We Have A New Sponsor

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I'm excited to announce that Wireshark has a new home. I recently accepted a job with Sysdig, and along with that, they are 
now Wireshark's primary sponsor.

I'm excited for a couple of reasons. First, I get to work with Sysdig's founder, Loris Degioanni. We've been friends for a long 
time, and it's difficult to summarize the impact he's had on Wireshark. We first met in the early days of the project, back when it 
was still called Ethereal. At the time he was busy developing the WinPcap packet capture library, which was a natural fit for Ethereal and let 
us include Windows users in our community. This was a pivotal milestone for the project and it helped us grow into what it is today.

This isn't the first time he's asked me to join a company he founded. In 2006, my family and I moved halfway across the 
U.S. where I joined him at CACE Technologies and he welcomed us to our new town. We renamed the project to Wireshark and 
proceeded to build a line of products that complemented it. This was another pivotal time for Wireshark. We started hosting 
SharkFest, our developer and user conference. It allows the community to meet and share ideas in person, and it’s hard to 
overstate its importance to the project. I was (finally!) able to work on Wireshark full time, and with the help of our wonderful 
community, it grew to be the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer.

I'm also excited because Wireshark has a great sponsor in Sysdig. I was delighted to find that he's built a wonderful company culture 
here. Everyone I've met is bright and creative, and open source is a huge part of the company and its culture. They sponsor the Sysdig 
system visibility tool (which Loris created) and the Falco runtime security tool. As part of Sysdig I'll be applying what I've learned 
about low-level visibility to cloud environments.

Sysdig's sponsorship will ensure that Wireshark and its community continues to grow. Wireshark has a wonderful community of 
users, developers, and educators and the work they do is important. Sysdig is cognizant of that and committed to supporting that 
community. They will continue to host SharkFest and support the community that builds and delivers the world's best protocol 
analyzer.

Finally, I'd like to thank Riverbed for being such a great sponsor for so many years prior to this. Wireshark has been 
fortunate over its lifetime to have sponsors dedicated to supporting its community, and Riverbed deserves recognition for 
being a huge part of that.
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