Governing Board

Dirk Hohndel is VMware’s Chief Open Source Officer. He leads the company’s Open Source Program Office, directing the efforts and strategy around use of and contribution to open source projects and driving common values and processes across the company for VMware’s interaction with the open source communities.

Before joining VMware, Dirk spent almost 15 years as Intel’s Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist. Before that, among other roles, he worked as Chief Technology Officer of SuSE and Unix Architect of Deutsche Bank.

Dirk has been an active developer and contributor in Linux and open source since the early 1990s. He was one of the early Linux kernel developers and has contributed to several dozen open source projects over the years.

Oliver Fendt is Senior Manager Open Source Software and owner of the topic Open Source Software (OSS) at Siemens. In this role he is heading the Open Source Task Force, which is a companywide board of experts, which oversees the license compliant use of OSS in products, solutions and services. Oliver has more than 17 years’ experience in open source software and its license conditions and how to comply to the different licenses. During this time, he kicked off several initiatives and projects. He further developed several trainings about Open Source Software. He is governing board member of the OpenChain project and heads the OpenChain Reference Tooling Work Group.

Will Norris manages the engineering and compliance group in Google’s Open Source Programs Office. His teams oversee all open source code that comes in and out of Google, and develop the compliance tooling to ensure Google is able to use open source code safely and efficiently. Will started contributing to open source in 2003 on the Shibboleth Project, focused on enterprise identity management and federated authentication. He joined Google in 2010 and moved to the open source group in 2013