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How to Ace OSS Lifecycle Management: Updates, Patches, and LTS

Presenters

Javier Perez

Passionate about technology and open source software, Javier is the Chief Open Source Evangelist and Senior Director of Product Management at Perforce Software. He is responsible for technical thought leadership and advocacy for open source software while driving the OpenLogic by Perforce offering. Javier has been in the application development, open source, cloud, app security, AI, SaaS, and mobile industries for 25+ years. As a speaker and blogger, he has had the opportunity to present at industry events all over the world. Javier holds an honors degree in Computer Systems and an MBA.

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Tim Carroll

Tim is a senior leader at Perforce Software, influencing product development and guiding innovation across the portfolio, including OpenLogic, Zend, SourcePro, IMSL, Akana, and Gliffy brands. He brings more than 25 years of experience in software development, including over a decade as Director of Software Development at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Throughout his career, Tim has focused on promoting open source adoption and strategy. He was a founding member and served for 10 years on the Board of Directors of the Apereo Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the use of open source in higher education. He also helped establish the Java Special Interest Group (JASIG) project incubation process and oversight group, which was later adopted and implemented at Apereo. Tim has written and presented on topics ranging from Hadoop administration and Linux migration strategies to open source lifecycle management and governance. He is particularly motivated by providing software solutions that enable people to look beyond solved problems, and mobilizing resources to overcome new interesting obstacles.

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Matthew Weier O’Phinney

Matthew Weier O’Phinney is the Principal Product Manager at Perforce OpenLogic and Zend, where he focuses on creating the tools and support developers need to build and deploy their applications. He has been using and contributing to open source software since 2002, counting a patch to the Blackbox window manager as his first public OSS contribution.

Matthew has led large open source projects, including Zend Framework, which he started developing on before its first public release, leading the project from 2009 to 2019. He has also contributed to standards bodies, has advised and participated in open source foundations such as The PHP Foundation, and is the Project Lead for the Laminas Project. He has contributed to many open source projects and communities, many of which can be found on github and his personal website.

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