InnerSource Summit 23 Looking at the Future of InnerSource
Channel: InnerSource Commons
Date: 18/12/2023

Looking at the Future of InnerSource - Daniel Izquierdo (ISC President), Isabel Drost-Fromm (ISC Chair), Georg Grütter (ISC Executive Director) & Danese Cooper (ISC Founder)

Bios:

Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar 

Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar is a researcher and one of the founders of Bitergia, a company that provides software analytics for open and InnerSource ecosystems. Currently holding the position of Chief Executive Officer, he is focused on the quality of the data, research of new metrics, analysis and studies of interest for Bitergia customers via data mining and processing. Izquierdo Cortázar earned a PhD in free software engineering from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid in 2012 focused on the analysis of buggy developers activity patterns in the Mozilla community. He is in an active contributor and board member of CHAOSS (Community Health Analytics for Open Source Software). He is an active member and President at the InnerSource Commons Foundation.

Isabel Drost-Fromm

Isabel Drost-Fromm is Chair of the board of directors of the InnerSource Commons Foundation as well as (former board) member of the Apache Software Foundation. Interested in all things search and text mining with a thorough background in open source collaboration she is working at Europace AG as Open Source Strategist. True to the nature of people living in Berlin she loves giving friends a reason for a brief visit - as a result she co-founded and is still one of the creative heads behind Berlin Buzzwords, a tech conference on all things search, scale and storage and FOSS Backstage.

Georg Grütter 

Georg Grütter is a passionate software developer and open collaboration enthusiast. He co-founded the InnerSource program at Bosch in 2009 as well as the InnerSource Commons Foundation in 2020, where he currently serves as a member of the board of directors. Georg lives in Bonn, Germany, is an avid cyclist, chocolate lover and spends too much time in his basement building things.

Danese Cooper

Danese Cooper is the founder of InnerSource Commons. She is a long term open source advocate, having previously served as the of head of open source software at PayPal, CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation, chief open source evangelist for Sun, and senior director of open source strategies for Intel. Danese was also the inaugural chairperson of the Node.js Foundation. She concentrates on creating healthy open source communities and has served on the boards of Drupal Association, the Open Source Initiative, the Open Source Hardware Association, and she’s advised Mozilla and the Apache Software Foundation. Danese also runs a successful open source consultancy that counts the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the SETI Institute, Harris, and Numenta as clients. She’s been known to knit through meetings.