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'''Danese Cooper''' is an American programmer,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Simon|first1=Leslie|title=Geek Girl Of The Week: Danese Cooper|url=http://www.leslie-simon.com/danese-cooper-geek-girl/|website=leslie-simon.com|publisher=Leslie Simon|accessdate=11 March 2016|ref=programmer}}</ref> computer scientist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/25756/paypal-names-danese-cooper-head-open-source|title=PayPal names Danese Cooper head, open source|website=Finextra Research|access-date=2016-03-11|date=2014-02-21}}</ref> and advocate of [[open source software]].<ref name="Computers1">{{cite journal |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |year=2010 |title=Noted & Quoted. |journal=Computers in Libraries |volume=30 |issue=4 |pages=36–37 |doi= }}</ref>
'''Danese Cooper''' (born January 19, 1959<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/danese_m_cooper_born_1959_6828858|title=The Birth of Danese Cooper|website=California Birth Index|access-date=January 25, 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125212706/https://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/danese_m_cooper_born_1959_6828858|archive-date=January 25, 2020}}</ref>) is an American programmer,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Simon|first1=Leslie|title=Geek Girl Of The Week: Danese Cooper|url=http://www.leslie-simon.com/danese-cooper-geek-girl/|website=leslie-simon.com|publisher=Leslie Simon|accessdate=11 March 2016|ref=programmer}}</ref> computer scientist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/25756/paypal-names-danese-cooper-head-open-source|title=PayPal names Danese Cooper head, open source|website=Finextra Research|access-date=2016-03-11|date=2014-02-21}}</ref> and advocate of [[open source software]].<ref name="Computers1">{{cite journal |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |year=2010 |title=Noted & Quoted. |journal=Computers in Libraries |volume=30 |issue=4 |pages=36–37 |doi= }}</ref>


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Revision as of 19:19, 26 January 2020

Danese Cooper
Danese Cooper, September 2010
Born (1959-01-19) January 19, 1959 (age 65)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Scientific career
Websitedanesecooper.blogs.com

Danese Cooper (born January 19, 1959[1]) is an American programmer,[2] computer scientist[3] and advocate of open source software.[4]

Career

Cooper has managed teams at Symantec and Apple Inc. and for six years served as chief open source "evangelist" for Sun Microsystems before leaving to serve as senior director for open source strategies at Intel.[4][5][6] In 2009 she worked as "Open Source Diva" at REvolution Computing (now Revolution Analytics).[7] She is a board member of the Drupal Association[8] and the Open Source Hardware Association.[9] She is a board observer at Mozilla, and serves as a member of the Apache Software Foundation.[4] She was a board member at Open Source Initiative.[10] In October 2018, Danese joined Irish tech company NearForm as VP of Special Initiatives.[11]

Open source

Cooper's major work within the open source area of computer software has garnered her the nickname "Open Source Diva".[5][12] She was recruited, while at a sushi bar in Cupertino, to a position at Sun working towards opening the source code to Java. Within six months she quit frustrated by the claims of open source development with Java that Sun made, only to find that little "open sourcing" was taking place. Sun sought to keep Cooper understanding her need to further open source software and re-hired her as their corporate open source officer.[13] Her six years with Sun Microsystems is credited as the key to the company opening up its source code and lending support to Sun's OpenOffice.org software suite, Oracle Grid Engine, among others.[6][14] In 2009 she joined REvolution Computing, a "provider of open source predictive analytics solutions", to work on community outreach amongst developers unfamiliar with the programming language R and general open source strategies.[7] She has also made public speaking appearances discussing open sourcing, speaking at the Malaysian National Computer Confederation Open Source Compatibility Centre, OSCON, gov2.0 Expo, and the Southern California Linux Expo.[15][16][17][18] In 2005 Cooper was a contributing author to Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution.[19]

Wikimedia Foundation

In February 2010 Cooper was appointed Chief Technical Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation, leading their technical team and developing and executing the Foundation's technical strategy,[4][14][20] along with which she would also be working on outreach with Wikimedia volunteers to expand on development and localizing of software.[14] Cooper credits the open source community in helping her obtain the position at Wikimedia.[21] She left the organization in July 2011.[22]

daneseWorks

In June 2011, Cooper started a consultancy, daneseWorks, whose first client was the Gates Foundation's shared learning collaborative (now called inBloom). She is currently helping[23] numenta/nupic with their open source & machine learning strategy.

