I have been involved in Open Source since long before it was even called that. If you know me, then you know how passionate I am about Open Source, and especially in the community and collaboration aspects of the movement. As much as the license, community and passion are defining factors in Open Source.

Open Source has given me much more than I could ever repay, and serving again on the board of OSI would be just one step in helping to give back to the community.

Some dry facts: I am a co-founder of the Apache Software Foundation, where, over the years, I have served as Secretary, Executive Vice President, President and Chairman. I have served on the board of the ASF since day 1. With all that in mind, I consider myself a developer at heart, and still actively code and hack. In fact, I have been hacking on Apache httpd since back in the days of the old Apache Group. In addition to all my development work on Apache projects, I also have contributed to numerous FOSS projects over the years, most of which are core and foundational to the Net, the Web and the Cloud. Over the years I have also received a few awards in recognition of my contributions; two that I am most proud of are the O'Reilly Open Source Award and the EU Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group's Luminary Innovation Award. I have also sat on several other FOSS boards and technical advisory groups. I am a Senior Director in Capital One's Tech Fellows program, helping to lead the strategic vision on Open and Inner Source within the company.

I encourage you to consider casting your vote for me as OSI Board Member. My promise and my commitment is, and will always remain, to the Open Source community and to those individuals which comprise it.