Tridge is a warm, entertaining, and funny speaker, and a brilliant
open source software architect. Hell, in the
Linux world the man is a
geek.god. Tridge is employed by
Linuxcare at
OzLabs in
Canberra, Australia and is a founder of
CLUG.
Tridge's software projects include Samba (a SMB file/printer server for Unix), rsync, a fast file transfer program, JitterBug, a web based bug tracking system KnightCap, a learning chess program with a 3D interface, AP/Linux, a port of Linux to the AP1000+ multicomputer, and various TiVo hacks.
project info from Linuxcare