Stormy Peters

Short biography

Stormy Peters is Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. She joined the GNOME Foundation from OpenLogic where she set up their OpenLogic Expert Community. Previously, Stormy worked at Hewlett-Packard (HP) where she founded and managed the Open Source Program Office that is responsible for HP's open source strategy, policy and business practices. Stormy joined HP as a software engineer after graduating from Rice University with a B.A. in Computer Science.
Stormy is a frequent keynote speaker on business aspects of Open Source Software at major conferences such as the Open Source Business Conference and the O'Reilly conferences, as well as government organizations such as the United Nations and the European Union. Stormy is involved in GNOME and free and open source software because it is changing the world and the community is full of smart, passionate people!

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The GNOME project provides a free and open source desktop, accessible to all. Today this desktop is providing the foundation for the desktop of the future, whether it be a web device or a mobile device or a computing platform designed just for children. Working with its core values like accessibility, internationalization and developer-friendly, the GNOME community is working effectively with its contributors and users as well as the companies and other organizations in the industry. Come learn what GNOME is planning for the future and how you can be a part of the GNOME community and help develop free and open source technologies that are building our future.