[vtkusers] Chris DiBona from Google to speak on Monday, October 6 5:30pm JEC 3117 RPI

[Will Schroeder]

Chris DiBona from Google will speak on Monday, October 6 at 5:30pm in
JEC3117 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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