DavidSugar

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David Sugar

Email: <dyfet AT gnutelephony DOT org>
Location: Cape May Court House, New Jersey
Home Site: GNU Telephony
Launchpad Page: https://launchpad.net/~dyfet/

Background

Starting in the 70's, I was at one time a "Telephone Hobbyist", although fortunately much less known and "sought after" than people contemporary to that period such as John Draper. My initial experience with computing was in my early teens with equipment from Ohio Scientific as well as S-100 CP/M systems. I also at the time developed and sold a BBS system.

In more recent times I was a founder of and the former CTO for Open Source Telecom Corporation, and I currently maintain a number of packages that are officially part of the GNU Project. I have at times also been an official speaker for the Free Software Foundation. Most of the packages I maintain are telephony related, including GNU Bayonne and GNU SIP Witch. While I first started using GNU/Linux when it was a distribution of floppy disks and a 0.12 kernel, and I have worked with a variety of different distributions over the years since then, much of the testing, packaging, integration, and development work for the packages I maintain is currently done using Ubuntu.

Most recently I have been working on encrypted / intercept-free communication systems based on the work of Phil Zimmerman in publishing the ZRTP protocol. Lesser known is my involvement both with helping to develop free software solutions around public standards and free software ethics for the visually impaired, and my work with indigenous communities.


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