Oh Most Wise and Gracious Emacs, please be in -*- outline -*- mode! * Canonical / Launchpad standard (used for OSCON 2009): Karl Fogel is Launchpad Ombudsman at Canonical, an author on open source topics, and a long-time open source developer. After working on CVS and writing "Open Source Development With CVS" (Coriolis, 1999, cvsbook.com), he went to CollabNet, Inc as a founding developer in the Subversion project. Based on his experiences there, he wrote "Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project" (O'Reilly, 2005, producingoss.com). After a brief stint as an Open Source Specialist at Google, he left to found the non-profit QuestionCopyright.org, where he continues to be active after joining Canonical in 2008. He writes and speaks regularly on copyright reform and on the application of open source principles to areas outside software. * Medium Standard: Karl Fogel is an open source developer, author, and copyright reform activist. In 1995, he and Jim Blandy co-founded Cyclic Software, the first company offering commercial support CVS, the free software version control system; in 1997 he added support for anonymous read-only repository access to CVS. In 1999 he wrote "Open Source Development With CVS" (Coriolis OpenPress). From 2000-2006, he worked for CollabNet, Inc, managing the creation and development of Subversion, an open source version control system written from scratch by CollabNet and a team of open source volunteers. In 2005 he wrote "Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project" (O'Reilly Media, also online at producingoss.com). After a brief stint as an Open Source Specialist at Google in 2006, he left to found QuestionCopyright.org and work full-time on copyright reform. He continues to participate in various open source projects, including Subversion and GNU Emacs. * Short Standard: Karl Fogel is an open source developer and author. After working on CVS and writing "Open Source Development With CVS" (Coriolis, 1999), he went to CollabNet, Inc as a founding developer in the Subversion project. Based on his experiences there, he wrote "Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project" (O'Reilly, 2005), and after a brief stint at Google, now works as an independent copyright reform activist. His secret mission is to spread open source principles and methods to areas outside software. - OR - Karl Fogel is an open source developer and author. After working on CVS and writing "Open Source Development With CVS" (Coriolis, 1999, cvsbook.com), he went to CollabNet, Inc as a founding developer in the Subversion project. Based on his experiences there, he wrote "Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project" (O'Reilly, 2005, producingoss.com). After a brief stint as an Open Source Specialist at Google, he left to found QuestionCopyright.org. He writes and speaks regularly on copyright reform and on the application of open source principles to areas outside software. * ProducingOSS back cover: In 1995, Karl Fogel co-founded Cyclic Software, a company offering commercial CVS support. In 1999 he added support for CVS anonymous read-only repository access, inaugurating a new standard for access to development sources in open source projects. That same year, he wrote "Open Source Development With CVS" (published by Coriolis), now in its third edition via Paraglyph Press. Since early 2000, he has worked for CollabNet, Inc, managing the creation and development of Subversion, a version control system written from scratch by CollabNet and a team of open source volunteers, and meant to replace CVS as the de facto standard among open source projects. He also participates in various other open source projects as a module maintainer, patch contributor, and documentation writer. * Subversion concentration (for CollabNet conference), long version: Karl Fogel is an open source developer and author. From 1995-2000 he was one of the maintainers of CVS, adding support for anonymous read-only repository access to CVS in 1997. In 2000, he joined CollabNet to help start the Subversion project, and later wrote "Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project" (O'Reilly, 2005, producingoss.com) based on that experience. After a brief stint at Google in 2006, he began working on copyright reform activism full-time in 2007, as editor of QuestionCopyright.org. He still consults on Subversion, remains active as a developer in the Subversion project, and is currently President of the non-profit Subversion Corporation. * Subversion concentration (for CollabNet conference), short version: Karl Fogel has been working in open source version control systems since 1995, first as a maintainer of CVS, then joining CollabNet in 2000 to help start the Subversion project. Today he works as a copyright reform activist at QuestionCopyright.org, but continues to consult on Subversion and to remain active as a developer. He is currently President of the non-profit Subversion Corporation. * Copyright bio Karl Fogel is an open source software developer, author, and copyright reform activist. After more than a decade of involvement in open source projects, in 2005 he wrote the book "Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project" (O'Reilly Media, online at producingoss.com), and with the publisher's cooperation released it under an open copyright. After a brief stint as an Open Source Specialist at Google in 2006, he left to found the non-profit QuestionCopyright.org. He now splits his time between copyright reform activism at QuestionCopyright.org and open source development at Canonical, Ltd, the company behind Ubuntu.