Chris DiBona | |
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| Born | October 1971 (age 53) |
| Other names | cdibona |
Chris DiBona ('cdibona', born October 1971) was the director of open source at Google from August 2004[1] until January 2023.[2]
The open source team at Google oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through programs such as the Google Summer of Code and through the release of open source software projects and patches on Google Code. In his former work on Google's public sector software, he looked after Google Moderator and the polling locations API and election results.
Before joining Google, he was an editor at Slashdot and co-founded Damage Studios. DiBona has a B.S. in computer science from George Mason University and a M.S. in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He also co-edited Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution and Open Sources 2.0.[3]
He was laid off from Google in January 2023 as part of Alphabet's workforce reductions.[2]
- ^ DiBona bio Archived 2013-07-26 at the Wayback Machine at Google Ventures.
- ^ a b Vaughan-Nichols, Steven J. "What is Google doing with its open source teams?". www.theregister.com.
Chris DiBona, who founded Google's OSPO 18 years ago, was let go.
- ^ DiBona biography on the O'Reilly Network.