Pieter Van den Abeele
Honor Roll
Description
Founder of the PowerPC version of Gentoo Linux, Van den Abeele spearheaded the Gentoo architectures and platforms effort together with Daniel Robbins. He received a scholarship from Apple Computer for founding Gentoo for Mac OS X.
In 2004, Pieter was invited to the OpenSolaris pilot program and assisted Sun Microsystems with building a development ecosystem around the Solaris operating system. He was nominated for the OpenSolaris Community Advisory Board and managed a team of developers to make Gentoo available on the Solaris operating system.
Van den Abeele is a co-author of the Gentoo Social Contract and the Gentoo Handbook.