Marketing will try to show me off a bit, at trade shows, etc. And they did a press release when I was hired, and that got covered by a lot of the major technical news outlets. But I don't expect to get the same sort of star billing as Carly. I report to Martin Fink, who is general manager of the Linux systems operation. Jim Bell, formerly director of the open source and Linux operation, is now working on consortium and standards projects.
Public work includes writing free software, writing about free software, and public speaking.
I don't particularly intend to take a political stance in that, though, and I can change if it's more comfortable for you. RMS considered it, at the time I wrote it, to be a good document about free software. I correspond with RMS once or more a week, more than I correspond with any other free software leader. The biggest surprise so far has been how badly our hands are tied with respect to opening some equipment, because of the way we've licensed technology from other companies. Obviously, design-in decisions have to be different in the future.