What is the Puppy Linux Foundation?

See the original Foundation wiki page for more on how the Puppy Linux Foundation was setup. See related forum topic∞
Official Puppy Linux Foundation Site

Puppy Linux Foundation maintained website∞

Contacts

Community Edition Development


Complaints And Concerns

IRC

Forum

Wiki

Ed Jason (Lobster) ed.jason at gmail.com

How are we, organized?

Each resource always has at minimum one primary administrator (admin). The primary admin(s) would, at their discretion, either delegate admin duties by perceived merit or by community consensus/vote. Those with delegated admin duties could delegate even further down "the ladder" of responsibilities.

Each project would be focused toward a certain goal(s). Accomplishing these goals would typically spread across and utilize multiple resources. Those working on these projects seems best to be called teams. Now some projects would need someone to have the final/say decision (team leader) and others would not and so the structure/hierarchy would be dependent on those in the team involved in each project.

For certain things there would be a need or at least benefit to having legally recognizable entities in place. They would be required for financial transactions in relation to Puppy Linux, although they would have other benefits, as well. A not for profit organization for receiving donations and/or a business selling Puppy Linux pre-installed on CD/DVDs, USB flash drives, and computers are good examples. Each entity in a locality would be subject to its local laws and have its own internal structure. Unquestionably, any legal endeavor relating to Puppy Linux would need to be cleared with Barry Kauler. Now of course there are businesses, organizations, and educational institutions that could be in this category without being devoted primarily to Puppy Linux, as well.

Hopefully, we would work together and avoid duplication and wasted efforts but as is the way of open source and free software there will be many variations of methods, goals, etc. in which all positive contributions should be welcomed.

The following will be reorganized, moved and split off to other wiki pages in time:

Contributors

Senior Developers

• Barry Kauler - P.O. Box 359, Perenjori, WA 6620, Australia - Creator of Puppy
• GuestToo
• Mark Ulrich (MU)
  MU developed PuppyBasic and has created many, many new dotpups and Muppy
  

Developers

• Raul Suarez (Rarsa) - Kitchener, Ontario, Canada - http://rarsa.blogspot.com/∞
  Rarsa setup XDG menus and the Puppy Subversion repository
  to keep track of the projects and simplify sharing them with other contributors and testers.
  Rarsa is also working on improving the network connection wizard.
  
  
• Jason Pline (plinej) - Compiling, creating, numerous contributions
• Dan Van Wormer (dvw86) - Washington State, USA
• Pizzasgood - USA - misc. apps and wizards, occasional puplets
• John Derrickson (JaDy) - SE PA, USA - made PupWin98.zip for Windows 98 w/o CD
• Ian Mulgrew (Ian, IanMul) - QLD, Australia
• Nathan Fisher (NathanF) - Houston, TX, USA - Grafpup Linux∞ developer
• John Murga - Manhattan, NY, USA
  Created (and still hosts) the forum when our previous forum needed updating.
  He also made MurgaLua, which has been adopted by DSL and his Mean Puppy.

PupLet Creators

• Mathias De Maré (MathiasDM) - Belgium - NaNoWriMo Linux developer
• John Murga has created a special edition of Puppy using Opera with Perl language and multiple boot up options. This influenced subsequent Puppys. He recently upgraded his 'small and mean' version of MeanPup (formerly Mean Puppy)
• Rufino Mananghaya (Raffy, RaffyM) - Much promotion through the "Affordable PC for Education and Development" project
  
  
• Nathan has created the Grafpup.com distro based on Puppy and was Head of Puppy 1.09ce development
• Hacao developed Hacao Linux and PuppyOffice 2.03ce
• Klh created Optimised and KDE-Puppy
• PizzasGood created EmptyCrust (barbones Puppy 1.0.7) and the Pizzapup series
• JaDy has created a Puppy that boots straight from Windows 98 and is working on Windows XP and 95 versions.
• Nyu has developed a Chinese Puppy∞ and also a Japanese Puppy.

Rudy creator

Active Projects

Contributed Projects

• AlienX has created specialist Window themes for Puppy and the Remaster CD script
• Babbs is creating a mirror of many of our files, learning to manage a server
• Jesse working on new solutions with only his third Tcl program - MUT - Jesse is working on new projects including Tinycc GUI
• Ian is Foundation Treasurer - created the dotpup "Puppy Money 0.2" working towards a pro version
• Lobster is Wiki admin
• Thoughtjourney created the JWM theme changing in 1.0.5.
• Trobin history blog
• Babbs creating a file mirror host for Puppy
• Sccat has created dotpups that allow the input of Chinese characters∞ in Puppy
• Jcoder24 created HSF/HCF softmode packages, expanded on work done by tempestous to provide alsa support in puppy, created other packages (eg, ethereal, fwbuilder, gizmo,denemo).
• WhoDo contributed dotpups for business applications Qcad, Planner (Project Management), drawswf (flash animation), Ganttproject and the dotpet EZpup interface updater.

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