Jim Jagielski
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Jim Jagielski | |
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| Born | March 11, 1961 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Johns Hopkins University |
| Occupation | software engineer |
| Known for | Apache Software Foundation, Open Source Initiative |
| Website | www |
Jim Jagielski (born March 11, 1961) is an American software engineer, who specialises in web and open source technologies.
Biography
Jagielski graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 1983 with a BES in Electrical/Computer Engineering. He was hired by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center immediately after graduation.
In 1994, Jagielski founded jaguNET Access Services, a Web Host and ISP. He has served as CTO for Zend Technologies,[1] CTO for Covalent Technologies, Chief Architect for SpringSource/VMware and currently under the Office of CTO at Red Hat, Inc. as a Consulting Software Engineer. In addition to speaking at various conferences and seminars (e.g.: ApacheCon,[2] Forrester's IT Gigaworld[3] and O'Reilly Open Source Convention[4]) and writing on numerous topics, in the past Jagielski was also the editor of the Apache section on Slashdot.[5]
Work
He is best known as co-founder, member and director of The Apache Software Foundation and a core developer on several ASF projects, including the Apache HTTP Server, Apache Portable Runtime and Apache Tomcat.[6] His first recognition on the internet was as editor of the A/UX FAQ and administrator for jagubox, the primary repository for third-party A/UX software.[7]
In addition to his involvement with the ASF, Jagielski has been involved with other open-source projects as well.
Apache Software Foundation
Jagielski is one of the founding members of The Apache Software Foundation after having been an almost charter member of the original 8-member Apache Group. Jagielski has served as Director on the ASF's board since its incorporation in 1999. After having served 8 years as Executive Vice President and Secretary, and 3 years as Chairman, Jagielski currently serves as President of the ASF.[8]
Jagielski was the first Chair of the Apache Incubator project, in which he is still involved to this day. He was one of the original co-Mentors for the Geronimo[9] project, and he also Mentors the several Incubator podlings.
Jagielski still finds time to be a very active developer on many open source projects, ASF and otherwise. After doing some development on the NCSA HTTPd web server, he started with Apache in early-to-mid 1995, making him likely the longest active contributor within the ASF.[10]
FOSS Leadership
In 2005 Jagielski was asked to serve on the Advisory Board of the Open Source Software Institute.[11] Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) is a non-profit (501 c 6) organization of corporate, government and academic representatives whose mission is to promote the development and implementation of open-source software solutions within U.S. federal, state and municipal government agencies and academic entities.
In 2010, Jagielski was appointed to the Board of Directors of the CodePlex Foundation,[12] which was later renamed to Outercurve Foundation.[13] As well as Director, Jagielski serves as President for Outercurve.[14]
In 2011, Jagielski was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Open Source Initiative.[15]
Based on his long involvement in the FOSS community, Jagielski was one of the recipients of the O'Reilly Open Source Awards at OSCON 2012.[16]
Other Open Software Projects
Jagielski has also contributed to Sendmail, xntpd, BIND, PHP, Perl and FreeBSD, among other projects.
References
- ^ Zend Technologies Extends U.S. Presence; Open-Source Advocate Jim Jagielski Joins PHP Technology Leader, retrieved 18dec2007
- ^ ApacheCon
- ^ Forrester's IT Gigaworld
- ^ O'Reilly Open Source Convention
- ^ Slashdot Announces Apache and BSD Sections
- ^ ASF Committers by Project Modules, retrieved 18dec2007
- ^ Usenet FAQs By Author: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov
- ^ Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors, Retrieved on December 23, 2007
- ^ Geronimo
- ^ A complete and current listing of Apache projects in which he is involved is available here: Apache Committers.
- ^ Open Source Software Institute
- ^ "Board of Directors". Outercurve Foundation. Retrieved 2013-07-07.
- ^ "The CodePlex Foundation Rebrands, Renamed Outercurve Foundation". Outercurve Foundation. 2010-09-28. Retrieved 2013-07-07.
- ^ "Outercurve Foundation Announces Jim Jagielski as President of Board". Outercurve Foundation. 2013-07-01. Retrieved 2013-07-07.
- ^ "OSI Board of Directors". Open Source Initiative. Retrieved 2013-07-07.
- ^ "O'Reilly Open Source Awards". O'Reilly. Retrieved 2013-07-07.