FSFS2008 - 0.1

Free Software Free Society
Conference on Freedom in Computing, Development and Culture

Events
	GlusterFS - GNU Cluster File System

Anand Babu Periasamy

Author/maintainer for Free Software projects like GNU FreeIPMI, Hymn (AKA PlayFair), GNU Freetalk, Gluster, Freehoo, bios-config, librpci (kernel debugger for the GNU Hurd). Much of time goes into writing Free Software for the GNU project. Other community services involved are the VOWC.org project and Ecomwel.org.

Led the engineering team of CaliforniaDigital that built worlds second fastest super computer (code named "Thunder") entirely out of free software in June 2004. As a part of day time job, hack free software such as driver development, porting, performance/scalability enhancements and bug fixing. Mainly GNU and Linux kernel.Have built and managed engineering organizations.Have developed and ported custom server/cluster/embedded GNU/Linux distributions. Love to troubleshoot things that are left impossible by others and is known for fixing them at record timings.Have worked closely with the sales team making IBM, HP and Sun lose consistently in all cluster and super-computing deals. Packaged free software, open standards and commodity hardware with robust manageability solution, that helped companies like GE and Synopsys confidently migrate from their proprietary RISC/Unix platforms.

Board member of FSF-India. Cofounder and CTO of Z RESEARCHl Inc.

Previously was Vice President of Engineering and CTO for CDC Linux and California Digital Inc.