Governing Board

Andrea Gallo is VP of the Segment Groups at Linaro and is responsible for the activities on ARM servers, networking, mobile, digital home and IoT.

Andrea was former Fellow at ST-Ericsson and representative in the Linaro Technical Steering Committee since its creation in 2010. Previously with STMicroelectronics, he established the Linux software team in Bangalore working on the Nomadik application processor in 2004. Back in 1999 he was the technical leader for the ADSL and PSTN softmodem designs.

As a summer job trainee, Andrea worked at ARM in Cambridge in July 1987 and 1988 and for several years as a freelance teenager he wrote public domain software and articles for English and Italian magazines in ARM and Z80 Assembly, C/C++ and BASIC.

Ben Lloyd Pearson has a background that spans many areas of technology including developer operations, software development, digital media, IT systems support / administration, and technical writing. He is an IT generalist who uses his broad understanding of technology to facilitate open source software development, and has been involved with a range of open source communities.

Daniel M. German is Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Victoria, where he does research in the areas of mining software repositories, open source software ecosystems and the impact of intellectual property in software engineering.

Don Marti is an open source strategist at Mozilla. He is the former editor of Linux Journal and has written for LWN and other publications. Don has worked in software development, technical marketing, and media, and has served as president and vice president of the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group.

Ildikó started her journey with virtualization during the university years and has been in connection with this technology different ways since then. Her career began at a small research and development company in Budapest, where she was focusing on areas like system management and business process modelling and optimization. Ildikó got in touch with OpenStack when she started to work in the cloud project at Ericsson in 2013. As an active contributor to OpenStack she drives NFV related feature development activities in projects like Nova and Cinder. Beyond code and documentation contributions she is also very passionate about on boarding and training activities, which is one of her focus areas within the OpenStack Foundation.

I’m one of the founders of Bitergia, the software development analytics company, and associate professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. I’ve been working in quantitative empirical analysis of FOSS development for years, participating in several international R&D projects. I’m currently focused on learning useful information from public software development repositories, and providing feedback to the developing communities involved. I’ve presented on this topic at academic and developer venues.

Josianne Marsan is associate professor in Information Systems (IS) at the Faculty of Business Administration at Université Laval (FSA ULaval) and associate fellow researcher of Research Chair in Digital Health at HEC Montréal. She holds a BSc in Computer science & Operational research, and a MSc and PhD in Business administration with a focus on IS. Josianne’s interests lie in open source software communities and ecosystems, healthcare IS, and the organizational lifecycle of information technology innovations, including their adoption, implementation, use and evolution. Josianne is currently working on the SECOHealth project studying the health of software ecosystems. She also has practical experience, most notably on designing, developing and implementing a homegrown ERP system based on open source programming languages in a medium-size company in Canada.

Kate Stewart is a Senior Director of Strategic Programs at the Linux Foundation, responsible for embedded and compliance programs. With almost 30 years of experience in the software industry, she has held a variety of roles and worked as a developer in Canada, Australia, and the US and for the last 20 years has managed software development teams in the US, Canada, UK, India, and China.

Dr. Matt Germonprez is an active open source community researcher and member with a particular focus on that changing nature of open source engagement. The National Science Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Texas Instruments, Hewlett Packard, and Union Pacific have funded his applied and basic research work in this area. Matt is the co-director of the BRIDGE Lab at the University of Nebraska – Omaha’s College of Information Science & Technology. The BRIDGE Lab is dedicated to the advancement of IT design, architecture, and education. He is an accomplished researcher in the areas of IT design and engagement, having published work in top journals, including winning best paper in his field (Association for Information Systems) in 2011 for his work on information technology design. Finally, he actively engages students in research projects, giving them direct insight into open source communities and the practices of engaging in this area.

Ray is currently a Community Manager at GitLab (https://about.gitlab.com/) and works with the community of contributors to GitLab. GitLab community members not only contribute code, but also documentation, translation and community support. Prior to joining GitLab, Ray was at the Linux Foundation where he helped launch and manage the OPNFV (https://www.opnfv.org/) community and was responsible for developer events, governance, metrics, etc. Ray has presented community metrics at industry events such as Community Leadership Summit, Open Source Leadership Summit, and OpenStack Summit.

After a decade as a software engineer, Sean decided his calling was in research. He is presently a social computing researcher and professor of computer science at the University of Missouri. He is also a co-director and founder of their Data Science Masters program. Sean’s publications focus on understanding how social technologies influence organizational, small group and community dynamics, typically including analysis of electronic trace data from systems combined with the perspectives of people whose behavior is traced. Group informatics is a methodology and ontology Sean has articulated with the aim of helping build consensus among researchers and developers for how to ethically and systematically make sense of electronic trace data.  Structural fluidity, a construct Sean developed with his collaborators Peppo Valetto and Kelly Blincoe, aims to make sense of structural dynamics in virtual software organizations, and how those dynamics affect performance. His other work includes collaborations with Matt Germonprez on the Open Collaboration Data Exchange and Open Source Health metrics projects. He lives in Columbia, MO with his wife Kate, two step daughters and a dog named Huckleberry.

Wayne Beaton is the Director of Open Source Projects for the Eclipse Foundation. His responsibilities include running the Eclipse Projects and Intellectual Property Teams, and generally ensuring that open source project teams are successful. In 1982, he received the prestigious Chief Scouts Award from then-Governor General Edward Schreyer. In 1984 his team was selected to represent beautiful British Columbia in the Kinsmen Voyageur Relay. In his spare time, he writes down meaningless accomplishments from his youth in a lame attempt to impress the reader.