Linux Foundation Names Ted Ts'o Chief Technology Officer

by Kristin Shoemaker - Dec. 19, 2008Comments (1)

On Thursday, the Linux Foundation announced it had appointed Ted Ts'o as Chief Technology Officer. In this position, Ts'o will lead all of the Foundation's technical initiatives, and be the technical point of contact for Linux Foundation members and its Technical Advisory Board.

Even though the Linux Foundation seems as though it'd be one of the more challenging organizations where one could hold the CTO title, there's no doubt Ts'o's resume and past experience make him an ideal candidate. Ts'o has been a fellow at the Linux Foundation since December 2007, and is the first North American kernel developer. He is a senior technical staff member at IBM, working with an international team to create enterprise-level Linux solutions. He is the 2006 recipient of the Free Software Foundations' Award for the Advancement of Free Software, and actively works in kernel and filesystem development, and userspace utilities for maintaining ext2, ext3, and ext4 filesystems.

Ts'o mentions that one of his goals in the year ahead will be creating "concrete milestones" for the Linux Standard Base, with the help of the developer, industry and user communities.

Ts'o will replace Markus Rex, who was on loan to the Foundation from Novell. Rex recently returned to Novell as the acting general manager and senior vice president of the OPS business unit.

Though Ts'o has a daunting position, and an equally impressive resume, the power of open source, as Ts'o says, is its propensity for "mass collaboration." The Linux Foundation hosts a number of events in locations worldwide to bring developers, those in the industry, and users together, and encourages those interested to take an active role in the open source community.


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Ted Ts'o might be good but Jim Zemlin has to go.


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