Don Marti is a writer and advocate for

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, writing for ''

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'' and '' Linux Today''. Marti was educated at

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...

, receiving a master's degrees in science and environmental reporting. He co-founded a Linux International member company, Electric Lichen L.L.C., which is an open-source Internet development firm. Don was the vice-president and President of the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group from 2000 to 2004 and a Technical Editor for the

Linux Journal ''Linux Journal'' (''LJ'') is an American monthly technology magazine originally published by Specialized System Consultants, Inc. (SSC) in Seattle, Washington since 1994. In December 2006 the publisher changed to Belltown Media, Inc. in Houston ...

, the leading

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publication at the time, from 2000 to 2002 and then the Editor in Chief from 2002 to 2005 editor for ''

'' 2006–2008.Don Marti , LinkedIn
/ref> He was the initiator of the FreedomHEC "unconference", first organized in 2006, which focused on making computer hardware more interoperate with

. He was the Conference Chair for the

LinuxWorld Conference and Expo LinuxWorld Conference and Expo (renamed to OpenSource World in its final year) was a conference and trade show that focused on open source and Linux solutions in the information technology sector. It ran from 1998 to 2009, in venues around th ...

from 2005 to 2009 (in 2009, its last year, it was renamed to OpenSource World). Marti was a participation strategist at the

Mozilla Corporation The Mozilla Corporation (stylized as moz://a) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates and integrates the development of Internet-related applications such as the Firefox web browser, by a global community of ope ...

until 2020, when he joined CafeMedia as VP Ecosystem Innovatio

References

External links

Articles by Don Marti at Linux Today
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