The Linux Foundation has just embarked on a a massive initiative that will see a veritable who’s-who of technology vendors working together to identify and fund open source projects that need assistance.
The project, which will include the likes of Amazon Web Services, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, IBM and VMware , will initially target OepnSSL, the open source program used by the majority of Internet servers which unfortunately is plagued by the now notorious Heartbleed bug.
So for today’s Follow Friday feature, we bring some of the top open source and Linux experts you can find on Twitter.
Dave Jones is quick to point out in his Web site that he is not the guy from the 60’ band The Monkeys or the manager of the Cardiff City Football club, nor is he the writer of the Amiga game Blood Money. Dave works for Red Hat on the Fedora kernel team, as well as other things open source, and of course he also finds time to “dabble in various random bits of the Linux kernel.”
heartbleed ate my homework. https://t.co/untp0xH5PB
— Dave Jones (@kernelslacker) April 15, 2014
I love websites that have enlarge links below images, that when you mouse over show THE EXACT SAME IMAGE. (Looking at you Mouser) — Dave Jones (@kernelslacker) April 22, 2014
openbsd’s openssl commits is basically dailywtf now. http://t.co/7OYFFinGaH
— Dave Jones (@kernelslacker) April 18, 2014
Greg Kroah-Hartman is a Linux Kernel developer and currently the Linux kernel maintainer for the stable branch, the staging subsystem, USB, driver core, debugfs, userspace i/o and TTY layer. He wrote the Linux Kernel in a Nutshell and co-authored Linux Device Drivers
#linuxcon tweetboard recursion pic.twitter.com/Mn8bzfQFKb
— Greg K-H (@gregkh) September 17, 2013
@Stolen_Souls patches are always gladly accepted. — Greg K-H (@gregkh) April 20, 2014
Russel McOrmond is a Canadian open source champion, technology consultant, policy coordinator of CLU: Canada’s Association for Free/Libre and Open Source Software, coordinator of GOSLING (Getting Open Source Ligic Into Governments) @russellmcormond
@HBO Or 2015 given DVD is only legal way for people without cable to watch @TrueBloodHBO @GameOfThrones . #NeedStreamingOption @netflix — Russell McOrmond (@russellmcormond) April 9, 2014
@DanJory @laurelrusswurm @Tun_da The question of who owns what matters — use controls are implemented in devices: manufacturer vs owner. — Russell McOrmond (@russellmcormond) February 10, 2014
#DoctorWho#PopExpopic.twitter.com/nrnpQrpRh1 — Russell McOrmond (@russellmcormond) December 8, 2013
David “Doc” Searls is a veteran advocate for open-source software and has been involved with the monthly technology magazine Linux Journal since it began in 1994 where he wrote the column Linux for Suits. Doc Searles co-authored The Cluetrain Manifesto and wrote The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge. He has written for many publications including the Globe and Mail, Wired, OMNI and PC Magazine. @dsearls
It’s Indie Time: http://t.co/NPKZ5fumJY HT @Aral @kevinmarks @t @windley #VRM
— Doc Searls (@dsearls) April 20, 2014
Weekend linkings: http://t.co/4bQIExN09G HTs to @LinuxJournal @sullydish @AdContrarian @msurman @_DavidFlanagan @EmilyKinni
— Doc Searls (@dsearls) April 12, 2014
