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Danese Cooper 
Danese Cooper, September 2010Born January 19, 1959 Residence California Nationality American Alma mater University of California Influences Meher Baba Danese Cooper (born January 19, 1959) is an American programmer, computer scientist, and an advocate of open source software.[1]
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Career
Cooper has held many prominent leadership roles within the computer science sector. She 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.[1][2][3] In 2009 she worked as "Open Source Diva" at REvolution Computing ( now Revolution Analytics).[4] She is a board observer at Mozilla, and serves as a member of the Apache Software Foundation.[1] She was a board member at Open Source Initiative.[5]
Open source
Cooper's major work within the open source area of computer science has garnered her the nickname "Open Source Diva".[2][6] 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.[7] 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.[3][8] 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.[4] 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.[9][10][11][12] In 2005 Cooper was a contributing author to Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution.[13]
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,[1][14][8] along with which she would also be working on outreach with Wikimedia volunteers to expand on development and localizing of software.[8] Cooper credits the open source community in helping her obtain the position at Wikimedia.[15] On June 2, 2011, she announced her impending departure at the end of July.[16]
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.[4][7] 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.[7][17][18]
References
- ^ a b c d "Noted & Quoted.". Computers in Libraries 30 (4): 36–37. 2010.
- ^ a b "A Katt of Letters". eWeek (ZDNet) 22 (13): 64. 2005. http://proxygw.wrlc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=16598664&site=ehost-live. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
- ^ a b "Briefs". Computerworld (IDG) 39 (13): 8–12. 2005. http://proxygw.wrlc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=16559676&site=ehost-live. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
- ^ a b c ""Open Source Diva" Danese Cooper Joins REvolution Computing" (Press release). Business Wire. 2009-03-24. http://proxygw.wrlc.org/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com.proxygw.wrlc.org/pqdweb?did=1666395331&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientId=31812&RQT=309&VName=PQD. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
- ^ "Board Meeting Report" (Press release). Open Source Initiative. 2011-03-17. http://www.opensource.org/node/560. Retrieved 2011-05-17.
- ^ Paul Festa (3 September 2001). "Rebellion festers in far-flung colonies of Microsoft's empire". Canberra Times.
- ^ a b c Robin Miller (2008). "Open source diva Danese Cooper (video)". Video. SourceForge. http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/132699. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
- ^ a b c "Danese Cooper joins Wikimedia as CTO" (Press release). Wikimedia Foundation. 2010-01-28. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Danese_Cooper_joins_Wikimedia_as_CTO. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
- ^ "Talk on open source Java projects". New Straits Times. 7 July 2003.
- ^ "Danese Cooper". O'Reilly. 2010. http://www.gov2expo.com/gov2expo2010/public/schedule/speaker/3751. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
- ^ "OSCON 2008: Danese Cooper, Open Source Initiative and Intel Corporation: "Why Whinging Doesn't Work"". O'Reilly. 2008. http://blip.tv/file/1137040. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
- ^ "Danese Cooper - Speaking Topic: WIOS: Why Whinging* Doesn't Work". Speakers. Southern California Linux Expo. 2002-2011. http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale6x/conference-info/speakers/Danese-Cooper/. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
- ^ "Source is everything--the continuing evolution; O'Reilly releases "Open Sources 2.0"." (Press release). M2 Presswire. 2006-01-10. http://proxygw.wrlc.org/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com.proxygw.wrlc.org/pqdweb?did=962103111&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientId=31812&RQT=309&VName=PQD. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
- ^ "Content News". EContent 33 (3): 13. 2010. http://proxygw.wrlc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=49011049&site=ehost-live. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
- ^ Lisa Hoover (2010). "Wikimedia Hires Danese Cooper as New CTO". Blog. Ostatic. http://ostatic.com/blog/wikimedia-hires-danese-cooper-as-new-cto. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
- ^ "CTO Leaving Wikimedia Foundation end of July". Wikimediaannounce-l. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaannounce-l/2011-June/000180.html.
- ^ Sean Michael Kerner (2010). "Wikimedia Gets New CTO". Newslinx. Internet.com. http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2010/01/wikimedia-gets-new-cto.html. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
- ^ Jim Grisanzio (Mar 20, 2005). "Danese Inside" (Blog). http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/entry/danese_inside. "all you really need to know about Danese is that she knits in meetings,"
Further reading
- "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 9781171648161 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.
External links
- 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
Categories:- 1959 births
- Living people
- American chief technologists
- American computer programmers
- Apache Software Foundation members
- Followers of Meher Baba
- Free software programmers
- Peace Corps volunteers
- People in information technology
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Women in applied computer science
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