Jason Spisak

USALUG: What is your name? How are you a part of the Open Source Community?(recently and past) Jason Spisak: Jason Spisak. I have contributed to many open source projects, in small ways for the last 5 years. For example, the graphic on the left hand side of KDE3's krfb server 'Desktop Sharing' application was created by me because the maintainer needed something there. I also was very active in the Zope community and helped them test their early versions of the Zope server as well as give back some tutorials and answered mailinglist questions, like so many open source advocates. Zope is going to COMDEX, by the way! Very happy about that. I also wrote up a short article for LTSP on how to build a fanless PC a while back. In short, the past has lead me to my most recent addiction, um, job. Working for Lycoris, bringing Linux into the mainstream on the desktop.

USALUG: Do you still consider Lycoris an Open Source operating system? Jason Spisak: Yes. The source is open. Period. The icons are not GPL, nor are other graphics and branding. That is how we distinguish our product in the marketplace. But the source, especially the changes we've made to GPL programs, is all available and open. We've submitted over 2500 patches back to the KDE project.