| Stormy Peters | |
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Stormy Peters at GUADEC 2008 |
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| Born | Robyn Peters |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Engagement something or other |
| Employer | Mozilla Corporation |
| Known for | free and open source software advocacy |
| Website | |
| http://www.stormyscorner.com/ | |
Stormy Peters is an information technology industry analyst and prominent free and open source software (FOSS) advocate, promoting business use of FOSS. She advocates as a consultant and conference speaker. She co-founded, and was later appointed as executive director of the GNOME Foundation.
Peters' real first name is Robyn; however, she has not gone by that name since her childhood.[1]
Peters completed a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Computer Science at Rice University and initially worked as a software engineer for Hewlett-Packard in their Unix development team.[2]
In approximately 1999 Peters was managing the HP-UX desktop development and became aware of the GNOME project when the team decided to provide GNOME on HPUX. Peters had a role in explaining the Open Source business and intellectual property models to Hewlett-Packard management. She later founded the Hewlett-Packard Open Source Program office.[3] In 2000 she became one of the founding members of the GNOME Foundation Advisory board.[4]
In December 2005 Peters became Director of Product Management for OpenLogic, an Open Source services company.[5] In July 2008 Peters left OpenLogic and became the executive director of the GNOME Foundation.[4] Her role was in coordinating with sponsors, business development and marketing.[3] In November 2010 she left to Mozilla.[6] Since August 2011 she is a member of the GNOME Board of Directors.[7]
Peters has given keynote talks to many Open Source conferences including the Open Source Business Conference,[2] linux.conf.au, the 2008[8] and 2009[9] GNOME.Asia summit in Beijing and Ho Chi Minh respectively, and the Ohio Linuxfest in 2010.