TY - JOUR T1 - Community Building: NetBSD in Hindsight JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2008 A1 - David Maxwell A1 - Lubomir Sedlacik AB - The NetBSD Project is one of the oldest modern open source software projects. It provides an operating system that runs on over 50 hardware architectures (also called ports), including the IBM PC, Motorola PowerPC, and Sun UltraSPARC machines. Founded in May of 1993, the project has supported the operating system's active development and managed contributions from thousands of individuals. Prior to the New York City BSD Users Group Conference held in October, 2008, NetBSD developers from across the globe held a face to face meeting for planning and problem solving. Four developers from Sweden, Canada, the US, and Slovakia took a few minutes to think about how the NetBSD community has evolved over the past fifteen years. This article summarizes those perspectives and provides insight into how an open source community maintains development momentum while managing contributions from a large number of volunteers with varying skill levels from across the globe. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/195 IS - October 2008 U1 - Coverity David Maxwell is Coverity's Open Source Strategist. An open source security specialist, he has over 20 years of experience as an open source user and developer, and is particularly active in the NetBSD community. He currently sits on the advisory board for the BSD Certification Group and the program committee for the annual BSDCan conference. He was NetBSD Security Officer from 2001-2005 and a contributor to the O'Reilly title "BSD Hacks." Maxwell has previously worked as a lead kernel developer for Nokia, and architected the Internet Service offering for Fundy Cable in New Brunswick. U2 - NetBSD Project Lubomir Sedlacik is a software engineer at Sun Microsystems by day and pkgsrc hacker by night. He helped to establish the pkgsrc security and release engineering teams and spent countless hours working on Solaris support in pkgsrc. He is also one of the organizers of the annual pkgsrc conference, pkgsrcCon. ER -