Jim Jagielski is an American

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who was a co-founder of the

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, specializing in

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, InnerSource,

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and

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technologies.

Professional activity

In 1994, Jagielski founded jaguNET Access Services, a web host and ISP. He has served as CTO for

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. Additionally, Jagielski has served as the Open Source Program Office lead for companies such as Red Hat, Capital One, VMWare, Uber, and currently Salesforce. Later, he served as editor of the

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FAQ and system administrator for Jagubox, the primary repository for third-party software for Apple's A/UX operating system.

Apache Software Foundation

After doing some development on the

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web server, he started with Apache in early-to-mid 1995. Jagielski is one of the co-founders of the Apache Software Foundation and served for several years as director, chairman, president, and executive vice-president of the ASF. Jagielski is the original Chair of the Apache Incubator project.

Other board and council memberships

In 2010, Jagielski was appointed to the board of directors of the CodePlex Foundation, which was later renamed to Outercurve Foundation. Jagielski also serves as the president for Outercurve. In 2011, Jagielski was appointed to the Board of Directors of the

Open Source Initiative The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a California public benefit corporation "actively involved in Open Source community-building, education, and public advocacy to promote awareness and the importance of non-proprietary software". Governance The ...

. He resigned in September 2013. The following year, Jagielski was appointed as a new Council member of the MARSEC-XL Foundation. Jagielski is a member of OASIS Open's Open Projects Advisory Council.

Awards

Jagielski was one of the recipients of the O'Reilly Open Source Awards at OSCON 2012. In 2015, Jagielski was awarded the European Commission/Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group's Luminary Award in Creating Open Engagement Platforms for his global efforts in promoting Open Source as an Innovation process.

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