Gdk/Experience

"What would ya say ya do here?"

Red Hat duties

• Current: New Hire Orientation -- I've explained "the open source way" to over 1500 new Red Hat employees since 2004
• Current: Editor of opensource.com/education
• Current: Owner of Red Hat's strategy in higher education
  • Primary Author/Editor of Practical Open Source Software Engineering, a textbook-in-progress for CS professors
  • Creator of the Professor's Open Source Summer Experience, a weeklong intensive bootcamp that immerses professors in open source projects
  • Co-creator of teachingopensource.org, an organization dedicated to helping professors teach open source in their classrooms
• Community Liaison to the One Laptop Per Child Project, 2008-2009. Examples of work:
  • http://lwn.net/Articles/305687/
  • https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-olpc-list/
• Contributing editor for "Red Hat Magazine", 2004 - 2007. A personal favorite:
  • http://www.redhat.com/magazine/007may05/features/patents/
• Voice of "Ask Shadowman", Red Hat Magazine, 2004 - 2007. (People still send email missing their Shadowman column.) Some personal favorites:
  • http://magazine.redhat.com/2007/01/11/ask-shadowman-web-20/
  • http://www.redhat.com/magazine/003jan05/departments/ask_shadowman/
  • http://www.redhat.com/magazine/025nov06/features/ask_shadowman/?intcmp=bcm_edmsept_007
• Executive director of the Red Hat High program, 2006 - 2007
• Fedora Project Leader, 2005-2006
• Engineering Manager, Red Hat Network, 2001-2004

Fedora Governance

I was responsible for building the Fedora governance model as it currently exists; the goal has always been to build a structure that empowers non-RH employees to work as effectively in the Fedora community as Red Hat employees do. Results are mixed, but generally positive.  :)

Principles I've come to live by:

1. If it can't be run effectively by a non-Redhatter, then it shouldn't bear the Fedora name.
2. It's okay for the community to be disappointed -- but it's never okay for the community to be surprised.

Stuff I've done:

• Organized the first six FUDCons [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon (Fedora User and Developer Conferences)
  • Boston 2005
  • [Khttp://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDCon2 Karlsruhe 2005]
  • London 2005
  • Delhi 2006
  • Boston 2006
  • Boston 2007 (first BarCamp-style FUDCON)
• Current leader of the Fedora Cloud Special Interest Group
• Founded the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee, February 2005 (originally the Fedora Extras Steering Committee)
• Established the Fedora Documentation Team and appointed Karsten Wade at its head, April 2005
• Established the [Fedora Marketing Team https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-May/msg00008.html] and appointed Colin Charles as its head, May 2005
• Established the Fedora Ambassadors Team and appointed Alex Maier as its head, December 2005
• Built the Fedora Events Schedule, December 2005

Other Governance Experience

• Current: Board Member, ISKME (Institue for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education)
• Current: Council member, IntraHealth Open
• Founding member of Sugar Labs oversight board, 2009

Keynotes / Presentations / Interviews

• An interview of me by the folks at LinuxQuestions.org from May 2009
• An interview of me by Armen Zambrano at SIGCSE 2009 (flash video, sorry about that)
• An interview of me at a government open source conference in DC, 2009

Doing my best to track all of these down. It'll take a while.  :)