Instructors

Train with the Linux Experts

Built in concert with its Technical Advisory Board (which comprises leading maintainers from the Linux community), the Linux Foundation's Training Program features courses taught by expert Linux instructors,  many of whom are actual community developers. Here is a sample of some of the development leaders who work with the Linux Foundation's training program.

Jonathan Corbet Jonathan Corbet, a founder of LWN.net (Linux Weekly News), Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board member, and is the lead author of the book Linux Device Drivers, third edition, published by O'Reilly. He is an active kernel developer who consults with companies on kernel development and community relations. Jonathan got his first look at the BSD Unix source code back in 1981, when an instructor at the University of Colorado let him "fix" the paging algorithm. Ever since, he has dug around inside every system he could get his hands on, working on drivers for VAX, Sun, Ardent, and x86 systems on the way. He got his first Linux system in 1993 and has never looked back.

James Bottomley James Bottomley is a Distinguished Engineer at Novell. He is also an active member of the open source community. He is a Linux Kernel maintainer of the SCSI subsystem, the Linux Voyager port and the 53c700 driver. He has also made contributions to PA-RISC Linux development in the area of DMA/device model abstraction. He was born and grew up in the United Kingdom. He went to university at Cambridge in 1985 for both his undergraduate and doctoral degrees. He joined AT&T Bell labs in 1995 to work on Distributed Lock Manager technology for clustering. In 1997 he moved to the LifeKeeper HA project. And in 2000 he went with LifeKeeper to SteelEye technology to bring HA to Linux. He has spoken before at LinuxWorld, ALS, Plumbers conference and the Kernel Summit.

Christoph Hellwig Christoph Hellwig has been working with Linux for more than 10 years, soon focusing on kernel-related issues. He has also been involved in various other Free Software projects. After a number of smaller network administration and programming contracts he worked for Caldera's German development subsidiary on various kernel and userlevel aspects of the OpenLinux distribution and later joined the filesystem and storage group at SGI focusing on XFS for Linux. Since 2004 he has been self-employed doing contracting, consulting and training in the Linux Kernel and Storage world. Christoph is also serves on the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board.

Greg Kroah-Hartman Greg is the maintainer of the Linux kernel USB and driver core subsystems, as well as many individual drivers. He started the Linux Driver project and is one half of the -stable kernel release group. He currently works for Novell, doing various kernel related things for them.

Ted Ts'o Ted Ts'o was the first North American Linux Kernel Developer, and organizes the Annual Linux Kernel Developer's Summit, which brings together the top 75 Linux Kernel Developers from all over the world for an annual face-to-face meeting. He was a founding board member of the Free Standards Group, and was chair of that organization until it merged with OSDL to form the Linux Foundation. He is one of the core maintainers for the ext2, ext3, and ext4 filesystems, and is the primary author and maintainer for e2fsprogs, the userspace utilities for the ext2/3/4 filesystems. At IBM, Theodore served as the architect for the Real-Time Linux development team. He is the CTO of Linux Foundation.