Steering Committee

From OpenBRR

The current members of OpenBRR Steering Committee are:

  • Tony Wasserman (Chair) - Executive Director, Center for Open Source Investigation, and Professor of Software Engineering Practice, Carnegie Mellon West
  • Larry Augustin - Chairman, VA Software and CEO of Medsphere Systems Corp.
  • Josh Berkus - PostgreSQL
  • Michael Goulde, Sr. Analyst, Forrester Research
  • Marc Hedlund - Entrepreneur-in-residence, O'Reilly Media & CodeZoo
  • Peter Kronowitt - OSS Strategic Manager, Intel
  • George Pace, Systems Architect, Prudential Financial
  • Murugan Pal - Founder and CTO, SpikeSource, Inc.

SC Tasks include

  • Logistics for meeting, etc.
  • Working with BRR community to define roadmap, goals, and criteria.
  • Ongoing Funding – related to sponsorship.
  • Sponsor adoption plan, we have a lot companies from different sectors inquiring for sponsorship.
    • What are the correct sponsorship levels?
    • What are the participation levels?
  • Human resource gathering.
  • Legality issues and business plan. What it means to be open, etc.
  • BRR adoption plan, working with other groups (SourgeForge, CodeZoo, etc) to get adoption.
  • Create organizational charters like mission statement, goals, etc.