Mr. Pieter Van den Abeele

Founder of the PowerPC-version of Gentoo Linux. Together with Daniel Robbins, spearheaded the Gentoo architectures and platforms effort. Received a scholarship by Apple Computer for founding Gentoo for Mac OS X. In 2004 Pieter was invited to the OpenSolaris pilot program and assisted Sun Microsystems with building a development eco-system around the Solaris operating system. He was nominated for the OpenSolaris Community Advisory Board and managed a team of developers to make Gentoo available on the Solaris operating system. Pieter is a co-author of the Gentoo Social Contract and the Gentoo handbook.