Here is brief info about some of our members

If you have better photos, please submit them to Dave Lundy.

• Dave Lundy

  Dave was one of the original DMA® members. He was active in the 6800 SIG until it died. Dave first started occasionally attending the UNIX SIG, which Gary Turner started, sometime around '91 or '92. He was a computer technician at NCR at that time and part of his job then was maintaining NCR Towers - Motorola 680x0 based UNIX machines, but was primarily involved with maintaining and configuring desktop PCs running MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 and various special projects.

  GT, Dave Nevel, Ken Phelps, Dan Tasch, and Dave Lundy built the original dmapub PC and installed an inexpensive (for that time) version of SVR4 UNIX they bought from a Canadian outfit, named Consensys. Eventually, late in '96 we replaced Consensys with RedHat Linux (ver. 4.2?). That was Dave's first exposure to Linux. He has been active to some degree or another in the maintenance of dmapub since its inception, mostly with managing user accounts, answering user's questions, creating a FAQs page, and maintaing our web site. Since many of dmapub's users were totally unfamiliar with either UNIX or Linux, Dave wrote a menu system to hide the details from the user in 1995. Many dmapub users are still using that menu today.

  Dave has several PCs at home running various flavors of Windows and Linux. They're all networked together, and can share files using SAMBA.

  See Dave's website for more info.
  

   

• Don Corbet (A.K.A. thelinuxguy®)

  Don is president of D. L. Corbet & Associates, LLC, a DMA® trustee, a member of the Board of the Linux Professional Institute, and is a certified Linux cyber forensics specialist. In addition, he is a member of the kazoo band the Rejects, which has performed the National Anthem at the Dayton Dragons, and was a frequent co-host on the Thursday evening "Ask a Tech" program of Radio PC Review, and writer for Midwest PC Review. He now hosts "On Technology" on WHIO (1290 AM) at noon each Saturday. Don frequently teaches Linux courses and has done Linux presentations at Computerfest® and been involved in organization of the Linux Playground there.

  
  

   

• George Ewing

  George was instrumental in getting this SIG started, and is one of its co-leaders. George also started and leads the Amateur SIG. He was also the driving force in getting advanced training sessions as part of Computerfest®, as well as a past Computerfest chairman. George has also been participating in the Linux SIG for quite some time, and has more different operating systems on one PC than anyone else I know.

  
  

   

• Gary Turner (A.K.A. GT)

  Gary was one of the founding members of the Dayton Microcomputer Association, and has been an active member ever since. He has been president more than once and has also been chairman of Computerfest®, and president of GEMAIR. GT, as he is known to most DMA® members, has been a friend of Dave Nevel's since before DMA®. Together, they started DMA's UNIX SIG which eventually led to the birth of dmapub, which in turn led to DMA® owning our own ISP, GEMAIR.

  
  

   

• Gil Stuber

  Gil is quite interested in embedded Linux applications.
  

   

• Paul Ahlquist

  Paul is a member of the KDE documentation team.