Stormy Peters, Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation, will be presenting at this years Utah Open Source Conference.
Her topic, Would you do it again, for free, is one that address the question that so many outside the open source community ask.
From software developers working to build resumes to programmers coding for a good cause; Stormy looks at the motivation behind this volunteer army who combine their efforts to produce rapidly evolving software.
She also looks at the role money plays in the open source equation and asks the question: Do commercial companies kill open-source by paying people to work on it?
A little about Stormy
Stormy Peters currently works as the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. Stormy joined the foundation from OpenLogic where she set up their OpenLogic Expert Community and helped Global 2000 companies develop open source software policies. Previously, Stormy
worked at Hewlett-Packard (HP) where she founded and managed the Open Source Program Office that is responsible for HP’s open source strategy, policy and business practices. Stormy joined HP as a software engineer in the Unix Development Lab after graduating from Rice University with a B.A. in Computer Science.
Stormy is an advisor for HFOSS, OpenSource World, IntraHealth Open and Open Source America, as well as founder and president of Kids on Computers, a nonprofit organization setting up computer labs in developing countries.
Stormy is a frequent keynote speaker on business aspects of Open Source Software at major conferences such as the Open Source Business Conference and the O’Reilly conferences, as well as government organizations such as the United Nations and the European Union.
Stormy is involved in GNOME and free source software because it is changing the world and the community is full of smart, passionate people!
