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+\markright{Appendix B: About the Speaker and his projects}
+
+\begin{document}
+
+\date{}
+
+\title{About hmw-consulting}
+
+\author{Harald Welte}
+
+% \maketitle
+
+\section{About Mr. Harald Welte}
+
+Harald Welte is an independent software developer and
+consultant\footnote{http://www.hmw-consulting.com/} in the fields of operating
+system development and network security, as well as high-performance data
+communications and embedded computing.  
+
+Starting with 1992, Mr. Welte has been participating in the BBS community,
+gathering operational experience with German and International message-based
+offline communications networks, such as the FIDO Network and Z-Netz.
+
+In 1994, at a time where only the academic community in Germany had access to
+the Internet, he's been pioneering the effort of bringing Internet connectivity
+to individuals as part of a non-for-profit effort\footnote{Kommunikationsnetz
+Franken e.V. (http://www.franken.de/)}. He gathererd first-hand experience of
+early ISP\footnote{Internet Service Provider} operations. Due to the almost
+non-existant commercial products for Internet Service Providers (ISPs), he was
+using readily-available Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).
+
+Starting in 1997, Mr. Welte became a full-time consultant for Linux/Unix
+Kernel and Network development.
+
+His technical involvement with the network stack of the Linux Operating System
+became stronger over time, and starting with 2001 he was appointed the chairman
+of the netfilter/iptables\footnote{http://www.netfilter.org/} project.
+
+Mr. Welte is a regular speaker at international Linux and network security
+related conferences, presenting at up to 17 such events per year.
+
+He is serving as a FOSS advisor to Astaro AG\footnote{http://www.astaro.com/},
+providing guidance for the companies' FOSS involvement and contacts.
+
+His client list includes small and medium sized businesses and Germany,
+international Linux distributors as well as large international vendors of
+networking equipment.
+
+Furthermore, Mr. Welte is a member of a number of non-for-profit organizations
+related to the Internet, Computer Security, Digital/Civil Rights, such as the
+CCC\footnote{Chaos Computer Club (http://www.ccc.de/)},
+FFII\footnote{Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
+(http://www.ffii.org/)}, KNF\footnote{Kommunikationsnetz Franken e.V.
+(http://www.franken.de/)}, ISOC.de\footnote{Internet Society German Chapter
+(http://www.isoc.de/)} and Humanistische Union\footnote{Humanistische Union (http://www.humanistische-union.de/)}.
+
+  Mr. Welte is currently living in Berlin, Germany.
+
+\newpage
+
+\section{About the netfilter/iptables project}
+
+netfilter/iptables is a Free Software project providing an enormously large
+toolbox for network security, so-called ``firewalling''.  Firewalls act as
+security gateway between an organization-internal network and a public network, such as the Internet.
+
+netfilter/iptables is probably\footnote{as the software can be copied by
+anyone, there is no way to determine the exact usage number} the mostly-used
+firewall software worldwide.
+
+Apart from being part of virtually any Linux Installation, there are hundreds
+of commercial vendors offering Firewall Software and/or Hardware Appliances
+based on netfilter/iptables, ranging from consumer-class equipment up to
+enterprise firewalls.
+
+Companies shipping netfilter/iptables based security gateways include Secunet,
+Novell, Astaro, Smoothwall, Balabit, Siemens, Fujitsu-Siemens, Deutsche
+Telekom, Netgear, Belkin, Cisco/Linksys, Asus.
+
+One netfilter/iptables based security product\footnote{SecuNet SINA
+(http://www.secunet.de/} has been awarded with classification level {\em NATO SECRET}).
+
+\section{About hmw-consulting}
+
+hmw-consulting is Mr. Welte's Berlin (Germany) based Information Technology
+Consulting Business, offering consulting, development and training in the areas
+of
+
+\begin{itemize}
+\item Networking (Internet, Intranet, Extranet)
+\item Network Security (Firewalls, Proxies, Intrusion Detection, VPN)
+\item Linux Kernel Development (Device Drivers, Networking Protcols)
+\item Embedded Linux (ARM, MIPS, x86, PowerPC)
+\item Industrial Linux Computing (Data Acquisition, Statistical Process Control)
+\end{itemize}
+
+
+
+\end{document}