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'''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 |
'''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 Corporation|Mozilla]],<ref name="joining-mozilla" /> and is now at [[Cloud Foundry]]<ref>http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/open-source-insider/2015/07/stormy-peters-heads-developer-relations-at-cloud-foundry.html</ref>. |
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Peters's birth name is Robyn; however, she has not gone by that name since her childhood.<ref name="Stormy">{{cite web|url=http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16460/1090/|title=Stormy by name, not by nature|publisher=IT Wire|first=Sam|last=Varghese|date=2008-02-05|accessdate=2009-05-01|quote=Her real name is Robyn but she hasn't been called that except for a while when she lived in Spain as a child.}}</ref> |
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== Career == |
== Career == |
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Revision as of 20:14, 14 July 2015
Stormy Peters | |
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| 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.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ^ 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. Retrieved 2014-03-09.
- ^ "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.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ^ "GNOME.Asia Summit 2008 conference website".
- ^ "GNOME.Asia Summit 2009 conference website".
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