James Turnbull

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James Turnbull is an Australian free software and open source author, security specialist, and software developer. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.

[edit] Career

Turnbull has been involved in the open source community since the mid-1990s. He has published three books on Linux security and open source software:

• Hardening Linux (Apress 2004)
• Pro Nagios 2.0 (Apress 2006)
• Pulling Strings with Puppet (Apress 2008)

Turnbull was the Treasurer, member of the papers committee, and coordinated the mini-conference program at linux.conf.au 2008.

He is also a member of Linux Australia, including sitting on the Exective Council in 2008, and the Linux Users of Victoria.

[edit] Free Software involvement

Turnbull is a contributor to the qpsmtpd SMTP daemon, the Puppet configuration management tool, and the Facter system inventory tool.

[edit] External links

• Apress
• qpsmtpd - Develooper LLC
• Puppet
• Facter