If the NetBSD Project were a large company, the NetBSD core group would be the technical management. No, it's not just dead weight. Rather, members of the core group set the direction and goals of the NetBSD Project as a whole, promote people's interest in the NetBSD Project and the system it produces, and consider the serious architectural questions that need to be addressed if the NetBSD Project is going to keep producing a viable system. The NetBSD Core Group is (in alphabetical order of family name): Alan Barrett apb@NetBSD.org Alistair Crooks agc@NetBSD.org Matthew Green mrg@NetBSD.org Chuck Silvers chs@NetBSD.org Matt Thomas matt@NetBSD.org YAMAMOTO Takashi yamt@NetBSD.org Christos Zoulas christos@NetBSD.org Previous NetBSD Core Group members: Allen Briggs briggs@NetBSD.org J.T. Conklin Chris G. Demetriou Theo de Raadt Quentin Garnier cube@NetBSD.org Adam Glass Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino Charles Hannum Antti Kantee Paul Kranenburg Frank van der Linden fvdl@NetBSD.org Luke Mewburn lukem@NetBSD.org Herb Peyerl Scott Reynolds Jason Thorpe Valeriy E. Ushakov