On Jun 22, 2012, at 2:56 PM, Joel Esler wrote: > Earlier this week we announced a new chapter for ClamAV with the departure of > Tomasz Kojm, Alberto Wu, Luca Gibelli and Edwin Török. While we are sad to > see them go, we are grateful for the contributions they have made and are > committed to carrying on the project with the community in mind. > > As Tomasz mentioned in his own email, ClamAV just had its 10th birthday. Over > the years we've been able to integrate ClamAV into our own product suite and > it is now used by millions of mail filters, operating systems and millions of > file scans per day. It's big, and we want it to be even bigger, with open > source commitment at its core. > > So, now that we've begun this new chapter, I’d like to introduce you to some > new members of the ClamAV team. These folks might be new to ClamAV, but they > have been with the Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team (VRT) for quite > some time, and all have worked on other open source projects. Without further > ado, they are: > > Matthew Olney is the project development lead for ClamAV and lead architect > for the Razorback framework. Pulling from his experience as a network and > security engineer, he’s also a detection specialist for Snort and a frequent > contributor of signatures to the ClamAV engine itself. > > Ryan Pentney is the lead bytecode engine developer for ClamAV; a perfect > complement to his role as lead developer for file format detection for the > Razorback framework. He also is a contributor to both the Snort and ClamAV > engines. > > Tom Judge has a strong background in systems and security operations. He is a > FreeBSD committer, a lead developer for the Razorback framework and a > long-time user of ClamAV. On the ClamAV development team, he concentrates on > FireAMP integration, virtual machine interfacing and freshclam development. > > David Raynor is the core engine developer for ClamAV. He was a developer of a > major scalable security system for the United States Department of Homeland > Security before coming to Sourcefire. > > Nigel Houghton has been with Sourcefire as the lead of the Department of > Intelligence Excellence for almost 10 years. Nigel has vast knowledge of > programming, operating systems, administration, and security. His team is > responsible for the ClamAV supporting infrastructure as well as releasing > signature updates. > > As I mentioned, all of the above are members of the VRT, led by Matt > Watchinski, who has overseen the ClamAV project since Sourcefire acquired it > in 2007. We remain committed to continuing the open source nature of the > project, pushing the growth of the project even farther. > > As always, you can reach us on the ClamAV Mailing lists found here: > http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/ml/. We look forward to hearing your ideas and > feedback. Thanks for using ClamAV and we look forward to working with you. > >
Joel, Glad to have you and your team onboard. Looking forward to another great 10 years. Nigel (Nigel Houghton), can you ping me off list? Tom _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
