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This list does not necessarily reflect who is currently working on the project, but it lists some people who have contributed to the project in meaningful ways.

If we forgot to mention you here, let us know and we'll add you. (or if you don't want to be mentioned, let us know and we'll remove your entry)

Information about who works on osboot, and how the project is run, can be found on this page: who.md

You can know the history of the osboot project, simply by reading this page. It goes into detail about all of the major contributions to the project, and in general how the project was created (and who helped create it).

Leah Rowe

Founder of the osbootboot project, and currently the lead developer. Leah works on all aspects of osboot, such as:

• General management. Leah handles all outside contributions to Libreboot, reviews pull requests, deals with bug reports, delegates tasks when necessary or desirable. Leah controls the libreboot.org server infrastructure, hosted in her lab (of course it runs Libreboot!)
• Leah has the final say on all decisions, taking input via discussion with members of the public, mostly on IRC. Leah oversees releases of Libreboot, and generally keeps the project going. Without Leah, there would be no Libreboot!
• The build system (osbmk, short for osboot Make). This is the automated build system that sits at the heart of Libreboot; it downloads, patches, configures and compiles the relevant components like coreboot, GNU GRUB and generates the Libreboot ROM images that you can find in release archives.
• Upstream work on coreboot, when necessary (and other projects that Libreboot uses). This means also working with people from outside of the Libreboot project, to get patches merged (among other things) on the upstream projects that Libreboot uses
• Providing user support on IRC

Leah is also responsible for osboot.org which is heavily based on Libreboot, but with different project goals.

Coreboot project

Without coreboot, the osboot project simply would not be possible.

The people and companies that work on coreboot are numerous, and they make the osboot project what it is. The osboot project makes heavy use of coreboot, to provide hardware initialization.

GNU GRUB

GRUB is the bootloader used by osboot. It goes without saying that the GRUB developers enable osboot, through their work.

SeaBIOS

The osboot firmware provides SeaBIOS as a payload option. SeaBIOS provides a legacy x86 BIOS implementation.

Libreboot contributors

Since osboot is a fork of Libreboot, it goes without saying that many of the contributions to Libreboot have also helped shape the osboot project.

There is a separate list of contributors is maintained by the Libreboot project.

Please read: https://libreboot.org/contrib.html