Stormy Peters educates companies and communities on how open source software is changing the software industry and how they can best use, interact and participate with open source software projects and companies using open source software.
She is a passionate speaker who engages her audiences during and after her presentations. She 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.
Speaking Topics:
- Open source software: communities, business models and best practices
- InnerSource software: applying the best practices
- Building and engaging communities: how to grow your project or company by creating a community
- Custom topics: the best conversations come out of bringing new ideas together
Sample videos of previous talks
- Keynote: China and Hong Kong SAR’s Leading Role in Open Source and AI
- GitHub Universe Keynote: From right here, right now, to galaxies far away
- The next era of open source: the rise of the open source economy and the career developer
- Would you do it again for free?
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Biography
Stormy Peters is an expert open source software executive. Throughout her career, Stormy has been passionate about open source software and has worked to educate companies and communities on how open source software is changing the software industry.
She was VP of Communities at GitHub where she led the teams responsible for enabling the online creators and open source communities on GitHub, including GitHub’s community product efforts, developer relations, education, and other strategic programs. Prior to GitHub, Stormy was the Director of the Open Source Programs Office at Microsoft, enabling 30,000+ developers to consume and contribute to open source effectively. She has helped initiate programs such as Microsoft’s FOSS Fund and the Azure Credits for Open Source projects. She’s also held leadership positions working with the open source community at Mozilla, Red Hat, OpenLogic and Hewlett-Packard. She has also held leadership roles in non profit organizations such as serving as a board member of the Linux Foundation, representing 1,215 silver-level companies across the organization, as well as serving as Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation and Kids on Computers.
Stormy graduated from Rice University with a B.A. in Computer Science. She lives in Northern Colorado with her family. In her free time, she likes to run with her dog, challenge herself with high intensity interval workouts, give historical walking tours of the New Orleans French Quarter, and read lots of sci-fi.
Testimonials
- Zak Greant: “One of the sessions that I caught during this day was Stormy Peters’ excellent, “What is a Community Manager?” presentation. My notes – in point form rather than prose – follow.”
- Zonker: “Overall, Peters’ talk was a lot of fun, she’s a really engaging speaker and did a great job of getting the audience involved and getting feedback from the group & I’d strongly recommend catching one of her talks if you have the opportunity to do so at another conference and to check out her blog.”
- OpenMedia: “Once again Stormy Peters gave an excellent talk on Open Source Governance”
- JayGodse: “Stormy Peters has some great insights on managing software IP in an enterprise.”
- Computing Assistance Support & Education: “She is a fantastic presenter and I really enjoyed what she had to say.”
- Leslie Hawthorne: “All the Keynotes were great; Stormy Peters’ “Would You Do It Again for Free?” is real food for thought given some of the discussions going on around money in open source.”