Gdk/Experience

Stuff that Greg did for Red Hat or Fedora at various times

Red Hat duties

• Current Director of Ansible Community, Red Hat, 2015-present
• VP Community at Ansible at time of Red Hat acquisition, October 2015
• Godfather/instigator of the Func project, precursor to the Ansible project, 2007 (fr1st p0st)
• New Hire Orientation -- I explained "the open source way" to over 1500 new Red Hat employees, 2004-2010.
• Editor of the Education Channel for opensource.com, 2009-2010.
• Architect of Red Hat's strategy in higher education, 2008-2010, including the creation of the Professor's Open Source Summer Experience, a weeklong intensive bootcamp that immerses professors in open source projects.
• Primary Author/Editor of Practical Open Source Software Engineering, a textbook-in-progress for CS professors
• Community Liaison to the One Laptop Per Child Project, 2008-2009. Examples of work:
  • http://lwn.net/Articles/305687/
  • https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-olpc-list/
• Contributing editor for "Red Hat Magazine", 2004 - 2007. A personal favorite:
  • http://www.redhat.com/magazine/007may05/features/patents/
• Voice of "Ask Shadowman", Red Hat Magazine, 2004-2007. Some personal favorites:
  • http://magazine.redhat.com/2007/01/11/ask-shadowman-web-20/
  • http://www.redhat.com/magazine/003jan05/departments/ask_shadowman/
  • http://www.redhat.com/magazine/025nov06/features/ask_shadowman/?intcmp=bcm_edmsept_007
• Executive director of the Red Hat High program, 2006-2007
• Fedora Project Leader, 2005-2006
• Engineering Manager, Red Hat Network, 2001-2004

Fedora Governance

I was responsible for building the Fedora governance model as it currently exists; the goal was to build a structure that empowers non-RH employees to work as effectively in the Fedora community as Red Hat employees do. Results have been mixed, but generally positive.  :)

Principles I lived by during my tenure as FPL:

1. If it can't be run effectively by a non-Redhatter, then it shouldn't bear the Fedora name.
2. It's okay for the community to be disappointed -- but it's never okay for the community to be surprised.

Stuff I've done:

• Organized the first six FUDCons (Fedora User and Developer Conferences)
  • Boston 2005
  • Karlsruhe 2005
  • London 2005
  • Delhi 2006
  • Boston 2006
  • Boston 2007 (first BarCamp-style FUDCON)
• Founder of the Fedora Cloud Special Interest Group
• Founder of the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee, February 2005 (originally the Fedora Extras Steering Committee)
• Established the Fedora Documentation Team and appointed Karsten Wade at its head, April 2005
• Established the Fedora Marketing Team and appointed Colin Charles as its head, May 2005
• Established the Fedora Ambassadors Team and appointed Alex Maier as its head, December 2005
• Built the Fedora Events Schedule, December 2005

Other Governance Experience

• Board Member, ISKME (Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education), 2010
• Council member, IntraHealth Open, 2010
• Founding member of Sugar Labs oversight board, 2009

Keynotes / Presentations / Interviews

• Upcoming: Presentation at POSSCON, April 2010
• Interview with LinuxQuestions.org from May 2009
• Interview with Armen Zambrano at SIGCSE 2009 (flash video)
• Interview at GOSCON, the government open source conference in Washington DC, 2009 (flash video)
• Interview with Paul Frields about Fedora 10, December 2008 (flash video)
• Interview with Phoronix, March 2006
• Keynote at Linuxfest Northwest, 2006

Doing my best to track all of these down. It'll take a while.  :)