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- <title>smartmontools About Page (last updated $Date: 2008/04/30 21:01:51 $)</title>
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     <h1><a id="logo" href="http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/"><img src="smart_logo.gif" width="105" height="59" border="0" hspace="20" align="middle" name="smartmontools_Logo" alt="S.M.A.R.T. Logo" /></a>
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 current version <tt>5.3.8</tt>. Conributions are welcome!
 Mail to <a href="mailto:smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net">smartmontools-support</a> 
 list, if you have questions or want to add information.</p>
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+
+<ul class="High">
+    <li><strong>Erwan Velu (Packager and Maintainer)</strong></li>
+</ul>
+<div class="right-header"><img src="pics/erwan.jpg" width="120" height="180" vspace="10" align="top" alt="Erwan Velu" /></div>
+<div><p>My interest in SMART arose at my previous job at Mandriva. I was
+building up a Linux distribution to turn a set of computers into a super computer (HPC).
+While looking at how we can manage such a cluster, I was faced with some failing disks. 
+Doing a short research on that problem, I found this project.</p>
+
+<p>As I am also packaging applications in RPM for Mandriva Linux, I decided
+to include smartmontools in it. My role is to keep smartmontools
+up-to-date in the Linux distribution and reporting bugs to the
+developers. To be honest, this happens once in a blue moon.</p>
+
+<p>Since I am implicated in the smartmontools project, friends often ask me for
+help in understanding how theirs disks feels ;o). So I also wrote an 
+<a href="http://www.lea-linux.org/documentations/index.php/Hardware-hard_plus-smart">
+<img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />article 
+about smartmontools</a> in French language.</p>
+<br /></div>
 
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     <li><strong>Other portraits</strong></li>
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 <font size="-1">Maintained by: <a href="mailto:smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net">Gabriele Pohl</a><br />
-Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen, published under <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html#SEC1">GNU GPL</a><br />
-Last update: $Date: 2008/04/30 21:01:51 $</font><br />
+Copyright (C) 2002-9 Bruce Allen, published under <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html#SEC1">GNU GPL</a><br />
+Last update: $Date: 2009/01/23 15:57:30 $</font><br />
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