Community Leader and Open Technology Evangelist
Portland, Oregon Area
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- Chair / Board of Directors / Co-Founder at Legion of Tech
- Director of Developer Relations at Jive Software
- Past
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- Director of Community and Partner Programs at Compiere
- Manager / Strategist at Intel
- e-Business Program Principal at Timken
- Education
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- Ashland University
- Kent State University
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Dawn Foster’s Summary
Community building, podcasting, web 2.0, open source, and other open technologies are my current passions, and I spend quite a bit of my free time playing with online technologies and blogging on related topics. I was one of the five original Intel.com bloggers with the Intel Trends in Web 2.0 blog, but I currently blog on Fast Wonder (http://fastwonderblog.com), which I author on my personal time.
I have currently been particularly interested in understanding the community aspects of web 2.0 including how web 2.0 communities and similar to and different from other online communities (open source communities, etc.) I am also an evangelist for activities that help build relationships within the local Portland technology community through meetups, BarCamps, and other events.
Current Projects:
- Chair / Board Member / Co-founder of Legion of Tech, a non-profit focused on the Portland technology community events.
- Danese Cooper and I are currently authoring a book on the Art of Community for O'Reilly Media.
- Organizer of the Portland BarCamp Meetups. A monthly get together for Portland area techies. http://barcamp.org/BarCampPortlandMeetups
- Portland BarCamp Co-Organizer http://barcamp.org/BarCampPortland
- Ignite Portland co-organizer http://igniteportland.com
Dawn Foster’s Specialties:
open source software, Linux, technology, management, web 2.0, barcamp, podcasting
Dawn Foster’s Experience
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Chair / Board of Directors / Co-Founder
Legion of Tech
(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)
December 2007 — Present (6 months)
Legion of Tech is a non-profit organization started by a group of people to grow and nurture the local Portland technology community through educational, not-for-profit, community-run events. We will be running Ignite Portland, BarCamp Portland, Startupalooza and more from within this organization. This is yet another an evening / weekend project for me (not affiliated with my fabulous full-time job at Jive Software).
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Director of Developer Relations
Jive Software
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Responsible for building Jive's developer community with a focus on the new Clearspace product.
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Director of Community and Partner Programs
Compiere
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2006 — April 2007 (6 months)
As Director of Community and Partner Programs, I was the liaison between Compiere and their open source community in addition to managing relationships and programs for Compiere partners.
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Manager / Strategist
Intel
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; INTC; Computer Software industry)
August 2000 — November 2006 (6 years 4 months)
I spent most of my career at Intel working on open source software and enabling software development tools vendors. I recently worked in Intel's Open Source Program Office and was responsible for Intel's global open source engagement strategy and planning for Linux operating system vendor enabling and marketing.
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e-Business Program Principal
Timken
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TKR; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)
July 1995 — August 2000 (5 years 2 months)
Worked in a variety of roles including UNIX system administrator, software developer, market researcher, and E-Business program analyst.
Dawn Foster’s Education
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Ashland University
MBA, Executive Management, 1997 — 2000
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Kent State University
BS, Computer Science, 1989 — 1995
Additional Information
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Dawn Foster’s Interests:
communities, web 2.0, open source software, barcamp, geek culture, high tech strategy and management, anthropology, education, Ashtanga yoga, travel, reading, cooking vegan meals.
Dawn Foster’s Groups:
Portland Open Source Software Entrepreneurs (POSSE), pdxgeekchix, barcampportland
Dawn Foster’s Contact Settings
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