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Speaker Name	Danese Cooper
Organization	Intel Corporation
Type	Talk
Scope	General
Slides	Click to download
Trekking with White Elephants
Abstract	As Free and Open Source Software moves increasingly into the mainstream, FOSS specialization has become a viable career path. Worldwide, more and more developers are actually paid to work full time on FOSS projects. What effect is this having on the movement? What is it actually like to work on FOSS for a mega-corp? How can FOSS developers maintain necessary autonomy and resist corporate influences that may run counter to community interests? And should developers trek along when corporations try to use FOSS as a new playing field for their campaigns of disruption? Is it possible for FOSS to continue to grow and thrive without being co-opted?
Pre-requisites	This is not a "beginner talk". Listeners must have a working knowledge of normal governance protocols within FOSS projects, and some knowledge of the current ecosystem, although any examples used in the talk will be adequately explained.
Speaker Profile	Danese Cooper joined Intel in 2005 after six years as the founder and manager of Sun Microsystems' Open Source Programs Office. She was instrumental in the process of birthing Sun's many open source projects, including OpenOffice.org, OpenSolaris, NetBeans, GridEngine, JXTA.org, jini.org and java.net as well as in development of the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), Sun's Joint Copyright Assignment and blogs.sun.com. Ms. Cooper has served on the Board of the Open Source Initiative (http://opensource.org) since 2001 and is also active in the Apache Software Foundation. She participated in FOSS.in in 2004 and 2005.