Dru Lavigne
Dru Lavigne (* 20th century) is a network and system administrator, IT trainer and author of numerous IT-related publications. She also works for several organizations in the BSD area.
She has been using FreeBSD since 1997 and has written several BSD books. She has more than a decade of experience in administering and training NetWare , Microsoft , Cisco , Check-Point , SCO , Solaris , Linux and BSD systems.
Working life
She was the founder and from 2007 to 2010 Editor-in-Chief of Open Source Business Resource (OSBR), a free, monthly publication that dealt with topics related to open source and the commercialization of open source and which is now in Technology Innovation Management Review worked .
She is the founder and, since 2005, chairwoman of the BSD Certification Group Inc., a non-profit organization for the development and administration of a standard for the certification of BSD system administrators.
Since January 22, 2013 she has been a member of the doc committer group of the FreeBSD project.
Lavigne has been a director of the FreeBSD Foundation since 2009 . Since 2010 she has been a community manager and author of documentation at iXsystems .
She can often be found in person at a BSDCon . BSDCons are BSD conferences, several of which take place each year in different parts of the world.
Publications
As a writer, Lavigne has written for O'Reilly , TechRepublic, DNSStuff, and OpenLogic.
She co-wrote Linux Hacks and Hacking Linux Exposed and is the author of BSD Hacks and The Best of FreeBSD Basics . Her third and most recent book, The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD , was published in March 2010.
Lavigne wrote the widely read A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru blog on Toolbox.com.
As part of her work at iXsystems, she is involved in the documentation of the PC-BSD project and the FreeNAS project. According to her own statement, she writes about as much for these projects per year as for three 300-page books.
Web links
- Dru Lavignes Homepage (English)
- Dru Lavigne's LinkedIn page , contains employment dates
- Jem Matzan: Interview: The BSD Certification Group's Dru Lavigne ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English), In: The Jem Report, February 20, 2007.
- Bill Toulas: Interview: Dru Lavigne talks about FreeBSD , In: Unixmen, June 2, 2012.
- Lisa Liang: Interview: Developer's Corner: Dru Lavigne (English), In: iXsystems Blog, August 24, 2012.
- Nan Price: Q&A: Networking Expert Dru Lavigne (English), In: circuit cellar, February 24, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Q&A: Networking Expert Dru Lavigne. February 24, 2014, accessed March 29, 2014 .
- ↑ Reflecting on Fifty Issues of the OSBR. August 2011, accessed March 29, 2014 .
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↑ Meet the BSD Certification Group. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 3, 2014 ; accessed on March 29, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Mission statement. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 29, 2014 ; accessed on March 29, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ FreeBSD News Flash. Retrieved October 18, 2013 .
- ^ Dru Lavigne - O'Reilly Media. February 1, 2013, accessed October 18, 2013 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lavigne, Dru |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Network and system administrator, IT trainer and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |