Lance Albertson
Director
Lance became OSL director in early 2013. He has managed all of the hosting activities that the OSL provides for more than 160 high-profile open source projects since joining the lab as lead systems administrator and architect in 2007. Lance’s involvement in the open source community began in 2003, when he became a developer and package maintainer with Gentoo Linux. Prior to joining the OSL, Lance was a UNIX Administrator for the Enterprise Server Technologies group at Kansas State University. In his free time he helps organize Beaver BarCamp, and enjoys playing the trumpet and spending time with his family.
Lance can be reached at lance-at-osuosl-dot-org
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Sharon Bousso
Student Systems Engineer
Sharon joined OSL in June of 2023 and is studying Computer Science. She had her first Linux machine in fourth grade, it was an ancient Thinkpad running Lubuntu, and that was just the beginning of her Linux journey. Sharon got interested in Computer Science and Computer Security from a young age, and went on to work as a Security Engineer at a small company based in San Francisco. She is very passionate about Linux and the open source movement and is thrilled to partake in the community. In her free time, Sharon likes to rock climb and read, and has many software development side projects she works on.
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Grant O’Connor
Student Systems Engineer
Grant joined the OSL in July 2023 as a Sophomore Computer Science major in order to grow his technical knowledge and gain experience. Grant was first introduced to programming in his Freshman year of high school where he learned the basics of game development in Unity. In his free time, Grant enjoys playing board games and video games as well as designing and developing video games.
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https://github.com/GrantAOConnor
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Paul Simko
Student Systems Engineer
Paul joined the OSL in May 2021. He’s been using OSL mirrors since arriving on campus, and is glad for the opportunity to contribute to the FOSS ecosystem. He’s been using Linux since high school, and enjoys optimizing his work environment and trying out new community projects. Paul is a computer science major and is interested in cybersecurity, infrastructure automation, and spending 3 hours writing scripts that save 1 minute. He spends the time that these scripts save hunting mushrooms, reading, and rock climbing.
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Zachary Wallace
Student Systems Engineer
Starting in November of 2022, Zach was brought aboard during his Junior year of his college career as a Computer Science major. Zach’s first introduction to programming dated back to the fifth grade, in 2013, where he did a presentation on “How to Create an Adder in Lua”. His first experience with the Linux environment started in late-2019, when he used a Raspberry-Pi to set up a local file sharing server; and ever since then he’s used some flavor of Linux as a daily driver for both personal and server use. Outside of the office and classroom, Zach enjoys modding games, with an added interest in level design. With now being employed at the Open Source Lab, he hopes to further understand the duties of a systems administrator while also providing assistance in service hosting for the FOSS community.
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Oria Weng
Student Systems Engineer
Oria has been excited about open-source software from far too young an age, so no one should have told her there was an Open Source Lab right at OSU! In all seriousness, she started at the OSL in November 2022 as a way to further explore computer science and get involved in the open-source community. When not learning new ways to play on computers, she dabbles in digital drawing, board games, and animation.
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Johnathon Rohweder
Student Systems Engineer
Johnathon joined the OSL in October 2024. He’s been programming and exploring the field of Computer Science since middle school, and enjoys learning about Cybersecurity, Web Development, and Linux. When he’s not learning about Computer Science he enjoys hiking and astrophotography.
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