Bruce Perens is a leader in the Free Software and Open Source community.
He is creator of the
Open Source Definition,
the manifesto of
the Open Source movement in Software. He's founder or co-founder of the
Open Source Initiative,
The
Linux Standard Base,
Software in the Public Interest,
and
No-Code International.
Perens released his first Free Software program,
Electric Fence,
in 1987. He is creator of
Busybox,
which has spawned its own development community and is part of many consumer
devices.
Perens was vice president at
Sourcelabs from 1995 to 1997.
Perens was series editor of the
Bruce Perens' Open Source Series
of books with Prentice Hall PTR publishers, which published 24 titles.
Perens spent two years with HP as Senior Global Strategist for
Linux and Open Source, and was president of Linux Capital Group, a venture
fund that specialized in Linux.
Perens spent 20 years in the computer graphic animation industry,
12 of them at
Pixar Animation Studios
He has a credit on the films
A Bug's Life
and
Toy Story II.