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 Izquierdo Cortazar is a researcher and one of the founders of Bitergia, a company
that provides software analytics for open and inner source ecosystems. Currently holding the
position of Chief Data Officer, he is focused on the quality of the data, research of new metrics,
analysis, and studies of interest for Bitergia customers via data mining and processing. Izquierdo
Cortázar earned a Ph.D. in free software engineering from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in
Madrid in 2012 focused on the analysis of buggy developer’s activity patterns in the Mozilla
community. He is an active member of CHAOSS (Community Health Analytics for Open Source
Software) as GrimoireLab contributor, as well as in the D&I working group. He is an active
member of the InnerSource Commons as well with

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.

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.

For over 20 years, Nicole has applied her aptitude in storytelling to the technology industry, communicating the broader importance of the work of her engineering colleagues in a way that delivers business value. She dove into the world of open source at Intel over eight years ago, quickly becoming a strong advocate across Linux, virtualization, cloud, containers, orchestration, mobile and web technologies, and more. She is passionate about cultivating inclusive communities that welcome diverse perspectives and invite intelligent, thoughtful debate to benefit us all. As an active contributor to the CHAOSS Project’s Diversity & Inclusion Workgroup, she is helping establish a consistent, cross-community definition and metrics for diversity. She serves on the CodeChix advisory board, is an evangelist for the Women Who Code Portland organization, participates in speed mentoring workshops across the OpenStack and Linux communities, and is also a frequent moderator, speaker, and writer in the areas of diversity and mentorship. Nicole holds an MBA degree from Marylhurst University, with an emphasis in Marketing, and a BA from the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism.

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.