Copyleft in a Business Context
By
Josh Simmons,
Björn Schiessle,
Leslie Hawthorn,
Markus Glaser
This is a panel about using copyleft in context. You'll hear from folks who have experience with copyleft in a variety of business settings. Questions about governance, setting goals and expectations or building a culture that supports copyleft usage are all welcome.
Monday 1:40 p.m.–2:10 p.m.
This is a panel about using copyleft in context. You'll hear from folks who have experience with copyleft in a variety of business settings. Questions about governance, setting goals and expectations or building a culture that supports copyleft usage are all welcome.
Josh Simmons
Josh Simmons is a short stack developer, dusty foot philosopher, and dedicated advocate of open culture, inclusive community building, and ethical tech. He's been a freelancer and startup CEO (RIP), and these days he serves as VP of Open Source Initiative and Senior Open Source Strategist at Salesforce.
Björn Schiessle
Björn is a computer scientist, graduated at the University of Stuttgart. He conducted research in the area of cloud robotics before he joined ownCloud in 2012 where he started to develop the federated cloud technology. In 2016 he co-founded Nextcloud and the company behind it. Nextcloud is a Free Software collaboration platform. As a company we thrive the development and adoption of the software and make sure that our activities are align with the Free Software values. Björn is active in the Free Software movement for over twenty years and has a deep understanding of the technical, legal and social aspects of technology. In 2005 he joined the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) as a translator. These days he serves as the Germany Coordinator and as a member of the general assembly.
Leslie Hawthorn
Collaboration and community management expert Leslie Hawthorn has spent the past decade creating, cultivating, and enabling open source communities. Currently serving as Sr. Principal Technical Program Manager, Office of the CTO, for Red Hat, she’s best known for creating Google Code-In, the world’s first initiative to involve pre-university students in open source software development. Her open source business expertise also includes roles at Google, Elastic, and the Open Source Initiative. Born and raised in Silicon Valley, she now calls Europe home and lives in Amsterdam with her partner and daughter.
Markus Glaser
Markus is co-founder of Hallo Welt! and responsible for their development of BlueSpice, an open source enterprise wiki. He is an active member of the MediaWiki community for 10 years now. During that time, he was part of their release team and a board member of Wikimedia Germany. Markus co-authored books on wikis, Joomla! and the social web.
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