's CIO, he was part of the creation of the OSL which is now recognized as one of the world’s leading open source labs. His primary outreach activity is around the partnership with the Oregon Department of Education in the development of the technology platform for the Oregon Virtual School District (ORVSD) which provides innovative open source tools to Oregon’s teachers and students. In addition, Curt serves as elected chair of the Accelerate Oregon Foundation and on the Board of Free Geek.
Developer
Trevor is currently a sophomore at Oregon State, majoring in Applied Computer Science. As a part-time student developer at the Open Source Lab, he spends most of his time on the Ganeti Web Manager project. His passion and knowledge for open source software and development is only exceeded by his passion for dance. He is actively involved in the Oregon State Linux Users Group and a member of the Oregon State Ballroom Dance Company's performing ensemble New Shoes.
Trevor is knowlegeble in Java, PHP, (X)HTML, Python, SQL, and Intel Assembly. When he is not being a code monkey, Trevor can be found reading, playing classic point-and-click adventure games, dancing, or playing guitar.
Developer
Jonah is currently a Computer Science major at Oregon State University, and has been working at the Open Source Lab since June 2011. Before transferring to OSU, Jonah was a member of the Linn-Benton Community College ROV team, and spent much of his time working on the networking and user-interface code for their award winning 2010-2011 ROV. He is primarily versed in C, C++, Python, and Java, but has spent a fair amount of time on other languages as well.
Outside of work and school, Jonah spends most of his time reading, writing, and working on various programming projects with his peers. Whether it be with prose or programming, he finds no greater pleasure than creating and exploring new and wonderful worlds.
Community Systems Administrator
Mike is studying Computer Science at Oregon State University, and has been with the OSL since March of 2010, where he maintains ftp mirrors, the OpenVPN server, and is working on Julep.
Outside of the OSL, Mike works on administrating his own servers, and has a few random programming projects in progress at any given time. He also participates in the local Linux User's Group.
Developer
Emily is a sophomore studying Computer Science at Oregon State University, and has been a software developer on the Ganeti Web Manager project since she joined the OSL in April 2011. She has worked primarily with C, Python, and Java.
Outside of the OSL, Emily serves as vice president of the OSU Robotics Club, treasurer of the Linux Users Group, and as a peer advisor to incoming freshmen. In the rare event of having free time, she also enjoys gardening and building robots.
Community Systems Administrator
Derrick is a part time student systems administrator for the Open Source Lab's infrastructure team.
Community Systems Administrator
Jordan is a sophomore studying mathematics at Oregon State University. He has been working at the OSL since June of 2010. He works on Puppet, Drupal upgrades, and a variety of other projects.
Outside of the OSL, Jordan can often be found reading books of all kinds. He also enjoys bowling and bike riding.
Developer
Corbin Simpson is a student at Linn-Benton Community College and will be returning to Oregon State University in Fall 2011. He has been an open-source programmer since 2005 and joined the wider community in 2008 with contributions to the X.Org Foundation. He is a Linux Plumber and has contributed to many open-source projects outside of the Open Source Lab, including Mesa,X.org, and Linux.
Corbin has advanced proficiency in Python and C, and fluency in C++, Java, Javascript, HTML, XML, CSS, GL/GLSL, shell, and several flavors of assembly. These claims remain unsubstantiated.
Outside of work, Corbin is a professional musician, and is never far from a piano. He has a large collection of video cards and old video game consoles, most of which are Linux-friendly or in the process of acquiring Linux compatibility.
Community Systems Administrator
Daniel is a junior at Oregon State University studying computer science. He started using Linux at home in 2006, but didn't really start to get involved in open source until 2008 when he joined the Linux User's Group at Oregon State. Before he was in computer science, Daniel studied electrical engineering; he continues to design DIY hardware in his free time.
When he isn't working or going to class Daniel likes listening to music, reading his bible, and makings things. Whether it's a table, a video game, or a computer system he is never lacking in DIY projects. Equipped with a soldering iron and a dremel, he builds what he needs to fit the occasion.
