Chris Messina (open source ambassador)
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Chris Messina (b. January 7, 1981 in USA), aka FactoryJoe, currently residing in San Francisco, is Co-Founder of Citizen Agency.
Chris is best known for his involvement in helping to create the BarCamp movement and Microformats.
Recently he co-founded The Citizen Agency with real-life partner Tara Hunt.
Chris is a widely respected ambassador of open-source, most notably Firefox and Flock. Chris, as a volunteer for the Spread Firefox campaign, also designed the highly influential 2004 Firefox advert which appeared in the New York Times in 2004.
[edit] Mainstream Press
- SF CHRONICLE: The people who populate Web 2.0 - November 5th, 2006
- IE 7 vs Firefox - Webpronews - October 19, 2006
- SF Tech Chronicles - July 7th, 2006
- BBC Newsnight, Internet Part II: Return of the geeks? - October 27th, 2005