Danese Cooper | |
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.jpg) Cooper in 2010 | |
| Education | University of California, Los Angeles (BA) |
| Website | danesecooper |
Danese Cooper is an American programmer,[1] computer scientist[2] and advocate ofopen source software.[3]
Cooper has managed teams atSymantec andApple Inc. For six years, she served as chief open source "evangelist" forSun Microsystems before leaving to serve as senior director for open source strategies atIntel.[3][4][5] In 2009 she worked as "Open Source Diva" at REvolution Computing (nowRevolution Analytics).[6] She is a board member of theOpen Source Hardware Association.[7] She is a board observer atMozilla, and serves as a member of theApache Software Foundation.[3] She was a board member at theDrupal Association[8] and theOpen Source Initiative.[9] In October 2018, Danese joined Irish tech company NearForm as VP of Special Initiatives.[10]
Cooper's major work within the open source area ofcomputer software has garnered her thenickname "Open Source Diva".[4][11] She was recruited, while at asushi bar in Cupertino, to a position at Sun working towards opening the source code toJava. Within six months she quit frustrated by the claims of open source development with Java that Sun made, only to find that little "open sourcing" was taking place. Sun sought to keep Cooper understanding her need to further open source software and re-hired her as their corporate open source officer.[12] Her six years with Sun Microsystems is credited as the key to the company opening up its source code and lending support to Sun'sOpenOffice.org software suite,Oracle Grid Engine, among others.[5][13] In 2009 she joined REvolution Computing, a "provider of open sourcepredictive analytics solutions", to work on community outreach amongst developers unfamiliar with the programming languageR and general open source strategies.[6] She has also made public speaking appearances discussing open sourcing, speaking at the Malaysian National Computer Confederation Open Source Compatibility Centre,OSCON, gov2.0 Expo, and theSouthern California Linux Expo.[14][15][16][17] In 2005 Cooper was a contributing author toOpen Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution.[18]
In February 2010 Cooper was appointedchief technical officer of theWikimedia Foundation, leading their technical team and developing and executing the Foundation's technical strategy,[3][13][19] along with which she would also be working on outreach with Wikimedia volunteers to expand on development and localizing of software.[13] Cooper credits the open source community in helping her obtain the position at Wikimedia.[20] She left the organization in July 2011.[21][why?]
Danese Cooper is the founder and chair of theInnerSource Commons Foundation.[22][23] In 2018 she co-authoredAdopting InnerSource[24] with Klaas-Jan Stol which was published by O'Reilly.
In June 2011, Cooper started a consultancy, daneseWorks, whose first client was inBloom. She is[when?] also currently helping Numenta with their open source & machine learning strategy.[25]
Danese Cooper obtained herhigh school diploma fromChadwick School and herB.A. from theUniversity of California, Los Angeles. Upon graduation she spent time inMorocco as a volunteer in thePeace Corps.[6][12] Cooper credits her time with the Peace Corps as fostering her desire to travel and work within thedeveloping world to explore policy, education and how open source software can "give certain kids another alternative". She is married to a software developer and enjoysknitting, which she often engages in during meetings.[12][26][27]
all you really need to know about Danese is that she knits in meetings,
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