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Hans De Goede

Hans has been a Linux developer since 1996, working on a wide variety of projects, including maintaining 200 packages in Fedora, various hwmon kernel drivers, rewriting and merging many out of tree webcam drivers into the mainline kernel, libv4l a userspace library to transparently handle the decompression of many proprietary webcam video formats in userspace, anaconda the Fedora / Red Hat installer, parted (the partition tool) and lately Spice and usb-redirection under qemu.

He has also been a long-time Fedora contributor and maintainer of many packages in Fedora. As such he regularly works together with people from other distributions and often see problems with projects where upstream is dead in some way.