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Alolita Sharma
Co-Founder, Technetra, Open Source Initiatve (OSI)

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Alolita Sharma has been involved with open source since the early days of Linux. She has actively promoted open source software adoption in industry, government and developing economies for the past 12 years to enable change and transparency. She believes that the ideas of open source can generate unbounded opportunity for the development of technology and economic prosperity in developing nations. She is co-founder and CEO of Technetra and has over 15 years in the IT industry. She is also a member of the board of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). She co-created India’s first open source business conference LinuxAsia, to serve as a platform for global industry leaders to interact with India’s open source players. She has published widely and spoken at international conferences on open source trends and technologies. Her blog can be read at opensourcebuzz.technetra.com.

Sessions

11:35am Thursday, 07/24/2008

Open Source / Open World

Emerging Topics
Location: Portland 255

Danese Cooper (Wikimedia Foundation and Open Source Initiative), Rishab Aiyer Ghosh (UNU-MERIT), Harshad Gune (Symbiosis International University), Martin Michlmayr (Hewlett Packard), Nnenna Nwakanma (NNENNA.ORG), Bruno Souza (SouJava), Alolita Sharma (Technetra, Open Source Initiatve (OSI))

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It's been 10 years since the term open source was coined in the U.S., and in that time transparent commons-based software development has changed the face of the U.S. software industry. But what impact has open source had outside of the U.S.? This panel will introduce you to five people who report on the reach and impact of open source worldwide. Learn how we're changing the world!! Read more.