On 06/22/2012 11:56 AM, 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 Esler
Open Source Community Manager
Senior Research Engineer, VRT
Sourcefire
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Joel,
I was just thinking and came up with a general support question. Up to
now, most technical issues were addressed by Edwin and Tomaz or the
community at large. Who is going to be the main support personnel from
now on?
--
Jim Preston
jimli...@commspeed.net
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