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Chris Tyler: Profile updated with headshot, IRCC info.
=== Short ===
Chris Tyler is a professor in the Industrial Research Chair Open Source Technology for Emerging Platforms at the Centre for Development of Open Technology (CDOT) at Seneca College , and an active participant in the Fedora Project. His current research is focused on building bringing the the Fedora Project's open source software to energy-efficient ARM computer systems.
=== Long ===
Chris Tyler is a professor the Industrial Research Chair Open Source Technology for Emerging Platforms (IRCC-OSTEP) in the Centre for Development of Open Technology (CDOT) at Seneca College. He is a long-term contributor to the Fedora Project and has served two terms on Fedora's board. He is the author of two books, ''X Power Tools'' and ''Fedora Linux: A Complete Guide to Red Hat's Community Distribution'' (O'Reilly), a founding member of CDOT, and has participated in (and occassionally chaired) the Seneca Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS) since its inception in 2002. In order to promote the teaching of open source concepts and principles, he founded TeachingOpenSource.org and was one of the original curriculum authors for the Professor's Open Source Summer Experience (POSSE).
Chris' current research focuses on bringing Fedora Linux to energy-efficient ARM computers. This work spans the computing spectrum from the Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix, a software environment for the revolutionary $35 Raspberry Pi computer, to software for hyperscale ARM systems which will power tomorrow's data centres while consuming a fraction of the space and power of existing technologies.
* Fedora ARM at Seneca - http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_ARM_Secondary_Architecture
* Fedora ARM at Fedora - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM
 
=== Headshots ===
* http://england.proximity.on.ca/chris/graphics/ctyler.jpg
== Evan Weaver ==