Dan Parker has been an advocate of Free and Open Source software solutions for over 25 years. He has worked in higher education since 2001, starting at Hampshire College. In 2009 he made the leap to UMass Amherst and discovered the wonderful world of High-Performance Computing. When he is not digging into the arcane details of a storage system, he enjoys reading, writing, drawing and the hi-res graphics of the great outdoors.