Karsten Wade Email & Phone Number

Santa Cruz, Ca, Us

Santa Cruz, Ca, Us

Greater Bay Area

Whatever your interest and need is around Open Source and all things Open, I can help you and your organization be more efficient, save and make more money, reduce legal and software supply chain risk, and participate effectively in Open Source communities.

San Francisco Bay Area

Volunteer advisory role for the personal AI Kwaai Foundation, working to democratize AI. #me2b #me2bmovement #personalAI #PAI

Santa Cruz County, California, United States

Working in the Open Source Program Office as part of the Office of the CTO providing a range of services and support to make our open source projects wildly successful. Current focus on https://Operate-First.cloud and https://theOpenSourceWay.org.

Working in the Open Source Program Office as part of the Office of the CTO providing a range of services and support to make our open source projects wildly successful. Current focus on https://Operate-First.cloud and https://theOpenSourceWay.org.

Run team of sysadmins/operators providing open infrastructure (#openinfra) services & support for multiple open source projects including CentOS, Ceph, Fedora, Gluster, GNOME, oVirt, Project Atomic, and RDO. Team main website at https://osci.io.

Responsible for running the team internal to Red Hat who work directly within the CentOS Project. I am the ongoing project lead and architect for the new relationship with the CentOS Project

Global

Community growth analyst for Open Source and Standards (OSAS) team at Red Hat. The OSAS team works in the CTO's office to make open source and standards projects wildly successful. In this role I apply and iterate on the methods described in theopensourceway.org to work directly with a diverse team in upstream projects that Red Hat cares about.

Community Leadership Team member focused on the strategy and tactics of creating, scaffolding, and nurturing communities of contributors; spreading the adoption of the open source way via community leadership in domains such as education, business, and government. E.g. http://TheOpenSourceWay.org

Community relations manager for Red Hat's growing network of corporate developers who use Red Hat and JBoss tools. Role includes running new developer portal (http://developer.redhatmagazine.com.)

Managed production of technical content from research through to publication. Topics included explaining deeply technical matters to a general IT audience, for example, wrote the Red Hat SELinux Guide (http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/selinux-guide/)

Delivered systems and security solutions to customers; chased new business with proposals through to in-depth paid assessments; project writer for diverse and remote team of ~70 PS consultants.

(Former) Docs Team lead, (former) Project Board member, one-of-founders of EPEL, (former) Infrastructure and Web team member, wiki gardener, designated hitter, and pinch runner. Now doing the 'emeritus' thing.

Worked with distributed professional services team as a project consultant and writer. Work included project proposals, assessments (TCO), and providing training on open source methodologies. Projects around Linux deployments, collaboration software solutions (SourceForge OnSite), and open source training.

Writer and analyst for professional services team.

Managed LAN and remote resources for 75 person Internet radio and new media company.

Managed LAN and remote resources for 75+ person Internet radio company.

Managed LAN and remote resources for 75+ person Internet radio company.

Managed LAN and remote resources for 75+ person Internet radio company.

Managed LAN and remote resources for 50+ person construction management company; maintained website presences; professional services proposals and consulting work onsite.

Creative Writing, English

English