Chris DiBona

Engineer, Foodie, Parent, Scientist, World traveler, Writer/Editor

Chris DiBona Chris DiBona is a world authority on developer ecosystems and open source software. Notably he ran Google's open source office for nearly 19 years. At Google, he started and ran the open source program office, ran engineering in google.org, helped across Alphabet's entities as varied as Waymo, Intrinsic, Verily and more. He sun up and ran Google's maker effort, it's general science outreach, worked with GV, GCapital, and so, so much more. He hired close to 3000 people, including much of the android and platforms teams and maintained Google's relationships with the hundred of thousands of developers the world over. He has been an advisor to the Royal United Services Institute, the worlds oldest defense and security think tank, since 2016, and under Obama, was a member of the US Commerce Departments Data Access Commission. Previously he spun up the All for good jobs site for the Obama administration with Jonathan Greenblatt. Since 2015, he has helped create Fractured Veil, a video game set on far future Maui. Previously, Mr. DiBona has published two books on open source, countless articles and posts about the subject, has spoken thousands of times to venues big and small, helped the production of HBO's Silicon Valley, Amazon's Good Omens adaptation and long ago, was an editor for Slashdot.org, a sometimes broadcaster for TechTV, a podcaster for Floss Weekly and is still podcasting for the same dumb podcast started in 1998, Geeks in Space. He is a limited partner with Rally Ventures and Mercury funds. A proud husband and father, Mr. DiBona lives in Pacific Northwest and has a Masters in software engineering from Carnegie Melon University. was a visiting scholar/scientist at MIT Sloan and took *forever* to get his bachelors from George Mason University. He can be reached via chris@dibona.com. Also available are profiles on wikipedia, imdb and a twitter feed which you can take a look at.

My kids, wife, technology, reading and writing.

Did you know that there are over 31 million unique files containing over 3 billion lines of code that have been open sourced? It would take 100,000 developers almost 6 years to create the same quanitiy of code, and it is available for free for the world to use. This includes every aspect of computer software one might imagine, from operating systems to games to genetic sequencer drivers to crm systems. You name it, there is likely free software written for it already.

Artificial Intelligence, Defense Technology, Gas and Fluids Monitoring, Open Data, Open Source, The Maker Movement

Of course I've enjoyed the videos immensely, but the one thing that struck me was VS Ramachandran's talk about the way the mind works. Coming as it did after a relative suffered a significant brain injury, it was especially poignant for me and I believe selfishly that this helped me deal with what happened to my cousin.

Cooking, Skiing.