Who is behind Dunc?
Dunc is managed by a group of individuals with experience in developing free software and an interest in helping ensure free software developers can afford food. They can be contacted by email at board@dunc-tank.org.
Anthony Towns
Anthony is the current Debian Project Leader (since April 2006) and a former Debian release manager (August 2000 to June 2004), as well as being secretary of Linux Australia (since February 2005) and one of the organisers of linux.conf.au 2002. Anthony is the original developer of the ifupdown and debootstrap components in the Debian distribution and derivatives, and is a member of both the Debian ftpmaster team, which looks after the Debian archive, and the debbugs team, which takes care of the Debian bug tracking system. Anthony lives in Brisbane, Australia.
Steve McIntyre
Steve was one of the founders of Debian UK Society, and has been treasurer of the organisation since its formation. He is currently Assistant Debian Project Leader (since April 2006) and a member of the DebConf 7 sponsorship and budget team. Steve is heavily involved in preparation of the Debian CD and DVD images for new releases and release updates. Steve lives in Cambridge, in the United Kingdom.
Ted Ts'o
Ted was a founding member and is the current chairman of the Free Standards Group. He is the current treasurer of USENIX (since June 2004), as well as being a member of the IETF Security Area Directorate, and chair of the annual Linux Kernel Summit. Ted is the primary developer and maintainer of the ext2 and ext3 userspace utilities for Linux, and works for IBM on performance and scalability issues in the Linux kernel. Ted lives in Boston, USA.
Joey Hess
Joey has been a major contributor to Debian for most of its existance, as the original author of debhelper (used to handle the packaging details for the majority of packages in Debian), alien (which provides non-rpm-based systems such as Debian with support for install rpms, and thus the ability to support initiatives like the Linux Standard Base), debconf (the standard way to configure Debian packages), and debian-installer (which generalises the technology developed in debconf to support installation of the Debian system). Joey released the first issue of Debian Weekly News in 1999, and continued editing it until March 2001. He has been the team leader for the installer in the past, and mentored the current team lead. Joey lives the life of a high-tech hillbilly in flyover country, USA.
Raphaël Hertzog
Raphaël has been heavily involved in Debian's quality assurance efforts since early in his involvement with the project, launching the original qa.debian.org tracking site, and later the Package Tracking System. Raphaël proposed the sponsorship system, which is now a core part of Debian's development process and the method by which many packages are maintained, and introduced the alioth system, a central site for developing and maintaining software used by both Debian developers and other contributors. Raphaël lives in Saint-Etienne in France.