Cameron L. Spitzer

Cameron L. Spitzer worked as an electrical engineer and logic designer for two decades, designing, verifying, and troubleshooting large CPU boards, graphics cards, and network cards, and IC logic modules. He's worked for five Silicon Valley start-ups, published a construction article in BYTE, originated the Linux Loader tutorial "LILO Mini-HOWTO" and contributed a patch to the Linux kernel. He also did software quality assurance work for a manufacturer of Internet security appliances.

Cameron has been administering Web and email servers for Greens and related organizations for a decade and maintained the largest Ralph Nader for President Web site in 1996. He's a member of the Green Party of California Information Technology Committee and maintains GP of Cal's spam source block list. He's operated a donation-based hosting service for Green groups since 1998 and currently runs a home-based computer repair service, participates in the Open Voting Consortium, and distributes free and open source software.

Cameron has a house in Silicon Valley and two cats.

Cameron authors the following blogs:

* NotWindoze
* GreenCommons
* Spam-vs-Freedom

Recent publications of note:

* Is the Linux operating system for me? A migration path for everyone