Alolita Sharma

Alolita Sharma has been involved with open source since the early days of Linux. She has actively promoted open source software adoption in industry, government and developing economies for the past 12 years, working with leaders in US and India's IT industry, government and education to enable change and transparency. She believes that the ideas of open source can generate unbounded opportunity for the development of technology and economic prosperity in developing nations. She is co-founder of Technetra and has over 15 years in the industry. She co-created India's first open source business conference LinuxAsia, to serve as a platform for global industry leaders to interact with India's open source players from industry, government, academia and community. She speaks at major international conferences on open source trends and technologies. Her publications include a chapter on open source in India in Open Sources 2.0, a regular column on trends in Linux For You and open source technology reviews in Linux Journal. She holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from George Washington University where she also pursued doctoral studies. Her blog can be read at opensourcebuzz.technetra.com.