Chris Messina (open source advocate)

Chris Messina (open source advocate)
Chris Messina

Taken January 21, 2006
Born January 7, 1981 (1981-01-07) (age 30)
USA
Occupation Open Web Advocate (Google)[1]
Open Source Advocate

Chris Messina (born January 7, 1981 in USA), aka FactoryJoe, is an open source and open standards advocate currently residing in San Francisco. Messina was formerly employed as an Open Source Advocate at identity company Vidoop and before that was the co-founder of marketing agency Citizen Agency. Currently he is working with Google as an Open Web Advocate.[1] He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003[2] with a BA in Communication Design.

Messina is best known for his involvement in helping to create the BarCamp, Spread Firefox, and coworking[3] movements. Messina is an active proponent of microformats and OAuth.

Messina co-founded Citizen Agency, a company which describes itself as "Internet consultancy that specializes in developing community-centric strategies around product research, design, development and marketing"[4] with Tara Hunt and Ben Metcalfe, who has since left the company.

Messina was featured with Hunt, also his ex-girlfriend, in "So Open it Hurts", in San Francisco Magazine (August, 2008).[5] The article detailed their very public and open relationship shared on the internet, and the lessons they derived from that experience.

Messina is an advocate of open-source, most notably Firefox and Flock. As a volunteer for the Spread Firefox campaign, he designed the 2004 Firefox advert which appeared in The New York Times on December 16, 2004.[6] In 2008 he won a Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award for Best Community Amplifier for BarCamp, Microformats and Spread Firefox.[7]

Messina is also credited with introducing the "hashtag" to Twitter.[8]

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