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Welcome to LaForge's Homepage

Unfortunately I never really get around building a real homepage. There's always more important and more interesting stuff to do (about which you can read in my blog) :)

I'm an active member of the Free Software community. I'm contributing to a number of Free Software projects ever since getting in touch with Free Software in 1995. The biggest project so far is netfilter/iptables, that is the firewalling subsystem of the Linux 2.4/2.6 kernel.

In recent years I have not had time to work on netfilter/iptables anymore, but am constantly moving from one professional field to another. I have extensively worked with various RFID technologies (software stack, device firmware), written smartcard redaer drivers, ventured into statistical process control, helped to design and implement an electronic document archieval and retrieval system, and became the lead system level software architect of the worlds' first 100% Open Free Software based mobile phone.

In mid-2008 I've started to do contract-based work for VIA, a major semiconductor vendor. I continue to do consulting and development for various different entities. The biggest time sink as of now is OpenBSC (see below).

If you are looking for papers/slides of presentations LaForge has given at various conferences, follow this link.

If you want to know more about what I'm doing, you may want to have a look at

• My new weblog
sort-of an online journal of what I am doing
• Homepage of the netfilter project
where I am serve as chairman of the core team
• hmw-consulting.de homepage
My linux/networking consulting business
• Harald Welte at Wikipedia
A wikipedia page that people have started about me
• The Berlin Chaos Computer Club
The Berlin Chaos Computer Club e.V. where I'm serving as a board member
• The OpenBSC project
An effort to implement the minimal subset of a GSM network as Free and Open Source Software
• The deDECTed project
An effort into security research of the DECT cordless telephony system
• The gnufiish project
An effort to port Linux, freesmartphone.org and OpenMoko to the E-TEN glofiish phones
• The gpl-violations.org project
An effort to document past and present violations of the GNU General Public License
• The OpenEZX.org project
Trying to build a 100% Free Software Linux distribution for the Motorola smartphones A780, E680, A1200, ...
• The OpenMRTD.org project
Developing Free Software for RFID-enabled biometric ePassports
• The OpenPCD.org project
Free Hardware design and Software for RFID readers
• The OpenBeacon.org project
Free Hardware design and Software for 2.4GHz active RFID system
• The OpenTom project
Various hacks for the TomTom GO GPS navigation system
• OpenMoko
A project for a completely Free and Open GSM Smartphone running GNU/Linux
• GPL Devices Wiki
• A wiki for documenting the hardware and software of devices that run GPL licensed software (mostly embedded Linux).
• My very old homepage
containing lots of old stuff including my personal photo album
• My advogato page
containing some references to other projects I've worked on and an old diary
• Chaosradio
The CCC's monthly radio show in Berlin, where I used to regularly participate
• VIA Linux portal
Where VIA publishes code and documents for the FOSS community
• My projects (broken links in that page, I know. Don't have time for that kind of stuff, need to get real work done)

From 2002 through 2006 I was being sponsored for my work on netfilter by Astaro AG.

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