Hall of Fellows

Meet our Fellows

The Linux Professional Institute Hall of Fellows recognizes people for their long-term and significant contributions to the FOSS community and the Linux Professional Institute. The Hall of Fellows is a permanent record of their accomplishments for the benefit of future generations of FOSS users.

Evan Leibovitch in the LPI Hall of Fellows

Evan Leibovitch

Co-founder of LPI and co-architect of its three-tier certification model. Original advocate for global, accessible certification. His contributions span technical, organizational, and advocacy work.

Awarded for his significant contributions to the FOSS community and the Linux Professional Institute.

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Evan Leibovitch in the LPI Hall of Fellows

Evan Leibovitch

Co-founer of LPI and co-architect of its three-tier certification model. Original advocate for global, accessible certification. His contributions span technical, organizational, and advocacy work.

Awarded for his significant contributions to the FOSS community and the Linux Professional Institute.

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Dan York in the LPI Hall of Fellows

Dan York

Co-founder and first President of LPI

Awarded for his decisive role in launching a vendor-neutral certification framework. His early support, outreach, and initial fundraising were crucial for LPI's first exam development efforts.

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Dan York in the LPI Hall of Fellows

Dan York

Co-founder and first President of LPI

Awarded for his decisive role in launching a vendor-neutral certification framework. His early support, outreach, and initial fundraising were crucial for LPI's first exam development efforts.

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Jon

Jon "maddog" Hall

Board Chair of the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) from 2015 to 2024. Charter (founding) Individual Sponsor of LPI during its founding in 1999.

Awarded for his significant contributions to the FOSS community and the Linux Professional Institute

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Jon

Jon "maddog" Hall

Board Chair of the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) from 2015 to 2024. Charter (founding) Individual Sponsor of LPI during its founding in 1999.

Awarded for his significant contributions to the FOSS community and the Linux Professional Institute

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Evan Leibovitch in the LPI Hall of Fellows

Dan York

Co-founder and first President of LPI

Awarded for his decisive role in launching a vendor-neutral certification framework. His early support, outreach, and initial fundraising were crucial for LPI’s first exam development efforts.

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About Dan York

Dan was one of the original founders of the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) in 1998 and served as the organization’s first President. He also served on the board of the earlier Linux International from 2001-2005. He also assisted with the founding of the VoIP Security Alliance (VOIPSA) in 2005 and served on its board for many years. In the late 1990s and 2000s, Dan was very active with Linux user groups and the overall open source movement.

Since 2011, Dan has worked for the Internet Society, a global nonprofit working to connect the unconnected and protect those who are connected. He serves as the Chief of Staff in the Office of the CEO, serving as the strategic advisor to the President and CEO. His previous roles have involved documenting Internet shutdowns, analyzing Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites, promoting the use of open standards and building stronger and more sustainable technical communities.

Dan has been working with online communication technologies since the 1980s and is the author of multiple books on Linux, networking, security and IPv6. Dan frequently presents at conferences, participates in several podcasts, livestreams to Twitch, frequently edits Wikipedia, and writes extensively online. He speaks English, German, and a bit of French, and enjoys running, hiking, kayaking, and curling. More info can be found at https://danyork.me

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Jon “maddog” Hall

Board Chair of the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) from 2015 to 2024. Charter (founding) Individual Sponsor of LPI during its founding in 1999.

Awarded for his significant contributions to the FOSS community and the Linux Professional Institute.

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About Jon “maddog” Hall

Jon “maddog” Hall is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of the Linux Professional Institute (LPI). Since 1969, having received his BS in Commerce and Engineering from Drexel University, and his MSCS from RPI in Troy, New York, Mr. Hall has been a programmer, systems designer, systems administrator, product manager, technical marketing manager, author and educator, and an independent consultant.

In addition to being a charter (founding) sponsor of LPI, Mr. Hall helped formulate the concepts and vision of what has become the Linux Professional Institute.  Mr. Hall personally donated funds to help create psychometrically sound certifications and deliver the first 200 exams during the intial roll out.

Jon “maddog” Hall has concentrated on Unix systems since 1980 and Linux systems since 1994, when he first met Linus Torvalds and correctly recognized the commercial importance of Linux and Free and open source Software.

Since 1995 Mr. Hall has been the President of Linux International(TM). He has traveled extensively speaking to large groups, consulting with governments, NGOs, and industry leaders around the globe, as well as being a prolific author on the benefits of free and open source software.

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Evan Leibovitch in the LPI Hall of Fellows

Evan Leibovitch

Co-founder of LPI and co-architect of its three-tier certification model. Original advocate for global, accessible certification. His contributions span technical, organizational, and advocacy work.

Awarded for his significant contributions to the FOSS community and the Linux Professional Institute.

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About Evan Leibovitch

Evan Leibovitch was LPI Director of Community Relations and one of the organizations’ co-founders. A longtime advocate of open computing and open source, he was ZDNet’s first Linux-specific columnist and has participated in numerous conferences, nonprofits, policy initiatives and white papers.

Before re-joining LPI in 2017 he worked for the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) working to bring Internet access and work opportunities to refugee centres in Egypt, Uganda and Kenya.

He was co-founder and first president of the Canada Chapter of the Internet Society, and first Chair of the the North American At-Large advisory body of ICANN. He is based in Toronto, Canada.

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