Dawn Foster

Dawn is Director of Open Source Community Strategy within VMware’s Open Source Program Office. She is involved in several Linux Foundation projects as Governing Board member / maintainer for CHAOSS, Steering Committee member for the TODO Group, and co-chair of the CNCF Contributor Strategy TAG. Dawn is also on the board of OpenUK. She has 20+ years of experience in open source and holds a PhD from the University of Greenwich along with an MBA and a BS in Computer Science. In her spare time she enjoys reading science fiction, cooking, running, and traveling. You can follow her on Twitter at @geekygirldawn.