Sponsors
  • Intel
  • Microsoft
  • Google
  • Sun Microsystems
  • BT
  • IBM
  • Yahoo! Inc.
  • Zimbra
  • Atlassian Software Systems
  • Disney
  • EnterpriseDB
  • Etelos
  • Ingres
  • JasperSoft
  • Kablink
  • Linagora
  • MindTouch
  • Mozilla Corporation
  • Novell, Inc.
  • Open Invention Network
  • OpSource
  • RightScale
  • Silicon Mechanics
  • Tenth Planet
  • Ticketmaster
  • Voiceroute
  • White Oak Technologies, Inc.
  • XAware
  • ZDNet

Sponsorship Opportunities

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Stormy Peters

Stormy Peters

GNOME Foundation

Stormy Peters joins OpenLogic from Hewlett-Packard (HP) where she founded and managed the Open Source Program Office. As an early adopter of open source, Stormy was responsible for HP’s open source strategy, policy and business practices. She was also a founding member of HP’s Linux Division.

Stormy is a frequent keynote speaker on business aspects of open source software at major conferences such as the Open Source Business Conference and the O’Reilly conferences. She has addressed the United Nations, European Union and various U.S. state governments on open source software.

Stormy joined HP ten years ago as a software engineer in the Unix Development Lab after graduating from Rice University with a B.A. in Computer Science.

Stormy is involved in open source software because it is changing the world and the community is full of smart, passionate people!

Sessions

2:35pm Thursday, 07/24/2008
Art of Community Lightning Talks
Emerging Topics
 Location: Portland 252
Dawn Foster (Fast Wonder Consulting), Danese Cooper (Open Source Initiative and REvolution Computing), Allison Randal (O'Reilly Media, Inc.), Audrey Eschright (Elevated Rails), Sulamita Garcia (Intel), Nnenna Nwakanma (OSI, nnenna.org), Stormy Peters (GNOME Foundation), Silona Bonewald (League Of Technical Voters), Erinn Clark (.), Zaheda Bhorat (self) Moderated by: Dawn Foster
Given the open source movement, the popularity of social networks, and new tools for collaboration, more people are looking for ways to build community. The Art of Community came about because we wanted to write a book about community using a wiki so that a community could grow around the book. A different author leads each chapter, and you will hear from many of them during these lightning talks. Read more.
4:30pm Thursday, 07/24/2008
OSS Census: Make Open Source Count!
Business
 Location: D137
Stormy Peters (GNOME Foundation) Moderated by: Stormy Peters
The Open Source Census is a global, collaborative project to collect and share quantitative data on the use of open source software in the enterprise. In short that means we want to count how many enterprise installations there are in the world for each open source software package in order to encourage its use. Read more.
OSCON 2008