Stormy Peters

Stormy Peters is an information technology industry analyst and prominent free and open source software advocate who promotes business use of free and open source software as a consultant and conference speaker. She completed a Bachelor of Arts with a major in computer science at Rice University and began as a software engineer on Hewlett-Packard's Unix development team, where around 1999 she managed HP-UX desktop development, learned of the GNOME project and explained open source business and intellectual property models to management; she later founded the Hewlett-Packard Open Source Program Office and in 2000 became one of the founding members of the GNOME Foundation Advisory board. She became executive director of the GNOME Foundation in July 2008, left for Mozilla in November 2010, later worked for Cloud Foundry and Red Hat, and in August 2019 became Director of the Open Source Programs Office at Microsoft.