October 2005
Intermediate to advanced
488 pages
17h 4m
English
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Danese Cooperhas a 15-year history in the software industry, and has long been an advocate for transparent development methodologies. Danese worked for six years at Sun Microsystems, Inc. on the inception and growth of the various open source projects sponsored by Sun (including OpenOffice.org, java.net, and blogs.sun.com). She was Sun’s chief open source evangelist and founded Sun’s Open Source Programs Office. She has unique experience implementing open source projects from within a large proprietary company. She joined the Open Source Initiative (OSI) board in December 2001 and currently serves as secretary and treasurer. As of March 2005, Danese is with Intel to advise on open source projects, investment, and support. She speaks internationally on open source and licensing issues.
Chris DiBonais the open source programs manager for Mountain View, California-based Google, Inc. Before joining Google, Chris was an editor/author for the popular online web site, Slashdot. He is an internationally known advocate of open source software and related methodologies. Along with Mark Stone and Sam Ockman, he edited the original Open Sources. He writes for many publications and speaks internationally on software development and digital rights issues. His home page and blog can be found at http://dibona.com.
Mark Stonehas made a career of studying collaborative communities. As a university professor with a Ph.D. in philosophy of science, he has studied and published on ...
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