Gdk/Experience

Red Hat duties

• Current: New Hire Orientation. I've explained "the open source way" to over 1500 new Red Hat employees since 2004.
• Current: Editor of opensource.com/education.
• Contributing editor for "Red Hat Magazine". A personal favorite:
  • http://www.redhat.com/magazine/007may05/features/patents/
• Voice of "Ask Shadowman", Red Hat Magazine, September 2004 - March 2007. (People still send email missing their Shadowman column.) 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.

 http://magazine.redhat.com/2007/07/27/red-hat-high-2007-after-graduation-day-what-next/

Fedora Governance

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

Principles I've come to live by:

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
  • [Khttp://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDCon2 Karlsruhe 2005]
  • London 2005
  • Delhi 2006
  • Boston 2006
  • Boston 2007 (first BarCamp-style FUDCON)
• Founded 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

• Founding member of Sugar Labs oversight board

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board

• Board Member, ISKME (Institue for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education)

• Council member, IntraHealth Open

Keynotes / Presentations

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