VUAs Lead Devuan Development

In November 2014, a large group of anonymous senior IT professionals known as the Veteran UNIX Admins (hence the VUA in Devuan) began developing Devuan.

A core group of three lead developers guided the project until October 2017.

• Franco "Nextime" Lanza (VUA) :: GPG key 0xDFEDF580D6132D50
• Denis "Jaromil" Roio (VUA) :: GPG key 0x73B35DA54ACB7D10
• Daniel "Centurion" Reurich :: GPG key 0x27B9FAA4EBAA93A1

Devuan developers past and present

Developers can be reached via email at devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org or on irc at libera.chat #devuan-dev as well as using the general contact options.

• Adam "vortex" Burns :: Raspberry Pi wrangler, GPG key 0xE4C76DBFE283909C
• Alberto Zuin (VUA) :: gitlab infrastructure, public relations
• Andreas Messer :: Debugged elogind policykit compatibility, GPG key 0x90B3BAAA8C2BAF51
• bb|hcb :: Infrastructure elf and package forker, GPG key 0x1365720913D2F22D
• bgstack15 :: secretary and freeipa package maintainer
• chillfan :: Minimalist documentalist
• Daniel "Centurion" Reurich :: infrastructure ninja. GPG key 0x27B9FAA4EBAA93A1
• Denis "Jaromil" Roio (VUA) :: Fearless forker, swims upstream, GPG key 0x73B35DA54ACB7D10
• Dima Krasner :: early desktop strategies to avoid entanglement
• Enzo "KatolaZ" Nicosia :: the last humble servant, GPG key 0x5F20B3AE0B5F062F
• Evilham :: monit master, next gen graybeard, GPG key 0x55161BE60CE2CB87
• Franco "Nextime" Lanza (VUA) :: core infrastructure, amprolla development
• fsmithred :: desktop live and packaging, GPG key 0xA73823D3094C5620
• Godefridus Daalmans :: early fixes of build scripts
• golinux :: plays with colors, shapes and words, GPG key 0x2C5C3F9450185411
• Hellekin O’Wolf :: editor, webmaster and book sprinter
• Irrwahn :: Beta grinder, bug excavator, GPG key 0x699A24A6013006B0
• Ivan "Parazyd" J. :: Simple Distro Kit (SDK) and ARM builds, GPG key 0xB876CB44FA1B0274
• Joerg Reisenweber :: IRC ATCO Air Traffic Controller, GPG key 0x0A2418E74DBDBAAE
• Jude Nelson :: vdev Linux integration
• Lars Noodén :: imagemagick scripting for desktop theme
• LeePen :: init diversity advocate, *kit tamer, GPG key 0xd28a45bf3287d649
• Linux O’Beardly :: build and mirroring infrastructure, hosting
• Lydia_K :: package quality analysis and restructuring, GPG key 0x4F6987B2A9F7480B
• Mason Loring Bliss :: Old Unix geek. Lives in terminals, GPG key 0x9EB2577076EF2555
• Michael "msi" Siegel :: Dedicated docster
• Olaf "paddy-hack" Meeuwissen :: container images, GPG key 0xB8A4A88AF84A2DD9
• onefang :: Mirror herder, last gen greybeard, GPG key 0x338682B4AD700F62
• Patrick "blinkdog" Meade :: wiki editor, bot trainer, GPG key 0xA70664D072D80173
• Plasma41 :: Repository trawler, knows stuff exists
• Ralph "rrq" Rönnquist :: seasoned old school wizard, GPG key 0x680B5A1F661ECDBC
• Svante "gnu_srs" Signell :: package contributor, GPG key 0xCC41D81CD6F1365F
• Thomas "DelTomix" Dely :: Installer image builder maintenance, GPG key 0xC06C125633FF7B66
• Xenguy :: Edits web pages

Board of trustees

The Board of Trustees reflects the quality of the Devuan project. Should unresolvable issues arise, the Board may step in to mediate.

• Yvette Agostini (VUA) :: founder of the Veteran Unix Admins group
• Roger Leigh (Debian) :: maintainer of sysvinit package in Debian
• Gabriele "Asbesto" Zaverio (MusIF) :: director, “Museo dell’Informatica Funzionante” computer museum
• Emiliano Russo (MIAI) :: director, "Museo Interattivo di Archeologia Informatica" computer museum
• Stefania Calcagno (ESOCOP) :: president, European Society for Computer Preservation

Donors and enthusiasts

We would like to thank everyone who has cheered us on and donated money to facilitate the birth and growth of Devuan. We don’t know yet which donors would like to be public, so please contact us if you would like to be listed here: Paul Beardsell (donor)

And remember that you can be part of this list by contributing hardware, money or time donations.

From the first DNG community campfire we would like to thank all participants for their observations, criticism and peace keeping, in particular the most prolific: Steve Litt, Edward Bartolo, Rainer Weikusat, Hendrik Boom, aitor_czr, Didier Kryn, KatolaZ, T.J. Duchene, Isaac Dunham, Anto, Go Linux, Mitt Green, tilt!, Jamse Powell, Adam Borowski, Simon Hobson, dev1fanboy, fsmithred, Martijn Dekkers, Gravis, Nate Bargmann, Noel Torres, Laurent Bercot, karl, Nuno Magalhães, Svante Signell, Joel Roth, Florian Zieboll, shraptor, Miles Fidelman, Emiliano Marini, Clarke Sideroad, Gregory Nowak, Reanud Olgiati, Arnt Karlsen, Robert Storey, Enrico Weigelt, Boruch Baum, Joerg Reisenweber, Dave Turner, Arnt Gulbrandsen, Ста Деюс, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp, Richard, Jonathan Wilkes, David Hare, Dragan, Peter Olson, David Harrison, Irrwahn, Jack L. Frost, Ozi Traveller, Riccardo Boninsegna, Neo Futur, Haines Brown, Simon Wise, Matteo Panella, Marlon Nunes, Jaret Cantu, John Hughes, Aldemir Akpinar, Rob Owens, Martinx and Vlad.