Alolita Sharma

Alolita Sharma is a computer scientist, software programmer who has been involved with open source software since the early days of Linux. She has actively promoted open source software adoption in industry, government and developing economies for the past 15 years, working with leaders in US and India's IT industry, government and education to enable change and transparency. She believes that the IDeaS of open source can generate unbounded opportunity for the development of technology and economic prosperity in developing nations.

Alolita is co-founder of Technetra, a software consulting company and has over 15 years in the industry.

She joined the Open Source Initiative (OSI) board in 2007 and currently serves as Secretary of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Her efforts at the OSI have been focused on advancing open source in education. She is also an active contributor to teachingopensource.org (TOS), an open community for open source in education.

She co-created India's first open source business conference LinuxAsia Conference and Expo , to serve as a platform for global industry leaders to interact with India's open source players from industry, government, academia and community.

She speaks internationally on open source trends, technologies and building successful communities. Her publications include a chapter on Open Source in India in the book Open Sources 2.0 , a regular column on technology trends in Linux For You and open source technology reviews in Linux Journal .

She holds a Bachelors degree with honors in Computer Science from George Mason University and a Masters degree with honors in Computer Science from George Washington University where she also pursued doctoral studies.

She blogs AbOUT open source technology, policies, education and culture at Open Source Buzz .

External links

• Open Source Initiative Board of Directors Annotated
• Open Source Buzz - Alolita Sharma's blog on Open Source Technology, Culture
• Alolita Sharma's published articles
• About Alolita Sharma at Technetra
• Alolita Sharma - LinkedIn Profile
• Alolita Sharma on Twitter
• Users as Contributors - GNUnify 2009, India
• Bloggers (Even Non-Programmers) Benefit from Participating in Open Source Projects, BlogHer 2008, San Francisco
• Open Source Entrepreneurship Forum 2008, Hyderabad
• Women in FLOSS, Geek Feminism Wiki
• Meeting with Alolita Sharma
• Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution (2006)
• Open Source In India Today, FOSSBazaar (2009)
• Over-the-Air Digital TV with Linux, Linux Journal (July 2008)
• Alolita Sharma's Silicon Valley Column, Linux For You (2003-2007)