Dawn works on OSS Strategy at Pivotal in London. She has more than 20 years of experience at companies like The Scale Factory, Puppet Labs, Intel, Jive Software, and others. She has expertise in community building, open source software, metrics, and more. She is passionate about bringing people together through a combination of online communities and real-world events along with analyzing the data associated with participation in developer and open source communities. Dawn is on the Governing Board of the Linux Foundation’s CHAOSS project and is a maintainer for the Diversity and Inclusion WG. She holds a PhD from the University of Greenwich along with an MBA and BS in Computer Science. She has spoken at dozens of industry events, including many Linux Foundation events, OSCON, SXSW, FOSDEM and more.