Gdk/Experience

"Stuff that Greg did for Red Hat or Fedora at various times

= Red Hat duties =


 * New Hire Orientation -- I explained "the open source way" to over 1500 new Red Hat employees, 2004-2010.
 * Editor of the Education Channel for opensource.com, 2009-2010.
 * Architect of Red Hat's strategy in higher education, 2008-2010, including the creation of the Professor's Open Source Summer Experience, a weeklong intensive bootcamp that immerses professors in open source projects.
 * Primary Author/Editor of Practical Open Source Software Engineering, a textbook-in-progress for CS professors
 * Community Liaison to the One Laptop Per Child Project, 2008-2009. Examples of work:
 * http://lwn.net/Articles/305687/
 * https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-olpc-list/
 * Contributing editor for "Red Hat Magazine", 2004 - 2007. A personal favorite:
 * http://www.redhat.com/magazine/007may05/features/patents/
 * Voice of "Ask Shadowman", Red Hat Magazine, 2004-2007. Some personal favorites:
 * http://magazine.redhat.com/2007/01/11/ask-shadowman-web-20/
 * http://www.redhat.com/magazine/003jan05/departments/ask_shadowman/
 * http://www.redhat.com/magazine/025nov06/features/ask_shadowman/?intcmp=bcm_edmsept_007
 * Executive director of the Red Hat High program, 2006-2007
 * Fedora Project Leader, 2005-2006
 * Engineering Manager, Red Hat Network, 2001-2004

= Fedora Governance =

I was responsible for building the Fedora governance model as it currently exists; the goal was to build a structure that empowers non-RH employees to work as effectively in the Fedora community as Red Hat employees do. Results have been mixed, but generally positive. :)

Principles I lived by during my tenure as FPL:


 * 1) If it can't be run effectively by a non-Redhatter, then it shouldn't bear the Fedora name.
 * 2) It's okay for the community to be disappointed -- but it's never okay for the community to be surprised.

Stuff I've done:


 * Organized the first six FUDCons [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon (Fedora User and Developer Conferences)
 * Boston 2005
 * Karlsruhe 2005
 * London 2005
 * Delhi 2006
 * Boston 2006
 * Boston 2007 (first BarCamp-style FUDCON)
 * Founder of the Fedora Cloud Special Interest Group
 * Founder of the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee, February 2005 (originally the Fedora Extras Steering Committee)
 * Established the Fedora Documentation Team and appointed Karsten Wade at its head, April 2005
 * Established the [Fedora Marketing Team https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-May/msg00008.html] and appointed Colin Charles as its head, May 2005
 * Established the Fedora Ambassadors Team and appointed Alex Maier as its head, December 2005
 * Built the Fedora Events Schedule, December 2005

= Other Governance Experience =


 * Current: Board Member, ISKME (Institue for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education)
 * Current: Council member, IntraHealth Open
 * Founding member of Sugar Labs oversight board, 2009

= Keynotes / Presentations / Interviews =


 * Upcoming: Presentation at POSSCON, April 2010
 * Interview with LinuxQuestions.org from May 2009
 * Interview with Armen Zambrano at SIGCSE 2009 (flash video)
 * Interview at GOSCON, the government open source conference in Washington DC, 2009 (flash video)
 * Interview with Paul Frields about Fedora 10, December 2008 (flash video)
 * Interview with Phoronix, March 2006
 * Keynote at Linuxfest Northwest, 2006

Doing my best to track all of these down. It'll take a while. :)