PALESTRA
Título: "Write the future now: OpenOffice.org"
Some Informations
Senior Community Manager, OpenOffice.org 2000 - Present
The Community Development Manager and Community Lead for the open-source
project OpenOffice.org (http://www.openoffice.org), I direct the
community and Project strategy and have led OpenOffice.org to its
current state as the world’s leading open-source desktop application.
More particularly, I determine and coordinate Project policy and goals
for both community activities and product identity and marketing; build
developer, business, and government interest in the Project and product;
initiate, develop, and coordinate partner relations with ISVs,
enterprises, educational institutions, and government IT offices; write
analytical and informative articles on open source and OpenOffice.org,
and present on open source and OpenOffice.org at international
conferences. I am the Chair of the OpenOffice.org governing body, the
Community Council, as well as Project Lead or Co-Lead of the BizDev
(business development), Website, Native Language (translation, support,
information), and Incubator projects. I am further the primary liaison
with the Project’s primary contributor and sponsoring company, Sun
Microsystems.
CollabNet (http://www.collab.net), the software company hosting
OpenOffice.org, employs me as the Senior Community Development Manager
and open-source strategy consultant. In this capacity, I consult for
CollabNet on open source governance and project structure, write papers
and plans for enterprises on the subject, and present on community set
up and development at international conferences.
Lead Copy Writer and Editor, eLuxury, San Francisco 1999-2000
The initial and lead copywriter for the e-commerce site eLuxury,
associated with the LVMH luxury concern, I wrote all catalog, ad and
review copy, established the site's tone and style, and supervised a
cadre of freelance copywriters.
Editor and Researcher, The Mark Twain Project, University of California,
Berkeley 1995 - 1999
As one of the Mark Twain Project’s primary researchers, I documented
many of Mark Twain’s more than 15,000 signature letters and manuscripts,
producing finding aids and informational guides to be used both by the
editors and visiting scholars. I further helped to research and curate
exhibitions of Twain’s work and helped to initiate a program presenting
lectures on Twain to professional and nonprofessional audiences.
Instructor, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
1989 - 1997
I designed and implemented lecture and seminar courses in English and
Rhetoric for undergraduate students. These courses used contemporary
cultural debates to teach writing skills and strategies. In addition, I
created and managed the budget and technology of a then-innovative
Web-based system that enabled more than 500 students from ten large
lecture courses in the English department to continue discussion
sessions online. I published and presented critical papers on
contemporary American culture at national and international conferences.
Education
Ph.D., English, University of California, Berkeley, 1999
A.B. English, University of California, Berkeley (Honors)
Dissertation
"Tramp Discourse: The Figure of the Tramp in the United States at the
Turn of the Century" Committee: Carolyn Porter, Chair; Samuel Otter, Thomas Laqueur
Fellowships and Honors
Humanities Graduate Research Grant, 1997. (Awarded for research at
Cambridge University and Houghton Library)
University of California, Berkeley Graduate Fellowship, 1988 – 1990
References available upon request
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