[cab-discuss] request to be recognized as a core contributor

[Al Hopper]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Garrett D'Amore wrote:

> Per Al Hopper's suggestion:
>
> I have contributed a variety of things to Solaris over the
> years, and most recently for OpenSolaris have the following projects
> brewing:
>
> 1) afe network driver integration (possibly also mxfe), and updates to support Nemo
> 2) grand-unification effort for serial drivers (back-burnered ATM, but not forgotten)
> 3) crypto contributions pending (e.g. RNG support for Padlock, that I hope to post this week)
> 4) various bits to improve platform support for Tadpole hardware
> 5) possibly going forward improvements to in-kernel framebuffers (e.g. I wrote NetBSD radeonfb, which I'd like to port to OpenSolaris)
> 6) wifi enhancements -- I've got fixes for the PCI prism driver, and other bits
> 7) improvements for PS/2 keyboards
> 8) improvements for touchpads
> 9) various other minor patches (e.g. rge patch for more NIC support, xargs, id, and kstat fixes)
> 10) forthcoming improvements for power management on SPARC platforms (I hope)
>
> Despite all this, no one group recognizes my contribution as qualifying
> for Core Contributor.  (The laptop community might recognize me as a
> Contributor, but the current list proposed does not go beyond that.)

The CAB/OGB is pleased to recognize the sustained participation and
contribution of Garrett D'Amore and have him designated as an OpenSolaris
Core Contributor - with all the privilidges that this title confers.

Thanks Garrett - the Project is indeed enriched by your participation and
I hope that you will continue active participation into the future.

PS: Stephen - Can you please handle the mechanics of adding garrett_damore
to your database.  TIA.

Regards,

Al Hopper  Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX.  al at logical-approach.com
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