Meeting at Wright State University Thursday, July 17

Here is brief info about some of our members

My apologies for some of the previous photos. In my haste to capture unposed pictures at the 2001 DMA® Holiday Party, I didn't get as good shots as I had hoped. On Dec. 10, 2002, I updated some of them with pictures from the 2002 DMA® Holiday Party. If you have better photos, please submit them to Dave Lundy.

• Bill Jacobs

  Since the initial network design by Dave Nevel, Bill did most of the network configuration for dmapub / GEMAIR, with help from Ken Phelps, Dave Nevel and others. Eventually Paul Ahlquist took over those duties.

  
  

   

• Bruce W. Cox

  Bruce was the original founder and chairman for 2 years of Dayton Linux Users group (before it merged with the Unix sig), and is a Past Vice President of the DMA®. He has been involved with home computers since the mid 70's. Currently Bruce does computer support at WPAFB, and has taught both Networking and Windows 2000 part time at Sinclair Community College. Hobbies include online gaming, and building a "life size" model of the Robot from the TV series "Lost In Space". Future plans are moving to Saigon in 2004 to teach Computers. Bruce is certified both as A+ and Network+ Technician by Comptia.

  
  

   

• Dan Tasch

  Dan has provided much of the hardware support for dmapub and GEMAIR since their beginnings, and keeps a watchful eye on security updates.

  See Dan's web site for more info.

  
  

   

• Dave Lundy

  I was one of the original DMA® members, and was active in the 6800 SIG until it died due to lack of interest. I first started occasionally attending the UNIX SIG, which Gary Turner started, sometime around '91 or '92. I was a computer technician at NCR at that time and part of my job then was maintaining NCR Towers - Motorola 680x0 based UNIX machines, but I 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 I built the original dmapub PC and installed an inexpensive (for that time) version of SVR4 UNIX we bought from a Canadian outfit, named Consensys. Eventually, late in '96 we replaced Consensys with RedHat Linux (ver. 4.2?). That was my first exposure to Linux. I have 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, I wrote a menu system to hide the details from the user in 1995. Many dmapub users are still using that menu today.

  I have one PC at home that I use for trying various Linux distros, another with both Mepis 3.3 and Windows MCE 2005 in a dual-boot setup, and my wife's running just Windows XP, and a dual-boot laptop. They're all networked, and can share files using SAMBA. I've toyed a bit with KnoppMyth, but have not dedicated a PC to it yet.

  See Dave's web site for more info.
  

   

• Dave Nevel

  Dave Nevel and Gary Turner hatched the idea to build their own UNIX PC and get connected to the Internet in the early '90s. Dave has been the UNIX guru for the dmapub project from the beginning, with strong support from Ken Phelps and some others.

  
  

   

• David H. Jones (A.K.A. SETI Dave)

  

  
  

   

• Don Corbet (A.K.A. thelinuxguy®)

  Don is president of D. L. Corbet & Associates, LLC, a former 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 also hosted "On Technology" on WHIO (1290 AM) at noon each Saturday for a couple years. Don frequently teaches Linux courses and has done Linux presentations at Computerfest^® and been involved in organization of the Linux Playground there.

  
  

   

• 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 (the computer which serves this web site), which in turn led to DMA® owning our own ISP, GEMAIR.

  
  

   

• George Ewing

  George was instrumental in getting the Certification SIG started, and was one of its co-leaders. The Certification SIG eventually morphed into the Hands-On SIG. He continued to lead that SIG until relinquishing the reins to Elliott Lake in May 2006. George also started the Amateur SIG, which he has subsequently turned over to Todd & Shawna Collins. 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 this SIG for quite some time, and has more different operating systems on one PC than anyone else I know.

  
  

   

• Gil Stuber

  Gil is quite interested in embedded Linux applications. He also had a long-time interest in digitizing video and film, which he has turned into a business, HMP Services LLC.

  
  

   

• Grant Root

  Grant runs a small MIS department for The Dayton-Phoenix Group, Inc., a local manufacturing company. Over the years he's programmed mainframes and PCs in a dozen or so languages, and has been an operator, support tech, network admin and web designer.

  Grant's been a DMA® member for more than a decade, and active in the Linux SIG for the past several years. Since getting involved with Linux, he's set up a couple of workstations and several LAMP-based web servers for both work and home use. You can find more info at his home page, on a web server he maintains at home.

  
  

   

• Jason Cook

  Jason has been active in our group since his arrival around 1998, and has made several presentations. He has been particularly active in organizing the Linux demonstrations at Computerfest^®. He also is active in Dayton Perl Mongers.

  See Jason's blog for more info.

  
  

   

• Jeff Coyle

  Jeff is one of our newer members. His bio will be updated soon.

  
  

   

• Ken Phelps

  Ken has been a great help to the dmapub and GEMAIR projects from day one. He occasionally gives presentations, usually regarding perl, and is a frequent participant in Dayton Perl Mongers.

  See Ken's web site for more info.

  
  

   

• Mike Wright

  Mike attended the Linux SIG for several years, and was almost single-handedly responsible for arranging Dr. Larry Augustin's presentation in October 2000.

  
  

   

• Paul Ahlquist

  Paul is a member of the KDE documentation team, and has dipped his toes in the HTML pond. He got fancier as the webmaster for Dayton Perl Mongers, of which he is an active member. He was the last president of GEMAIR, an ISP wholly owned by Dayton Microcomputer Association until its sale to DONet in the spring of 2006. Paul has been a member of the technical administrative team for dmapub for the past few years, and was the primary technical wizard for GEMAIR for its last four years or so.

  
  

   

• Todd Rovito

  Todd is a Computer Science student at Wright State University and has been very helpful to our SIG in making arrangements with the university for rooms, A/V equipment, getting guest speakers, etc. You may learn more about Todd at his web site.

  
  

   

• Tony Snyder

  Tony was involved with the UNIX SIG and dmapub in the early days, but spends more time with his cats now.

  See Tony's web site for more info.