Casey (Cassandra) Valk - Open Source Legalese Geek

Last modified by CaseyValk on 2017/03/02 18:12

Hello!

I'm a non-attorney who has been involved on the legal side of reviewing and clearing open source for about 10 years, including working in the trenches with developers and product managers, as well as drafting the appropriate notices.txt files; I've been negotiating software deals for about 15 years, nine of which were at IBM.  I currently work at Cloudera, Inc.

My goal, if elected, would be to leverage my background to evangelize open source and related education to contracts/legal/procurement teams. In my experience, a significant barrier to companies not adopting open source (including products built on or with open source) is the legal/contracts/procurement team's lack of open source knowledge, which results in incorrect risk assessments.  The legal/contracts/procurement teams often have a tremendous amount of influence on the business, and because of this, companies/development teams miss opportunities to innovate, reduce costs, etc.  - and -  those companies that leverage open source miss growth opportunities.

Thank you for the consideration.

Casey

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