Chris DiBona
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| Born | October 1971(age52) |
| Other names | cdibona |
Chris DiBona('cdibona', born October 1971) was the director ofopen sourceatGooglefrom August 2004[1]until January 2023.[2]
The open source team at Google oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through programs such as theGoogle Summer of Codeand through the release of open source software projects and patches onGoogle Code.In his former work on Google's public sector software, he looked afterGoogle Moderatorand the polling locations API and election results.
Before joining Google, he was an editor atSlashdotand co-founded Damage Studios. DiBona has a B.S. in computer science fromGeorge Mason Universityand a M.S. in software engineering fromCarnegie Mellon University.He also co-editedOpen Sources: Voices from the Open Source RevolutionandOpen Sources 2.0.[3]
He was laid off from Google in January 2023 as part ofAlphabet's workforce reductions.[2]
FLOSS Weekly
[edit]He formerly co-hostedFLOSS Weekly(apodcastthat was spun off from the popularThis Week in Tech) withLeo Laporte.The show premiered on April 7, 2006, and features prominent guests from the free software/open source community. He also appeared onThis Week in TechandCrankyGeeksfrom time to time and was in the documentaryRevolution OS.On July 29, 2007, Laporte announced that due to commitment issues, DiBona was stepping down as host of FLOSS Weekly.
Science Foo Camp
[edit]DiBona runsScience Foo Campannually withTim O'Reillyof O'Reilly Media andTimo HannayofNatureon the Google campus in Mountain View, California.
TechTV
[edit]DiBona was aLinuxcommentator onTechTV'sThe Screen Savers,during 2004 and parts of 2005. His stories concentrated on fun applications and consumer use of Linux.[4]
Other activities
[edit]DiBona formerly served on the board of Our Good Works, a non-profit that looks after the volunteer matching website Allforgood.org. He serves on the board of theLinux Foundation.DiBona served on the advisory board of imeem, a San Francisco, California–based social networking firm, and advises PicPlz, a San Francisco start-up. He's a visiting scientist (formally a visiting scholar) at theMIT Sloan School of Management,and an advisor to Mixed Media Labs, app.net project.[5]He also advises Ingenuitas on their sight machine project.[6]He's also an associate in Google Ventures.[1]
References
[edit]- ^abDiBona bioArchived2013-07-26 at theWayback Machineat Google Ventures.
- ^abVaughan-Nichols, Steven J."What is Google doing with its open source teams?".theregister.
Chris DiBona, who founded Google's OSPO 18 years ago, was let go.
- ^DiBona biographyon the O'Reilly Network.
- ^SCALE: Southern California Linux Expo 2006by Chris DiBona
- ^DiBona bioArchived2016-03-06 at theWayback Machineon App.net.
- ^DiBona website
External links
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- DiBona's WeblogArchived2014-06-02 at theWayback Machine
- Chris DiBonaatIMDb
- Revolution OSatIMDb
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