CEO, Algoram

Bruce Perens co-founded the Open Source Initiative, and was the creator of the Open Source Definition, arguably the most important intellectual property and licensing document of our time. Before a long career in Open Source that included appearances before the UN and national governments, he was a systems programmer at Pixar Animation Studios, and is credited on some of their films. Bruce still programs today, from high-level languages to microcode, and makes his living mostly as an intellectual property expert, mainly helping companies that have accidentally infringed the copyright of Open Source software to resolve the issue. He is also active in helping Open Source projects, from space satellite projects to digital voice codecs, negotiate ITAR and EAR. Bruce is a Radio Amateur with callsign K6BP, and does a presentation on his remote ham radio site called "10 Acres for Antennas Where My Wife Doesn't Live."