Aaron Roe Fulkerson is an American information technology businessman and founder of

MindTouch MindTouch was an American multinational technology company headquartered in San Diego, California, that designed, developed, and sold SaaS computer software and online services. MindTouch was founded by Aaron Fulkerson and Steve Bjorg in 2005. In ...

, Inc. Fulkerson helped pioneer the open core

business model A business model describes how a Company, business organization creates, delivers, and captures value creation, value,''Business Model Generation'', Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Alan Smith, and 470 practitioners from 45 countries, self-pub ...

collaborative network A collaborative network is a network consisting of a variety of entities (e.g. organizations and people) that are largely autonomous, geographically distributed, and heterogeneous in terms of their operating environment, culture, social capital and ...

s, and the application of Web Oriented Architecture to enterprise software. Fulkerson is founder and board member at

, a supplier of

open source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use and view the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open source model is a decentrali ...

and

software. Prior to co-founding MindTouch with Steve Bjorg, Aaron was a member of

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company, technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975, the company became influential in the History of personal computers#The ear ...

’s Advanced Strategies and Policies division, and worked on distributed systems research. Previously, he owned and operated a successful software and Information Technology consulting firm, Gurion Digital LLP. He won a

Jack Kent Cooke Foundation The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is a private, independent foundation which provides scholarship programs to gifted students in the U.S. who have financial need. It offers academic advising and other support services to students from 8th grade to ...

scholarship in 2002. Aaron advises Microsoft on open source practices, and is a founding advisory member of the OuterCurve Foundation (formerly known as the CodePlex Foundation). He is also the technical editor to

MCGraw Hill McGraw Hill is an American education science company that provides educational content, software, and services for students and educators across various levels—from K-12 to higher education and professional settings. They produce textbooks, ...

's "Implementing Enterprise 2.0." Aaron is a contributing blogger and writer for

Forbes ''Forbes'' () is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917. It has been owned by the Hong Kong–based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014. Its chairman and editor-in-chief is Steve Forbes. The co ...

, GigaOm OSTATIC, TechWeb Internet Evolution,

Fortune Magazine ''Fortune'' (stylized in all caps) is an American global business magazine headquartered in New York City. It is published by Fortune Media Group Holdings, a global business media company. The publication was founded by Henry Luce in 1929. T ...

, CNNMoney.com, CMSWire and ReadWriteWeb. In 2008, Aaron was cited one of seven "Leading Corporate Social Media Evangelists" by ReadWriteWeb. Aaron is also a frequent speaker on the topics of enterprise software, Enterprise 2.0, Social CRM (SCRM), open source, education, and entrepreneurship, In March 2010, he was named on the Mindtouch website as the forty-sixth in the list of "Most Powerful Voices in Open Source".

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External links

OSCON Speaker
at Oscon 2009
Google Profile

Fulkerson Personal Blog

WOA Pioneer

WOA Presentation

Floss 89: Interview with Aaron Roe Fulkerson about Mindtouch

Linux Journal video interview with Aaron Fulkerson

podcast about Wiki's

Podcast interview

Read Write Web

Fulkerson Interviews
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