About
I’m a (still somewhat) active open source developer who has been around for a while – got started on Linux in 91 and a bunch of other open source projects even before then – of course they weren’t called “open source”… everything was still simply “free software”.
I have worked in a few startups, both as developer and as manager. The ones that are publicly known include AIB Software corporation (long ago bought by PLATINUM technologies which itself has been gobbled up since then) and SuSE. I’ve also worked on the “other side”, for example as Unix Architect of Deutsche Bank in the late nineties.
Today I work at Intel – but this is my blog with my opinions. So please don’t even try to take things said here to be positions of my employer. I try to remember to point out my affiliation when I wonder if it might hamper my objectiveness… but frankly, I don’t think I’ve had that much Cool-Aid, yet.
On this blog I talk about technologies and communities that I’m interested in – there’s not much of a firm topic, it’s much more a reflection of things that I work on at that time. So it spans open source in general, specific projects, but also hardware and software that I am using – a lot of “lazy-web” postings that give quick howtos to get those things working, in part so I don’t forget, in part in case this is useful to others.
I also am on twitter
Thanks to James Duncan Davidson for allowing me to use the picture that he took at OSCON 2008 as my avatar.
Greetings Dirk, your talk at Oscon about how Moblin is a fundamental rethink of Linux was very interesting. I’d love to have someone from the Moblin project speak at our Peninsula Linux Users’ Group (PenLUG.org). Can you recommend someone? We meet in Redwood City, CA one weeknight a month, and are seeking a speaker for January. Thanks!
Great to write you, Dirk! That’s the way I found to stop by and believe me or not, sincerely apologize for my phone ringing right in the middle of your (great) presentation during LinuxCon/BR last Tuesday. I remember you saying “be sure to let the caller know that Dirk said hello” (or something) and I actually did because it was my mom having tech difficulties with, guess what, M$FT “high quality” software. Also, it’s great to learn that you’ve worked for SuSe in the past. That’s probably my favorite distro; despite having a last name SCHWARTZ, my family comes from the French/German border and I always associate SuSe as being the German distro. Anyway, keep up the good work and I look forward to see you again during LinuxCon/BR 2011. Danke!
Hi Dirk,
I am currently helping Kaiser Permanente establish a national strategy with their Labs.
Last week we hosted a Summit where all the Lab leaders came together. As part of it we had a speaker on Genetics Informatics. Got to see some really interesting technology under development as they figure out how to make coherent the 3,000,000 components of the genome and all the the associated variants. Are you still working with Intel? And/Or do you know who the major players are in this space? Have a couple of opportunities I came across in creating open source solutions in this space. And it would be nice just to catch up.
Thanks, Kristen