From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Greg Stein
Greg Stein
References
[1] Apache Software Foundation Board records
[2] Python Software Foundation Board records
[3] Python development records
[4] WebDAV.org
[5] Producing Open Source Software, Chapter 2, "Practice
Conspicuous Code Review" (Karl Fogel, O’Reilly
Media, 2005, ISBN 0-596-00759-0)
[6] Greg Stein’s Blog
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
Greg Stein at the 2005 European Open Source Convention. open-source code hosting platform)
• Apache’s Greg Stein says commercial software’s days
Greg Stein (born March 16, 1967 in Portland, Oregon), are numbered (ComputerWorld / InfoWorld / MacWorld
living in Fairfax, VA, USA, is a programmer, speaker, article)
sometime standards architect, and open-source software • Highlights of Greg Stein’s keynote (A third-party
advocate, appearing frequently at conferences and in in- summary of Stein’s keynote at EclipseCon 2006)
terviews on the topic of open-source software develop- • Homepage
ment and use. • Google’s Greg Stein InfoTalk on Open Source
He is a director of the Apache Software Foundation, • In Competitive Move, I.B.M. Puts Code in Public
and served as chairman from 21 August 2002 to 20 June Domain (New York Times article on IBM’s donation of
2007.[1] He is also a member of the Python Software Foun- WebSphere to the Apache Software Foundation)
dation, was a director there from 2001–2002,[2] and a • Greg Stein Interview podcast (with Leo Laporte and
maintainer of the Python programming language and li- Randal Schwartz).
braries (active from 1999 to 2002).[3]
Persondata
Stein has been especially active in version control
systems development. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Name Stein, Greg
he helped develop the WebDAV HTTP versioning speci- Alternative names
fication,[4] and is the main author of mod_dav, the first Short description
open-source implementation of WebDAV. He was one of
the founding developers of the Subversion project,[5] and Date of birth March 16, 1967
is primarily responsible for Subversion’s WebDav net- Place of birth
working layer. Date of death
Stein most recently worked as an engineering man-
Place of death
ager at Google, where he helped launch Google’s open-
source hosting platform. Stein publicly announced his
departure from Google via his blog on July 29, 2008.[6] Pri-
or to Google, he worked for Oracle Corporation, eShop,
Microsoft, CollabNet, and as an independent developer.
Stein was a major contributor to the Lima Mudlib, a
MUD server software framework. His MUD community
pseudonym was "Deathblade".
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Greg Stein
Categories:
• American computer scientists
• Free software programmers
• Google employees
• Oracle employees
• Microsoft employees
• MUD developers
• Living people
• 1967 births
• Apache Software Foundation members
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