Chris DiBona
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Chris DiBona (born October 1971) is the open source and public sector program manager at Google. His team oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through programs such as the Google Summer of Code and through the release of open source software projects and patches on Google Code. In the public sector space, he looks after Google Moderator, the polling locations API.
Before joining Google, he was an editor at Slashdot and co-founded Damage Studios. He also co-edited Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution and Open Sources 2.0.[1].
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[edit] FLOSS Weekly
He formerly co-hosted FLOSS Weekly (a podcast that was spun off from the popular This Week in Tech) with Leo Laporte. The show premiered on April 7, 2006, and features prominent guests from the free software/open source community. He also appears on This Week in Tech and Cranky Geeks from time to time and was in the documentary Revolution OS. On July 29th 2007, Laporte announced that due to commitment issues, Chris was stepping down as host of Floss weekly. Several other hosts took his place, including Randal Schwartz, Jon "Maddog" Hall and Jeremy Allison. Laporte also noted that he hopes to post the show on a regular basis.
[edit] Science Foo Camp
Chris runs Science Foo Camp annually with Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media and Timo Hannay of Nature on the Google campus in Mountain View, California.
[edit] TechTV
Chris DiBona was a Linux commentator on TechTV's The Screen Savers, during 2004 and parts of 2005. His stories concentrated on fun applications and consumer use of Linux.[2]
[edit] Other Activities
Chris is on the board of Our Good Works, a non-profit that looks after the volunteer matching website Allforgood.org. He's also a visiting scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management and serves on the advisory board of imeem, a San Francisco, Ca. based social networking firm.
[edit] References
- ^ Chris DiBona biography on the O'Reilly Network.
- ^ SCALE: Southern California Linux Expo 2006 - Chris DiBona
[edit] External links
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- Chris DiBona's Weblog
- His IMDB Entry
- All for Good helps you find and share ways to do good
- Revolution OS (IMDb)
- Interviews
- BBC interview
- BBC Backstage interview at Google Developer day 2007 London
- Chris DiBona talks Google at Linux Format.
- Interview with Google's Chris DiBona on Summer of Code at Groklaw
- Interview with Chris DiBona: How does it feel to be a Linux evangelist? at Linux Gazette
- Interview with Chris DiBona on IT Conversations
- Linux Link Tech Show interview (audio), 2006
- Chris DiBona on Cranky Geeks
- Interview with Chris DiBona (audio), 2006 on LugRadio
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