[Insight-users] Chris DiBona (Google) will speak about Open Source at RPI on Monday, October 6 at 5:30pm in JEC 311

[Luis Ibanez]

Chris DiBona from Google will speak at RPI on Monday, October 6 at
5:30pm in JEC 3117 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

This presentation is in support of the "Open Source Software Practice"
course. The presentation is open to the public.

Mr. DiBona will speak about open source efforts at Google, and what
Google is doing to support open source. An extensive Q&A session will
complete the presentation.

BIO
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Chris DiBona is the open source programs manager at Mountain View, Ca.
based Google where his team oversees license compliance and supports the
open source developer community through programs such as the Google
Summer of Code and through the release of open source software projects
and patches.

Mr. DiBona is an internationally known advocate of open source software
and related methodologies. He occasionally appears on the This Week in
Tech and Cranky Geeks podcasts. He is a visiting scholar at the MIT
Sloan School of Management and has a masters in software engineering
from Carnegie Mellon University. Additionally, he serves on the advisory
board of imeem, a San Francisco, Ca. based social networking firm.

Before joining Google, Mr. DiBona was an editor and author for the
website Slashdot.org . Additionally, he coedited the award-winning essay
compilations "Open Sources" and "Open Sources 2.0" and writes for
several publications. He was the host of Floss Weekly with Leo Laporte
and made a number of appearances on TechTV's "The Screensavers"

His personal blog can be found at http://dibona.com.

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More Details at
http://public.kitware.com/OpenSourceSoftwarePractice/index.php/Fall2008/Special_events#Chris_DiBona_-_Google