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Jeremy Hogan
Community Manager, Hyperic, Inc.

Jeremy has been riddled with open source cooties since the 90’s. From early adopter edge of network deployments, on over the chasm to broad acceptance among the Fortune 500 and working with communities at CollabNet, Red Hat, Lulu and Hyperic.

As Red Hat’s first Community Relations Manager, Jeremy lived through the transition from boxed product revenue to subscription revenue and helped launch the Fedora Project.

Turn ons: Southern Rock, Irish Ale, Buffalo Wings, New York Pizza Turn offs: locks, gates, walls, doors, Disney and the word ‘no’

Sessions

10:45am Thursday, 07/24/2008

The Evolution of Community

Administration, Emerging Topics, Linux, Programming
Location: Portland 255

Joe Brockmeier (Citrix), Ross Turk (SourceForge, Inc.), Jono Bacon (Canonical Ltd), John Mark Walker (Gluster), Jeremy Hogan (Hyperic, Inc.) Moderated by: Joe Brockmeier

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Over the past ten years nothing has impacted business more than community. Whether through the openness of software development spurred by Linux or the dismantling of media empires through blogging, the rise of communities has been the driving force in how we work and live today. For open source developers, what has to happen to maintain and grow the communities they've built? Read more.