Danese Cooper
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Born | January 19, 1959 |
Residence | California |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of California |
Influences | Meher Baba |
Website danesecooper |
Danese Cooper (born January 19, 1959[1]) is an American advocate of open source software.[2]
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Career
Cooper has managed teams at Symantec and Apple Inc. and for six years served as chief open source "evangelist" for Sun Microsystems before leaving to serve as senior director for open source strategies at Intel.[2][3][4] In 2009 she worked as "Open Source Diva" at REvolution Computing (now Revolution Analytics).[5] She is a board member of the Drupal Association[6] and the Open Source Hardware Association.[7] She is a board observer at Mozilla, and serves as a member of the Apache Software Foundation.[2] She was a board member at Open Source Initiative.[8] In February 2014, Cooper joined PayPal as their first Head of Open Source.[9]
Open source
Cooper's major work within the open source area of computer software has garnered her the nickname "Open Source Diva".[3][10] She was recruited, while at a sushi bar in Cupertino, to a position at Sun working towards opening the source code to Java. 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.[11] Her six years with Sun Microsystems is credited as the key to the company opening up its source code and lending support to Sun's OpenOffice.org software suite, Oracle Grid Engine, among others.[4][12] In 2009 she joined REvolution Computing, a "provider of open source predictive analytics solutions", to work on community outreach amongst developers unfamiliar with the programming language R and general open source strategies.[5] 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 the Southern California Linux Expo.[13][14][15][16] In 2005 Cooper was a contributing author to Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution.[17]
Wikimedia Foundation
In February 2010 Cooper was appointed Chief Technical Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation, leading their technical team and developing and executing the Foundation's technical strategy,[2][12][18] along with which she would also be working on outreach with Wikimedia volunteers to expand on development and localizing of software.[12] Cooper credits the open source community in helping her obtain the position at Wikimedia.[19] She left the organization in July 2011.[20]
daneseWorks
In June 2011, Cooper started a consultancy, daneseWorks, whose first client was the Gates Foundation's shared learning collaborative (now called inBloom). She is currently helping[21] numenta/nupic with their open source & machine learning strategy.
Personal life
Danese Cooper obtained her high school diploma from Chadwick School and her B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Upon graduation she spent time in Morocco as a volunteer in the Peace Corps.[5][11] Cooper credits her time with the Peace Corps as fostering her desire to travel and work within the developing world to explore policy, education and how open source software can "give certain kids another alternative". She is married to a software developer and enjoys knitting, which she often engages in during meetings.[11][22][23]
References
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External links
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- Danese Cooper on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- "Happy campers to test frontiers of new iPhone; Tech enthusiasts share ideas for latest gadget". Edmonton Journal. Edmonton, Alberta. 6 Jul 2007. Cooper speaks about the iPhone and its capabilities.
- Cooper, D., C. DiBona and M. Stone. Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution. Cambridge: O'Reilly. 2010. ISBN 978-1-171-64816-1 Cooper serves as a contributor to this book documenting open source technology.
- Wickenheiser, Matt. "Sun Microsystems Guru Gives Talk on Open-Source Software at Maine Conference". Portland Press Herald. Portland, Maine. 16 Nov 2002. Cooper is interviewed about open source software and corporate concerns.
- New DivaBlog, Danese Cooper's blog
- "Danese Cooper (of Sun) Finally Answers", an interview with Slashdot
- "Why Whinging Doesn't Work" Cooper speaks at OSCON 2008
- "Making Government Transparent Using R", an interview with Cooper by James Turner for O'Reilly Radar
- "Q&A: Danese Cooper, Wikimedia" with Justin Lee at The Whir
- Sun open-source diva departs for Intel
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- 1959 births
- Living people
- American chief technologists
- American computer programmers
- Apache Software Foundation members
- Followers of Meher Baba
- Free software programmers
- Open source people
- Peace Corps volunteers
- People in information technology
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni
- Wikimedia Foundation people
- Women computer scientists
- Sun Microsystems people
- Members of the Open Source Initiative board of directors
- American expatriates in Morocco