Andrew Oram

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• Editor at O'Reilly Media
• Volunteer at CPSR

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Andrew Oram’s Summary

I work as an editor at O'Reilly & Associates, a highly respected
book publisher and technology information provider. An employee of the
company since 1992, I currently specialize in books on free software and
software engineering. My editorial output includes the first
books ever published commercially in the United States on Linux,
the 2001 title Peer-to-Peer (still the single work likely to be cited wherever its technologies are referred to), and the 2007 title Beautiful Code. My modest programming and system administration skills are mostly self-taught.

I'm also a member of Computer Professionals for Social
Responsibility and write often for the O'Reilly Network
(http://oreillynet.com/), as well as other publications on policy issues
related to the Internet and on trends affecting technical innovation
and its effects on society.

My Web site is http://www.praxagora.com/andyo/. The most interesting pages there are probably my work on community documentation (http://praxagora.com/community_documentation/), my list of articles (http://praxagora.com/andyo/professional/article.html) and some fiction (http://praxagora.com/andyo/fiction/).

I work at the O'Reilly office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, live nearby with my family, and worship at Temple Shir Tikvah in Winchester.

Andrew Oram’s Specialties:

Technical editing, technical and policy journalism

Andrew Oram’s Experience

• Editor

  O'Reilly Media

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

  November 1992 — Present (16 years 2 months)

  Current responsibilities at O'Reilly & Associates:
  * research computer industry, recruit authors, and edit
  manuscripts, particularly on books about open source topics
  and system administration.
  * write marketing literature and maintain online information
  about books.
  * write thought-provoking articles on trends in technology and
  on social impacts of these technologies
  * represent the company at trade shows, at conferences, and in
  strategic meetings with outsiders, particularly in the areas
  of Linux and of Open Source generally.

• Volunteer

  CPSR

  (Publishing industry)

  1987 — Present (21 years)

Additional Information

Andrew Oram’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company

Andrew Oram’s Interests:

In addition to finding and editing books and articles, I do research on documentation produced by communities (http://praxagora.com/community_documentation/). I study and write about policy issues in computing and networks (http://praxagora.com/andyo/professional/article.html).

Andrew Oram’s Groups:

Temple Shir Tikvah (http://www.shir-tikvah.org/) of Winchester, Mass.

•    MASSCOMP Alumni
•    Digital Publishing Network

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