ETH Global Lecture Series: What is Open Source, and Why Should You Care?
ETH Zürich, 20 November 2018 - Kevin Fleming, Bloomberg, New York, will present a condensed history of open source software: its origins, motivations and effect on the world of software development.
What is Open Source, and Why Should You Care?
external pageKevin P. Fleming
Member of the CTO Office
Bloomberg LP, New York
Free public lecture
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Tuesday, 20 November 2018
ETH Zurich, Main Building, Lecture Hall HG E 3
12.15 - 13.15 h
Doors open at 12.00 h
Kevin P. Fleming has 25+ years of programming experience, with every major programming language. Industry experience includes traditional client/server database applications, open source messaging and networking, and mainframe operating systems. Kevin's primary skill is producing solutions that use resources effectively through problem analysis and solution design.
A member of the worldwide open source community for nearly twenty years, Kevin most recently was the technical architect for the Asterisk and Asterisk Scalable Communications Framework open source communications projects.
Since late 2012, he has been the open source and open technology community coordinator at Bloomberg in New York. His role encompasses all forms of technology community engagement: open source software publication/contribution/consumption, conference sponsorship and presentations, standards body participation, and much more. He speaks regularly on subjects related to enterprise involvement in open source software, and advocates for college/university student engagement in open source projects of all kinds.