People
Associate Director of Operations
As the OSL's associate director of operations, Lance Albertson brings extensive experience in a large-scale academic computing environment and open source community involvement. Lance comes to the lab from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan., where he was responsible for over 30,000 faculty/staff and student email and system accounts and served as the advisor for the Linux Users Group. Lance's involvement in the open source community began in 2003 with the Gentoo Linux distribution. As a leader within the Gentoo community, Lance has served on the Linux 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
Since November 2010, Curt has served as director of the OSL and associated K-12 outreach activities. During his tenure as OSU's chief information officer, 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, 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 is on the Board of Free Geek.
Developer
Trevor is currently a sophomore at OSU majoring in applied computer science. As a part-time student developer at the OSL, 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 OSU Linux Users Group and a member of the Oregon State Ballroom Dance Company's performing ensemble New Shoes.
Trevor is knowledgeable 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 OSU and has been working at the OSL 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 OSU and has been with the OSL since March 2010. At the lab, he maintains FTP mirrors and 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 Users Group.
Senior Systems Architect
Justin joined the OSL in March 2012 after studying and working at Kansas State University. Justin took graduate level courses in computer science at KSU and later worked as an applications system administrator there immediately before coming to the OSL. His work in identity and account management and his experience with Linux and Ubuntu are assets he'll utilize to benefit the lab's projects and infrastructure. Justin was involved in the Linux Users Group at KSU, and he has extensive experience with Java programming. Through the OSL, Justin is excited to be part of the wider open source community and to participate in outreach and development.
Developer
Emily is a sophomore studying computer science at OSU, 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 studying computer science at OSU and works as a part-time systems administrator for the OSL'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 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.
Senior Systems Architect
Rudy joined the OSL in March 2012 as senior systems architect. An OSU alumnus who worked at the OSL as a student, Rudy brings knowledge of open source projects in the lab and experience in private sector industry to his position. Rudy has worked heavily on the Drupal content management system and comes to the OSL after working as a senior systems engineer with Acquia. Excited to return to an environment he enjoyed as a student, he plans to use his experience to enhance the lab’s efficiency and to help prepare students to solve problems they may encounter in the industry.
Senior Software Engineer
Ken began at the OSL in March 2012 after spending over a decade in various positions on the OSU campus. Since 1999, he has worked professionally as a systems administrator in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, completed an undergraduate degree in physics as a student and worked with Central Web Services as a software developer. Ken sees the OSL as a synthesis of the wide variety of projects he has worked on at the university and hopes to use his experience with many different technologies and his dual perspective as an OSU staff member and alumnus to benefit the lab. Ken's personal interests are as varied as the technical projects he has worked on; he is a blacksmith as well as a woodworker and enjoys writing fiction.
Developer
Corbin Simpson is studying music at OSU. 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 OSL, 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 OSU 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 OSU Linux Users Group. Before he was in computer science, Daniel studied electrical engineering; he continues to design do-it-yourself 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.
