Chris DiBona ('cdibona', born October 1971) is the former director of

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from August 2004DiBona bio
at Google Ventures. until January 2023. The open source team at Google oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through programs such as the

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and through the release of open source software projects and patches on

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. In his former work on Google's public sector software, he looked after Google Moderator and the polling locations API and election results. Before joining Google, he was an editor at ''

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'' and co-founded Damage Studios. DiBona has a B.S. in computer science from

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and a M.S. in software engineering from

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. He also co-edited '' Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution'' and '' Open Sources 2.0''. He was laid off from Google in January 2023 as part of Alphabet's workforce reductions.

FLOSS Weekly

He formerly co-hosted ''

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'' (a

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that was spun off from the popular ''

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'') with

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. The show premiered on April 7, 2006, and features prominent guests from the free software/open source community. He also appeared on ''This Week in Tech'' and ''CrankyGeeks'' from time to time and was in the documentary Revolution OS. On July 29, 2007, Laporte announced that due to commitment issues, DiBona was stepping down as host of FLOSS Weekly.

Science Foo Camp

DiBona runs Science Foo Camp annually with

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of O'Reilly Media and Timo Hannay of ''

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'' on the Google campus in Mountain View, California.

TechTV

DiBona was a

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commentator on

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's ''

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'', during 2004 and parts of 2005. His stories concentrated on fun applications and consumer use of Linux.

Other activities

DiBona formerly served on the board of Our Good Works, a non-profit that looks after the volunteer matching website Allforgood.org. He serves on the board of the

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. DiBona served on the advisory board of imeem, a San Francisco, California–based social networking firm, and advises PicPlz, a San Francisco start-up. He's a visiting scientist (formally a visiting scholar) at the

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, and an advisor to Mixed Media Labs, app.net project. He also advises Ingenuitas on their sight machine project.DiBona website
/ref> He's also an associate in Google Ventures.

References

External links

DiBona's Weblog
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