Greg Stein taken 2016-10-07 at his home in Texas

Greg Stein (born March 16, 1967 in

Portland, Oregon Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous co ...

), living in

Austin, Texas Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas, as well as the county seat, seat and largest city of Travis County, Texas, Travis County, with portions extending into Hays County, Texas, Hays and Williamson County, Texas, Williamson co ...

, United States, is a programmer, speaker, sometime standards architect, and

open-source software Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose. Op ...

advocate, appearing frequently at conferences and in interviews on the topic of open-source software development and use. He was a director of the

Apache Software Foundation The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is an American nonprofit corporation (classified as a 501(c)(3) organization in the United States) to support a number of open source software projects. The ASF was formed from a group of developers of the A ...

, and served as chairman from 21 August 2002 to 20 June 2007. He is also a member of the Python Software Foundation, was a director there from 2001 to 2002, and a maintainer of the

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programming language and libraries (active from 1999 to 2002). Stein has been especially active in

version control systems In software engineering, version control (also known as revision control, source control, or source code management) is a class of systems responsible for managing changes to computer programs, documents, large web sites, or other collections o ...

development. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, he helped develop the

WebDAV WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) is a set of extensions to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which allows user agents to collaboratively author contents ''directly'' in an HTTP web server by providing facilities for concu ...

HTTP versioning specification, and is the main author o
mod_dav
the first open-source implementation of WebDAV. He was one of the founding developers of the

Subversion Subversion () refers to a process by which the values and principles of a system in place are contradicted or reversed in an attempt to transform the established social order and its structures of power, authority, hierarchy, and social norms. Sub ...

project, and is primarily responsible for Subversion's WebDav networking layer. Stein most recently worked as an engineering manager at

Google Google LLC () is an American multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. ...

, where he helped launch Google'
open-source hosting platform
Stein publicly announced his departure from Google via his blog on July 29, 2008.Greg Stein's Blog
/ref> Prior to Google, he worked for

Oracle Corporation Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in Austin, Texas. In 2020, Oracle was the third-largest software company in the world by revenue and market capitalization. The company sells da ...

eShop The Nintendo eShop is a digital distribution service powered by the Nintendo Network for the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS, and by a dedicated online infrastructure for the Nintendo Switch. Launched in June 2011 on the Nintendo 3DS, the eShop was ena ...

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washing ...

, CollabNet, and as an independent developer. Stein was a major contributor to the Lima Mudlib, a

MUD A MUD (; originally multi-user dungeon, with later variants multi-user dimension and multi-user domain) is a Multiplayer video game, multiplayer Time-keeping systems in games#Real-time, real-time virtual world, usually Text-based game, text-bas ...

server software framework. His MUD community pseudonym was "Deathblade".

References

External links

Ask Apache Software Foundation Chairman Greg Stein
''( Slashdot article)''
Video interview at dev2dev

Interview with Googles (sic) Greg Stein and Chris DiBona
''( Slashdot interview about the launch of Google's open-source code hosting platform)''
Apache's Greg Stein says commercial software's days are numbered
''(ComputerWorld / InfoWorld / MacWorld article)''
Highlights of Greg Stein’s keynote
''(A third-party summary of Stein'
keynote
at EclipseCon 2006)''
Homepage

Google's Greg Stein InfoTalk on Open Source

''(

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article on IBM's donation of WebSphere to the Apache Software Foundation)''
Greg Stein Interview podcast
(with Leo Laporte and

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). *
Trillions and Trillions Served
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