Christopher Blizzard (born 1973) is a Developer Relations lead at

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. Formerly, he worked as an

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Evangelist at the

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and has contributed to other open source projects, including

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and One Laptop Per Child. Prior to his position as Open Source Evangelist he was the Software Team Lead for the One Laptop Per Child project at Red Hat and sat on the Mozilla Corporation Board of Directors. Before joining the One Laptop Per Child project he was a

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and Open Source software developer working at Red Hat.

One Laptop Per Child

Blizzard was the OLPC Software Team Lead through

. He helped to develop the project's modified version of

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Linux. He handled all integration and community work with the OLPC project and unveiled the laptop in a video on Friday, June 2, 2006. Chris was also involved with the development of the OLPC's

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interface.

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