Shane is founder of Punderthings℠ LLC consultancy, helping organizations find better ways to engage with the critical open source projects that power modern technology and business. He blogs and tweets about open source governance and trademark issues, and has spoken at major technology conferences like ApacheCon, OSCON, All Things Open, Community Leadership Summit, and Ignite.
Shane Curcuru serves as VP Brand Management for the ASF, wrote the trademark and branding policies that cover all 200+ Apache® projects, and assists projects with defining and policing their trademarks, as well as negotiating agreements with various software vendors using Apache software brands. Shane is serving a seventh term as an elected Director of the ASF, providing governance oversight, community mentoring, and fiscal review for all Apache projects.
Otherwise, Shane is: a father and husband, a BMW driver and punny guy. Oh, and we have cats! Follow @ShaneCurcuru and read about open source communities and see my FOSS Foundation directory.
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Matt is also an individual Gold sponsor of The Apache Software Foundation:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html
I just note this because it's not often you see an individual (i.e. this is not Auttomatic the company sponsoring, but Matt personally) directly funding open source groups at this level.
Thanks Matt!
Disclaimer: I run WordPress on my two primary blogs, but no other connections. 8-)
As always, great work helping others from a major open source group.
People interested in OS disaster management software should definitely look at the Sahana foundation and products, which are pretty advanced and all open source, and driven by another very active and caring community:
http://sahanafoundation.org/