Karl Fogel

Karl Fogel

QuestionCopyright.org

Karl Fogel is an open source developer and author. After working on CVS and writing “Open Source Development With CVS” (Coriolis, 1999, cvsbook.com), he went to CollabNet, Inc as a founding developer in the Subversion project. Based on his experiences there, he wrote “Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project” (O’Reilly, 2005, producingoss.com). After a brief stint as an Open Source Specialist at Google, he left to become editor of QuestionCopyright.org. He writes and speaks regularly on copyright reform and on the application of open source principles to areas outside software.

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Beyond Numbers: Gatekeeper Effects and Just-in-Time Publishing
Business Models, General, Open Access Winter Garden
Karl Fogel (QuestionCopyright.org)
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