Sara Dornsife has been at the center of several open source transformations and communities. She helped Sun open source Solaris and then worked with the resulting OpenSolaris community while it adjusted to its growing pains. While her card read "marketing," Sara acted more as general fixer for both Sun and the community to keep OpenSolaris and other open source communities alive and happy. As you'd expect with one foot in the corporation and another in the community, Sara used whatever tools were available to her from the 1.0 and 2.0 toobox to get the job done.
Now independent, Sara uses her wealth of experience transitioning assets from closed to open source to help others benefit from the positive aspects of open source and avoid the traps that are often to easy to step into.
Sara is one of the founders of CloudCamp and is an active volunteer for BarCampAustin. She lives in Austin, Texas and can be found @SaraD or, if you prefer the more old school approach, at http://saradornsife.wordpress.com/.
