James E. J. Bottomley
James E.J. Bottomley is one of 35 sub-system maintainers for the Linux Kernel, and was the 2007 (ninth) keynote speaker of the Ottawa Linux Symposium. Dr. Bottomley was born in 1966 in Yorkshire, England, and was educated at St. Johns College Cambridge. At the University of Cambridge he received his B.A. with honours (1988), Part III Maths (1989), M.A. (1992), and Ph.D. (1994). His thesis was Langevin Methods and CP(N-1).
His first patch in the Linux code was in 1991. He maintains Voyager, which, he described in his keynote address as 'an example of the necessary diversity of Linux, even if it had only three users.'
He is a member of the Board of Directors of Open Source Development Lab (2006-7), now the Linux Foundation. He is also on the board of Le Ciel, a NGO headed by Dr. Christine Hansen.