Greg Stein (born March 16, 1967, inPortland, Oregon), living inAustin, Texas, United States, is a programmer, speaker, sometime standards architect, andopen-source software advocate, appearing frequently at conferences and in interviews on the topic of open-source software development and use.
He was a director of theApache Software Foundation, and served as chairman from 21 August 2002 to 20 June 2007.[1] He is also a member of thePython Software Foundation, was a director there from 2001 to 2002,[2] and a maintainer of thePython programming language and libraries (active from 1999 to 2002).[3]
Stein has been especially active inversion control systems development. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, he helped develop theWebDAV HTTP versioning specification,[4] and is the main author ofmod_dav, the first open-source implementation of WebDAV. He was one of the founding developers of theApache Subversion project,[5] and is primarily responsible for Subversion's WebDav networking layer.
Stein most recently worked as an engineering manager atGoogle, where he helped launch Google'sopen-source hosting platform. Stein publicly announced his departure from Google via his blog on July 29, 2008.[6] Prior to Google, he worked forOracle Corporation,eShop,Microsoft,CollabNet, and as an independent developer.
Stein was a major contributor to theLima Mudlib, aMUD server software framework. His MUD community pseudonym was "Deathblade".
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