Personal life

Danese Cooper obtained her high school diploma from Chadwick School and her B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Upon graduation she spent time in Morocco as a volunteer in the Peace Corps.[7][13] Cooper credits her time with the Peace Corps as fostering her desire to travel and work within the developing world to explore policy, education and how open source software can "give certain kids another alternative". She is married to a software developer and enjoys knitting, which she often engages in during meetings.[13][24][25]

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Birth of Danese Cooper". California Birth Index. Archived from the original on January 25, 2020. Retrieved January 25, 2020.
  2. ^ Simon, Leslie. "Geek Girl Of The Week: Danese Cooper". leslie-simon.com. Leslie Simon. Retrieved March 11, 2016.
  3. ^ "PayPal names Danese Cooper head, open source". Finextra Research. February 21, 2014. Retrieved March 11, 2016.
  4. ^ a b c d "Noted & Quoted". Computers in Libraries. 30 (4): 36–37. 2010.
  5. ^ a b "A Katt of Letters". eWeek. 22 (13). ZDNet: 64. 2005. Retrieved April 13, 2011.
  6. ^ a b "Briefs". Computerworld. 39 (13). IDG: 8–12. 2005. Retrieved April 13, 2011.
  7. ^ a b c ""Open Source Diva" Danese Cooper Joins REvolution Computing" (Press release). Business Wire. March 24, 2009. ProQuest 444187657.
  8. ^ "Board of Directors" (Press release). Drupal Association. July 11, 2013.
  9. ^ "Board of Directors" (Press release). Open Source Hardware Association. July 11, 2013.
  10. ^ "Board Meeting Report" (Press release). Open Source Initiative. March 17, 2011. Retrieved May 17, 2011.
  11. ^ [1] [dead link]
  12. ^ Paul Festa (September 3, 2001). "Rebellion festers in far-flung colonies of Microsoft's empire". Canberra Times.
  13. ^ a b c Robin Miller (2008). "Open source diva Danese Cooper (video)". Video. SourceForge. Retrieved April 13, 2011.
  14. ^ a b c "Danese Cooper joins Wikimedia as CTO" (Press release). Wikimedia Foundation. January 28, 2010. Archived from the original on January 30, 2010. Retrieved April 13, 2011.
  15. ^ "Talk on open source Java projects". New Straits Times. July 7, 2003.
  16. ^ "Danese Cooper". O'Reilly. 2010. Retrieved April 13, 2011.
  17. ^ "OSCON 2008: Danese Cooper, Open Source Initiative and Intel Corporation: "Why Whinging Doesn't Work"". O'Reilly. 2008. Archived from the original on December 13, 2010. Retrieved April 13, 2011.
  18. ^ "Danese Cooper - Speaking Topic: WIOS: Why Whinging* Doesn't Work". Speakers. Southern California Linux Expo. 2002–2011. Retrieved April 13, 2011.
  19. ^ "Source is everything--the continuing evolution; O'Reilly releases "Open Sources 2.0"" (Press release). M2 Presswire. January 10, 2006. ProQuest 445731773.
  20. ^ "Content News". EContent. 33 (3): 13. 2010. Retrieved April 13, 2011.
  21. ^ Lisa Hoover (2010). "Wikimedia Hires Danese Cooper as New CTO". Blog. Ostatic. Retrieved April 13, 2011.
  22. ^ "CTO Leaving Wikimedia Foundation end of July". Wikimediaannounce-l.
  23. ^ Video on YouTube
  24. ^ Sean Michael Kerner (2010). "Wikimedia Gets New CTO". Newslinx. Internet.com. Retrieved April 13, 2011.
  25. ^ Jim Grisanzio (March 20, 2005). "Danese Inside". Archived from the original (Blog) on July 25, 2008. Retrieved April 13, 2011. all you really need to know about Danese is that she knits in meetings,
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