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<h1>Evaluation Committee</h1>

<p>The Evaluation Committee evaluates projects that have applied to become

<h2>Jeremy Allison</h2>

<p>Jeremy Allison is one of the lead developers on the Samba Team, a group

of programmers developing an Open Source Windows compatible file and print

server product for UNIX systems. Developed over the Internet in a

distributed manner similar to the Linux system, Samba is used by all Linux

distributions as well as many thousands of corporations and products

worldwide. Jeremy handles the co-ordination of Samba development efforts

and acts as a corporate liaison to companies using the Samba code

commercially.</p>

<p>He works for Google, Inc. who fund him to work on improving Samba and

solving the problems of  Windows and Linux interoperability.</p>

<h2>Tom Callaway</h2>

<p>Tom Callaway has been working for Red Hat since 2001. He started in

Sales Engineering and has been the Fedora Engineering Manager since 2008.

He served three consecutive elected terms on the Fedora Board from 2007 to

2011. Tom also maintains or co-maintains a large number of Packages in

Fedora (currently 390) and is leading the Fedora Packaging Committee,

responsible for RPM Packaging Standards and Practices.  Additionally, he is

responsible for managing Fedora's Legal issues.  Tom frequently represents

Fedora and Free Software at conferences around the world, and tries his

best not to make too big of a fool of himself.</p>

<p>When not working, Tom enjoys geocaching, ice hockey, gaming, science

fiction, and pinball.</p>

<h2>Lo&iuml;c Dachary</h2>

<p>Lo&iuml;c Dachary has been involved with Free Software since 1987 when

he started distributing GNU tapes to the general public in France.  His

first contact was with GNU Emacs and in 1989 with GCC which he used to port

a Unix System V kernel to a embedded Motorola 68030 motherboard.  He

currently works as a developer for <a

href="http://outflop.me/">OutFlop</a>, a company providing services and

software to operate poker rooms.  He created <a

href="http://savannah.gnu.org/">Savannah</a>, the GNU forge, in 2001 to

provide a Free alternative to proprietary forges. As a president of FSF

France, he provides technical and legal resources to French Free Software

developers. Loic Dachary is also a honorary member of <a

href="http://april.org/">APRIL</a> since 1996, a French non-profit

dedicated to Free Software with over 5,500 members.</p>

<h2>Mark Galassi</h2>