Danese Cooper
The Open Source Diplomat
Open source programs at Sun, Intel, PayPal and the Node Foundation
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Ran open source at Sun during the OpenSolaris and OpenOffice years, then at Intel, PayPal and Wikimedia, and chaired the Node.js Foundation through the io.js reconciliation. Served on the OSI board. Much of what a corporate open source program office does was invented by her arguing with lawyers, repeatedly, for twenty years.
Curator’s note
Spent two decades translating between engineers and general counsel.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Danese Cooper by Lane Hartwell, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sources
- 01Danese Cooper en.wikipedia.org
- 02Open Source Initiative opensource.org