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President, OHF
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 Patrick McNamara is a Senior IT System Architect for Texas Instruments specializing in configuration management tools and systems. Prior to joining TI, Patrick held positions as senior CM Admin at Nortel and Sabre, as well as software development positions at Sabre and Raytheon Systems. Patrick graduated with a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Arkansas in 1997. Patrick has a formal background in system level software and hardware development and has had a strong interest in programming and digital logic design as hobbies since childhood. As a member of the Open Graphics Project, Patrick has provided input on the legacy VGA controller design as well as significant contributions to the video controller block. |
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Secretary, OHF
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Hamish graduated with a B.Sc in computing from Massey University (Palmerston North, New Zealand) in 1990. Currently an IT consultant, based just out of London, he has worked for IBM (NZ) Ltd, and the University of Waikato. In past lives he has written software such as pserv (An Accounting Print Server for Netware - circa 1992) and zgps (GPS software for the now sadly abandoned Zaurus). His main interest in Open Hardware is to ensure anyone can have the information freely available to program their purchase themselves & not have to rely on vendors infrequent attention to drivers. His first HDL program was an implementation of Bresenhams line drawing algorithm posted to the OGP mailing list in 2006. It was so much fun he's going to do more just as soon as he can afford a board of his own. Outside interests include Tae Kwon Do (1st Dan Blackbelt) and Linux.
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Director, OHF
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Attila received an MSc in Electrical Engineering from the ETH in Zürich and has worked as design engineer from the FPGA level up to whole electronic systems. In his free time he contributes to a few OSS projects, most notably MPlayer and OGP. |
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Director, OHF
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 James Dinan is graduate student at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. He is presently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science with a focus on parallel and high performance computer hardware and software systems. James has been an active participant in the open source community for many years and since moving to Ohio has helped to grow a campus-wide student organization dedicated to promoting and participating in open source. Before enrolling at OSU, James earned a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. |
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Director, OHF
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 Terry Hancock is co-founder and technical officer of Anansi Spaceworks, a small business focused on the education and empowerment of individuals interested in furthering human exploration and development of our solar system. He has been a frequent contributor to Free Software Magazine and an editor for LinuxUser and Developer magazine. He is an advocate not only of using free-licensed open-source software but also of applying its free-licensing methodologies to other areas, including the arts, electronic and mechanical design, and space development. Terry received a BA from The University of Texas, majoring in Astronomy. He went on to work as a research assistant, writing software for such projects as the McDonald Observatory Planet Search program in Texas and the testing at the University of Arizona of the NICMOS infrared imaging chips for the Hubble Space Telescope. Later he worked with data from that same camera for astronomical research at Extrasolar Research Corporation in Pasadena, California. He later went to work for Caltech/JPL's Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC). In 2003, he left Caltech to focus on Anansi Spaceworks projects. He now resides in Texas. Since 1999, he has been active in the open source community, learning the basics of open-source project management through several small SourceForge projects. His Narya Project Incubator is a Zope-based project to incorporate novel funding protocols into commons-based peer production, targeted at meeting the additional needs of CBPP-based free-licensed hardware design. He is also the current maintainer of the Python Universe Builder interactive fiction engine.
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Director, OHF
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Timothy Schmidt has been involved with the Free and Open Source Software community since 1998. He is currently employed as a Linux systems administrator in a mixed Windows / Linux environment at a major midwestern tool & die and manufacturing corporation. |
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Director, OHF
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James Richard Tyrer is a retired electronic engineer living in Green Valley, Arizona
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Director, OHF
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Lourens Veen is a computer science student at the U niversity of Twente in Enschede, The Netherlands. His current research is in XML databases, on which he is finishing up his MSc thesis. He plans to continue his studies and pursue a PhD degree after graduating. Lourens started programming in GW-Basic is the late eighties, and enjoyed VGA graphics programming in Turbo Pascal a few years later. His contributions to the Open Graphics Project have so far been some logo and website design, a fast reciprocal algorithm for implementation in an FPGA for the drawing engine, and general technical input. On the organisational side, his interests lie with the economical, legal and social relationships within the Open Hardware community. Although his technical interests are generally more with high-level analysis and design, the problem of automatic translation of high-level function descriptions into efficient gate-level logic sounds complex enough to him that he might have some fun with it in the future. |
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