Guru Spotlight: Jordan K. Hubbard
If you’ve been in the business for a while you probably recognize the name Jordan K. Hubbard. (If you’ve been in the business as long as I have, you may even remember it from the comp.sources.unix days).
Hubbard was one of the co-founders of FreeBSD and one of the reasons why that project has developed into the well-respected operating system it is today [just fyi, the words you are reading are being served off FreeBSD boxes].
I still remember when it was announced in 2001 that Hubbard joined Apple to work on Darwin. It was at that point that I knew we were in for some interesting and substantial stuff out of Apple. Turns out I was right [he says while typing on an Apple Powerbook].
For the Guru-is-In track, we do our best to bring someone who really knows their stuff on a topic. For Mac OSX I’m sure you’ll agree we found the very epitome of the term “guru” when you hear that we’re privileged to have Hubbard as the Mac OSX guru-is-in speaker at LISA 2005.
Here’s Jordan Hubbard’s bio from our program:
Jordan Hubbard is the Director of UNIX Technology, CoreOS, at Apple Computer. He has been a software developer since the late 70’s and is a longtime contributor to the open source community, from the earliest days of USENET’s comp.sources.unix group, through MIT’s X11 contributed software collection, to the FreeBSD Project, which he co-founded in 1993. These days, he focuses on the day-to-day development of Mac OS X and, more generally, on Apple’s open source strategy and its relationship with traditional UNIX developers and administrators. His current pet count, for those who follow such things, is 10 cats and 4 dogs.