Stormy Peters
Stormy Peters | |
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 Stormy Peters at GUADEC 2008 | |
| Born | Robyn Peters |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Director of Websites and Developer Engagement |
| Employer | Mozilla Corporation |
| 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.
Peters' real first name is Robyn; however, she has not gone by that name since her childhood.[1]
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.[2]
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.[3] In 2000 she became one of the founding members of the GNOME Foundation Advisory board.[4]
In December 2005 Peters became Director of Product Management for OpenLogic, an Open Source services company.[5] In July 2008 Peters left OpenLogic and became the executive director of the GNOME Foundation.[4] Her role was in coordinating with sponsors, business development and marketing.[3] In November 2010 she left to Mozilla.[6] Since August 2011 she has been a member of the GNOME Board of Directors.[7]
Peters has given keynote talks to many Open Source conferences including the Open Source Business Conference,[2] linux.conf.au, the 2008[8] and 2009[9] GNOME.Asia summit in Beijing and Ho Chi Minh respectively, and the Ohio Linuxfest in 2010.
References
- ^ 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 2008-07-24.
- ^ "OpenLogic Hires Open Source Expert Stormy Peters as Director of Product Management" (Press release). OpenLogic. 2005-12-07. Retrieved 2008-07-24.
- ^ "Changing Roles". Retrieved 2011-09-12.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ^ "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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