Danese Cooper is an advocate of open-source software. She is on the board of the Open Source Initiative. She came to public attention for her work at Sun Microsystems on promoting open source, and presently works at Intel. Jump to: navigation, search Open source software refers to computer software and the availability of its source code as open source under an open source license to study, change, and improve its design. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Open Source Initiative is an organization dedicated to promoting open source software. ... Jump to: navigation, search Sun Microsystems (Sun Microsystems, Inc. ... Jump to: navigation, search Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) (HKSE: 4335) (founded 1968) is a U.S.-based multinational corporation that is best known for designing and manufacturing microprocessors and specialized integrated circuits. ...

In her twenties, Cooper was in the Peace Corps. She then had several jobs in engineering. Jump to: navigation, search Peace Corps volunteers usually serve for two years. ...

Her job before Sun was at Symantec, working on version 5 of the ACT! personal information manager (ACT! 2000). This was her first practical experience of internally open development methods and Extreme Programming and convinced her of the benefits of open source and open development. Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC), founded in 1982, is an information security company headquartered in Cupertino, California that now specializes in computer security and antivirus software. ... Act! stands for Automated Contact Tracking! and is a contact and customer management software that helps users organize their daily activities, contact information and sales in an efficient way. ... A Personal Information Manager is a software application that keeps track of personal information such as: E-mails Address books Calendars Task lists Task scheduling (invitations etc) Notices There are several software packages that do this. ... Jump to: navigation, search Extreme Programming (XP) is a method or approach to software engineering and the most popular of several agile software development methodologies. ...

She joined the Open Source Initiative board in December 2001.

At Sun, Cooper managed the Open Source Programs Office at Sun from March 1999 until March 2005. She chose the Sun Public License for NetBeans software, helped draft the CDDL for OpenSolaris and worked on the creation of the Sun Industry Standards Source License and the Joint Copyright Assignment for OpenOffice.org and that program's dual-licensing with the LGPL. Jump to: navigation, search // NetBeans as an IDE NetBeans IDE is an open-source integrated development environment written entirely in Java. ... Jump to: navigation, search Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) is an open source license, produced by Sun Microsystems, based on the Mozilla Public License, version 1. ... OpenSolaris is a project created by Sun Microsystems to create an open source version of their Solaris Operating Environment, a proprietary UNIX. The projects licensing terms are be analogous to Suns selling proprietary StarOffice while also sponsoring the OpenOffice. ... The Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL) is recognized as a free and open source license by the Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative. ... Jump to: navigation, search OpenOffice. ... Jump to: navigation, search GNU logo The GNU Lesser General Public License (formerly the GNU Library General Public License) is an FSF approved free software license designed as a compromise between the GNU General Public License and simple permissive licenses such as the BSD license and the MIT License. ...

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References

• Sun open-source diva departs for Intel (Stephen Shankland, ZDNet, 18 March 2005)
• Danese Cooper: Reflections of an open source diva (Christian Einfeldt, Mad Penguin, 21 March 2005) — detailed history of Cooper's time at Sun

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External links

• New DivaBlog (Danese Cooper's blog)
• Danese Cooper's Blog (java.net) — Cooper's Java-related blog