Stormy Peters
Stormy Peters | |
|---|---|
 Stormy Peters at GUADEC 2008 | |
| Born | Robyn Peters |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Vice President of Technical Evangelism |
| Employer | Cloud Foundry |
| Known for | free and open source software advocacy |
| Website | http://www.stormyscorner.com/ |
Stormy Peters is an information technology industry analyst and prominent free and open source software (FOSS) advocate, promoting business use of FOSS. She advocates as a consultant and conference speaker. She co-founded, and was later appointed as executive director of the GNOME Foundation. She previously worked for Mozilla,[1] and is now at Cloud Foundry.[2]
Peters's birth name is Robyn; however, she has not gone by that name since her childhood.[3]
Career
Peters completed a Bachelor of Arts with a major in computer science at Rice University and initially worked as a software engineer for Hewlett-Packard in their Unix development team.[4]
In approximately 1999 Peters was managing the HP-UX desktop development and became aware of the GNOME project when the team decided to provide GNOME on HPUX. Peters had a role in explaining the Open Source business and intellectual property models to Hewlett-Packard management. She later founded the Hewlett-Packard Open Source Program office.[5] In 2000 she became one of the founding members of the GNOME Foundation Advisory board.[6]
In December 2005 Peters became Director of Product Management for OpenLogic, an Open Source services company.[7] In July 2008 Peters left OpenLogic and became the executive director of the GNOME Foundation.[6] Her role was in coordinating with sponsors, business development and marketing.[5] In November 2010 she left to Mozilla.[1] Since August 2011 she has been a member of the GNOME Board of Directors.[8]
Peters has given keynote talks to many Open Source conferences including the Open Source Business Conference,[4] linux.conf.au, the 2008[9] and 2009[10] GNOME.Asia summit in Beijing and Ho Chi Minh City respectively, and the Ohio Linuxfest in 2010.
References
- ^ a b "Changing Roles". Retrieved 2011-09-12.
- ^ http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/open-source-insider/2015/07/stormy-peters-heads-developer-relations-at-cloud-foundry.html
- ^ Varghese, Sam (2008-02-05). "Stormy by name, not by nature". IT Wire. Retrieved 2009-05-01.
Her real name is Robyn but she hasn't been called that except for a while when she lived in Spain as a child.
- ^ a b "The OpenLogic Management Team: Stormy Peters, Director of Community and Partner Programs". OpenLogic. Retrieved 2008-07-24.
- ^ a b Bhartiya, Swapnil (2008-07-15). "A Storm In The Computing World: Stormy Peters". EFYTimes.com. Retrieved 2008-07-24.
- ^ a b "GNOME hires Stormy Peters as Executive Director" (Press release). GNOME Foundation. 2008-07-07. Archived from the original on December 23, 2011. Retrieved 2014-03-09.
{{cite press release}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "OpenLogic Hires Open Source Expert Stormy Peters as Director of Product Management" (Press release). OpenLogic. 2005-12-07. Retrieved 2008-07-24.
- ^ "About the GNOME Foundation: Board of Directors". Retrieved 2011-09-12.
- ^ "GNOME.Asia Summit 2008 conference website".
- ^ "GNOME.Asia Summit 2009 conference website".