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> "Stormy Peters is an open source advocate and evangelist. Peters founded the Open Source Program Office at Hewlett Packard and has since held senior positions
by d37ydThrAwy 7y ago
> "Stormy Peters is an open source advocate and evangelist. Peters founded the Open Source Program Office at Hewlett Packard and has since held senior positions at several open source related organizations including the GNOME Foundation, Mozilla, Cloud Foundry Foundation, and Red Hat."
And just like that, "advocating and evangelizing" is apparently all it takes. Can also call it what it often actually is - virtue signaling - but that's not very popular with the kids these days.
- Deukhoofd 7y agoShe's the Director of the Open Source Programs Office at Microsoft, used to be Executive Director of the Gnome Foundation, and used to be software engineer on the Hewlett-Packard Unix development team.
- timkam 7y agoWhile most OS folks seem to see PR and management roles as support functions, I think it's good to show some appreciation for people in those roles. They help get some funding in and grow the community. Nothing wrong with that, IMHO.
- bregma 7y agoOnly the roles traditionally dominated by straight white able-bodied men of significant means are legit. The rest are hardly worth spending electrons on.
- mikeeusa 7y agoThe only legitimate "roles" are those who /actually/ create the thing which this all rests upon: the software [but really... the license ... {but really the one man responsible for willing it to be}]
- AdmiralAsshat 7y agoAnd comments like this are why people believe they can't contribute to FOSS if they're not developers.