Tridge is a warm, entertaining, and funny speaker, and a brilliant open source software architect. Hell, in the Linux world the man is a geek.god. Tridge is employed by Linuxcare at OzLabs in Canberra, Australia and is a founder of CLUG.

Tridge's software projects include Samba (a SMB file/printer server for Unix), rsync, a fast file transfer program, JitterBug, a web based bug tracking system KnightCap, a learning chess program with a 3D interface, AP/Linux, a port of Linux to the AP1000+ multicomputer, and various TiVo hacks.

project info from Linuxcare