- Stormy Peters
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name = Stormy Peters
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caption = Stormy Peters atGUADEC 2008
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known_for = Prominence inOpen Source software business
occupation =Executive director
employer =GNOME Foundation
nationality = American
website = [http://www.stormyscorner.com/ Stormy's Corner]Stormy Peters is an
information technology industry analyst and prominentOpen Source software advocate, promoting business use of Open Source. She advocates as a consultant and conference speaker. She co-founded, and was later appointed asexecutive director of, theGNOME Foundation .Career
Peters completed a
Bachelor of Arts with a major inComputer Science atRice University and initially worked as asoftware engineer forHewlett-Packard in theirUnix development team.cite web|publisher=OpenLogic|url=http://www.openlogic.com/company/team.php#stormy|title=The OpenLogic Management Team: Stormy Peters, Director of Community and Partner Programs|accessdate=2008-07-24]In approximately
1999 Peters was managing theHP-UX desktop development and became aware of theGNOME project when the team decided to provide GNOME on HPUX. Peters' had a role in explaining the Open Source business andintellectual property models to Hewlett-Packard management. She later founded the Hewlett-Packard Open Source Program office.cite news|last=Bhartiya|first= Swapnil|url=http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/fullnews.asp?edid=27615|title=A Storm In The Computing World: Stormy Peters|date=2008-07-15|accessdate=2008-07-24|work=EFYTimes.com] In2000 she became one of the founding members of the GNOME Foundation Advisory board.cite pressrelease|publisher=GNOME Foundation |title=GNOME hires Stormy Peters as Executive Director|url=http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-07-stormy-executive-director.html|date=2008-07-07|accessdate=2008-07-24]In
December 2005 Peters became Director of Product Management forOpenLogic , an Open Source services company. [cite pressrelease|publisher=OpenLogic|url=http://www.openlogic.com/news/press/12.7.05.php|title=OpenLogic Hires Open Source Expert Stormy Peters as Director of Product Management|date=2005-12-7|accessdate=2008-07-24] InJuly 2008 Peters left OpenLogic and became the executive director of the GNOME Foundation. Her role is in coordinating with sponsors,business development andmarketing .Peters has given
keynote talks to many Open Source conferences including theOpen Source Business Conference andlinux.conf.au .References
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
