Bio
Greg DeKoenigsberg is a Senior Community Architect at Red Hat. He was the founder and first chairman of the Fedora Project Board, the governance body for the Fedora Project, an open source software project which now has over 13,000 volunteer contributors as of January 2009. He was also the founder and former chair of the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee, and the founder and former chair of the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee. He currently serves on the oversight board for Sugar Labs, the organization that drives development of the Sugar educational platform. He has been with Red Hat since 2001. He blogs at http://gregdek.livejournal.com, and can be reached at gdk at redhat dot com.
Travel Schedule
- April 1-2, 2009: Waterloo, Canada
- June 11-12, 2009: HFOSS Workshop, Philadelphia
- June 24-27, 2009: LinuxTag, Berlin
- July 19-24, 2009: Professors Open Source Summer Experience (location TBA)
Calendar Year 2009 / Fiscal Year 2010 Goals
Community development for Red Hat engineering projects (60%)
Measurably improve community participation in strategic Red Hat engineering projects, like Spacewalk, oVirt, and others.
Fedora / OLPC / Sugar (20%)
Continue to nurture and grow the relationship between the Fedora Project, Sugar Labs, and OLPC.
Open source university outreach (20%)
Spread knowledge of open source development methodologies across universities worldwide.
K12 curriculum development (personal time)
Build a completely open, modular curriculum for use by schoolchildren around the world.