Brian Behlendorf (March 30, 1973) is a technologist, programmer, and one of the key figures in the Free Software movement . He was the main developer of the Apache web server, one of the most popular web servers for the Internet , and one of the founders of the Apache Group , which later became the Apache Software Foundation . Belendorf was president of the foundation for three years [1] . Belendorf has also been a member of the board of the Mozilla Foundation since 2003 [2] .
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| Date of Birth | March 30, 1973 (aged 46) |
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| Website | brian.behlendorf.com |
Biography
Back in the early 90s, as a student at the University of California at Berkeley , Belendorf, who grew up in Southern California , became interested in the beginning to develop the Internet. One of his first projects was the e-mail distribution and online music resource SFRaves, which a friend convinced him to create in 1992 [3] . Belendorf was one of the first participants in the Burning Man festival, and also founded a large online resource dedicated to electronic music and related subcultures [1] .
In 1993, Belendorf, Jonathan Nelson, Matthew Nelson and Cliff Skolnik co-founded Organic, Inc. - This was the first business project dedicated to the creation of commercial websites [4] . In 1994, while developing the first nonprofit media project, HotWired, a site for Wired magazine, they were faced with the fact that the web server software most used at that time was developed at the National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign , could not handle the user registration system. Therefore, Belendorf created a patch to support HotWired requirements.
It turned out that not one Belendorf was busy correcting the NCSA code at that time, so he and Cliff Skolnik put together an electronic mailing list to coordinate the work of other programmers. Ultimately, working together, they rewrote all the original components of the web server and named the new Apache HTTP Server (because their patches were made by the server “a patchy server”). In 1999, the project was merged under the name Apache Software Foundation .
Belendorf is currently the director of CollabNet , in 1999 he co-founded O'Reilly & Associates (now O'Reilly Media) to develop mechanisms that enable collaborative, distributed software development. CollabNet is also the main corporate sponsor of Subversion , an open source version control system. He often speaks at free software conferences around the world.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Nowhere: a rotation apex , nowhere. Date of appeal September 17, 2009.
- ↑ About the Mozilla Foundation , Mozilla Foundation . Date of appeal September 17, 2009.
- ↑ SFRaves history , SFRaves. Date of appeal September 17, 2009.
- ↑ Proceedings of Wikimania 2007 , Wikimania (2007). Date of appeal September 17, 2009.