Order of the Green Polo

From OpenNMS

The super secret brotherhood (a.k.a. OGP) and developers of the OpenNMS Project. You can recognize an OGP member by their good looks as well as their super-flashy, very covetted OpenNMS Green Polo.

The OGP Toast:

May your commits be swift, your fields encapsulated, your garbage collected, and your jars full!

Tarus has said:

Back in the fall of 2004, I wanted to find a way to recognize those people who make OpenNMS what it is, and to thank them in some fashion. Thus the top secret Order of the Green Polo was founded.

Ever since the advent of "business casual" workplace attire, the "logo" polo shirt has become a fixture in IT departments around the world. We sell black and white polos with the OpenNMS logo on our web site.

But this is much, much, different. These are "green" polos, very rare, and they will never be available for sale. Think of them as equivalent to winning The Masters golf tournament's green jacket - only harder to get.

In order to get one, all one has to do is give up all hope of having a life outside of OpenNMS, work long hours for free, and basically become a closet superhero, squashing bugs (or uncovering their existence) in a single bound.

The Order is designed to recognize those achievements of these rare individuals. So I present to you the list of Green Polo members.

If you use OpenNMS and like it, take some time to say thanks to these folks - they've earned it. Also, as The OpenNMS Group grows, we will be looking to hire people from this very group.

I am grateful to everyone, from the most seasoned veteran to the "why doesn't admin/admin log me in" newbie, and especially to these folks for helping make OpenNMS the best network management product on the planet.

-T

In alphabetical order:

Antonio Russo (2006Q3)

Antonio is our Italian Ambassador as well as the father of linkd and our map. He is also a great cook, as he demonstrated at Dev-Jam 2006.

Ben Reed

Alejandro Galue (2007Q3)

Alejandro is our South American ambassador, based out of Venezuela. He is also one of our threshd experts, along with Craig Miskell.

Alex Finger (2008Q2)

Alex is our international man of mystery (living in France, working in Switzerland, and born in Germany). He has provided tremendous support to this project and is responsible for much of the design and testing of many of its carrier grade features. He has also recently contributed a new Adobe Air interface.

Alex Finger

Ben Reed (2004Q4)

Ben is one of the chief maintainers of the fink project, dedicated to bringing the world of Unix open-source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. He was one of the original people to work on OpenNMS, and has been maintaining the Mac ports for OpenNMS as well as the dependent applications of RRDTool, PostgreSQL and Tomcat4.

Bill Ayres

Bill Ayres (2004Q4)

Bill works at Oregon State University and was one of the first commercial customers for OpenNMS. He has contributed a number of fixes and features to the product over the years, and continues to provide small code changes with large, positive results.

Craig Miskell

Craig Gallen (2007Q3)

Craig, from Ireland but currently in the UK, is responsible for OpenNMS being a part of OpenOSS, a reference implementation of the NGOSS stack using open source tools.

Craig Miskell (2005Q1)

Craig, from New Zealand, joins Jonathan as our second international OGP member. He has been contributing bug fixes and a number of useful new features, including the poll-outages GUI scheduled for 1.2.3.

David Hustace

David Hustace (2004Q4)

David works with the OpenNMS Group, and he is a key player in the future of OpenNMS. He has added some code features, such as javaMail support, and he also brings a good sense of direction to the project - making us focus on what the community wants versus what we might think they want.

DJ Gregor

DJ Gregor (2004Q4)

DJ has a huge list of accomplishments, so it's hard to know where to start. Perhaps his biggest contribution has been reworking the build system to fully utilize ant, and to replace install.pl with a java counterpart.

Eric Evans

Eric Evans (2004Q4)

Eric is the OpenNMS Debian maintainer. Although the reliance of the product on Sun Java will prevent it (in the short term) from becoming part of the distribution, his work has allowed OpenNMS to run on that platform and provides for one of the easiest installs. He works at Rackspace Managed Hosting, and outside of his coding efforts he has donated a lot of time and resources to improving the application.

Jeff Gehlbach

Jason Aras (2007Q3)

Jason has worked a lot on different parts of OpenNMS, including new SNMP-based monitors. He is also working on a RESTful interface for OpenNMS data.

Jeff Gehlbach (2006Q4)

Jeff comes from a background of network and systems management, and knows some stuff about SNMP agents. He attended Dev-Jam 2006 on his own nickel and jumped right in on the development bandwagon. His work earned him a place on the OGP in late 2006.

Johan Edstrom

Johan Edstrom (2006Q3)

Johan has many years of network management experience and came to OpenNMS because of its scalability, ease of configuration, and its "exactness" of monitoring. He has contributed to a number of features and maintains the 'bot on the #opennms IRC channel.

Jonathan Sartin (2004Q4)

Jonathan is our UK ambassador. He works for Ocado, the fastest growing internet supermarket in the UK. He has done a lot to promote OpenNMS (including working more personally than we can with the OpenOSS team, of which OpenNMS is a part) as well as improve the code, especially on Solaris. It was great to get an e-mail from him where OpenNMS actually allowed him to take his first vacation in years without worrying about the network.

Matt Brozowski

Matt Brozowski (2004Q4)

Matt is the chief OpenNMS software architect and CTO of the OpenNMS Group. In the past few months that he has been here, OpenNMS has seen a marked increase in stability and performance. His use of the Eclipse IDE and test-driven development will insure that OpenNMS can meet its goal of becoming the default network management platform of choice.

Mike Huot

Michael Huot (2004Q4)

His induction into the Order reflects years of not only helping us make the product better through opening support tickets, but by working with us to test the limits of OpenNMS. He is also the SuSE maintainer for OpenNMS.

Michael Jamison (2005Q1)

Mike has created a new collector to collect on JMX queue data. With a large number of applications being based on JMX technology (such as those built on JBoss or Hibernate) it will be nice to be able to "see" into them and gather performance data. This also marks the first time the collector has been extended - not an easy task.

Sasa Markovic (2005Q2)

Sasa is the creator of JRobin, a java port of the popular RRDTool project. Since OpenNMS is written in Java, it is much more efficient to use JRobin when storing time series data. In 2005 he turned over the maintenance of JRobin to the OpenNMS Group, and in recognition of his work he was inducted into the OGP.

Tarus Balog

Tarus Balog (2004Q4)

The "Mouth of OpenNMS" Tarus has been responsible for maintaining the OpenNMS project since May of 2002.

Ted Kaczmarek

Ted Kaczmarek (2004Q4)

Ted works for Crown Financial, and in his spare time is the de facto "testing czar" (there has got to be an anagram in there somewhere). Often he reports bugs the moment new code is committed to CVS, which we love (we really, really do). Instead of just opening bugs, Ted gives us a lot of the information we need to fix them (sometimes including the patch).