Software developer
Alyssa Rosenzweig is a software developer [ 2] and software freedom activist [ 3] known for her work on free software graphics drivers .[ 4] [ 5]
Education
Per Rosenzweig's description of her childhood, she grew up in California and came out as a transgender woman at age 10.[ 6] She was raised Jewish [ 6] and is now a Quaker .[ 1]
Rosenzweig attended Dougherty Valley High School , with enrichment classes at Harvard Summer School and the Center for Talented Youth .[ 7]
As of 2021, she studies mathematics at Innis College at the University of Toronto as a Lester B. Pearson International Scholar.[ 8] [ 9] [ 7]
Career
As a software engineer at Collabora , she led the Panfrost project,[ 10] developing free software OpenGL drivers for the Mali GPU to support accelerated graphics in upstream Mesa ,[ 11] shipping out-of-the-box on devices like the Pinebook Pro .[ 12] She left Collabora on 10 April 2023.[ 13] Since May of 2023, she has worked with Valve Corporation as a contractor.[ 14]
In September 2020, she wrote a Linux client for the COVID-19 contact tracing used in Canada .[ 4]
As an Asahi Linux developer, she works on reverse-engineering the Apple GPU for the purpose of porting Linux to the Apple M1 processor[ 15] [ 16] [ 17] to enable the development of a free software Gallium3D -based OpenGL driver[ 18] targeting the "AGX" architecture found in the M1 GPU.[ 19] In July 2021, Rosenzweig demonstrated Debian running bare metal on the Apple M1 with a mainline kernel.[ 20]
Awards
She is the recipient of the 2020 Award for Outstanding New Free Software Contributor [ 21] [ 22] and a Google Open Source Peer Bonus.[ 23]
References
^ a b c Rosenzweig, Alyssa (2019-12-09). "America's Rough Draft" .
^ Vaughan-Nichols, Steven J. (21 Jan 2021). "Corellium ports Linux to Apple M1 Mac mini" . ZDnet . Archived from the original on 22 January 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021 .
^ Morgenstein, Dana (6 Mar 2020). "Celebrating women in free software for International Women's Day" . Free Software Foundation . Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021 .
^ a b Grüner, Sebastian (9 Sep 2020). "Bluetooth-Kontaktverfolgung geht auch auf Laptops" . Golem.de . Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021 .
^ Rosenzweig, Alyssa. "Her personal website" . Archived from the original on 2021-08-29.
^ a b Rosenzweig, Alyssa (2023-05-21). "Growing up Alyssa" .
^ a b Rosenzweig, Alyssa. "Resume" (PDF) . Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-09-25.
^ "Meet the 2019 Pearson Scholars" . University of Toronto. 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021 .
^ Ngan, Jadine (2020). "Alyssa Rosenzweig" . Innis Alumni Family and Friends . Toronto: Innis College. p. 30. Archived from the original on 2021-06-06. Retrieved 2021-05-31 .
^ Agrawal, Gaurav (3 Oct 2019). "Meet Alyssa Rosenzweig and Panfrost" . Getting to Know GNOME . GNOME . Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 6 Jun 2021 .
^ Grüner, Sebastian (17 Sep 2020). "ARM unterstützt Entwicklung von freiem Panfrost-Treiber" . Golem.de . Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021 .
^ Evangelho, Jason (15 Mar 2020). "The $199 Pinebook Pro Gets Even Better With New Manjaro KDE Version" . Forbes . Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021 .
^ Rosenzweig, Alyssa. "Passing the reins on Panfrost" . Retrieved 10 April 2023 .
^ Dawe, Liam (2023-06-27). "Valve pulls in another graphics driver developer for Linux gaming" . GamingOnLinux . Retrieved 2023-06-28 .
^ Tung, Liam (8 Jan 2021). "Linux on Apple's Arm silicon Macs? This crowdfunded project wants to give it a try" . ZDnet . Archived from the original on 20 January 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021 .
^ Proschofsky, Andreas (10 Jan 2021). "Asahi Linux soll das freie Betriebssystem auf Macs mit "Apple Silicon" bringen" . Der Standard . STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.H. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 2 June 2021 .
^ Grüner, Sebastian (20 Apr 2021). "Apples M1-GPU komplett auf Metal ausgerichtet" . Golem.de . Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021 .
^ "Linux on Apple's M1 makes headway". Linux Format . No. LXF277. Jul 2021. p. 8.
^ Grüner, Sebastian (3 May 2021). "Freier OpenGL-Treiber für Apples M1-GPU vorgestellt" . Golem.de . Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021 .
^ July 2021, Francisco Pires 26 (26 July 2021). "Debian Linux Running Bare Metal on Apple's M1 SoC" . Tom's Hardware . Archived from the original on 2021-08-02. Retrieved 2021-07-27 . {{cite web }}
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^ Corbet, Jonathan (21 Mar 2021). "2021 Free Software Awards announced" . LWN.net . Eklektix, Inc. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021 .
^ "Free Software Awards winners announced: CiviCRM, Bradley Kuhn, and Alyssa Rosenzweig" . Free Software Foundation . 20 Mar 2021. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021 .
^ "Announcing the 2020 first quarter Google Open Source Peer Bonus winners" . Google Open Source Blog . Google. 17 Apr 2020. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021 .